People Need to Start Respecting Healers More

[nuyu11]

In this game we can be all class yet something like this still get argued. If one character one class for sure can be accepted. I love to do all class instead sticking with just one role. For those who do all class know the difficulty for each role and their never assume that one role is special and others are don't. Maybe some of you guys don't want to play other class and just stick with one role.

[Zfz]

I mean if any class actually deserves more respect for being played optimally it's dps because no one ever notices unless everything goes horribly wrong and you have to start taking or something.

You joke. As tank and more recently healer main, I notice everything a DPS do. That Ballad that pops up between trash pulls? That Monk who actually are trying to use of positional attacks even if the tank isn't good enough to keep mobs in position? Or that Black Mage who will always leave a mob at 5% unfinished and turn to the next mob early? Or that Ninja who's having a 5 second GCD and think no one notices?

We are tanks. We are healers.
We do not turn a blind eye. We do not forget.
Expect us.

[Byonka]

Protip for Commie farming: If you're doing full party content and the other healer dies - leave them dead.

[jomoru]

Protip for Commie farming: If you're doing full party content and the other healer dies - leave them dead.

Protip for Commie farming:chat it up. People will remember nice people more than anything else.

[Fynlar]

Now on those rare moments when you get all 7 commendations from one trial roulette? Yeah, those are healer moments.

Stuff like this is more likely due to a party of 7 queueing for a duty and you just so happen to be the 8th person it picked up (meaning you are the only person any of them could have commended anyway)... but yeah, it's still nice to see anyway

[Zfz]

Protip for Commie farming: If you're doing full party content and the other healer dies - leave them dead.

And the rest of the party are buddies with the dead healer and you get zero even though you're the only one eligible to receive commendations. ;-)

[Gillionaire]

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I've got over 260 commendations and I don't even do duties that much.. I dunno, I feel like I get plenty of comms (average 1 or 2 per raid), and I afk half the time when I heal :P

I think the most memorable moment of getting comms was in a lower lvl dungeon, I think Halatali or something in that range when I went as BLM. I was 2-3 shotting every mob and I ended up getting all 3 comms

It's all about standing out and making an impression, healers notice other healers though, so I tend to get/give comms to/from other healers in raid settings.

[Kahnom]

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.

you're my angel ...

[Lyrinn]

I usually commend the healer if I see him DPS while keeping the party alive - which is to say, almost never because 9/10 healers like to stand around and do nothing.

[Bluevann]

Well for starters, I feel that in general a lot of people just don't do commendations either because they feel people don't deserve them or they just can't be bothered to do them.

This, this many times. I hardly give commendations anymore unless someone really impresses me with a good trick, just because I'm too lazy to click the buttons. SE should add a challenge log entry that rewards you after giving so many commendations (maybe a "commend 10 people" challenge with a "+5 commendation points" reward?).

Or maybe change it into a "non-commendation system" where at the end of a duty you select the players you do NOT want to get a point, while the unselected ones do. But that'd be a punishing system and while sometimes I'd really like to make a player understand he did not do good, I'm pretty sure SE would not approve of it.