Commendation performance?

[Nadrojj]

No one comm's dps. I tank, i get comms even when I am only paying half attention. I usually com the healer for keeping me alive unless a DPS completely carried the party. Most times though the healer gets my comm.

[SakuraMidori]

You don't get more Commendations for being a tank or healer that's rule 1 rule 2 ppl can give them out to who ever they like but if you feel you deserve it more for healing or tanking guess what? you don't!!!!! no one is forcing the jobs on you. So you get Commendations if you get them but don't ever expect them like you deserve them

[Kat_Manx]

I don't give commendations based on performance. Well, maybe, but here's basically the hierarchy:

1. Someone who pulls off an amazing feat that basically saves the entire party/dungeon/raid. This can be done by a party member in ANY role.
2. Someone who amuses me. Usually by chatting.
3. Someone who says anything at all that isn't negative.
4. A DPS.
5. Coin flip between tank or healer.

So whichever happens first on my list gets the commendation. ^.^

[AlphaFox]

Personally, I think it would be better to rework the commendation system to maybe a rating system. You can rate all of your party members out of 5. That way if you notice someone was particularly bad, you could give them 0-1 starts. Or maybe they were just OK, give em 3. Maybe they blew you out of the water, give em 5. Then instead of a count of commendations, you receive an average rating.

As to Fendred's point, if everyone in your party did a good job, you could give all of them 4+ instead of having to choose randomly.

While I do like the idea of doing this, I just see anything like this allowing trolls or someone who is just mad for no reason to rate everyone a 0-1. You won the minion he/she was farming for? 0 stars. He pulled as a DPS and still died? 0 for all. Its just how I foresee it happening.

[AriaFae]

Good grief. OP reminds me of a little kid who throws a tantrum at the market when mummy won't buy her a chocolate. Even though she tied her shoes all by herself today!

Congrats op. You did your job, stop expecting people to lick your boots for doing it.

[Gallus]

Personally, I think it would be better to rework the commendation system to maybe a rating system. You can rate all of your party members out of 5. That way if you notice someone was particularly bad, you could give them 0-1 starts. Or maybe they were just OK, give em 3. Maybe they blew you out of the water, give em 5. Then instead of a count of commendations, you receive an average rating.

As to Fendred's point, if everyone in your party did a good job, you could give all of them 4+ instead of having to choose randomly.

I don't think that would work...imagine people just giving you 1 star for the sake of trolling, I'm sure this would happen and it would be even more unfair than it is now.

Now on topic, my thread was a complete /vent. I was in a mediocre party, sorry if I sound like an elitist, I've been in many parties and this one was just especially bad, it was a neverreap run, people eating aoes in the first boss, people ignoring the bubbles, I killed 2 myself with broil + energy drain and still we had a couple explode and place 2 vulnerability stacks on everyone, people ignoring totems on the second boss, at some point I even had to grab two heads while the 2 brds were standing there hitting the boss (and they weren't far from the heads, the heads were right next to them). On top of that, the WAR was one of those full STR accessories dudes that pull half dungeon and receive damage spikes of half of his health in seconds, there was one time where he pulled those 4 nasty bees and the tree, I couldn't DPS myself (impossible, damage was too heavy) and the BRDs were doing mediocre damage, which resulted in the WAR getting final stinged 3 times, still, I wouldn't let him die and burn every single tool in my kit to prevent a wipe in that pull, which involved spamming adloquiums like a madman, burning around 6-7 lustrates and ending up with 1k mana, but it doesn't end here, tank continued pulling with me at 1k mana like nothing. Fine, my aetherflow just came on CD so I could still keep up, but I couldn't help but think that was just icing the cake.

And then, after putting up with such terrible party with zero wipes on my back due to giving 150% of myself while not saying a damn word (didn't complain about anything, absolutely anything, just stayed calm and helped as much as I could), I got zero coms. I felt frustrated so I came into this forum and /vented, and honestly, I regret it. You can argue my thread wasn't very friendly or very polite, but at least I was not launching insults or calling names to anyone, I was mainly frustrated at how unfair and biased I thought commendations were, there's no real need to compare me to a lion doing what we all see in that picture.

[Kaurie]

True AlphaFox, I was hoping that over time the trolls votes would be negated by the other votes. Like if 90% of people gave you 4, 5% gave you 5 and 5% gave you 1, then you'd be sitting at around 4/5.

I agree plenty of people won't vote on this, just as some won't commend, I just think this would be more useful for gauging your own performance (or at least be more interesting than the current system).

[Ryamatsu]

The person who helps newcomers positively always get my vote. And at least say "hi" at the beginning. To me it's really rude not to say anything at all.

OP: the people probably just didn't realize how good you're doing. healers go unnoticed unless we mess up and get ourselves or someone killed.

[SakuraMidori]

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Ill give you cred for not RQ or cussing ppl out {we see far to many of that} but your other party members must have not felt that run was as
horrible as you so to them you did nothing that big or great you did keep them alive yes but that's a healers job and at the end of the day you had a bad run many ppl do and i'm sorry it was hard on you

[okitaluc]

I always give commendations, don't have a specific criteria, depends on the run, even in the messy runs (which usually turns the run more fun to play, because you have to leave your comfort zone).