How do you decide commendations?

[Gorshum]

I base it on 1 of 2 categories: If someone was social and friendly, they will usually always get the commendation from me. I've ran the dungeons 100s of times, I don't care if you have a slightly more efficient rotation than the last person I ran with. I care if you make it more interesting and fun for me. The only thing that changes between dungeon runs are the people, so make it interesting.

That being said if nobody is social I will usually not hand out a commendation at all unless someone really stands out to me. Like if I'm healing and the DD are quicker than the tank to try to get adds off me, they will likely get the commendation. Or if the tank is really knowledgeable and explains things to newcomers, they'll get the commendation, etc. The sort of "mvp" commendation is a last resort to me but if I do give it out, it's because someone did something I don't see often and specifically made my life easier.

I don't like handing out mvp commendations very often though because I would rather encourage people to be social than purely to be good. If I wanted good teammates with no social interaction I would play a single player rpg.