My criteria?
That they have a cool name. Yesterday I saw "Royale Withcheese" and they got my commend. If I see any other Beatles references, they get it. If nothing strikes my fancy, I give it to a tank or heals.
Literally, it's on a whim. I don't run DPS meter addons, so there's no way for me to know if DPS did well. Things died. DPS did their job.
I mean, for real, I'll give it to funny glamours, good names, folks that chat during the run, etc., etc. Given the current system there's literally no way to gauge performance outside of very vague basics:
- We didn't die, DPS and/or Heals and/or Tank did their job. Was it good DPS and average heals and crap tanking? Who the heck knows? Might have been low DPS and great heals, and average tanking... or excellent tanking, good DPS and crap heals.
I gave a commend to a Chicken glamour today. Funny as hell during cutscenes.
I've received just shy of 100 commendations in about three months. All as DPS. Most of which, I can assume, are for either my character name ("...the one and only Billy Shears!"), or my witty chatting (shameless, aren't I?)
I think very few of those 100 commendations were given because someone measured my DPS. Nah.