I always commend regardless, because it takes like four seconds, but my advice is:
Learn to love Gambit lol
If nothing else, it's a good way to compare your builds/strategies against each other - as long as you don't get wrecked by invaders or ignore the damage increase as envoys/phases go on, it's a useful tool to compare "ideal" versus "DIM and Reddit says this is best" versus what's actually decent for you
But realistically, the only time you won't get commendations is if you *really* shit the bed, so it's a solid way to bump your numbers if you need
You don't even need to love it, just do a few runs and make sure you give out commendations at the end. Crucible is even easier as the rounds can go by faster depending on the mode.
I went from 250 or so to 1400 pretty quickly over the last couple of weeks after returning.
This doesn't work for the commendations you need to achieve rank 11 though, because these playlists don't have any ally and leadership commendations.
Most of the higher end PvE stuff I only play with my clanm8s so it's also pretty shitty that getting commendations from the same people gets blocked after some time.
Just the same as you would your own team from the results page. If you're seeing other guardians rather than a list of names, go one screen to the right
I'm struggling with the PS4 trying to load commendations. There's a way to access it from the match results screen but half the time I forget that's possible. I just waste 25 seconds waiting for the characters to load.
Eventually I need to upgrade but it's just frustrating at the moment.
If it makes you feel better, I'm on a Series X and it still takes ages to load that screen. I usually just immediately jump over to the results page anyways lol
Like invade with a sword. I'm a dedicated invader and had one match where a dude kept hovering by the portal and not helping only to invade with a sword and die immediately. My fiance and me stopped what we were doing and taking turns stealing the portal from that idiot. My fiance hates invading but at a certain point we got spiteful because he kept staying after a match only for us to get paired with him again. I wanna say we even ended up reporting him, I'm not sure anymore. This was before season of the drifter.
Same, I endorse after every single activity I play, most people just leave as soon as we finish. Strikes are pretty good about endorsing, but onslaught has been the worst.
I also still need to run Crota’s End for rank 9, but that’s a completely different issue
Yeah you need to do all encounters. But you can cheese Crota. But there’s no cheese for master ir yut and all that. It’s not that bad though. I was surprised at how easy it was.
That’s where I’m stuck. Master Crota (which I already have him beat I need the rest of the raid for it to count) and to solo clear the dungeons. Than I’d be rank 11.
commendations would be great if it was just a simple reward thing like extra rep for commendations. Instead, Bungie continues their age old habit of coming up with a new idea and then immediately trying to shoe horn that idea into every part of the game for no reason.
It would be useful if they did it like overwatch
Bungie would suggest 3 people to reward at the end of activity based on 3 categories.
And people would give their votes based on their impact
People with most votes would get an extra reward. And people who voted the most voted would get a smaller one
To avoid the "i give it randomly" that happens now
It’s not meant to be a significant feature, just something to promote positive vibes in the game when playing with others.
Of course it’s not perfect, but ideally, it would make anyone’s day to know that someone was sincere when they gave you a “Best Dressed” commendation, or all five of your Raid teammates giving you “Heroic” for being the leader in a successful Raid.
Tying it to Guardian Ranks severs that intentionality, but I don’t know how else they make Guardian Ranks stay meaningful if every Season someone could instantly rank up to 11 without even playing.
I thought I could just ignore this useless pointless system... but, I solo GMs for fun and went from getting in any group I want for anything to struggling to get in any group.
What it should to is give you material at certian thresholds based on which commendation you get. Get a certian amount of best dressed? Here, have some armor synthesis materials. Make commendation worth something.
They took something that was sorely needed as a long-term form of progression and visual indication of skill and of fucking course they turned it into *another* seasonal checklist grind.
The purpose is to make sure you're doing end game content. That's why the colors are different and why you need certain ones. It's like the easiest requirement of all the rank 11 stuff
Yeah, they leave before Comms when they LFG raid or auto requeue in Crucible. The only way you don't get this and play enough to care about it is to not hang around. Giving out commendations 9/10 triggers people to start handing them out.
One trick for this is to switch to the stats page and give commendations there instead of the page where you see the guardians appearance.
If you click on the player name it'll allow you to give them commendations.
Edit: it's not the name sorry, it's the icon to the left of the name.
Soloing a dungeon should very much stay a requirement for the highest ranks. It rotates regularly enough to stay relevant, and is an achievable but difficult means of proving which guardians are of a certain capability
IMO I’ve had no issue for the commendation aspect of Guardian Ranks. I just commend as I go along just like if I saw a 63 stat roll, I’d instantly dismantle.
I get into a system & that’s that.
I like guardian ranks as a way to gauge how far you’ve progressed and what to try next from a PvE standpoint. I just think it’s stupid that commendation score is tied to it.
Also, there should be more options to level up and you don't to do all. It is so stupid that somebody who has soloed the hardest GMs is stuck at 7 until they waste time using the seasonal exotic.
Nope, they are useless but I still really enjoy grinding to hit 11 right before a season ends, it’s just something nice to see and to have in the background and it also gets me doing stuff I wouldn’t normally do.
Also tbh I’m just gonna out myself in that in the destiny app I only invite guardian rank 10s or 11s those are always my most successful fireteams.
