Suggestion for a minor change to comendations

[OSUBuckeye4]

Commendations are luck of the draw.

I've had dungeons where I ran everything flawlessly, held aggro on every mob, faced the enemies the correct way every time, pulled managable mobs, zero knockouts, speedy run, every chest obtained, skipped non-essential trash mobs.... zero commendations.

I've also had dungeons where I basically ran through on auto-pilot, made a ton of sloppy mistakes (but no one got KO'ed) and got 3 commendations.



I think that in the long run, it all evens out.


I generally give my commendation to the person whoose name I like the best


As far as the OP's suggestion, maybe it's something SE could look into. Given that commendations are kind of an "icing on the cake" aspect to the game (they aren't really essential to anything), I don't think they will put too high of a priority on any adjustments. It doesn't hurt to put out suggestions though.

[Zeronic]

Bard here. over 100 commendations now. I also level my WAR trough low lvl duty roullette but most of it has been gathered from bard. I reward outstanding people. Unless I find a really great party where halfway trough we already admit that dps commendate eachother while tank and healer do so likewise.
The op's problem though is valid imo. I like to help my guildies trough AK when they need their relic or something. We get 1 random person who performs fantastic! Yet because we are guildies I cannot commendate that person... bit strange imo

[mero-ix]

There have been so many times I wish I could've given a commendation, but couldn't because I was in a group. Really wish they'd change it!

People would probably abuse it by signing up, synching their queues so they can commend each other.

People already do this now. I don't see how being able to give commendations as a group would change this.

[ZodiacSoldier]

Honestly it really depends on which dungeon you are running. CT is too chaotic for people to stand out, it will normally go to MT. And I do CT with a full FC group usually so I never see Commendations from CT anyway.

But it is entirely possible for DPS to commendations for 4 and 8 man dungeons. I did Qarn the other day as an archer and was just doing what I normally do, teaching people boss strategies and what not, got all 3 commendations, on regular runs as DPS I normally get 1 commendation as well. There was also a time where I did Praetorium as a BLM, I didn't explain strategy for boss fight but started a conversation about custom built PCs / PS4 and got everyone talking, ended up getting 6 commendations for that.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I proved my theory correct as i switched to WHM and there is was 15 commendations in a row. SE fix this shit. Soon only Healers and Tanks will have the new Magitek mount. DPS > wont.

I'm a WHM and this was true at the beginning of the commendation system. However, I now barely get commendations at all and have gone through several instances where no one votes for me. I think everyone just throws their votes at tanks now.

[SummonerSenah]

I'm getting more now that I'm leveling bard. I did my Guildhest roulette yesterday and got two commendations from it. I was a little surprised.

[Mykll]

I agree I just got out of tanking Brayflox with two other LS members. The pug healer did an awesome job and we all had a blast. Healer gets no commendations because we preformed.

[Yenn]

This entire system is dumb. I get every commendation when I queue as a healer.
Sometimes, we get bored and queue for Titan HM to carry some random duty finder bads. Every single time, our healer gets four commendations.

[AWorldofHerOwn]

I am hoping there will be a change to commendations. I like the system (somewhat) because I can give someone who deserves notice for a great group but it really sucks when I like to duo with a friend. So while I may get a commendation for my work, I am unable to do the same for others. I wish we could give out a commendation to anyone that is NOT in our group.

I personally play this game mostly to group with one person and so only play during the weekends. In order for me to give them out I would constantly have to go into the duties solo but that defeats the purpose of my playing. I do not like to solo often unless I am crafting.

[AWorldofHerOwn]

That or I will just start giving shouts outs to players on the forums...