For those that give DPS comms after a run... What is your criteria?

[Genbe197]

1. Are they Lalafell?
2. Did they do their rotation properly? Biggest pet peeve is dps who use Single target rotation in AoE...Tanks freaking do this more than anyone but boy does it bug me beyond belief.
3. Were they nice?

[Almandaragal]

I try to comm the most standout player performance wise, regardless of role, assuming all else is equal. One good way to get my attention though, is to do better DPS than me. Not because I'm all that great by any means, but because it happens far less than I would expect, given I main RDM.

But overall, it's just about who seemed to put the most effort in. If no one in particular stood out performance wise, that's when other random things like chat or whatever come into play. If none of that exists, then yeah I'll probably pick tank/healer for filling roles that helped my DPS queue pop (assuming I'm not tanking or healing).

[Derio]

The dps has to go over and beyond or the healers have to leave before I am able to give them a comm.

An example being. I die as the tank. A rdm or SMN raises me before the healer. That dps gets a comm.

Usually when a run goes really fast all party members are contributing to dps.

[TaleraRistain]

I tend to comm dps when I'm on WHM though I will comm a great tank. When I'm on DNC, I tend to try to comm my fellow dps because I know as a WHM main how much comms come our way like candy.

[ArthurATDayne]

Alright I'll give a more serious answer: I give DPS players comms if it looks like they doing their best to play nice, wait for others to finish a cutscene, kill mobs and wait for others who haven't loaded or clicked on glowy switches yet.

Every once in a while I get players including healer who don't wait and just start sprinting off really far while someone or two are still watching cutscene or not here yet and don't respond even when asked nicely "X & Y are not here yet, hold up." -2nd and 3rd pack of mobs are incoming-

[Bright-Flower]

I give comms out at random most of the time. Only when someone really stands out, which is rare for me for good or ill, do I intentionally pick someone.

[Kolsykol]

Maybe people will think this is heresy, but I rarely give comms I only really give them if I feel like someone made a more obvious above average effort.
Partly it's because I quite frankly simply forget too.

I might give DPS a comm if I see them actually using their abilities instead of being lazy, like MNK using Anatman and charging Chakras and doing all their positionals while using True North and Riddle of Earth accordingly, using Mantra when big damage is coming out from the boss and in big pulls etc.
Same with BLM if I see a BLM with really good uptime who is using their arsenal, basically if you're a DPS and I see that you make an actual effort instead of just doing the bare-minimum.
Or a SAM that is actually playing properly, I do notice.

I almost feel like throwing it at NIN's simply for using Trick Attack on CD because quite frankly it feels like almost no NIN's do it's like they just do the first one and then forget that it even exists.
If I notice that they actually do use it on CD I might throw it at them too or if I see them using their teleport last sec to get extra hits in etc.

Edit: The real answer tho is that if you're a friendly person you're 500 times more likely to get it than if you're a shitty person too.
If someone is just especially nice I might give it to them too.

[Mimilu]

As a healer, I give the comm to the player who I thought performed the best and/or annoyed me the least during a run.
As a DPS, I generally give it to the other DPS unless I notice they are playing poorly.
As a tank, I just give it to the healer for having to take care of me. >w>()

Naturally, being helpful, friendly, and/or having nice glam increase your odds of getting the comm. Also, if it's your first run and you don't need to be babysat increase it too.

[SilverObi]

Knowing the pain of unappreciated DPS everywhere... I almost always give my comm to fellow dps unless they're especially atrocious in performance or behavior. If tanking or healing I'll still lean toward dps since a fast run was through competent dps 90% of the time.

[Rowde]

I haven't cared about comms in forever. I typically...

If I'm tank, I comm Healer
If I'm Healer, I comm Tank
If I'm DPS, I comm other DPS

People have to do something special to make me deviate from that and lose my comm rather than "earn" my comm.