AATN:FFXIV DEVELOPMENT! the commendation system is a joke!

[Yllania]

If youre going to demand my commendation you sure aint getting it.

[Nariel]

There is time when you take those 3 commendation by barely doing healer 101, those time when as a DpS you get commendation well earn because you're one of those bard who know about foe requiem (R.I.P my dear, you'll be missed like my flamming arrow), there is time when you don't get any, sometime you award your team mate for their effort, sometime for their presence and there is those time like now when you would like to give a 1 out of 5 star review on your Eorzea-trip app to OP.

[Hugowulf]

Be the teammate you would commend, then maybe you’ll get more.

[xkazh]

Other people in this thread have already gone over being nice in duties etc. and some have also brought up about knowing at least the basics of your job... and well, I can't speak for your conduct in dungeons (though I certainly hope that it's better than your forum posts), but a certain website shows several areas which I think you could improve on basic Bard play.

1. Song uptime. Currently all songs provide a crit buff to your party and since it's a buff, people will notice that if you don't cast songs
In AoE situations you would use Mage's Ballad first, because the DoT crits reset the Rain of Death cooldown time. In single target, you would start with Wanderer's Minuet.
2. Your songs need DoTs to function. In an AoE pull, try and DoT at least three mobs. Bosses should always have both DoTs on them, and you can refresh both of them using Iron Jaws rather than manually recasting. When these DoTs tick, they will proc each song's extra effect.
3. Your own personal damage buffs add up. Time Raging Strikes with Wanderer's Minuet cooldown, and also Barrage. Barrage should ideally be used on Refulgent Arrow whislt Raging Strikes is up, but if you don't get one, you can use it on Empyreal Arrow instead. Straight Shot should ALWAYS be up as it's a personal crit buff, so again it's giving you a higher chance for your DoTs to crit.
4. Use Sidewinder on cooldown, make sure the target has BOTH DoTs on it.
5. ABC - Always Be Casting. Ideally you always want to be hitting a skill to deal damage.

Overall there's a lot more things I could go through here but these are the most important things to keep in mind whilst playing Bard.

Other players in Duty Finder can tell when players are not doing much damage, even without using a certain tool - as an example I had an Expert roulette recently in the Burn where it took almost 30 minutes just to reach the 2nd boss. People get a feel for how long the average duty finder run takes, and if it starts to take longer then I think it's common that players will at least take a look at what party members are doing for a run to take so long.

[LilMightBeACannibal]

[Pheryx]

I've gotten hundreds of comms just playing DPS. It's been slow because usually comms go to healers or tanks. The fact i got hundreds of comms playing DPS makes me feel good even if I don't get them all the time.

[CazzT]

I guess I never really noticed.

I can say that the people who get comms from me tend to be female miqote or lalas with cute/unique names. I'm a sucker for a witty lala name.

[AngelCheese77]

Maybe they didn't feel you deserved one? Though honestly if you are playing DPS, its rare you get one. Usually the tanks are the ones who get showered in it because they are the reason they actually got into the dungeon to start with. Also a simple "Hello" seems to help too, I know some will write off a commendation simply cus no one said hello back.

I'm kinda like that.

For me it's

1. Those who actually say hello and interact
2. Cool gear or name
3. Someone doing something awesome

Just doing one's job isn't enough. I've also left dungeons giving no comms as well.

I do find as a healer, I get a comm about 80% of the time or so.

[bezal]

Just find some content that no one runs like guildhests and queue for that with 3 others not as a party but solo at the same time boom free coms .. the under the armor one can be killed in less the a min so get to farming you can have all 1000 you need in less then less then 6 hours if that is all you do and have 3 people tossing coms your way every time

[Krotoan]

Just find some content that no one runs like guildhests and queue for that with 3 others not as a party but solo at the same time boom free coms .. the under the armor one can be killed in less the a min so get to farming you can have all 1000 you need in less then less then 6 hours if that is all you do and have 3 people tossing coms your way every time

you still have to make them at least feel like giving you coms. I've got a feeling there's another aspect of OP's playstyle we aren't hearing about.