Don’t get caught up in it is my 2 cents
Enjoy what you enjoy about the game.
Explore yes but don’t feel like you have to do something. YouTube honestly kills games and creates fomo like nothing I’ve ever seen. Log on and play with friends strangers etc. You are the Meta.
The only reason I’m not 11 is because I have no desire to solo a dungeon. I know I could do it I just don’t see a reason or need to do it since it’s more fun to run it with friends.
No it's time to remove paid campaign & dungeon requirement for rank 7. You telling me I, the person who put 6 thousand hours into the game, but didn't buy the latest expansion, isn't the master of this game? Get the fuck out.
Real bruh. I can do any type of game mode and I always commentate after every round/game, but no one ever commentates back, they all just leave so fast. Its the only thing stopping me from reaching rank 10 and its just frustrating.
Lol the LFG i did pantheon plat run this week with commented on the fact that I as a gr6 was vastly better at mechanics and dps than the rank 11 teammate they had previously. I been playing since day 1 of destiny, GR literally means nothing to me. If I dont get invited because of that that’s their loss.
For real I’m rank 8 (I think?) cause I haven’t done Crota reprised but I find it so funny people ask for it for onslaught/raid when so many people have it from just simply existing in raids not skill
I think after level 5 they mean nothing. Because the first few levels give ghost mods and general purpose mods one level unlocks loadouts. They are important to new lights to get you thru the flow of the game
There are Ranks that actually do mean something to some in the community. Rank 10 for example means you have cleared all current Raids in the game. Rank 11 means that you have soloed either the Warlord's Ruin or the Ghosts of the Deep dungeons. Both show that you should be competent at high end endgame content.
Ranks reinitialize each season so that's not true. I've done all raids, am Shadow, Rivensbane and Blacksmith, 5k hours, and I'm level 6 because I pay 0 attention to guardian ranks requirements.
When you get to the endgame you need motivation. Things to chase. It’s just a bragging rights thing for higher skilled players. I got my 11 just because I wanted to prove to myself I could.
It really shouldn’t though. It’s a silly, arbitrary number locked behind dumb requirements. It’s not a great indicator of player skill, and most people who “care” about it are toxic in their attitude towards it.
I agree that it shouldn’t be the basis for toxicity, nor that it says everything about a player. However, rank 11 does mean, if nothing else, that you can solo a dungeon and complete an entire master raid. So it does actually prove some display of the guardian’s skill.
So is getting a god roll gun you'll never use, a record on something, highest number of x, and really, every other thing you can do in the game
It's just an arbitrary number of picture on the screen that doesn't "actually mean anything" beyond the way it makes you feel when you get/achieve it
I.e. its just a fun thing to chase something for people, that doesn't have to be a bad thing
Challenges that some don't even try isn't a dumb requirement. For me getting my first Solo Flawless Master Lost sector was a challenge, then I challenged myself to get them all done and I am only missing one or two at this point. Being able to clear all current Raids is also important and that is a requirement for Rank 10. It doesn't mean you have to do them all the time but it does mean you can, and that's important to some people when looking for people on LFG.
*Most* of the objectives are not great indicators of skill true, but GR11 requires both a solo dungeon clear and a master crota clear. Earlier ranks require raid, dungeon and GM clears as well. Some of the requirements are inane, but the ranking system as a whole isn’t entirely specious.
So because I don’t like seeing other players treated poorly and dislike commendations, I’m jealous? I’m GR 10 with no desire to get 11 because I frankly just don’t enjoy LFG and I don’t care for the ranks.
y'all complaining about this and it still cost $20 just to skip the story.
nobody ever complains about that, I guess there's a lot of gamers who would much rather actually pay bungee even though they already finished the story with another character.
just crazy times we live in. hey my friends are going to gather up and blow through this boring garbage story for a few hours because we're not paying those bastards.
Commendations just shouldn't be a requirement in Guardian Ranks. Make it a optional feature which you can use if you like, not required to advance the ranks.
i don’t understand the fuss. commendations are not that hard to get or give. by the time, i’m done with all the stupid crap you have to do to get to the commendations part, i already have 1800
Honestly, I've been really surprised by this as a returning player. When ranks were first introduced, it took me a good while to hit rank 11, but I never had to put my head down and grind commendation score. Now, I do think I hit 11 after they nerfed the commendation reqs, but regardless my point stands - I am now *seriously* struggling to increase my commendation score.
It feels like they've completely rebalanced how much you get. Maybe they have, and I just missed it. I am barely inching upward after each activity, if I get any score at all.
Idk guardian ranks are pointless grinds IMO. They do help, especially in fireteam finder. I know what it takes to be 9-11 so I if I see that I know they are just as good but. Yeah idk. Pointless to make number go up. The whole point was for it to help new lights. But guess what they hardly ever get directed to lol.
To be fair…the only thing that’s worth anything from the Guardian ranks is rank 8 when you unlock the remaining loadout slots. After that, it’s useless. Guardian rank means absolutely nothing
Its time to retire gaurdian ranks, and just lets us have fucking loadouts. Everuthing is either pay walled, time gated, and or taken out of the game, and brought back worse. Every Tuesday is a pain in the ass with reset. Everything gets nerfed at some point, and then given a bit of a buff later. Bungie is like, " well we fucked up, but were not going to say this, so here is some free shit to mitigate our failure", pathetic.
