Why do you commend DPS?

[Edax]

Remember, the DPS queue times are the cross we DPS must all bare.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

I will commend DPS if I'm seeing things melt really fast, or I'm seeing some really slick moves avoiding taking damage while maximizing their uptime.

Sometimes, it'll be myself and my wife on a Tank/Healer combo, so all we can commend is DPS - so we'll usually commend the one who played better or was just more fun/less annoying to play with.

[Fland]

I might commend a DPS when:
- A caster or ranged physical in a non-melee party saves the LB from mid-boss to LB the next big pull instead.
- They utilize their kit properly. Uses buffs appropriately as well as damage mitigation.
- Both healer and tank do terribly or barely do their minimum job.

[Skogli]

If im DPS Ill commend the other DPS.
If im tank or healer Ill commend the tank or healer if theyre good.

One afk - no commendation
Slow tank - no commendation
No aoe on aoe pulls - no commendation
Jus a tiny bit og whine or negative attitude - no commendation

Tbh anything other than being a regular person - no commendation

I know it's bart og a learning process, but I absolutely can not stand slow/hesitant/insecure tanks. It's do infuriating watching the tank stop every 4 seconds and lett people pass them to like show the way or take aggro or whatever.

I'm a pretty calm guy but that stuff makes me reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

For DPS, I give Comms to Red Mages and Summoners mostly.
Either because a Red Mages picks up the slack, or the unfortunate death of the healer, plus raid saving Rezzes.
Or because Summoners are Masters of AOE and bloody melt mobs, and rez healers helping save raids

[Mavrias]

I never commend dps for doing damage, just like i never commend tanks for tanking well, or healers for healing well. Commending a dps for damage is like saying "you did the job you signed up for, here's a reward."

I commend players for being fun. If you're chatty or telling jokes or explaining mechanics to the new person while also doing what you're supposed to be doing, then you get a comm from me. If no ones fun or engaging, then no one gets the commendation.

I don't come across situations where a dps rez saves the party very often so honestly maybe my perspective is skewed, but honestly, commending the red mage for raising a healer just, again, seems like a "good job for coming on a job that has a rez." That's something you should already be doing, its not really going above and beyond.

[Liam_Harper]

Comms don't really mean much unfortunately. We've all had those runs that we do perfectly and get 0 comms and those runs where we lag, get hit by everything and get 3+ comms.

I imagine one reason is we don't get much time to think it over. If someone leaves the dungeon you can't comm them, so you really only have a few seconds window before people leave. You tend to rush a decision and just click someone who left any sort of impression for any reason. If the person you think deserves it leaves, you just throw it to someone randomly.
The other reason is we have no performance evaluation tools and 95% of players are far more focused on their own rotation and mechanics, rather than checking which healer saved them, who's doing the best damage, how much the tank is mitigating or even who else died or not.

[Shurrikhan]

I basically comm whoever best allowed for themselves and everyone else to perform well through unique or above-average uses of their position. If the SAM made it clear to the tank in the last Grand Cosmos fight that they could take the nearest furniture and that they'd claim the one a Yaten's distance away, all without losing damage, atop performing well throughout, while no other player showed that level of competence and awareness... he gets comm. If everyone made equal use of their position, it becomes a matter of output-per-ilvl, more or less.

[Tlachtga]

If I comm a dps its because they're doing good damage. And by good, I mean, equal or better than what I could do with the job in question.

[DarkMasamune]

Good DPS, nice/funny name, good attitude, giving help or making good decisions. There are many reasons.

I usually commend the tank or the healer, but if they couldn't stand out more than one of the DPS, well, yeah, I just don't commend them.