Commendation performance?

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Tanks mostly get commendations despite being one of the easiest classes to play according to what my tank friends say, I haven't played one myself so can only go by what they told me. However what I can say with certainty there is a knee jerk reaction to throw commendations onto them in general by quite a lot of players even if they just perform average and not above and beyond the rest of the group. Because there are no in game parsers, DPS also get ignored because people cannot see they did their jobs very well. Healers tend to be second highest commendation rate.

It is nice when get a commendation as a DPS but it feels like you have to perform to a much higher standard in order to earn them compared to tanks and healers which is somewhat annoying as a DPS. All the people I know who want to specifically earn and grind commendations tend to switch to their tank class every time because of that knee jerk reaction to throw commendations their way by players. If they do not have a tank class they will switch to healers to grind the commendations as they know both tanks and healers get them far more so than DPS even if they did not really deserve them more than the DPS in the group.