Commending DPS

[AnnaRosa]

My criteria is very simple players that say hello in the beginning of the run and say goodbye in the end of it if all say would commend all, since I can't need to do it randomly.

Not even sure why can't give more than 1 commendation.

[Zorvan]

Commendation system is fundamentally broken. You should either be able to commend EVERYONE who did good, or noone at all.

[gumas]

dps com is situational for me but usually when they get it, you can pretty much see why they get it, stuff like...
- tank being total derp/jerk
- DPS doing their utmost best to deal damage (proper rotation, ogcd skill use, even small detail like interupt enemy cast, etc etc)
- DPS who went ultra instinct at dodging enemy attack (as healer, sometimes you met this one dps who you rarely heal from start until finish because he never got hit aside from unavoidable damage, you know what i mean)
- Typical 90% wipe with only DPS standing and he manage to kill the enemy/boss
- Special occasion like all 3 of us is friend in RL / same guild, and this one dps (a.k.a outsider) join us, if he's friendly, i just give my com to him
- newbie DPS who just start his FF14 journey
- DRG who went lolDRG tradition in glorious way (my dps is DRG so i know the feel lol)

*i didnt mention healer because 80% i main healer so i almost never give com to healer

Commendation system is fundamentally broken. You should either be able to commend EVERYONE who did good, or noone at all.

this, they shoud just went with a popup window when DG run is over, with all your party member shown with a "thumb up" and a "X mark" button.

you recommend him? click the thumb up, no com for him? just click the X mark button, simple.

[Nanami_Naniwa]

When playing tank I normally recommend the healer if I don't fear for my life.
When playing heal I normally recommend the tank if he is easy to heal and let me DPS without fearing for his life.
When playing dps I normally recommend my fellow dps if he gives me his support (songs, goads, etc) and mobs are dying super fast.

[HakaseNyan]

I'm not petty enough to make a specific list of criteria. As long as they aren't face-rolling and/or not playing their job like they are AFK. Anything more is extra-credit.

[supergiz]

I pretty much always commend another bard lala. Is it shallow? Sure. Still do it though :P

[Lersayil]

I commend either for heroic feats like saves, or perfectionist runs with unusually high dps AND not failing a single mechanic. Both rather rare so the commendation usually goes to waste.

[Aellae]

I pretty much always commend another bard lala. Is it shallow? Sure. Still do it though :P

Please do, please do. :3 Though you don't too often meet the same dps class in a dungeon.

If I do commend, it's pretty varied. I try seeing if the dps deserved it but more often than not people either die to every mechanic ever, attack random mobs in a group just to annoy the tank or neither use aoe nor goad/songs. (Seriously, the amount of Bards not using ANY song is disturbing. Not even refresh/tact but any song.)
So it usually either falls to the sprout healer who did a fine job healing those packs, or to the tank who did a good job pulling efficiently and saving us time.

Overall I think I mostly give it to sprouts to encourage them! And there are a lot lately.

[Kazrah]

Usually, I just give it to whoever annoys me the least. Fellow lalas get priority preference, but that's not a guaranteed commendation.

On that note, I kinda wish we had more commendation rewards.

[LalaRu]

This kinda topic appears every now and then, but my answer is still the same:
When everything goes fine, everyone done the job and usually tank-healer and dps-dps reciprocal commends is the fair thing.
I switch to someone else when something did happened. And no commend on some cases.