What is your preference for a player to get a commendation?

[Xlantaa]

Depends a lot of the situation.

Tank: If can take the agrro and manage the CDs
DPS: If the mobs/bosses die fast. But it is hard to know which DPS do that sometimes.
Healer: If can maintan me alive in extreme situations. I don't care if DPS or not.

I only take into account DPS on DPS classes. I dont' mind tanks of Healer have low (or 0) DPS. Honestly, sometimes I discard giving commend to a healer if he abuse on DPS, letting me almost die (I wont' give him never if I die for that of course).

[Urthdigger]

Anyone who's massively undergeared for the content (wearing level 25 gear in a level 40 dungeon...) or just blatantly ignoring mechanics doesn't get a commendation. Past that, I try to pay attention to who's doing their job, but that's a little rough to tell without keeping a close eye on them at the detriment of my own role. If all eligible folks appear equal, I go for tanks, then healers, then DPS.

[Mysteltain]

If my healer or co-healer is an AST, the odds are very likely that they'll get a comm from me. But that's only if I see them using their cards often and appropriately. I've had a lot of Weeping City runs with absolutely no cards effects on anyone, or stocked in their status bar. As an AST main, I know that RNG can be harsh, but I'd take an AoE Spear over waiting five minutes for an AoE Balance.

Beyond that, if I'm tanking and the DPS pull additional adds or don't burn down what the rest of us are working on, they won't gety comm. If they use their support abilities and play their job exceedingly well (high damage, dodge AoEs, use LB at opportune moments) then they'll easily get my comm. Likewise, for healers, if you have 90% of your MP for the whole dungeon and I haven't seen you toss out single damaging spell, no comm. If I feel your contribution to our progress in a fight (which is pretty obvious) then you're up for a comm.

[Kallistra]

I commend whoever I feel is doing their job on an above average level.

If I feel like the whole party deserves a commendation, I'll give it to a DPS since I know they have a harder time getting commendations.

[SaitoHikari]

Order of preference:

- Bards that know how to support well and are able to wreck mobs. Ironically the former is far rarer than the latter, but I'd still give a commendation to a Bard that is close to matching or surpasses mine.
- DPSing healers, so long as their attitude isn't absolutely toxic
- Other DPS that play well
- Defaults to tanks if any of the above three aren't satisfied

[Knahli]

I won't commend anyone who doesn't say at least their Hello/Goodbye/at the very least emote.

Sadly it's come to the point where anyone who can manage at least the above criteria will get my commendation, but I am not really impressed by a Bard using Foe's or whatever for example because that's the most basic of gameplay and I don't think they deserve a pat on the back for it. Skill matters very little to me. I'll always commend the person who spoke or who was humble in complete failure above the mute who performed well. If you're a Healer who failed hard and nearly caused a wipe in Mhach but apologised sincerely while the Tank clutched the raid from a wipe, you're still getting my commendation over the Tank.

[KaitlanKela]

Doesn't it go to LB2 in Void Ark? He wasn't waiting until it was full.

This is ridiculous. Using a dps limit break on a boss isn't harassment. If they used LB1, it was prolly because LB2 wouldn't fill in time before the boss was dead. You can't always wait until it's full of it might never get used at all. But even if they just pulled it early - it's less than optimal that's annoying but it's a far cry from harassment let's report them and have a mod talk to them in Gaol behavior. Grow some patience people...

[Pells]

This is ridiculous. Using a dps limit break on a boss isn't harassment. If they used LB1, it was prolly because LB2 wouldn't fill in time before the boss was dead. You can't always wait until it's full of it might never get used at all. But even if they just pulled it early - it's less than optimal that's annoying but it's a far cry from harassment let's report them and have a mod talk to them in Gaol behavior. Grow some patience people...

Explain to me why it has to be used on the boss? Why not use the caster LB on the trash pulls?

Besides all that:

careful with that! i know someone that was thrown in the gaol once...for harrassment. because they used melee lb1 whenever it was available in Void Ark

This doesn't even say he was using it on the boss, only as soon as it was available. They could have been burning it on anything. Or when invulnerable mechanics are in play.

[revonine]

Explain to me why it has to be used on the boss? Why not use the caster LB on the trash pulls?

You'd be surprised how many randoms in DF freak out at me for using caster LB on trash pulls, bonus rage for when I use it after the tank mass pulls from barrier to barrier so it's most effective >.>

I don't understand why people have this mindset where LB is to be only used on last boss when he's at less than 5% health completely wasting it.

[KaitlanKela]

I never said it had to be used on the boss, just that it was fine to. Using the caster lb on a huge trash pull is amazing, does tons of damage, saves lots of time and is almost a surefire way to get a comm from me.

Of course, I've seen people get salty about using the lb on trash too. All the more reason communicate about the lb, lots of people don't know how helpful that is.