What are Your Conditions to Commend?

[Welsper59]

I've gotten into the habit of rewarding DPS more often, unless the healer or tank are just that much better (not just in performance) than everyone else. Having played all 3 roles, and experienced the "glorious" random players that DF can often give us, you start to notice that finding a good DPS is actually pretty damn rare. Again, it's not so much in role performance (i.e. doing top damage), but also in how they handle themselves as part of the group. Team player mentality is rare.

[Zhi]

Tanks:
Chain pull really well or just pull everything without losing aggro on the first flare. I hate wasting my stacks
Scholar:
Cleric stance entire dungeon
White Mage: you better be holying a lot for taking away my piety

I always queue exp roulette with the same person as we work on the daily alexandrite so never have to never have to worry about dps, just want to be in and out fast

[Rbstr]

If the healer was throwing some damage and keeping me up without drama it's nearly always them. Its still usually the healer unless they were dropping the ball or a DPS really stood out.
I try to give one every run, I'll find something that wasn't bad in all but the worst runs.

People that never get commendations:
Gaming the ilevel requirement in DF - like Bards in Sipahi or Peltast left-side stuff! I never even get the chance to commend if it's particularly egregious. Either they leave or I do. I've seen assholes with basically everything but the weapon wrong. Nope.
DPS that pull extra mobs ahead of me or that are particularly dickish voicing their impatience (Yes, we can speed up sometimes, so ask...sometimes the other DPS is a strength bard and that'll just make it worse).
DPS that die from standing in multiple red geometry.
People that lag all over the place and cause wipes.

[Limecat]

I just go with tank <--> healer and DPS <--> DPS, unless the person I would have auto-commended was really, really stupid. I don't bother using them as a milkbone.

[Archadius]

Personally I like to commend based on any of or a combination of the following:

- Attitude (bad ones get you a big ol' goose-egg!)
- Communcation (social, or otherwise, anything to make repeat content more enjoyable)
- Performance (if you clearly excel at your role, I'll commend)
- Assistance (if you make a suggestion to another player who appears to be struggling, and do so in a constructive and polite manner, gj!)

I don't like when players assign commendations based on class because the DPS always get the short end of the stick. I've played only as a DPS in the DF since commendations were released and I have like... 120 total lol, people just hate on DPS for some reason, especially BLMs. I guess people just think we all sit in the back and do nothing, and all those fireworks are just set off by default :S

For the record, I always say hello, say gj and ty when we win, and also if someone needs help/explanation, I'm happy to do it if I understand their role in the duty well enough. That seems more like common courtesy to me more than something to do for a commendation lol

[Alukah]

I don't like when players assign commendations based on class because the DPS always get the short end of the stick. I've played only as a DPS in the DF since commendations were released and I have like... 120 total lol, people just hate on DPS for some reason, especially BLMs. I guess people just think we all sit in the back and do nothing, and all those fireworks are just set off by default :S

Nothing about hate, just that some people weight keeping enmity of several mobs or keeping the party alive more than dealing damage. Not saying that tanking or healing is difficult, all roles are easy, but DPSing is way easier.

And then there's what I said in my post, commendations help to encourage people to play more tanks and healers.

[Zunde]

I'm quite close to 300 Coms right now which is hilarious since i rarely ever Com other people.

Roll need on something in a low dungeon to turn in for seals? You lost my Com. Even if you're the nicest sweetest funniest person The second you hit that button my respect for you is gone.

Are you rude/bossy/impatient? No com

Are you a whiny idiot doing your myth daily and end up getting Ifrit in the Roulette and then throw a hissy fit because the one new person who queued for ifrit is watching the cutscene even though the very fact that it's ifrit means your 20-40 minute roulette run turned into a 3 minute breeze? No com.

If i don't like your name - No com.

Hilarious i know when the time comes to give out the Com (depending on if i had already decided nobody in the group gets me.) I just toss it off at random.

[NyneAlexander]

If i'm DPS it goes to DPS. Period. Unless they're terribad. Then it goes to the healer that did the most dps.

If I'm tank, it goes to the other tank. If I'm heals, then it goes to the other heals, or the tank.

I'm quite close to 300 Coms right now which is hilarious since i rarely ever Com other people.

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Lollie]

Saying hi at the beginning of a dungeon is acknowledging their presence. People view those who don't do this to just be using them for their own means with no regard to the team effort. Granted that what most people are doing in df but it is a social etiquette thing.

My coms go to the person with the best situational awareness.

[Mcshiggs]

I don't really have a list of what gets a commendation, but rather stuff that makes me not give one: A healer that lets a tank die because he/she is too busy holying, rolling need on gear you don't need so you can turn it in for seals, equipping gear not meant for your job so you can meet ilvl requirements, stuff like that or general douchebaggery is what keeps me from commending people.