Healers that don't give healers commendations?

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Originally Posted by Driskus

This happens to me a lot too. If I try to play efficiently, not keeping everyone at max 100% of the time and avoiding overheal, I get little to no comms. If I don't trust a group and keep them topped off constantly, comms for days. I think a lot of them see their HP not always at max and assume the healer isn't doing their job.

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What I meant was actually a different thing: dying a lot, screwing mechanics, subpar healing =comms; carrying people through their screwing with great life-saving effort=no comms.
But I also noticed the thing you said lately, since I'm getting more confident with mechanics and so dpsing more, it's totally true. You dps a lot, making runs go faster and smoother, while keeping everyone alive though not topped and you get a lot less comms than just keeping everyone topped and not dpsing. Especially with the Holy spam on trash pulls vs just spamming cure and keeping the tank topped. It's silly because it would just be easier and lazier to only bother about hp bars. But you're right, probably a lot only watch their bars.

I usually do not comm my cohealer unless thy are absolutely on point and synergize well with me. By this I mean:

--Actively balancing healing and DPS; I don't like being paired with a cohealer that either refuses to heal or refuses to DPS (or refuses to do both)
--Making excellent use of all their skills (I get really annoyed when I'm paired up with a HoT healer and they don't use their HoTs; likewise when I'm with a shield healer and they won't use their shields to mitigate)
--If I'm paired with another AST and they DON'T overwrite my cards (usually this is an instant comm regardless of the other points; but alas, it's rare to find a co-AST with this kind of card buff awareness)
--If I am rolling a HoT healer and my cohealer does not completely invalidate my HoTs; I've gotten to where I seldom use A.Helios or Medica II because my cohealer will heal everyone to full and not allow the HoTs to tick, causing me to just massively overheal (and this is also why I prefer shield healers because I do not like blatant overhealing).

Generally my comm goes to whomever I deem deserves it. I try to look for excellent DPS first since, as a DPS main, we are often overlooked for tanks or healers in terms of commendations. If no one deserves it, I don't give them out.

I usually give comms to the co-healer, but recently I've been giving them based on performance, or who had really impressed me at a certain bit.