What are Your Conditions to Commend?

[Zunde]

What kind of sicken? Are we talking mild stomach ache? or full blown kill me now cramp sickness? I like to know which kind of Toxic i flavor as.

[Heavy01Mk2]

What kind of sicken? Are we talking mild stomach ache? or full blown kill me now cramp sickness? I like to know which kind of Toxic i flavor as.

the kind that requires grandma's chicken noodle soup to make aches go away

[Jeykama]

I don't give comms out much anymore unless someone stands out (in the good way). Good play, good activity, no ninja-afks, etc.

But roll Need on gear when you're rocking i90+ is instant DQ.

[Vahlnir]

I will generally base it off of performance, though I lean towards commending dps roles more. If the entire group was competent I will give my commendation to the dps of the group, unless the tank or healer did/said something that either made me laugh or was impressive. If there's another DRG in the group it goes to them 99% of the time, unless they're performance/attitude was beyond horrid. There are rare instances where a group member starts the dungeon with a...less than stellar performance, but takes advice well and uses it. It's like they are a completely different player by the end. When that happens, my commendation goes to them, regardless of role.

[Zunde]

A bowl of chicken noodle soup sounds so good right now my stomach aches in desire just thinking about it.

I can't help my behavior though. Maybe with some strict training i'll be able to fix it.

Maybe i'll write "Always give out a Commendation even if each member of the group has broken your "Do this and you lose my com." Rule that only i follow." A few thousand times.

Ehh.. 17 Coms until 300 Maybe i'll do some Guildhests since even if i don't follow the "Oh look a tank and healer with a pulse COMMEND!" Mentality does not mean i can't abuse it for my own gain.

[Brainberry]

Matters in the situation, with shitty tanks who lose agro but the healer is able to heal everyone up then it goes to healer, if DPS is good then it goes to them. Its really easy to evaluate someones performance to determine who deserves the commendation.

[SummonerSenah]

I mostly do low level roulette, so I have gotten into the habit of checking the search info of everyone and seeing who's actually new and who's just leveling an alt or running roulette (assuming you can't tell just by their gear). I try to give my commendations to the new players first, regardless of role. In Trials and Expert roulette I try to give it to DPS since we don't get as much love. Although, when I'm running as healer, I find myself giving my commendations to the other healer in 8 mans as a sort of "My fellow healer" kind of thing.

[ShinkuTachi]

A couple of threads actually made me a bit curious about this question, and I have to wonder how people commend others after a DF run.

For instance, I actually DF rarely (I prefer just grouping with friends or PF), so when I do commend, it's usually toward someone that is:

A) Willing to learn/Take Advice

B) Someone who communicates

C) Someone who is skillful at the job and/or run

Pretty much the same reasons as you Talia.

Though I see a few people saying Healers who DPS.
For me, that's conditional. While I'm fine with a Healer who wants to do some DPS, I'm not fine with someone dying do to a Healer's negligence. If you can do both, then by all means, do both; but, if you can't do both, just stick to dropping cures and leave the multitasking to the pros.

[Roll]

If I'm healing:

*If the Bard uses Foe Requiem while I'm spamming Holy or spells=Com

*Not that I need it sometimes but if the Bard uses Mage's Ballad=Com

*Bards who sit on full mp and never bother to sing anything even if I'm dpsing with spells or low on mp=no com

*If the Tank holds hate well=Com

*If the Tank actually uses Cover successfully on me=insta-com

If I'm anything other than healer:

If the healer just sits there not doing anything for the majority of the fight and not DPSing when there's cleary a good window to DPS=no com

It depends really. But that's my conditions for commendations.

[Roll]

Automatic commendation rejection:
Being a massive d-bag
Healers idling the entire instance while tank sits at 90% or more then complains about how long this is taking or how bored they are
Repeatedly stomped on by every telegraph
Limit Break Guy (usually a tank for some reason, uses LB as soon as it's up regardless of what's going on)
Need rolling things that aren't upgrades (I accept that you can, but I don't respect it)
Non-tank pulling repeatedly
"GO GO GO"
"Please commend"
Random Buttons Guy (example BLM "rotation": Fire 1, Fire 3, Fire 2, Blizzard 2, Blizzard 3, Fire 1, Scathe, ????, ????, ???!!)
Probably more

This! ^
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