What is your preference for a player to get a commendation?

[Ryodi]

Default DPS every time. The DPS would have to be incredibly bad or a tank/healer would have to blow my mind for it to change. My reasoning for this is because as a DPS player, far too often you will see tanks and healers get most of the commendations for getting out of bed in the morning, it's not even required to actually play well. So my contribution is always reserved for the DPS players that go unrecognised for actually playing well.

[Dzian]

Default DPS every time. The DPS would have to be incredibly bad or a tank/healer would have to blow my mind for it to change. My reasoning for this is because as a DPS player, far too often you will see tanks and healers get most of the commendations for getting out of bed in the morning, it's not even required to actually play well. So my contribution is always reserved for the DPS players that go unrecognised for actually playing well.

I don't see this that much. I get as many on dps as I do on tanks and heals. lost count the number of times ive come out of an expert or someothing with all 3 commendations on my ninja.

as for giving them out. I don't really have preferences it's just little things I see along the way through a piece of content. if I see another ninja using single target attacks while I'm dropping doton and deathblossoming a pack of 6+ mobs thenunlikely to commend that ninja. if I see a brd that never sings foe then again unlikely to get commended. if I see tanks who just stand in the centre of a pack of mobs and take a beating then no commendation.

as a tank I tend to position mobs so all there aoes overlap and conals all go the same direction. as a dps I hate seeing half dozen conals in all directions making that small step do dodge a mad dash to get out of... so if the tank places mobs well so I need only take 1 step to evade all those aoes i'm quite happy.

there's a lot that influences who I give commendations to.

personally though I don't put much weight behind them. couldn't tell you my total I don't track it. but I find sometimes I can be in a really bad party as a scholar where everyone is taking so much damage that i'm really struggling for mp. the other healers dead so are a couple of dps cos they ate a mega cleave. everyone is getting hit by everything they can possibly get hit by and somehow miraculously I manage to keep the rest of the group alive and win the fight with absolutely no mp left. and then I get no commendations at all. despite pulling off a proverbial miracle.

then however I can get my fairy enter content toss up some dots. and then send a text to a friend goof around in ls/fc chat boss dead move on to next one throw up dots goof off some more. and then exit with a half dozen commends at the end of the raid. wtf????