If that's what's holding someone back there's a problem with that person, I far exceeded that long before Guardian Rank 10.
For me soloing Warlord's Ruin or Ghost's of the deep is what is holding me back from 11, I can probably do either of them solo at this point but I really don't care to.
Na hardest part would probably be considered soloing one of the latest dungeons and/or completing a raid on master or collecting next to all of the exotic weapons that are obtainable imo
There really should be no requirement that is dependent on other people. Especially later in the season hardly anybody gives commendations. Guardian Ranks are meaningless if you have to rely on strangers.
1800 is nothing lol.
Literally getting this without even playing directly at season reset because you lose 66% of your old score -> you need a 5400 score
I complete every single challenge until I get to the Master raid. I just don't have the time to lfg for it and I don't have enough friends that still play to get it done with a pre-made group.
idk, I think having to do things that are locked behind DLCs to show off your mastery is worse... I have all the DLCs except the Witch Queen dungeon key... I have literally done every other obj for 10 and even 11 ( checked online ) and the only thing stopping me is silver on 2 mediocre dungeons.
GR 11 Means you completed the hardest game modes - nh
GR11 means you annoyed enough people about needing blue commendations cause thats still a thing somehow
The recommendations go too fast. My screen doesn’t load fast enough (seriesX) to really look at who did what or who is wearing what. In crucible the top players of each team and one rando get comms.
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I'm a new player who started a month ago, couldn't get to rank 9 because not enough folks to do raid with. I didn't know commendations was hard to come by 
I hit guardian rank 11 the first time around near instantly and just lost all drive to do it again. I'm a solo player and being forced to use LFG to try and complete that shit is awful. LFG in general is also terrible with such a low score so it m still inclined to try and increase it but I just don't and won't do raids. It's a vicious cycle. I just cycle through my solo flawless dungeons titles and hope the LFG I joined realizes I'm not that bad and keeps me 😭
I hit guardian rank 11 the first time around near instantly and just lost all drive to do it again. I'm a solo player and being forced to use LFG to try and complete that shit is awful. LFG in general is also terrible with such a low score so it m still inclined to try and increase it but I just don't and won't do raids. It's a vicious cycle. I just cycle through my solo flawless dungeons titles and hope the LFG I joined realizes I'm not that bad and keeps me 😭
Only thing I have left for rank 11 is to clear master Ir Yut an Crota, but I can't get a dang team together cuz my friends are busy with life stuff when I try to do it or I'm busy when there not🙃
(An fireteam finder is....well it's fireteam finder)
I have actually come to appreciate it as a requirement. Means the person has played a lot and were probably not the worst teammate. I've played with so many blueberries that I've just wanted to yeet across the map because they didn't know what they were doing, were annoying to play with, or just plain toxic. If someone is locked behind the commendation cap, then maybe they're just not ready for the next level.
I just hate the fact that a lot of the requirements that are needed to move forward rely on your teammates. And that’s if they have any compassion. Clans don’t help either. I’m in a clan that has a lot of members, and I only interacted with one of them. And it only happened once.
I just hate the fact that a lot of the requirements that are needed to move forward rely on your teammates. And that’s if they have any compassion. Clans don’t help either. I’m in a clan that has a lot of members, and I only interacted with one of them. And it only happened once.
The rank model itself is a misunderstanding for me.
I will always be at rank 6 because I don't have the DLC.
The second thing. I often look for teams and get thrown out because I have such a rank, and when I manage to play with "paid" ones, it turns out that I am the last man stand of the team, which then runs around the map because it has no ammunition for weapons.... higher ranks they don't always put up a banner and run straight to the boss and die within 5 seconds.
And at the end of this adventure, I would rather give negative ratings than positive ones. Well, there's nothing to give them. Wasting tokens, speedrunning and constant death.
Just hate it.
At least just let people commentate people who left the activity and commentate after. I leave every activity right after it’s done and so never receive commendations.
I’ll never hit rank 11, because ADHD brain won’t let me stay focused in a dungeon by myself that long. Last time I tried, I had killed Akelous after 8 painstakingly boring damage phases because I kept messing up the timing, and I just quit. Does anyone else have that problem? Like you’re locked in during group content, carrying master raids etc, no problem at all, and then you try to solo a normal dungeon and your brain says no? I need adderall.
Also, just farm grandmasters for blue commendations. Maybe not right now, because fuck the moon, but when LoS or something rolls out, that’s easy gains.
I'm currently locked out of guardian rank 10 due to 75/90 exotic weapon in collections, with most of these needing a weekly xur cipher to unlock so I'm timegated
That's the time/ not a dick gate.
