What are Your Conditions to Commend?

[Nero]

Usually what will end up happening is as a ps3 player maining a healer I will pick up my usb keyboard to say Hi and the group will have already bolted off without me. Usualy ending up in a wipe, So i'd be getting none to being with.

You could macro a "greeting quote".

[Azure_dragon-]

You could macro a "greeting quote".

Great idea. I'll just do this if i can find the space on my hotbar

[Zhi]

Usually what will end up happening is as a ps3 player maining a healer I will pick up my usb keyboard to say Hi and the group will have already bolted off without me. Usualy ending up in a wipe, So i'd be getting none to being with.

Is your keyboard a mile away or something?

[Heavy01Mk2]

If im dps: always give to healer unless they suck other wise give to tank
If im tank: always give to healer unless they suck otherwise give to dps
If im healer: always give to tank unless they suck otherwise give to dps

its as the gods intended

[Aeonblade]

As someone who is new playing a tank mainly, a lot of times the healer ends up with a commendation from healing through an impatient DPS pulling mobs before we have even cleared the pack we are currently fighting! Is this normal? As a tank coming from other games this drives me batty, and they usually don't say a word, the just keep pulling stuff even after politely asking them not to!

When the DPS players do well, one of them gets a commendation sometimes.

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

As someone who is new playing a tank mainly, a lot of times the healer ends up with a commendation from healing through an impatient DPS pulling mobs before we have even cleared the pack we are currently fighting! Is this normal? As a tank coming from other games this drives me batty, and they usually don't say a word, the just keep pulling stuff even after politely asking them not to!

When the DPS players do well, one of them gets a commendation sometimes.

Entirely normal with the mindset of players here. It's never surprising that a new tank tends to lose hate because of zealous DPS. Just let them know you're new beforehand, and if they go super sand legend and pull mobs and die, let them. They need to learn a lesson with new tanks.

[Noshpan]

I don't really have criteria that affects my decision on whom to give the commendation to. It's fairly random. Though I will often give it to the other DPS class. But if anyone acts like a total jackwagon, no matter how well they performed, they will NOT be getting my vote. I will also give my vote to new tanks and healers, especially if they did pretty good on their first time. But if everyone did a great job, and it was enjoyable, I'm often conflicted who to vote for (though I'll side with the other DPS class). Some times I wish I could give everyone in my group a commendation.

[Niamh_Rillemaugh]

If anybody isn't level-synced in a low level dungeon and they did a good job, they'll get my commendation.

Otherwise, I just give it to the person who did the best by the whole team. I'll weight it towards DPS a bit more though, since it's harder for me (as a healer) to tell just how well they did.

[ParanoidHobo]

Priority for standard 4 man stuff:
1- the healer that keeps everyone alive while also contributing to DPS
2- the tank of roughly equivalent gear that I don't have to hold back for
3- the other DPS if it seems like we're plowing through the place

I typically don't commend in 8 man stuff, I don't keep track of what everyone's doing and I'd rather not accidentally reward poor play or behavior. That said I have occasionally tossed them to people who've explained the fights in a non-dickish way or who seemed the key player in an amazing recovery after the rest of the group failed hard.

Automatic commendation rejection:
Being a massive d-bag
Healers idling the entire instance while tank sits at 90% or more then complains about how long this is taking or how bored they are
Repeatedly stomped on by every telegraph
Limit Break Guy (usually a tank for some reason, uses LB as soon as it's up regardless of what's going on)
Need rolling things that aren't upgrades (I accept that you can, but I don't respect it)
Non-tank pulling repeatedly
"GO GO GO"
"Please commend"
Random Buttons Guy (example BLM "rotation": Fire 1, Fire 3, Fire 2, Blizzard 2, Blizzard 3, Fire 1, Scathe, ????, ????, ???!!)
Probably more

[Roll]

Automatic commendation rejection:
Being a massive d-bag
Healers idling the entire instance while tank sits at 90% or more then complains about how long this is taking or how bored they are
Repeatedly stomped on by every telegraph
Limit Break Guy (usually a tank for some reason, uses LB as soon as it's up regardless of what's going on)
Need rolling things that aren't upgrades (I accept that you can, but I don't respect it)
Non-tank pulling repeatedly
"GO GO GO"
"Please commend"
Random Buttons Guy (example BLM "rotation": Fire 1, Fire 3, Fire 2, Blizzard 2, Blizzard 3, Fire 1, Scathe, ????, ????, ???!!)
Probably more

This! ^
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