Commendation System: So who get's your vote?

[Synra]

Healer
Anyone die?

Big agreement with Odd above. People using this as a basis for judging your group's healer is in poor taste. Whether we are talking about this game or another, there is a universal truth to healers. A healer's job is to repair the damage you take, NOT to make you invincible. The fact is that about 90% of the time someone dies in a group, it is not even the healer's fault. A healer at best can only put out X amount of healing in Y amount of time. If the rest of the group is poorly equipped and/or sloppy in how they fight, it is very possible for them to eat more damage than the healer can keep up with.

This wouldn't be a very good game at all if a healer could guarantee that everyone lives. Nor would it be much of a game if every little death was the exclusive fault of the healer.

[Simaril]

As a healer in 8 mans, if I screw up I make a point to give the other healer credit in /p. I've screwed up pretty bad, and done this, and received commendations myself! I assume the other healer is thanking me, but sometimes I get more than 1 when I know I screwed up bad... and I'm guessing if I had stayed quiet I'd get the 0 I deserved. It's really interesting how people handle commendations.

Players who screw up and know it, or have lag, yet I manage to keep up are often thankfull, and know the healer saved them... Those are the commendations that make me feel good

[Shujinkou]

Currently when players form a pre-made party of less than 4 players and jump into the Duty Finder to fill up the remaining slot, those in the pre-made party are unable to give commendations to the player who joined via Duty Finder, even if they've done a great job! While the restriction against vote commendations for pre-made players will remain, the team is looking to allow everyone to vote on those who joined via Duty Finder in around the release of patch 2.3.

So always be sure to thank your new comrades in arms for a job well done!

Why can't we give commendations to more than one person? If the party was rock solid, everybody gave their 110%, and I want to commend everyone but I can't?

[PiedPiper]

You should always commend the tank. We are the ones who rescue you from your long queue time by deigning to run the dungeon. We are the limited supply, dps are just pawns that kill things for the tanks.

[WendyDarling]

if people are talkative i have a much higher chance of giving out a commendation. if the whole run is silent i dont give one out, why reward people in a multiplayer game for being anti-social? lol ya know?
i also tend to give tanks my commendation more often than i give it to the dps. they do a lot of work to keep me from pulling aggro with my heals. that being said, i do give them to dps once in a while, but they have to be friendly or stand out in some way. dps are a dime a dozen.
when i do dungeons i usually get 2 or 3 commendations per run so... that leads me to believe most people are giving them to the healer in the group.

[Nekodar]

I give commendations based on who stands out.
If noone stands out, and the group didn't suck, I give them out randomly.

[Azure_dragon-]

Always, the DPS since I know how often tanks and healers get them. Unless, the dps are over zealous. Then it goes to the tank if I'm healing or vice versa.

[Arkista]

You should always commend the tank. We are the ones who rescue you from your long queue time by deigning to run the dungeon. We are the limited supply, dps are just pawns that kill things for the tanks.

Nope cause I've gotten a lot of bad tanks and they don't get any. If they do a good job I will give them one. Don't know how but I get a lot while playing MNK, sometimes I get all 3. I wish I could give everyone in the party one, sometimes I get a really awesome group.

[Mcshiggs]

Why can't we give commendations to more than one person? If the party was rock solid, everybody gave their 110%, and I want to commend everyone but I can't?

This should be coming, look for it around the time of the first expansion, expecting them to release everything for one piece of content at once is absurd, releasing little bits over the course of a year keeps it fresh.

[Rex]

Currently when players form a pre-made party of less than 4 players and jump into the Duty Finder to fill up the remaining slot, those in the pre-made party are unable to give commendations to the player who joined via Duty Finder, even if they've done a great job! While the restriction against vote commendations for pre-made players will remain, the team is looking to allow everyone to vote on those who joined via Duty Finder in around the release of patch 2.3.

So always be sure to thank your new comrades in arms for a job well done!

Ah, I always said this should be implemented! I'm glad to see it's happening!

Though, I gotta say Hvinire buddy...I'm surprised it wasn't that way from the beginning.