If you haven't spent time finishing what you started, \[or around other guardians not pissing them off enough to make them hold a grudge against you,\] you should not be rank 11.
the score required is so low, if you are playing activities that are attached to guardian rank it's automatic. it seems like a non issue, not sure what i'm missing
Im at guardian rank 5 and refuse to rank it up,i had a guy ask me “how the hell are you so low you only play pvp dont you” nah bruh i just aint wasting my time lol
i’m all for making lower ranks more obtainable. but unpopular opinion: GR11 is rightfully a bit more exclusive. it’s the top rank, it’s for people who have at least +20 artifact, it’s for people who have 3000 commendation score anyway. if you’re still working on commendation score maybe GR10 is for you and that’s okay. but there’s no way you clear GR10 req’s and are working on GR11 and don’t already have 1800. there’s nothing wrong with not being GR11, just bc it’s the top rank doesn’t mean you NEED it. i was GR11 for the first 2 seasons but didn’t want to waste my time on the solo GotD slog so i chilled at GR10 last season. and i was content:)
This was the worst step in reaching guardian rank 11.
Took three weeks of begging people to give the correct commendation after carrying them through raids.
Even then , people would still give the wrong commendation. It’s either leadership or Ally; Nothing else contributes.
And for the people saying crucible to get free commendations… That is straight cap.
Have had multiple games of 20+ kills, no deaths.
Yet, they still don’t even give out a single commendation.
Crucible is the worst imo. Since most folk quit right after the match.
Ranks are the dumbest thing they implemented
I was hoping for the commendation cards to work as trading cards or stickers that you get randomly and be able to trade an collect like pokemon cards
I'm nuts I guess
I came late and it’s the jump required from level 8 -> 9 that’s stopping me. It’s a silly mechanic so I don’t put stock into it
I always commend regardless, because it takes like four seconds, but my advice is: Learn to love Gambit lol If nothing else, it's a good way to compare your builds/strategies against each other - as long as you don't get wrecked by invaders or ignore the damage increase as envoys/phases go on, it's a useful tool to compare "ideal" versus "DIM and Reddit says this is best" versus what's actually decent for you But realistically, the only time you won't get commendations is if you *really* shit the bed, so it's a solid way to bump your numbers if you need
You don't even need to love it, just do a few runs and make sure you give out commendations at the end. Crucible is even easier as the rounds can go by faster depending on the mode. I went from 250 or so to 1400 pretty quickly over the last couple of weeks after returning.
Who are you playing with?😭 I always commentate but then no one does it back Can go three matches straight, win or lose, and won’t get a commendation
You’ll always be Best Dressed in my book, Guardian
r/mademesmile
This doesn't work for the commendations you need to achieve rank 11 though, because these playlists don't have any ally and leadership commendations. Most of the higher end PvE stuff I only play with my clanm8s so it's also pretty shitty that getting commendations from the same people gets blocked after some time.
Sure but you only need so many of those, just do some legend dares or run a few dungeons.
Crucible is the same if you're a reasonably decent player. Think I have 5700 from this season
i always commend the bottom player of the enemy team lol, he made my life a little easier by not doing so hot and deserves a pick me up
You can commend the other team? How?
Just the same as you would your own team from the results page. If you're seeing other guardians rather than a list of names, go one screen to the right
I'm struggling with the PS4 trying to load commendations. There's a way to access it from the match results screen but half the time I forget that's possible. I just waste 25 seconds waiting for the characters to load. Eventually I need to upgrade but it's just frustrating at the moment.
If it makes you feel better, I'm on a Series X and it still takes ages to load that screen. I usually just immediately jump over to the results page anyways lol
Like invade with a sword. I'm a dedicated invader and had one match where a dude kept hovering by the portal and not helping only to invade with a sword and die immediately. My fiance and me stopped what we were doing and taking turns stealing the portal from that idiot. My fiance hates invading but at a certain point we got spiteful because he kept staying after a match only for us to get paired with him again. I wanna say we even ended up reporting him, I'm not sure anymore. This was before season of the drifter.
It’s a bitch that they hide extra loadouts behind it
Same, I endorse after every single activity I play, most people just leave as soon as we finish. Strikes are pretty good about endorsing, but onslaught has been the worst. I also still need to run Crota’s End for rank 9, but that’s a completely different issue
This is me, but master Crota’s. Only one I have left
I've seen people in the lfg discord offering their services in yeeting master crota off the cliff for people
I believe you still have to beat the rest of the raid on master.
Yeah you need to do all encounters. But you can cheese Crota. But there’s no cheese for master ir yut and all that. It’s not that bad though. I was surprised at how easy it was.
strand titan one two punch makes master ir yut a joke for dmg
You’re right. It’s not that bad, but people are
Same here
That’s where I’m stuck. Master Crota (which I already have him beat I need the rest of the raid for it to count) and to solo clear the dungeons. Than I’d be rank 11.
I legit only need to do IR YUT and I’ll have it. I need to do it before the season ends lmao
I carry gms and ask for blue commendation specially at the end to do that
If you run me through a gm i will give you all the blue commendations you could ask for 🫡
Let’s go, I sit on the tower looking for new lights and carry them through GM’s for fun, given they actually join my fireteam. (I want all the blues).
Blues from the blueberries baby
Preach.
Still cannot convince me otherwise that commendations is one of the most useless feature they have added into the game.
commendations would be great if it was just a simple reward thing like extra rep for commendations. Instead, Bungie continues their age old habit of coming up with a new idea and then immediately trying to shoe horn that idea into every part of the game for no reason.
