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.

[DevilsDontFly]

Idk, I started playing quite recently and from 1-50 as SMN/SCH I got over 300 coms as well. But that's not because I'm a healer, I get these same coms as a THM and DRG as well. It has nothing to do with the healing role, it's more about the way you help your team above their expectations. As a healer everyone expects you for at least... heal. You're doing your job. You queued for that, you wanted that and that's it. As well as the dps and the tank.

And personally I think that compared to the WHM, the SCH doesn't bring the "I did all that" feeling because of Eos/Selene. A healer that can save a whole team in the blink of an eye smashing buttons like crazy when everyone's about to die and survive is THE guy. But when you do that as a WHM it seems more com worthy than doing the same thing with a pet to cover you up. I tend to always give coms to the healer, but if I see that anyone on the team surpassed my expectations, sorry healer, no coms for you. Latelly I've been giving lots and lots of coms to tanks and DPS also.

You get faster queues than anyone else, you're the "we need you" of every team... Isn't that a good reward already?

[Evangela]

huh? I think tanks & healers are equal, if you're talking about the chances to get commendations.

I've got so many commends, sometimes 3 coms from 4 man dungeon speedrun.

do holy spams and keep their health near 100% all the time.

remember this: don't leave them in their critical state too long. even if you can heal them before they die, they'll think that "this healer sucks" anyway.

esuna-ing them too late isn't good too, especially paralyze and heavy. people are not impressed for your raise either. you better don't have to raise anyone. even if they died because of their own fault they'll think that "good healer should be able to save my life even though I suck".

I think damage dealers have way less chances to get commendations. even if you do very high damages and top the enmity list, most of the party members wouldn't give a shit.

[Lyrinn]

I think damage dealers have way less chances to get recommendations. even if you do very high damages and top the enmity list, most of the party members wouldn't give a shit.

I regularly play PLD, NIN, WHM, and BRD and I receive commendations about equally across all of them. It's as other people have said, stand out and you get commendations. Tanks that pull appropriately and use cooldowns properly will receive commendations. DPS that absolutely melt everything faster than the average pug does will receive commendations. Healers that can stance dance properly while keeping everyone safe will receive commendations. Bards that play songs will rece--who am I kidding, bards don't play songs.

[MistyMew]

I tend to give mine to a healer in a 4 man , as I have said in the past, I usually think they deserve it, especially with large pulls. In an 8 man I always give to another dps. On the rare occasion I play healer, I give to dps , never the tanks.

Mind you the truly deciding factor is if said healer or dps is pleasant....if anyone is rude to another or cant bother to reply to a "hello" then no one gets it no matter how perfect they may play.

Basic human decency > all, 100% of the time.

[YoloSwaggins]

I usually just give my commendations to whoever impresses me, and goes out of their way to play their class well.
Otherwise it's just whoever's name I like most > first person on the list.

[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 >.>