How do you decide commendations?

[Xakery]

I give my commendations to friendly players who didn't hold back the party and either kept up well, carried some conversation, or quitely excelled at being a BAMF.

[Lilyanna]

Well, if I am in an 8-man and I feel that I didn't live up to what I could (Bad day or got distracted) I usually give it to my fellow healer as an apology. Otherwise, I like to give it to a dps that I saw doing a great job (Dodging Titan HM landslides for example).

In 4-mans, I usually keep a close eye on my party and watch for players doing what they are suppose to (SV HM, if DPS notices adds before they get to me and downs them quickly or if DPS are on the ball with Tam-Tara last boss and nothing reaches the middle). I will also give it to a tank that pulls according to the group make up (after looking at gear/class/etc). I have a pet peeve of a tank pulling only after looking at my gear and no one else's ... I know that anyone can do aoe, no matter what the class, but pulling big all the time isn't the best course of action ... I can also flip that when I queue with my Bard friend and BLM friend (all 100+) and the tank pulls 1 mob at a time, lol.

[Saseal]

Well, if I am in an 8-man and I feel that I didn't live up to what I could (Bad day or got distracted) I usually give it to my fellow healer as an apology.

I do that for 8 man parties (usually giving the comm to the other healer....)also! Mainly for the same reason - though it's because I KNOW that I've more than likely derped somewhere and they probably had to pick my sorry ass off the floor - or just some things went awry over the course of the fight :| (...like trying to cast regen on myself to try to regain some HP while running/kiting, in case of another bad hit... only to have forgotten to untarget the last person I healed and causing me to completely spin to their direction and run right back into everything/the AoE I was running from -_-). ( /groveltotheotherhealers)

........Unless the other healer was an ass about it... >.>