Commendation performance?

[Kaelah]

I do my best every run, but I don't expect commendations. Personally I give them not only to good performers but also to people who I enjoy to play with. If yourself were healing a run I was in, but say a BRD in party also did their job well, but also was chatty, funny and made the run memorable, I'd give them the commendation over you. Some people just don't commend at all, too much hassle to click lol. Don't take it personally!

[AlternativeOne]

I have 100% commendation rate know matter what role I play. I always get at least 1. Most of the time people don't give any. There is 56k bonus exp you get after giving so many so I will always commend someone it's usually the person still there. if I want to commend a certain person it has to priority because most people exit to fast if they're not waiting for loot drops.

[Gallus]

So, why are you bothering now? If you get that many commendations, there's no need to bother about ONE SINGLE run.
Commendations aren't important - no one, except you, can see how many you got. So who cares?

That's the issue, if I was never commendated I probably wouldn't care, but being used to it, when it doesn't happen and I genuinely feel I've given my 110%, I get both confused and a little mad ^^. When this happens, I wish I could ask those players if there was something I did that prevented them from commendating me, or if they felt my performance was simply outshined by one of the other players? We will never know because I can never ask them myself.

[Gallus]

Okay... you're really making me sit and scratch my head trying to figure you out (which is hard because I'm totally exhausted right now). Clearly most people like you and appreciate your efforts.

Why is it so terrible that once in a while, you don't get points? Try to ask yourself that and give it some thought. Maybe it'll make you feel better.

Because like I said before, I always do my best and there're plenty of runs in which I get zero commendations. It bothers me a little, I guess, but in the end of the day commendations really don't mean much of anything. It's kinda nice knowing people took the time to give me a point and noticed my efforts, but it isn't the end of the world when I remember that through my efforts I still made the run enjoyable for myself and others. The points don't actually do anything, they're just kinda fun to collect.

The game is about having a fun experience within the dungeons, raids, whatever; not just collecting the points. They're only part of the overall experience. ;3

I do enjoy this game a lot...I certainly do not play it because of commendations, I was here before they were implemented <.<. As to your concern about my "insecurity issues", you might be right, but aren't we all a bit the same? To an extent (some more than others), don't we need to feel that others approve what we do?

[Blood-Aki]

I do enjoy this game a lot...I certainly do not play it because of commendations, I was here before they were implemented <.<. As to your concern about my "insecurity issues", you might be right, but aren't we all a bit the same? To an extent (some more than others), don't we need to feel that others approve what we do?

No... i certainly never care if i ever get a commedation, if i do, great, if not? oh well, we don't all look to be validated and desperate to be accepted, if you're looking for approval, you aren't very confident in your self.

[itti18]

I remember times when i got commendations simply for dying alot xD , i call them pitty commendations xD

[KisaiTenshi]

If you are playing a healer and get ZERO, every time, you are doing something wrong.
If you are playing a tank and get ZERO, every time, you are doing something wrong.
If you are playing a DPS and get ZERO, every time, you are playing a DPS, don't expect them.

When playing Healer, you will generally reward the Tank, because that's who you're paying attention to. If the tank sucks, or the run is just going awful, you'd probably reward nobody.
When playing a DPS, you are better off rewarding whoever made the run smoother. This will usually be the Healer (since they can rein in the pace that which the Tank pulls things), but there are just as many awful healers as there are awful tanks.

And DPS are generally "awful in general" and you have to be playing your Role (eg BRD's have songs, use them) to get a commendation out of it.

As a healer, I'll usually award the Tank unless the Tank makes the party wipe, or the Tank exits the instance before I get a chance to.

8-person parties are harder determine if anyone deserves it, as a healer your eyes are on the HP bars, and only magic casts show up there, so we have really no idea what the DPS is doing.

[Jandor]

I wouldn't be bothered about not getting one if I'd never been on the forums and seen people saying 'My good man, I only give a commendation when someone has played truly exceptionally. I do not believe that you are deserving of my commendation just for doing your job. Hurf blurf I've never kissed a girl.'

So now when I don't get one (because tank commends healer, healer commends tank, dps commend each other) I'm always suspicious that I got that self-aggrandizing muppet.

Seriously, they cost nothing to give. Unless the run was a total mess with everyone screaming like idiots I always give it to someone.

[Eye_Gore]

don't we need to feel that others approve what we do?

Some people do. Its that reassurance that they have a meaning in life. Others could careless what anyone else thinks about them. People who post their life all over things like FB from checking in at their favorite restaurant to how they are feeling today, seeking attention, look for commendation, possibly middle child syndrome.

As many have said commendations are just there for someone to possibly hand out, they don't have to. Many a party member leaves before I can even skip the end cut scene. I always hand out mine, its there may as well. I guess being a tank it usually goes to the healer first unless they leave before I can, then its whom ever is left. If you expect commendation because you think you did a good job, isn't that all that is really needed? You know you did a good job, be happy and move on.

[Seig345]

Given the nature of random players in DF pugs, there's a plethora of different possible reasons for why you didn't get a commendation on any particular run. In the end, they're an incentive to stay civil both socially and in handling your role in the party, and that's only to increase your chance of receiving one, not some guaranteed perk you're earning by nailing your role perfectly.

I, for one, tend to focus on my role so much that 90% of the intricacies of how any of the other party members are performing are completely lost on me, the remaining 10% more or less being the bottom line (did the tank lose hate a lot, did the healer struggle keeping us alive, did it take forever and a day for enemies' HP to drop, etc). In the end, a player's conversation in the party chat is going to be far more easy for me to notice/remember at the end of the duty than how perfect their rotation and anticipatory responses were. I'm not saying no one can focus on their own role and still see the intricacies of others, but again, you're in a DF with randoms pulled from a large and diverse group, some of which are as incapable at focusing on their own role AND everyone else's as me, some of which don't even care enough to give a commendation. Even just luck plays a part.