Change Player Commendations

[AlannahCorvaine]

There are definitely times when I wish I could give an entire group comms because they all impressed me with their performance. Ideally, that kind of competence would be standard, but it's not, and I'd really like to be able to comm as many as I see fit instead of being forced to choose.

[micropanther7]

There are definitely times when I wish I could give an entire group comms because they all impressed me with their performance. Ideally, that kind of competence would be standard, but it's not, and I'd really like to be able to comm as many as I see fit instead of being forced to choose.

I feel the same way, and always thought a Group Commendation would be nice as a separate category.

[Selli]

I get commendations like crazy. I started playing half a year after my boyfriend did and I have nearly 3,000 more commendations than him. He tanks and I heal and we do all our roulettes everyday.

[MsCroc]

Disagreed. Commendations are fine as they are. If you could give a commendation to everyone, it would defeat the purpose. Try being the change you want to see by handing out commendations to DPS more and encouraging others to commend good DPS.

Here is my commendation checklist:

Was someone particularly friendly/nice/funny throughout the run?
Did someone go out of their way to unlock extra content for the lowbies? (Optional treasure chests)
Did non-BLMs/Summoners focus fire their DPS?
Did a DPS have particularly high DPS?
Did the melee DPS remember to LB?
If someone made a mistake in the dungeon, were they apologetic?
Was it a newbie who was taking advice into account?
Did the healer save me from certain death?
Was someone very helpful about explaining fights?

These aren't all the things I give a commendation on but some common ones for me.

[Kaurie]

Did the melee DPS remember to LB?

In most scenarios, it will result in a faster run if the mage uses LB on trash. The LB is 2/3 potency roughly of melee, so if you hit 2 guys it will do 4/3 damage, 3 guys will do 6/3 (2x) damage than the melee would do for the run. Now I guess you need to take in to account animation lag taking away from damage, and aoe damage is higher as well. However, as a SMN, i will often tri-d, painflare, bane, swift-shadow, LB (assuming enkindle is on CD at that point, which it often is). This puts most of the LB during my GCD and while Painflare is still cooling down. I'll often use that on 5-10 mobs giving a 10/3 or 20/3 total damage increase over the melee LB.

[DkDerek]

Disagreed. Commendations are fine as they are. If you could give a commendation to everyone, it would defeat the purpose. Try being the change you want to see by handing out commendations to DPS more and encouraging others to commend good DPS.

Here is my commendation checklist:

Was someone particularly friendly/nice/funny throughout the run?
Did someone go out of their way to unlock extra content for the lowbies? (Optional treasure chests)
Did non-BLMs/Summoners focus fire their DPS?
Did a DPS have particularly high DPS?
Did the melee DPS remember to LB?
If someone made a mistake in the dungeon, were they apologetic?
Was it a newbie who was taking advice into account?
Did the healer save me from certain death?
Was someone very helpful about explaining fights?

These aren't all the things I give a commendation on but some common ones for me.

Dragoons can AoE with the best of em.

[vp_cmc]

Just say "Don't commend me please!" and you will most likely have 3 of them.

[TheTen]

If you truly think everyone in the party did well, say so.

Do you have any idea how nice it is to see a "Thank you for the smooth run" or even just a "{Good Job!}" at the end?
Even better, say something during the run. Say 'well done' after a smooth boss fight', nice tanking', 'good healing', 'dat DPS'.

The commendations are little extra bonus, but if you honestly feel people deserve more recognition, put in the small effort it takes to type. As someone with performance anxiety who has friends with social anxiety, I can promise you... it means a lot.

[Twilite]

...I came out of one roulette where we all wish we could have comm'd three people(-minus yourself of course). The synergy between us 4 was something I haven't seen in DF before.

[Nomad-phx]

I just want my parade chocobo so I can ride it wearing "the best gown ever" lol