Commendation System: So who get's your vote?

[Lyrro]

I've found that the all too common trend is to give the commendation to the tank or healer. I play a whm, a blm, a sch, and an archer and my whm gets far more commendations than my blm or bard. For this reason, I tend to ignore the healers and tanks simply because I feel like too many people are commending them simply for doing their job and look at which dps was able to stand out to me because they tend to get overlooked. If nobody stands out, I'll base my decision on other factors like who's name I like the most, lol.

[revonine]

I've found that the all too common trend is to give the commendation to the tank or healer. I play a whm, a blm, a sch, and an archer and my whm gets far more commendations than my blm or bard. For this reason, I tend to ignore the healers and tanks simply because I feel like too many people are commending them simply for doing their job and look at which dps was able to stand out to me because they tend to get overlooked. If nobody stands out, I'll base my decision on other factors like who's name I like the most, lol.

I've noticed this too, most of my commendations came on my WHM, even though I was only doing my job and nothing exceptional at the time. When I'm on my Monk it rarely happens except the one time when I took time out to explain Haukke HM (had a fully new party) and blew everyone away with MONK POWAA

[Raminax]

I kind of have a mental flowchart for it:

1) Was the person performing excellently? Such as Healer helping out with DPS during downtime, tanks being on the ball with adds, DPS doing interrupts outside of good DPS etc.
2) Did the person step up to lead the group when needed? Sometimes explanations and marking need to be done, there's always new players coming and going.
3) Was the person friendly? Joy and mirth during the dungeon run can make even those slow DPS or wipefest runs enjoyable.
4) Whenever I feel fickle. Sometimes I've commended people for garish colour schemes and silly names.

That said, I haven't given very many commendations myself. Suppose I have far too high standards for the Duty Finder. <_<

Also, people going "commend pls" at the end of a dungeon can go suck it. That immediately demotes them to no commendation, regardless if they were the best player I had seen the entire week.

[Andevom]

I give commendations to people who make me laugh and aren't elitist ragers. Those are about the only requirements.

I wish I could give them to more than just one person at times though; I've randomed with some pretty fun people.

[RyuDragnier]

Depends on what I see. When I'm tank, I'm able to see what DPS is using at any time, along with the healer. When I'm DPS (meaning Bard), I can see the entire field and get a grasp on what each person is doing, along with whether or not DoTs are being used. When I'm healer, I'm watching the health bars mostly and buffs while watching the rest of the party do their thing. I will mentally note any errors or anything like that. I give it to the tank if they impressed me with the aggro hold, I give it to the DPS if I specifically see people doing their jobs well, I give it to the healer if I feel they went through a rough time. If everybody is doing their job...it hurts me because it gets really hard to choose. If nobody is doing their job correctly, nobody gets my commendation.

[FifthDarkrum]

I usually look for the person who went above and beyond the basic stuff that their class can do during a run. The little things that help out without being too obvious but show that the person knows their class, the content, and how the two interact. Given that, if someone's new to content and does a good job, I'll usually give it to them because it's nice to get recognition for not messing up when you're new to the content.

[Tlamila]

Forgot to add: I'm very keen to give it to someone who fails and apologizes for it, and is very nice about it. I value disposition more then skills, and someone able to admit hir mistakes is imho a very precious player.

One thing I'm noticing, whenever I stupidly fail and die I get commendations in the end. If I do all flawlessly less likely. Do they appreciate my saying sorry or they just had to chance to make a good laugh at my fails? Cause it's hard to understand, I'm starting to think that if I wnat commendations I have to fail more <.<

[VentiSei]

I would have given it to the DPS who had macro'd "FORM BLAZING SWORD" on his Limit Break when I did WP a few days ago, but he left too quickly :P

[gadzi_h]

I give it to Black Mage if he is sleeping mobs when I am tank, healers if they are doing a great job of keeping me alive and depending on how things go it might go to dps for doing a great job of picking up adds.
If I am DPS (Archer) I will give it to another dps or the healer. However, if the tank is super nice and giving other players helpful instruction, marking mobs, controlling argo and just being a kick <snip> tank you will get my vote for sure.

I am really torn when I get a bunch of noobs in a dungeon and they all do a great job. I usually say I want to give one to everyone but unfortunately you can't. It would be nice if you could do a commendation for everyone once a week for those special times.

[MPNZ]

I don't really have a criteria for giving these yet, so I've only given out two so far. And, one was a really nice tnk who said he had also suffered because of heavy lag on a first release PS3. He was so nice!