No commendations

[Tridus]

When things go nuts and the healers really pulling their weight, I become too focused on keeping myself alive and doing damage. I do not know how much great healing you are doing because I am in tunnel vision mode. Then I just threw the commendations to one of two healers...

That happens a lot. Comms can seem somewhat random sometimes, but that's because it can become hard to tell exactly who is doing what.

Last night's Rabanastre is a good example. I got four comms for healing and explaining the fights to our newbies. Moro got two comms for healing and literally tanking the Azure Guard on the first boss, since our tank was not interested in tanking (or mechanics, or anything). I tend to think a WHM also pulling tank duty to make us not wipe a second time is probably more worth a comm than a fight explanation, but the explanation is REALLY visible and easily noticed whereas a DPSer in tunnel vision because we already wiped once to that add may not realize who is tanking it so long as it's not them.

That's also why things like fun res macros, cool glamour, and other such mood lifters tend to get comms. They're memorable. Without a parser running I have no idea if one of our DPSers is subpar and being carried by another one, so it's pretty hard to accurately comm that.

[Avatre]

but the explanation is REALLY visible and easily noticed whereas a DPSer in tunnel vision because we already wiped once to that add may not realize who is tanking it so long as it's not them.

Yes, and no. I've had to res the entire alliance, as RDM, to avoid wiping, and still got no comms. I've done absolutely no healing/ressing(while it was still needed, I just didn't), and gotten 3 comms. It really is random, as you said, but there is no rhyme or reason to how people choose(I personally give my comm to the person who either died the least, or saved us the most...rarely do I not give out a comm).

[Tridus]

Yes, and no. I've had to res the entire alliance, as RDM, to avoid wiping, and still got no comms. I've done absolutely no healing/ressing(while it was still needed, I just didn't), and gotten 3 comms. It really is random, as you said, but there is no rhyme or reason to how people choose(I personally give my comm to the person who either died the least, or saved us the most...rarely do I not give out a comm).

Yeah, sometimes it just makes no sense. I've been honestly awful in some groups as a healer and gotten 2-3 comms, and other times felt like I was carrying the entire group myself and gotten zero. In that run last night I talked about, the RDM was an absolute pro and only got one comm (from me, which I know because all of them are accounted for).

Sometime's there is just no rhyme or reason to it, but I find stuff being more visible increases your likelihood of getting them.