The easiest commendations
Recently, I've heard several players complaining about the 3000 comm score needed for the Talon Shield. In my view, the score is easy to achieve just by playing the different modes of the Division. And you don't need to play all modes, that means. it is no problem, if you don't like, for example, going rogue or legendaries flawless, The real work begins when you try to get 5000. Then, you have to do all the boring, grinding comms such as 500 phases in UG or 100 S&D missions. The Talon Shield, however, is not difficult to attain. Here some tips for commendations you can achieve while playing the normal way.
All comms of the category General and Exploration (770 + 415 in total): while playing help civilians, perform emotes, shoot traps and tires and collect vanity items as well as echos, photos from drones etc. Just don't sell or dismantle classy gear as long as you don't have the Set Collector comm., but sell everything you don't need. Roll talents on your weapons and craft some items etc.
Combat/PVP (1090 + 455) Use different kinds of weapons to kill NPCs of the different groups and don't forget use consumables, granades, skills. Revive yourself or other players in missions, DZ, LS and Skirmish. Clear LMs in DZ, extract items and get supply drops. All those things we do each day in TD.
Survival (275): in my view, some Survival comms are really easy, e. g. Survival Exlorer including Pacifist, Nick of Time etc. There are hardly any players left in PVP. After 15 min, you are often the only one left and then, it is easy to do these comms, Hunter to Hunted (there are three extraction points and meanwhile, we all have become familiar with Hunters and should be able to three hunter per round), For the hoarder (just extract items).
The same applies to UG and West Side Pier commendations. That's why I think that the score for Talon can be reached without much effort. You don't need to focus on the comms, just keep them in mind while playing.
Account wide commendations
Hi Johan, do you know if there is any word on all commendations being made account wide yet as opposed to some still by character only?? It is frustrating having part of the commendation done on one character and some on another and not having the commendation because of it, i.e. the manhunted commendation, I have more than 50 manhunts survived total but not on any one character, the total is spread out across all my characters depending on which build i plan to use in the DZ at the time. This means I have not got the commendation yet. I know this issue about commendations has been raised in the past but there has never been an answer to the problem.