Change Player Commendations

[MsCroc]

Disagreed. Commendations are fine as they are. If you could give a commendation to everyone, it would defeat the purpose. Try being the change you want to see by handing out commendations to DPS more and encouraging others to commend good DPS.

Here is my commendation checklist:

Was someone particularly friendly/nice/funny throughout the run?
Did someone go out of their way to unlock extra content for the lowbies? (Optional treasure chests)
Did non-BLMs/Summoners focus fire their DPS?
Did a DPS have particularly high DPS?
Did the melee DPS remember to LB?
If someone made a mistake in the dungeon, were they apologetic?
Was it a newbie who was taking advice into account?
Did the healer save me from certain death?
Was someone very helpful about explaining fights?

These aren't all the things I give a commendation on but some common ones for me.

[Kaurie]

Did the melee DPS remember to LB?

In most scenarios, it will result in a faster run if the mage uses LB on trash. The LB is 2/3 potency roughly of melee, so if you hit 2 guys it will do 4/3 damage, 3 guys will do 6/3 (2x) damage than the melee would do for the run. Now I guess you need to take in to account animation lag taking away from damage, and aoe damage is higher as well. However, as a SMN, i will often tri-d, painflare, bane, swift-shadow, LB (assuming enkindle is on CD at that point, which it often is). This puts most of the LB during my GCD and while Painflare is still cooling down. I'll often use that on 5-10 mobs giving a 10/3 or 20/3 total damage increase over the melee LB.

[vp_cmc]

Just say "Don't commend me please!" and you will most likely have 3 of them.

[TheTen]

If you truly think everyone in the party did well, say so.

Do you have any idea how nice it is to see a "Thank you for the smooth run" or even just a "{Good Job!}" at the end?
Even better, say something during the run. Say 'well done' after a smooth boss fight', nice tanking', 'good healing', 'dat DPS'.

The commendations are little extra bonus, but if you honestly feel people deserve more recognition, put in the small effort it takes to type. As someone with performance anxiety who has friends with social anxiety, I can promise you... it means a lot.

[Twilite]

...I came out of one roulette where we all wish we could have comm'd three people(-minus yourself of course). The synergy between us 4 was something I haven't seen in DF before.

[Nomad-phx]

I just want my parade chocobo so I can ride it wearing "the best gown ever" lol

[Kahnom]

Back in ARR,I believe I've got commendation while lvl up Pld,War,Whm more than Mnk,Drg,Brd,Nin,Smn combined .....

[Ortamus]

I'd like to commend people after they have left a duty. PVP is the biggest example because everyone is in a rush to get out to re-join again. I don't blame them for doing this because the queues are always long but I'd still like to give them the commendation all the same.

[Noshpan]

The unspoken trend is that healers and tanks will get the lion's share of the commendations by default. As these roles are seen far more vital than a role whose focus is damage (and a bit of support in the case of Bards and Machnists). I primarily play DPS, yes, I've dabbled in healing and tanking, but I prefer the role of the damage-dealer to keep stress levels low. Because of my preference, and knowing that tanks and healers are going to receive most of the commendations, I look at my fellow damage-dealers. Unless they perform so horribly, or have a terrible attitude, they will get my vote.

Now there have been times where I wanted to give everyone in my party a commendation, but the best I can do is thank everyone for the group, give out my commendation and go about my merry day.

[Maaizr]

usually if i can't decide on who should get the comm, then i won't give one out at all... to be fair of course