People Need to Start Respecting Healers More

[Ramien]

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?).

There already is one. 'Vote 5 times in Player Commendation' gives you 1000 gil and 10% of whatever XP total is needed for your next level.

[Bluevann]

There already is one. 'Vote 5 times in Player Commendation' gives you 1000 gil and 10% of whatever XP total is needed for your next level.

Yes, but this works only for when you're leveling (1000 gil really isn't worth the hassle of 15 clicks for most of people). I still think the reward should be commendations points instead of gil, much like how the reward for chocobo companion challenges is chocobo exp, and pvp challenges, wolf marks.

[Lemuria]

Yes, but this works only for when you're leveling (1000 gil really isn't worth the hassle of 15 clicks for most of people). I still think the reward should be commendations points instead of gil, much like how the reward for chocobo companion challenges is chocobo exp, and pvp challenges, wolf marks.

I feel that would rather defeat the point, since commendations are there to encourage players to play well and support their team. You don't commend the player who was abusive or rude throughout, you commend the team mate who sat quietly and calmly through the whole ordeal.

I am not entirely convinced that tanks get more commendations than healers either. Since working on my Nexus light (effectively 'locked in' to tanking role ever since) there hasn't been a significant change in the amount of commendations I receive. If anything, I actually get fewer now than I did as a White Mage. Perhaps it's a reflection on me, but it seems unlikely since runs are still generally smooth.

DPS seems to be the role which rarely receives commendations. I confess that I haven't often given them to DPS myself. It's much harder to spot a good DPS than a good tank or healer. If either DPS is slacking in their job, it's not immediately clear which one so many times I've seen them all get the blame for low damage. A poor tank or healer is noticed immediately by a team too, so they're roles you really need to focus on to do well at, which is why they earn more commendations than others I feel.

[Gunspec]

(1000 gil really isn't worth the hassle of 15 clicks for most of people). I still think the reward should be commendations points instead of gil.

Are you so rich you can't click a few times for money? I feel sorry for you. And while it would be nice if some of the challenge rewards gave more appropriate rewards, commendations are something that should ONLY mean that another human being thought you were alright. That would literally be like receiving free votes in an election, because you voted for someone else.

[Bluevann]

And while it would be nice if some of the challenge rewards gave more appropriate rewards, commendations are something that should ONLY mean that another human being thought you were alright.

Ignoring the unnecessary personal attack that you threw me at the beginning of your post while I was talking of something a lot of people do (and yes, 1k really isn't so much to me anymore. I guess I'm that lucky to have quickest ways to make more than that much in less than five dungeon runs), isn't commending people something that itself makes you an "okay" person who could deserve a commendation from the game itself? I didn't suggest a 1:1 scale, but getting 5 commendations points for commending 10 other players would help a lot of those DPSs or other people who don't get many commendations themselves. And since we're talking about the challenge log, something with a weekly reset, getting 5 comm. points from the game a week instead that from other players is not that game breaking to me.

With that being said, it was just a suggestion to incentivate people to do give commendations. I can't think what else would, but 1000 gil a week definitely isn't it to me. I guess I'll start giving commendations again when I have a job to level again because the exp reward at least IS nice >.>

[Gunspec]

snip

Alright, I was overly snarky. I apologize.

But people in this thread are saying that they are too lazy to click 2 or 3 times, and that's kind of absurd to me. I clicked a dozen times just within this thread, and I probably click on things a hundred times or more in each dungeon. When you consider that those few extra clicks are helping a player get one degree closer to a pet, glamour, or mount, isn't that worth it? Can't everyone spare a few extra clicks?

He doesn't need your sympathy you plebeian!

Yeah, I am a pleb. Spare a click mister? I've got a starving child and bum leg! Just a few more clicks will do me right!

[Gillionaire]

snip

Well, the reason I don't usually give commendations is because when I'm repeating a duty for farming, nobody really stands out, can't decide to whom it should go to, so I don't bother with it.
Only case I make a conscious effort to give commendations is when I want to experience boost for leveling a character, but the 1000gil really isn't much of a motivation for me to go out of my way to commend people. Otherwise, I'll just throw it to the other healer if I was slacking. If the other healer made me work extra, then usually nobody gets it. As a healer, I can see quite easily who's getting hit by telegraphs and what not


Sure, if my clicks will put food on your table, I'll gladly send some clicks your way

[Gillionaire]

Are you so rich you can't click a few times for money? I feel sorry for you

He doesn't need your sympathy you plebeian!