Change Player Commendations

[Odett]

I don't give them out unless I feel like it screw your hugbox

Pls be careful, you might cut us with all that edge

[Hieral]

Nobody gives commendations to anybody anymoremost of the time. People are lazy. Should it be required before you can exit? Yes.

[Krylo]

I suffer heavily from this. Sometimes I want to commend that wonderful DPS who dodged things, made use of his utilities and didnt get aggro for nothing, but I can't because the tank was great too and I think his job is harder.

As someone who has played both War and Pld extensively at 50 (and is getting war to 60 currently, I've been kinda lazy about that), but mains monk: It's not. Tanking well is way easier than DPSing well. The only thing that's easier is the that DPS mistakes aren't as visible, and you can just hope no one saw that. While if I pull a group poorly and we have to go into 'oh shit' mode, well, everyone saw THAT. BUT just being a competent tank? Even being a tank who does DPS? It's a lot less complex with much simpler rotations, and much less to worry about buff/position/everything else wise.

Commend good tanks because they're a vital role, a lot of people don't like doing it, and it makes them feel wanted, if you want. Or even because it's more stressful. But if your priority for commending is job difficulty. . . that's not really tanks.

I find that I get the most commendations on my DPS than my heals/tank now. Somehow in the expansion things just did a complete change for me. I also find that if I play 'really well' on my SCH, I am less likely to get commendations. i.e. If I DPS a lot and no one dies, 0 commendations. If 4 deaths happen and I just sit there mostly afk (not literally, but mentally, i.e. watching Netflix), but keep the tank topped up, then I'll get 2-3 commendations. I am not really sure why this is.

There's a lot of people who have a 'healers shouldn't DPS' idea in their heads for some reason, and feel like, even if you keep everyone up do everything right AND speed up the run, you must be a bad healer if you had cleric stance on at all.

There's other people, like me, who only commends healers that DPS, because it shows a willingness to TRY, but we're more rare.

On Topic: I'm not worried about commendations being less special, but if you could give everyone commendations I feel like instead of feeling neutral if you don't get one and good if you do, you'll feel neutral if you do get one (which is fine), and bad if you don't (which is not fine). Indeed, if everyone could give everyone else commendations, not getting all three would leave a lot of people sitting there going "What did I do wrong?"

Which is to say, instead of the commendation system being a way of saying 'hey you did a good job' it'd become a way of saying 'hey you did a shitty job' which. . . probably not the best.

[KleeneOnigiri]

I don't know how people manage to talk during the fight. At least as a melee DPS, it's almost impossible, at least without losing DPS.
Well, I'm not slow at writing, but also not the fastest. Still, if I would write, it'll look like that: Ni2ce wwwjo3b§! (Nice job!)

I think increasing commendations would be great. 1 Commendation in a 5-man party is ok, but at least 2 in a 8-man one would be nice to have.
And as a extra, maybe a "commend whole party" option, which you can use 1 or 2 times per week, would also be good. For the special moments when everything went great!

[Kahnom]

If 1 GIVE = 2 Commendation points for DPS,I probably got Parade Chocobo by now ...

[Novaura]

In one way, I think it's a good idea but I also run into quite a few groups who do so poorly that no one deserves a commendation. I do usually give commendations but for me it all depends on the group's performance.

[Yhoiryo]

It all depends. Honestly I remember getting tons of comms on my blm and nin, but I think people appreciate the little things that someone does aside from the mundane run. Brds singing songs, nin goading someone, pld using cover, ect ect, things that don't always happen in more casual exp/tome runs.

As I recall someone saying "You're just doing your job" which is true in many regards, so if something stands out in a regular run that the person did than they will get my comm.

[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.

[Craiger]

As someone who only play DPS, and almost only played MNK for a long time now, I mostly only get a couple of random commendations every now and then...

There are times when I get 2-3 commendations (dungeons) on a run, but I can tell that they had used a parser those runs. That's the problem with DPS (not a huge problem though), Tank and healers are pretty easy to determine if they have done a good job, but unless you use a parser, it isn't all that easy to determine how good a DPS is doing.

[Selli]

I can tell that they had used a parser those runs.

Don't need a parser, mate. Generally higher on the enmity table = higher DPS. I tend to commend DPS who keep their buffs up (like Heavy Thrust and Hot Shot) and avoid AoEs. Just because someone is doing 1,000 DPS doesn't mean much to me if they're taking extra damage.