Commending DPS

[GomJabbar]

I never commend DPS.

A lot of people seem to have this attitude, which is why I almost always commend DPS (unless they are doing a terrible job...). I make it a policy never to commend anyone who blatantly asks for it however. If I hear a "Don't forget to commend your healers/tank! ^^" It's a sure way NOT to get my comm! lol

[Iscah]

My issue with commending DPSes is that most of the time I honestly have no idea how well they did.

If they didn't do something to stand out, I don't know which one did better, and don't know who deserves it. Even more in eight-man content.



On the receiving end, I seem to get comms a lot while leveling black mage, presumably for getting the basic rotation right(ish).

Also the other night we had a new tank who wasn't picking up enemies properly, so I was targeting the enemies going for the healer. (I'd commend someone for the same thing if I was the healer.)



I wish you could indicate why you commended someone though. Just a few tickboxes like 'you played well', 'you gave good advice', or 'I like your costume'.

I make it a policy never to commend anyone who blatantly asks for it however. If I hear a "Don't forget to commend your healers/tank! ^^" It's a sure way NOT to get my comm! lol

Same. Surefire way to lose my commendation if I just was about to give it to you.

By the same token, I don't like to commend the 'last person standing' just because they haven't left yet, if I didn't intend to give it to them otherwise.

[savageink]

I don't like to commend the 'last person standing' just because they haven't left yet, if I didn't intend to give it to them otherwise.

I have no problem doing that as long as they didn't piss me off. That means they were playing well enough to not cause any huge bumps in the road....and frankly in randos that's awesome.

[Brightamethyst]

My issue with commending DPSes is that most of the time I honestly have no idea how well they did.

If they didn't do something to stand out, I don't know which one did better, and don't know who deserves it. Even more in eight-man content.

This is the biggest issue DPS have when it comes to recognition. It's often hard to gauge how well a DPS is doing at a glance simply because most of what they do is completely invisible.

Held aggro, didn't spin unnecessarily? Tank did a good job. No one died, debuffs cured quickly? Healer did a good job. BLM did... well, huh. I think I saw some fire at one point. That's good, right?

[AxlStream]

I mean there is a way to gauge DPS to recognise good DPS players, but you're too afraid of being called out and held responsible. Oh well.

[Iscah]

I mean there is a way to gauge DPS to recognise good DPS players, but you're too afraid of being called out and held responsible. Oh well.

Or we're playing on PS4 and can't run additional programs.

[Awful]

Or we're playing on PS4 and can't run additional programs.

Even on PS4 it's not hard to see what's going on in a bad group, I had a Monk in Skalla today whose rotation was Bootshine > True Strike > Rock Breaker (on single target) or Snap Punch with no positionals, the RDM never used Scatter and hard casted Veraeros.

I didn't need a 3rd party program to see that things were dying slow and people weren't using proper rotations, let alone them using their CDs.