People Need to Start Respecting Healers More

[Rufalus]

Yeah don't take it the wrong way if you work hard and get nothing back. It may be that people just don't bother commending. I feel like I have a pretty good awareness now of who is working their butt off, and I commend accordingly. It helps that I've played every role so I know how busy and demanding a healer's role can be.

[Elmeron]

I drop the comms on a DPS usually. As a healer you get fast queues and that should be reward enough.

Those poor DPS can end up waiting over half an hour to get in one dungeon.

That's kinda a trade off for their class being easier to play I'd say... So I don't tend to really feel bad about that.

[Seiryuukishi]

When I tank I generally commend the healer and when healer the tank. Dps is much the same way. There are rules however and it is based off of the course of battle in a dungeon and it is easier for me to keep up with as a tank or healer. Thing is I have everything but Scholar and Summoner leveled (don't do pets lol) so I have an good head on how things should be played to at least be efficient. If a single person can beat my expectations they get the commendation. I really want to commend dps because most don't get commendations outside rare instances but if you don't show me you're trying, even if you're not "Coil numbers" then I will move to someone else. I'm not perfect, especially at tanking but I consider every time I tank to be a practice session and the people I play with to be the random mechanic to look out for.

[myahele]

I usually get atleast 1 commendation as a healer. When I play as a dps i always commend the healer, sometimes the tank.

Only commend a dps if they go above what's expected of them. Ex: smn reviving healer, etc.

[Kirhs]

That's kinda a trade off for their class being easier to play I'd say... So I don't tend to really feel bad about that.

If you had said less responsibility and therefore less stress Id have agreed with you but I think the degree of difficulty is similar for DPS; especially melee DPS.

[RyuRoots]

For every 3 healers there is 1 tank

People just appreciate tank more

Yeah, and for every 100 tanks, there's 1 player who knows how to play a tank at all.

[Uielyave]

I don't care about commendations. I just wish tanks would: 1. Ask before speed running with a pug healer. 2. Use their cool-downs on large trash pulls. Especially you, warriors, you squishy axe-swingers.

[Spawnie]

healers always get my commendations everytime :3 without the healers no1 would survive soooooo :P

[BellaEyria]

Honestly on my part it has nothing to do with being a good healer (or tank, or dps...) or an awful one: if you were nice and polite, you will get my comm'.
Why? because it is really hard to have people even saying "hello" , "thanks" or "good bye" nowadays... I 100% prefer playing with a newbie still learning his job if he is polite and nice, than a "wonderful" player which don't even bother to say hello or "thanks for the party"... I am human, not a computer...

(english is not my main language trying to do my best hope you can understand what I mean ;o))

[Spy]

That's kinda a trade off for their class being easier to play I'd say... So I don't tend to really feel bad about that.

I'm a little "Wut" about this...I play sch and blm and have the same level of difficulty. Healing can be super easy. DPS can be super easy. Tanking can be easy (and yes I've tanked...I just dont like tanking because to me it's super boring I have a war at 50 and a pld at 48). We're a party...if everyone (INCLUDING the dps) aren't pulling their weight, the party fails! It depends on the group as a whole...not an individual.

So honestly, by this mentality I almost feel like you're saying dps don't really deserve commendations. DPS go through tough situations as well. Take this situation for example. The healer went down when the boss was 50% at health. And YET the party didnt wipe. DPS get so much LESS respect than healers it isn't even funny.

I personally give comm's to people who were pretty dang cool with me, and gave it their all. Showed patience and effort. I don't care what role they had.