Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Fevelle]

Why wouldnt they be? If someone is begging for commendations they'll never get mine, no matter how well they've played and I know a lot of people handeling it that way aswell... we're always having a good laugh at someone whos asking for commendations

For what logical reason? If someone asks for a commendation at the end of the run I give them mine. Simple as that. Maybe they want the achievments or whatever. Anyway, your statement about "having a laugh at someone" just proved what I thought with my first question. Glad we are not on the same Datacenter.

[Vidu]

For what logical reason? If someone asks for a commendation at the end of the run I give them mine. Simple as that. Maybe they want the achievments or whatever. Anyway, your statement about "having a laugh at someone" just proved what I thought with my first question. Glad we are not on the same Datacenter.

I consider it "pathetic" to ask for commendations - for me they're something you earn by playing and behaving well, knowing your job/class, being able to adjust to the groupsetting, maybe listening to advice, being a friendly person etc. etc. Or, to sum it up: Making the run enjoyable. Its something you should earn with your actions, not by asking people to give it to you. Ofc they want the achievment, but again: that should be something they earn by their actions, not by asking for the commendation in the end (it does work without it, believe me)

[Ametrine]

For what logical reason? If someone asks for a commendation at the end of the run I give them mine. Simple as that. Maybe they want the achievments or whatever. Anyway, your statement about "having a laugh at someone" just proved what I thought with my first question. Glad we are not on the same Datacenter.

Because in ruins the spirit of what commendations are.
It's just a nice bonus to give a "nice job, buddy" kind of pat on the back. Asking for them just dives headfirst into coming off as egotistic.

I'd waffle about giving someone a comm while asking for it, too.

[FinaSel]

Are you... serious?

Absolutely.

Commendations are given based on performance. If you want a commendation, perform well. Be outstanding. Or, at the very least, make the run smooth and enjoyable.
If you perform well enough, people will notice you and give you a commendation.
If you do a substandard job, you aren't going to get a commendation.

Even if you want the achievement, it's something you need to earn. Everyone else is working hard to earn it.

Directly asking for a commendation just seems too egocentric. Did they forget that there were 7 other people in the battle, each of who pulled their weight?
Why does this person think they are deserving of the commendations? It sounds like "Hey, I did so well. Give me your commendation! I totally don't care about the 7 other people who also worked hard! Give ME the credit!"

It's a group effort. Not a one-man-show. Asking everyone for a commendation shows me that this person isn't considering the effort / contributions / feelings of all of the other group members.
This is why we laugh at this action and also refuse to "commend" such a person.

[Dogempire]

Some background information: We're doing Hullbreaker Isle hard mode, everything is going as normal until the tank pulls 6(?) gorillas and 1 tiger. We wipe because the tank died in the first 2 seconds of me switching to cleric stance.

There's a time gap between certain parts of the conversation, I mention the cooldowns after watching the tank during the next pull and noticing the lack of them.

I edited out all the names besides mine, so yeah.



After this conversation I decided that I'm not going to bother dpsing for the run.

[Jatoi]

snip

I think I had a stroke.

[Ametrine]

Some background information: We're doing Hullbreaker Isle hard mode, everything is going as normal until the tank pulls 6(?) gorillas and 1 tiger. We wipe because the tank died in the first 2 seconds of me switching to cleric stance.

There's a time gap between certain parts of the conversation, I mention the cooldowns after watching the tank during the next pull and noticing the lack of them.

I edited out all the names besides mine, so yeah.



After this conversation I decided that I'm not going to bother dpsing for the run.

This healer must be shit for watching their tank's stats to never notice something so... essential as their use of cooldowns.

Bless you for tolerating that so well!

[ardrej]

[QUOTE=sad things.[/QUOTE] it does remind me a time in Esotheric grinding facility, i dont heal much but I like to do it everynow and then, got a tank that proceded to do the standar big pulls on the first mobs, he never used a single cooldown, he got his hp extremly low a couple of time but I managed to keep him alive blowing all my Cd's during the fight, he proceded to ask me if it was too much which I replied something like "I can handled but may be you could use your cd's a bit more" He replied "let me know when you need them"
I proceded to remove CS from my hotbar

[AnaviAnael]

Dude in party: Cooldowns are for healers who can't handle themselves.

Just...WHAT?!?

[Seryne]

Snip

"Tanking is a side job for me, I main a healer and my tanks never use cooldowns"