For those that give DPS comms after a run... What is your criteria?

Depends on my role, but I play tank most often so I'll go by that.

By default healer gets my comm, but that can change depending on a few factors. If the healer is a healbot and doesn't contribute to dps, they don't get it. If they let me die at any point they've probably lost it as well unless it's a sheer party-wide mess-up. If either of these happened usually the dps who I think did the most damage/had less "afk" looking time gets it

But one thing that will always get a dps my comm, is aoe lb'ing a wall to wall pull. I see it happen so little, if they do it without me asking they're commed, I don't care about anything else

I give dps commendations at random tbh, just as a treat.

Were they decently good? Did they push the limit break button? If they have a buff like drg or dnc, did they give it to me?

If I see a single Xenoglossy or Foul, the BLM gets a comm. That's how low the bar has gone for me giving out DPS comms. And it still rarely happens.

Commendation "criteria" is completely arbitrary. Mine is:
1. Hrothgar dps who pulled their weight.
2. Hrothgar tank who did their job decently.
3. Hrothgar healer who did their job decently.
4. Female Roe dps who pulled their weight.
5. Female Roe tank who did their job decently.
6. Female Roe healer who did their job decently.
7. Any non miqo, non female au'ra, non viera dps who pulled their weight.
8. Any non miqo, non female au'ra, non viera tank who pulled their weight.
9. Any non miqo, non female au'ra, non viera healer who pulled their weight.
10. Any tank that didn't "speedrun" and disrespected first-time players.

Everything after is whatever. I give healers and Miqo'tes the lowest priority because I don't support the way the community seems to put both in a sacred pedestal. I know DPS is hard to get commends for, and I know hrothgar are treated like they're invisible by people who don't do Bozja.

I won't commend someone who:
1. Pulls ahead of the tank even if they ask not to/healer is not managing
2. Bossy player who thinks everyone needs to fight the way they want even if the strategy is bad
3. Healer that doesn't DPS
4. Doesn't wait for players watching cutscenes
5. AFKs through Praetorium at any point

I give some to dps if i didnt have to heal them much. I normally try and comms dps. Usually other healer or tank just are par and will get comms anyways.

If I'm on my dps i usually give a fellow dps a comm because usually dps don't get comm. If I'm on my tank I'll give the healer a com if I'm my healer then tank gets it. I tend to be favorable to fellow blm, drg, sam. smn etc If the group is a complete fail no one gets a comm.

If I am tank, I give com to healer.
If I am healer, I give com to tank.
If I am dps, I give com to other dps.

If we all did this, everyone would get 1 com a run.

I give it to the dps who I think performed better.. If they are just auto-attacking,not aoeing,not doing mechanics etc then they don’t get it.

As a tank:

1. Healer who doesn't run ahead of me.
2. Healer who tends run ahead but asks larger pull size than default 2 groups politely.
   --> I know green DPS Lyfe is great and Swiftcast must be reserved for Holy. But not every roulette healers are that cool and sometimes learning on the way. Better safe than sorry.
3. Even if healer loses me for my default 2 group, it still goes to healer. Situations may vary but usually they can be under a learning curve.
4. DPS doing mechanics well and fun!

As healer:

1. Tank who asks pull size at the beginning. Sorry people, I'm already sold to this tank.
2. DPS who knows how to help tank to rounding up trashes + who knows to control the situation: i.e. pulling some stray mob to tank AOE, stunning some hectic AOE trash while tank's stun skill is on CD, etc.
3. A tank in training, overwhelmed with tankxiety. This tank might screw up a lot. But you have my vote for encouragement. And usually, you will get it since the DPS mentioned at 2 is quite rare.

Remark: A tank complains me not dpsing as a healer will never gets my heal after that moment even in boss fight. The only you'll get heal will be vote kicking me. You told me to DPS first while failing in your group management.

As a DPS:

1. Fellow DPS unless that person is a troublemaker.
2. A Tank/healer struggling to learn their job.

Above All:
Party savior!