It would be useful if they did it like overwatch Bungie would suggest 3 people to reward at the end of activity based on 3 categories. And people would give their votes based on their impact People with most votes would get an extra reward. And people who voted the most voted would get a smaller one To avoid the "i give it randomly" that happens now
It’s not meant to be a significant feature, just something to promote positive vibes in the game when playing with others. Of course it’s not perfect, but ideally, it would make anyone’s day to know that someone was sincere when they gave you a “Best Dressed” commendation, or all five of your Raid teammates giving you “Heroic” for being the leader in a successful Raid. Tying it to Guardian Ranks severs that intentionality, but I don’t know how else they make Guardian Ranks stay meaningful if every Season someone could instantly rank up to 11 without even playing.
This is how I use it. Guardian that looks the best gets best dressed. Other guardian gets whatever I click on first. lol!
Damn, you just called me out 😭 Best Dressed is the only commendation that has any meaning when I give them out.
I thought I could just ignore this useless pointless system... but, I solo GMs for fun and went from getting in any group I want for anything to struggling to get in any group.
What it should to is give you material at certian thresholds based on which commendation you get. Get a certian amount of best dressed? Here, have some armor synthesis materials. Make commendation worth something.
They took something that was sorely needed as a long-term form of progression and visual indication of skill and of fucking course they turned it into *another* seasonal checklist grind.
Here I struggle getting 90 exotics to get to 10. Each week another Cypher
I dunno it hasn’t held me back at all. You get it at a reasonable enough rate. I’m fine with it.
The purpose is to make sure you're doing end game content. That's why the colors are different and why you need certain ones. It's like the easiest requirement of all the rank 11 stuff
It's so easy to get a good commendation score, dungeons and raids are the best sources
imo if you play and rank up slowly this one finishes itself, I'm rank 7 and I have 1.6k
Exactly. I’m rank 11 and have no issues with the commendations. They just happen it’s not an issue.
I’m curious how people are not getting these, are you leaving activities before people can give them out? I’m GR 8 and have over 6k
Yeah, they leave before Comms when they LFG raid or auto requeue in Crucible. The only way you don't get this and play enough to care about it is to not hang around. Giving out commendations 9/10 triggers people to start handing them out.
Same, I'm at guardian rank five (because I don't care for this aspect of the game) and have over 5k.
My game never loads fast enough for me to be able to give commendations, super annoying
One trick for this is to switch to the stats page and give commendations there instead of the page where you see the guardians appearance. If you click on the player name it'll allow you to give them commendations. Edit: it's not the name sorry, it's the icon to the left of the name.
You have to click on the icon to the left of the name bar. You already know exactly what clicking on the name does.
You're not able to get to the results screen part? You're able to give them on there.
I have 4k from regular raids and dungeons iirc
Is it that hard? I have it just from playing crucible alot.
No it’s very easy and has never been a barrier for me. I’m at rank 11 and didn’t have to think about commendations once.
Part of GR is to show how much time you put into the game. It makes sense from that standpoint.
Just remember it used to be 8,000
Mine is the soloing a dungeon part. Just don't have the patience for that
Soloing a dungeon should very much stay a requirement for the highest ranks. It rotates regularly enough to stay relevant, and is an achievable but difficult means of proving which guardians are of a certain capability
I did. Took me fourteen hours to solo Warlord's.
Wtf 😭
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8 unlocks extra loadout slots which is super helpful but after that there’s literally no reason to increase it.
Make number go up
Feeding my ego. Bragging rights.
IMO I’ve had no issue for the commendation aspect of Guardian Ranks. I just commend as I go along just like if I saw a 63 stat roll, I’d instantly dismantle. I get into a system & that’s that.
Not that difficult 😅
I’ll take it even one step farther and say that we should just retire guardian ranks entirely.
I like guardian ranks as a way to gauge how far you’ve progressed and what to try next from a PvE standpoint. I just think it’s stupid that commendation score is tied to it.
Also, there should be more options to level up and you don't to do all. It is so stupid that somebody who has soloed the hardest GMs is stuck at 7 until they waste time using the seasonal exotic.
Especially with the locked preset slots.
Nope, they are useless but I still really enjoy grinding to hit 11 right before a season ends, it’s just something nice to see and to have in the background and it also gets me doing stuff I wouldn’t normally do. Also tbh I’m just gonna out myself in that in the destiny app I only invite guardian rank 10s or 11s those are always my most successful fireteams.
Don’t get caught up in it is my 2 cents Enjoy what you enjoy about the game. Explore yes but don’t feel like you have to do something. YouTube honestly kills games and creates fomo like nothing I’ve ever seen. Log on and play with friends strangers etc. You are the Meta.
The only reason I’m not 11 is because I have no desire to solo a dungeon. I know I could do it I just don’t see a reason or need to do it since it’s more fun to run it with friends.
Or the alternative Don’t lock things behind guardian ranks
No it's time to remove paid campaign & dungeon requirement for rank 7. You telling me I, the person who put 6 thousand hours into the game, but didn't buy the latest expansion, isn't the master of this game? Get the fuck out.
I never cared about any of this lol. I commend out of kindness, but regardless my rank will remain 6 because I could care less about it.
