Commendation performance?

[MageBlack]

Talk, be funny, be patient and understanding, be polite, be courteous, be more than a really well played bot. I get commendations more often than not when I tank cause I switch to my Mog gear at the start and end, do a cheer and a little dance while I welcome everyone and see if we need to take it slow or go hard.

[Krissey]

So the tank commended one of the other 2 BRDs? Which one? The one who was doing 100 DPS less than me on bosses or the one who sat with his mana full the entire dungeon (you know, foe requiem is a thing when you have a healer that is genuinely DPSing stuff hard).

You sound like an Elitist Jerk, and this is why parses aren't endorsed by Square Enix.

[Anzaman]

Talk, be funny, be patient and understanding, be polite, be courteous, be more than a really well played bot. I get commendations more often than not when I tank cause I switch to my Mog gear at the start and end, do a cheer and a little dance while I welcome everyone and see if we need to take it slow or go hard.

I usually /cheer for the party once dungeon is done, and quite often get plenty commendations. And it doesn't seem to matter that in which role I join.

[TriksteR]

I usually commend the one who dies the most or the lalafell.

[Kaurie]

I've actually had the exact same situation happen to me as my SCH on dungeons.

I don't mind not getting commendations, but I notice i seem to be less likely to receive them the worse the party is. I see a DPS pulling horrible numbers, another DPS pulling mobs from ahead, a tank that doesn't use CD's or only does single target threat generation.. despite all of this, I receive no commendation.

I've actually received waaaay more commendations on my SMN than either my PLD or SCH since expansion hit.

[Kaurie]

You sound like an Elitist Jerk, and this is why parses aren't endorsed by Square Enix.

Out of curiousity, if that was a post by a DPS saying something like "Which one? The heals who wasn't casting protect or the tank who never used flash?"
Would he still be an elitist jerk, or is it only elitist when you point out someone doing crappy DPS or a DPS not using their support skills?

[MageBlack]

Out of curiousity, if that was a post by a DPS saying something like "Which one? The heals who wasn't casting protect or the tank who never used flash?"
Would he still be an elitist jerk, or is it only elitist when you point out someone doing crappy DPS or a DPS not using their support skills?

It's not what you say but how you say it that makes the difference, IMHO.

[Sicno]

To be honest I'm usually busy with my role to keep track of every little thing my partners did through the dungeon. There's obvious stuff like how the tank pulled and handled the aggro, stuff that is noticeable if you pay attention like a dps hitting the wrong enemy, and stuff you're not gonna keep track of like who's using an optimal rotation.

In a normal run that went well and where nothing out of the ordinary happened I tend to commend the tank since he/she's the one directing the battle, or the healer if I'm tanking. But certain stuff in the dungeon may make me commend someone else, like someone explaining the mechanics or giving advice for a class, or someone taking advice positively. There's also that case where I went with friends or FC members and the DF person did so bad that no chance I'm commending him/her :P

[Kaurie]

It's not what you say but how you say it that makes the difference, IMHO.

Too true, but my point is that is irrelevant to DPS meters. You can still sound like a jerk bashing a healer or a tank, and you can sound polite when discussing DPS numbers. DPS Parsers don't create elitism. I've seen plenty of elitist players in games where there are no parsers (Guild Wars 2) and I've seen plenty of people who are not elitist using parsers (WoW, Wildstar and here).

[Elim]

No DPS close to death means that they actually did mechanics(very rare for PUG DPS). Maybe they got the coms out of pure shock.