DPS deserve commendations too!

[Darkstride]

I only give comms to dps who don't die to mechs and LB without being told too. The only other option would be to rez someone so I don't have too as a healer. If you pull a clutch cool but it almost never happens but I'd comm you if it happened

I will commend a DPS for using an AoE limit break on a wall to wall pull. However, I will also specifically not commend a person who tells me to Limit Break. I find it incredibly annoying. Otherwise I just commend whoever seemed the most engaged.

Most of the time people leave so fast that I just commend the leftovers, though.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Always irks me that a bad Tank or Healer will always get coms long before a good DPS

As a main DPS, I can understand the grievance. At the same time, the the Tank and the Healer are basically the Quarterback and the Middle Linebacker of the party, so comms usually fall to them by default. As does the praise (or blame) for a good (or bad) run.

People do notice good deeps tho. I often comm a DPS that keeps up with me and doesn't do dumb [redacted], and Dancers that dance partner me.

Who I comm and don't comm is situational tho.

If I'm in a party where people are bickering back and fourth, nobody's getting it. I don't care if the run was flawless.

[justausername]

I get a LOT of coms and I pretty much exclusively play DPS. I only tank when I play with friends, and I've never healed a dungeon or raid (just things like fate farm parties).. And I wouldn't say I'm a... good player? I watch my rotation and make sure I'm doing it properly for the most part, and I try not to die. Granted despite not using parsing tools myself, I've looked at what others have parsed me for, and my numbers seem to above the average casual player so... maybe people think I'm good when it comes to story content dungeons and normal raids? I have no idea honestly. It just hasn't been hard. I get them in PvP all the time too even though I don't have massive kill counts or anything.

Maybe the bunboy factor helps even though I picked the resting b***h face one LOL

[PintyMcEars]

I main Bard and get comms all the time. Just play well and you'll get em

[Dogempire]

I main Bard and get comms all the time. Just play well and you'll get em

It depends on what job you play too, supportive DPS like BRD and DNC get comms more often than other dps like Viper or Pictomancer, Red Mages also usually get comm'd if they rez people.

I've started playing PCT recently and it's kinda eerie how little I get commended now, probably because people are sick of seeing the job and pass their comm to a different DPS if by some miracle it doesn't go to a tank or healer

[CamuiKushi]

I main Bard and get comms all the time. Just play well and you'll get em

With the number of ranged that don't use peloton in dungeons I will sometimes com a ranged if they consistently peloton and played well lmao

[LilyPendragon]

I will commend a DPS for using an AoE limit break on a wall to wall pull. However, I will also specifically not commend a person who tells me to Limit Break. I find it incredibly annoying. Otherwise I just commend whoever seemed the most engaged.

Most of the time people leave so fast that I just commend the leftovers, though.

On tank I've asked dps to LB giga pulls (like the Mt gulg one) before. I think so many ranged kinda just forget it exists, but every time I've asked people jump at the chance

[Sililos]

On tank I've asked dps to LB giga pulls (like the Mt gulg one) before. I think so many ranged kinda just forget it exists, but every time I've asked people jump at the chance

Yeah as a ranged DPS i used to get yelled at if i so much as thought about touching the LB, have even had vote abandons after doing so, so i stopped.
Started again on trash awhile back but its hit and miss. Last night for example, tank had pulled everything to the door point, they were all grouped up nicely and being held in place and had no reason to move the pack any further, so i lined up LB, popped it..... the tank moved literally all of them out of the LB! Just a few feet too the side so they were out of the blue line.
I got bitched at for popping the LB and worse, not cancelling the cast when it was clear it wasn't going to hit. (He moved when there was only a second or two left)
Stuff like that happens a lot, normally put it down to just being a bad tank or trolling.

Having a DPS meter be built into the game would both allow good DPS to get more commendations when people see them doing well as well as inform the DPS that do 40% less than the other players that they are probably doing something wrong without someone needing to violate TOS to tell them. It completely baffles me that we don't have one to this day.

Yeah having played WoW for ab it years back, can understand why they dont want meters, but def agree that works against DPS performance visibility.
Job balance can also work against us there though.
Sometimes you can pop burst on a large pack of mobs..... and get out DPSed by a WAR popping one or two AOE moves lol

[hynaku]

I always give mine to dps unless they did awful in the duty. Not sure what point of getting coms if you already have all the achievements.