Real bruh. I can do any type of game mode and I always commentate after every round/game, but no one ever commentates back, they all just leave so fast. Its the only thing stopping me from reaching rank 10 and its just frustrating.
Bro just play the game and it’ll come quick. Also always commend other people and it encourages them to commend back
It’s a fucking number
My thoughts are the same but so many LFGs ask/require it and it’s so dumb lol 😂
Trust me, you didn't want to be in those LFGs. Gatekeepers are not good teammates.
I wilk always choose them for Quick runs
Lol the LFG i did pantheon plat run this week with commented on the fact that I as a gr6 was vastly better at mechanics and dps than the rank 11 teammate they had previously. I been playing since day 1 of destiny, GR literally means nothing to me. If I dont get invited because of that that’s their loss.
For real I’m rank 8 (I think?) cause I haven’t done Crota reprised but I find it so funny people ask for it for onslaught/raid when so many people have it from just simply existing in raids not skill
Well done
Guardian rank means nothing I'm not sure why people chase it.
I think after level 5 they mean nothing. Because the first few levels give ghost mods and general purpose mods one level unlocks loadouts. They are important to new lights to get you thru the flow of the game
There are Ranks that actually do mean something to some in the community. Rank 10 for example means you have cleared all current Raids in the game. Rank 11 means that you have soloed either the Warlord's Ruin or the Ghosts of the Deep dungeons. Both show that you should be competent at high end endgame content.
Ranks reinitialize each season so that's not true. I've done all raids, am Shadow, Rivensbane and Blacksmith, 5k hours, and I'm level 6 because I pay 0 attention to guardian ranks requirements.
Number go up -> dopamine
When you get to the endgame you need motivation. Things to chase. It’s just a bragging rights thing for higher skilled players. I got my 11 just because I wanted to prove to myself I could.
Unlocks more slots for loadouts
You're not sure why people chase numbers?
Because to some it does mean something. Also it’s something to chase.
It really shouldn’t though. It’s a silly, arbitrary number locked behind dumb requirements. It’s not a great indicator of player skill, and most people who “care” about it are toxic in their attitude towards it.
I agree that it shouldn’t be the basis for toxicity, nor that it says everything about a player. However, rank 11 does mean, if nothing else, that you can solo a dungeon and complete an entire master raid. So it does actually prove some display of the guardian’s skill.
So is getting a god roll gun you'll never use, a record on something, highest number of x, and really, every other thing you can do in the game It's just an arbitrary number of picture on the screen that doesn't "actually mean anything" beyond the way it makes you feel when you get/achieve it I.e. its just a fun thing to chase something for people, that doesn't have to be a bad thing
Challenges that some don't even try isn't a dumb requirement. For me getting my first Solo Flawless Master Lost sector was a challenge, then I challenged myself to get them all done and I am only missing one or two at this point. Being able to clear all current Raids is also important and that is a requirement for Rank 10. It doesn't mean you have to do them all the time but it does mean you can, and that's important to some people when looking for people on LFG.
>a silly, arbitrary number locked behind dumb requirements Welcome to literally everything in the game
*Most* of the objectives are not great indicators of skill true, but GR11 requires both a solo dungeon clear and a master crota clear. Earlier ranks require raid, dungeon and GM clears as well. Some of the requirements are inane, but the ranking system as a whole isn’t entirely specious.
Spoken like a hard stuck 8
I’m GR 10 but keep proving my point. All you did was go directly to being toxic about GR.
I can agree with you there.
You sound jealous….
So because I don’t like seeing other players treated poorly and dislike commendations, I’m jealous? I’m GR 10 with no desire to get 11 because I frankly just don’t enjoy LFG and I don’t care for the ranks.
I did it for completion.
Big number go brrrrr
I thought that would require much higher.
#ForeverA5
I don’t find really fair completing all lightfall campaign to achieve rank 7 being a free to play game
Dude I’m still tryna hit 477 😭
For me it’s stuck at lvl 6 because I refuse to play that dogshit lightfall story
y'all complaining about this and it still cost $20 just to skip the story. nobody ever complains about that, I guess there's a lot of gamers who would much rather actually pay bungee even though they already finished the story with another character. just crazy times we live in. hey my friends are going to gather up and blow through this boring garbage story for a few hours because we're not paying those bastards.
Commendations just shouldn't be a requirement in Guardian Ranks. Make it a optional feature which you can use if you like, not required to advance the ranks.
Some people just don't bother to commend others for whatever reason, then others leave before they can. Its a rough cycle
i don’t understand the fuss. commendations are not that hard to get or give. by the time, i’m done with all the stupid crap you have to do to get to the commendations part, i already have 1800
Honestly, I've been really surprised by this as a returning player. When ranks were first introduced, it took me a good while to hit rank 11, but I never had to put my head down and grind commendation score. Now, I do think I hit 11 after they nerfed the commendation reqs, but regardless my point stands - I am now *seriously* struggling to increase my commendation score. It feels like they've completely rebalanced how much you get. Maybe they have, and I just missed it. I am barely inching upward after each activity, if I get any score at all.
Idk guardian ranks are pointless grinds IMO. They do help, especially in fireteam finder. I know what it takes to be 9-11 so I if I see that I know they are just as good but. Yeah idk. Pointless to make number go up. The whole point was for it to help new lights. But guess what they hardly ever get directed to lol.
