No commendations

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I find the more I spam Holy and Assize, the more comms I get! ^_^

[Adventica6]

Nobody knows the mystery of why you aren't getting comms, it could be between the chair and the keyboard. I always get comms and I'm not even a healer or tank.

Are you a likeable person? were you popular in school? do you have many friends? do you even bother to say hello in party chat?

You can't just go through your ff life expecting people to reward you for showing up, do something important, do something noticeable, don't just bot your way through pressing 1-5 on your keyboard.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I once had a guildhest where one of the members asked for comms because they were close to one of the prizes. The mount I think. Comm begging automatically means you will not get my comm.

[AristocraticCorgi]

When it comes to commendations I may do the following:
1. Commend a healer if their understanding of DPS/healing balance is exceptional.
2. Commend a tank if their DPS/is above average while keeping up with big pulls.
3. If tank/healer are not that good, I commend the DPS who made the run faster.
4. If all of them sucked I don't commend anyone else.

Note: I parse most of my dungeon runs and that allows me to be more objective with commending people.

I don't commend healers that:
1. Have very low or zero DPS.

I don't commend tanks that:
1. Don't know that tanks have a DPS stance and a tanking stance, and that they should optimize and use both.

I don't commend DPS that:
1. Don't make an effort to push for higher numbers to make the run go faster.

And I take particular issue with healers that even when encouraged to DPS bring an endless list of excuses not to do it.

[TheLastDream]

I always get comms

I give them based on this

1. Outfit
2. Race
3. Skill

[boredomisboring]

I usually do a fair amount of DPS while healing (probably about 50-70% of the time I am in cleric stance in a regular dungeon run)-- I honestly find the commendations to be random. There are times I carry the group hard, heal and DPS like crazy and do mechanics others are supposed to do and still receive nothing. There have also been times I have basically gone AFK mid dungeon or caused a wipe and have received all three (or four+ in eight-man content) commendations. I sometimes think people just give them randomly :P

[Zeldert-Castiel]

The easiest way to get a comm is be an experienced player, but the polite one.

Like in dungeons, trials or raids you can give advices first before the fight starts. New players will think that you're kind enough to give advice politely (not by insulting them because they're bad at first run)

Or as a healer (that's the fastest way for me) you heal and perform a little DPSing by giving DoT. Use Rescue when a player got stuck and unable to move. Casting HoT like Medica 2 will help too.

[Sylvain]

I don't see why the healer would be more entitled to commendation than the dps or the tank.
I personaly only command the person who did best, be it DPS or heal.

[RopeDrink]

I'm a WHM main and a stern advocate of DPS'ing as a Healer. If I see a Healer who does both (ie. not your typical bot/netflix Healer who only knows how to Cure full HP targets), they'll probably get my comm.

However, in certain dungeons, such as Sohm Al (Hard) back before Stormblood, if I saw DPS making effort on rotating stuns on exploding jellies (you know, the small but helpful little details), as well as punching out decent numbers along the way, I'd throw a comm their way if the tank was nothing to write home about. Overall it's the little things that get my attention - not just the role. I don't 'expect' commendations just because I healed, though I tend to get them given how much effort I put into DPS'ing as a Healer.

[AppleJinx]

Just so you know, if you expect every player you come across to throw a comm your way, that pretty much undermines the purpose of the commendation system.