Curious Question... DPS Class players and Dungeon Commendations

[Belhi]

I tend to award coms based of performance. As a healer I usually get a pretty good view of the fight since I need to watch everyone. DPS that use their utilities, particularly ones that are often forgotten like Virus, will often earn a com as will dps that do mechanics correctly and don't tunnel vision in fights.

[AdventZero]

Well in all fairness, I will back the guy who said most tanks bolt before you can Com them... so you have to be quick about it or you can't give them props for a good job.

That's fair, and I understand when that happens too. Sometimes I get this really awesome DPS that just melted everything in seconds, and at the end their gone before my screen is even done fading to black after the boss kill.

[Holy-chan]

No matter how perfectly I do my rotations, help the party with information (when relevant to do so), perfectly dodge every single AoE in the entire dungeon, I still almost never get a commendation as monk. People have a bias towards tanks and healers even if they're just doing "fine" (as opposed to nigh-perfect). Personally, I have a bias to ninjas that use Goad judiciously on me or others if their do need the TP, and bards that use songs properly when relevant, so long as did they okay in other ways. Else, I commendate whoever I believe did best in their role.

[BigRed5392]

gf posting:
as a tank
i get 1-2 coms most runs. rare times i get 3.
i try to be a team player, and promote teamwork.

when I give coms, I try to com people who did their best as a team player

what I do is come the person who does this:

1) say hi at start, and/or admits to being new

2) Works with me as a tank, as in attacks the mob I unmend

3) is smart on skill use/buff use/ and uses support skills that reduce their enmity.

4) us helpful when people say their open for tips/advice.



I don't give coms to people over:

pulls for the tank

is silent, even with people open to tips

attacks random mobs at full force, making it hard to get enmity on it.

doesn't use enmity reducers, or aoe skills in large pulls.

does stuff that doesn't promote teamwork like: insulting people, casting regen pre-pull slowing down the run due to turning it off (don't assume everyone is on pc ps4 players need a macro to turn these off)

[RLofOBFL]

I only give Comms if someone is playing well. And that only happens 50% of the time. And when it does & more than 1 person is doing well I give to Tank/Healer if I am Tank/Healer and DPS if I am DPS. I don't need a parser to know how good someone is as I play every job exceedingly well...coughbragcough.

Most of my comms were from levelling tanks/healers, though I usually get 1 as a DPS. Mostly as a MNK, I've gotten 4-5 a few times?? I weirdly used to take not getting comms personally but now that I have the dumb 3000 mount I don't even care anymore...

[Ceasaria]

I remember when I leveled up my ninja job between 50 and 60.
I used when I could Goad, Smoke Screen and Shadewalker.
One day a tank said to me : "your are the very first ninja I saw who use those skills in dungeons"
I got commendation from him at least, don't remember about other.

An advice, use everything you got which could help the team.

[Aylis]

To be honest, I usually give my comms to the players that do not drop group and zone out as soon as the run is finished. How can you give a comm to someone who is gone.

I'm guilty of doing this. When I did DF I would usually say my hello at the start and goodbye at the end. Mostly because I honestly never really cared about getting comms myself. Usually I would give mine to the one I felt was most attentive in the run regardless if they said anything or not before I left.

[Hasrat]

I'm not even sure how anyone keeps such close track of these. I think it's because I have the notification thing on a different chat tab, so I literally never notice when or why I get any.

[Clethoria]

No matter how perfectly I do my rotations, help the party with information (when relevant to do so), perfectly dodge every single AoE in the entire dungeon, I still almost never get a commendation as monk.

I can't help but detect some traces of salt. People like friendliness especially among NA players. As a Monk who enjoys tossing confetti and spamming emotes to make macro dances, a bit of personality goes a long way.

I'm not even sure how anyone keeps such close track of these. I think it's because I have the notification thing on a different chat tab, so I literally never notice when or why I get any.

I'm aiming for mentorship so I kinda need them.

[Derio]

I always get commendations on my SMN.