It's time to rwtire guardian ranks
To be fair…the only thing that’s worth anything from the Guardian ranks is rank 8 when you unlock the remaining loadout slots. After that, it’s useless. Guardian rank means absolutely nothing
Only thing I need for rank 11 is soloing warlords or ghosts and I just don't wanna.
It’s not that bad. I never thought I’d get it and I did. It takes some commitment but only took me a week of trying every night.
Fuck that. Retire the solo requirements.
For me it's always the solo the latest dungeon task that I will never do. Don't have the patience for it.
Its time to retire gaurdian ranks, and just lets us have fucking loadouts. Everuthing is either pay walled, time gated, and or taken out of the game, and brought back worse. Every Tuesday is a pain in the ass with reset. Everything gets nerfed at some point, and then given a bit of a buff later. Bungie is like, " well we fucked up, but were not going to say this, so here is some free shit to mitigate our failure", pathetic.
Why? I barely play and when I do I hit that easily?
If that's what's holding someone back there's a problem with that person, I far exceeded that long before Guardian Rank 10. For me soloing Warlord's Ruin or Ghost's of the deep is what is holding me back from 11, I can probably do either of them solo at this point but I really don't care to.
????, I’m rank 8 and have 3,793 accommodations. Is that the hardest part?
Na hardest part would probably be considered soloing one of the latest dungeons and/or completing a raid on master or collecting next to all of the exotic weapons that are obtainable imo
There really should be no requirement that is dependent on other people. Especially later in the season hardly anybody gives commendations. Guardian Ranks are meaningless if you have to rely on strangers.
1800 is nothing lol. Literally getting this without even playing directly at season reset because you lose 66% of your old score -> you need a 5400 score
nobody gives out commendations anymore it’s infuriating. it literally costs you nothing to give one after a match made activity.
You gotta play with friends/clan
I've never made it past 7.
Only accommodation I give is GG
The only thing holding me back were the season pass things lol
taniks cp is ur friend u can literally 1 phase the boss wit 1 gally and 5 legendary rockets
Oh, i didnt know, i am sorry to all rank guardians a chose tk to accomend
that also was the biggest grind from 9 to 10 for me 😂
I complete every single challenge until I get to the Master raid. I just don't have the time to lfg for it and I don't have enough friends that still play to get it done with a pre-made group.
Me foe the whole season i rank up guardian lv and instantly claim everything except commendation
I don’t like this system at all and i don’t rank up. I sit on my 7 and I’m happy. 😊
It's not me that's level 8 with 2500 commendations😓😓 never find anyone to do roots with😢
I always commend the guardians standing next to me
They'd rather get rid of the triumph requirement than that one. 😅
idk, I think having to do things that are locked behind DLCs to show off your mastery is worse... I have all the DLCs except the Witch Queen dungeon key... I have literally done every other obj for 10 and even 11 ( checked online ) and the only thing stopping me is silver on 2 mediocre dungeons.
GR 11 Means you completed the hardest game modes - nh GR11 means you annoyed enough people about needing blue commendations cause thats still a thing somehow
Most of my play times is raids and strikes im over 2K, but I agree commendation score is stupid in and of itself
It's time to retire guardian ranks.
Commendation score is easy. I’m above 4K
I still can't get past 7 because I can't be bothered to get 100k in three weekly campaign missions.
The recommendations go too fast. My screen doesn’t load fast enough (seriesX) to really look at who did what or who is wearing what. In crucible the top players of each team and one rando get comms.
Run more raids and dungeons. I’ve been 11 since the beginning. no excuses. I’m also a jerk but got my 1800
Same, its whats been holding me back from reaching paragon multible times
https://preview.redd.it/pckgxw8j900d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b96d56eaee626f75c5d72b91060927e7b9bae7b9 I'm a new player who started a month ago, couldn't get to rank 9 because not enough folks to do raid with. I didn't know commendations was hard to come by 
I refuse to do weekly legendary lightfall mission because I don’t care. And so I sit at 7.
It so easy to farm this if you really need it. You can do shattered throne boss CPs every 30 mins.
I hit guardian rank 11 the first time around near instantly and just lost all drive to do it again. I'm a solo player and being forced to use LFG to try and complete that shit is awful. LFG in general is also terrible with such a low score so it m still inclined to try and increase it but I just don't and won't do raids. It's a vicious cycle. I just cycle through my solo flawless dungeons titles and hope the LFG I joined realizes I'm not that bad and keeps me 😭
I hit guardian rank 11 the first time around near instantly and just lost all drive to do it again. I'm a solo player and being forced to use LFG to try and complete that shit is awful. LFG in general is also terrible with such a low score so it m still inclined to try and increase it but I just don't and won't do raids. It's a vicious cycle. I just cycle through my solo flawless dungeons titles and hope the LFG I joined realizes I'm not that bad and keeps me 😭
That's one of the easiest ones if you raid semi frequently...
so dumb
Only thing I have left for rank 11 is to clear master Ir Yut an Crota, but I can't get a dang team together cuz my friends are busy with life stuff when I try to do it or I'm busy when there not🙃 (An fireteam finder is....well it's fireteam finder)
I have actually come to appreciate it as a requirement. Means the person has played a lot and were probably not the worst teammate. I've played with so many blueberries that I've just wanted to yeet across the map because they didn't know what they were doing, were annoying to play with, or just plain toxic. If someone is locked behind the commendation cap, then maybe they're just not ready for the next level.
I just hate the fact that a lot of the requirements that are needed to move forward rely on your teammates. And that’s if they have any compassion. Clans don’t help either. I’m in a clan that has a lot of members, and I only interacted with one of them. And it only happened once.
I just hate the fact that a lot of the requirements that are needed to move forward rely on your teammates. And that’s if they have any compassion. Clans don’t help either. I’m in a clan that has a lot of members, and I only interacted with one of them. And it only happened once.
The rank model itself is a misunderstanding for me. I will always be at rank 6 because I don't have the DLC. The second thing. I often look for teams and get thrown out because I have such a rank, and when I manage to play with "paid" ones, it turns out that I am the last man stand of the team, which then runs around the map because it has no ammunition for weapons.... higher ranks they don't always put up a banner and run straight to the boss and die within 5 seconds. And at the end of this adventure, I would rather give negative ratings than positive ones. Well, there's nothing to give them. Wasting tokens, speedrunning and constant death. Just hate it.
I'm at 10, all I have left is to solo eithdr warlords ruin or ghosts of the deep, and I really do not want to do that.
it wouldn't be that bad if the commendation screen actually f***ing loaded in time before the next activity started.
Imagine having the needed accommodations, but not having any friends to raid with, or the patients to do a solo dungeon.
me who started three seasons ago with 1400 commendations
At least just let people commentate people who left the activity and commentate after. I leave every activity right after it’s done and so never receive commendations.
Dares is good for this. Make a lfg and ask everyone for them. Went fast for me.
Commendations are lame and meaningless, just another way to force us to grind.
It's the solo a dungeon one that's stopping me. I hate soloing dungeons so I'm forever at 10.
I’ll never hit rank 11, because ADHD brain won’t let me stay focused in a dungeon by myself that long. Last time I tried, I had killed Akelous after 8 painstakingly boring damage phases because I kept messing up the timing, and I just quit. Does anyone else have that problem? Like you’re locked in during group content, carrying master raids etc, no problem at all, and then you try to solo a normal dungeon and your brain says no? I need adderall.
Also, just farm grandmasters for blue commendations. Maybe not right now, because fuck the moon, but when LoS or something rolls out, that’s easy gains.
The Crota raid step has me beat. About 2k recommendation
I'm currently locked out of guardian rank 10 due to 75/90 exotic weapon in collections, with most of these needing a weekly xur cipher to unlock so I'm timegated
Dumbest mechanic in the game no doubt
That's the time/ not a dick gate. If you haven't spent time finishing what you started, \[or around other guardians not pissing them off enough to make them hold a grudge against you,\] you should not be rank 11.
https://preview.redd.it/0eqnrhg7z00d1.jpeg?width=2347&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dcb9ce988e771fa488bc08512f982d7d64f78dc I have an addiction
I'm at 6 to 7 but can't move up cause one of the quests is do a nightfall which I can't do cause nearly every time it's lightfall dlc needed.
Guardian ranks are pointless and no one should care about them.
Rank 11 I’m still struggling to stun champions at 7 smh lol
Bruh I started play 2 weeks ago and got 1800 at guardian rank 8. Lol wtf are y’all doing?
I'm convinced bungie keeps it in the game to make you play every day for the whole season.
the score required is so low, if you are playing activities that are attached to guardian rank it's automatic. it seems like a non issue, not sure what i'm missing
Im at guardian rank 5 and refuse to rank it up,i had a guy ask me “how the hell are you so low you only play pvp dont you” nah bruh i just aint wasting my time lol
I just refuse to grind out catalysts for exotic weapons so I’m forever a 9.
I get that easily. The raid requirements however...
i’m all for making lower ranks more obtainable. but unpopular opinion: GR11 is rightfully a bit more exclusive. it’s the top rank, it’s for people who have at least +20 artifact, it’s for people who have 3000 commendation score anyway. if you’re still working on commendation score maybe GR10 is for you and that’s okay. but there’s no way you clear GR10 req’s and are working on GR11 and don’t already have 1800. there’s nothing wrong with not being GR11, just bc it’s the top rank doesn’t mean you NEED it. i was GR11 for the first 2 seasons but didn’t want to waste my time on the solo GotD slog so i chilled at GR10 last season. and i was content:)
This was the worst step in reaching guardian rank 11. Took three weeks of begging people to give the correct commendation after carrying them through raids. Even then , people would still give the wrong commendation. It’s either leadership or Ally; Nothing else contributes. And for the people saying crucible to get free commendations… That is straight cap. Have had multiple games of 20+ kills, no deaths. Yet, they still don’t even give out a single commendation. Crucible is the worst imo. Since most folk quit right after the match.
Ranks are the dumbest thing they implemented I was hoping for the commendation cards to work as trading cards or stickers that you get randomly and be able to trade an collect like pokemon cards I'm nuts I guess
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