What's up with healers not healing?

[BorisDaBlade]

This wasn't about savage healer dps contributions, or even their dps contribution at all. Just the simple fact that over and over again, different RANDOM healers in df, for some reason or another, won't heal after a tank buster.

It's almost like the 2 healer are playing chicken with my hp bar.

[Risvertasashi]

This wasn't about savage healer dps contributions, or even their dps contribution at all. Just the simple fact that over and over again, different RANDOM healers in df, for some reason or another, won't heal after a tank buster.

It's almost like the 2 healer are playing chicken with my hp bar.

Healing in FFXIV is a sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of game.

Don't DPS? You're a cancerous leech on the party we'll kick just before the last boss.
Do DPS? Better not be a single hiccup in the party.

Now some healers can both DPS and heal skillfully. But let's be honest. A lot of people can't. It's very easy to tunnel vision, particularly coming from other jobs where you can pretty well ignore the party frame off at the edge of the screen there.

So why does this happen? Take people that don't have great capacity for multitasking, tell them what horrible, useless leeches on the party they are for not DPSing (be sure to kick them from parties too) and... bam.

[Sylve]

It's almost like the 2 healer are playing chicken with my hp bar.

Its almost like the healers are randoms, who each believe "Its ok, the other healer will get it, Ill keep DPSing" because they have zero communication.

Never seen a BRD palisade....ever xD

Fun fact, Been leveling my Bard lately, Every single run where i used Palisade on the tank for mass pulls or tank busters, never get thanked for it, no one mentions it, no commendations.
But every run where i ignore it and even forget Foes? Double comms every time.
I do not understand.

[Celef]

Fun fact, Been leveling my Bard lately, Every single run where i used Palisade on the tank for mass pulls or tank busters, never get thanked for it, no one mentions it, no commendations.
But every run where i ignore it and even forget Foes? Double comms every time.
I do not understand.

My guess would be new spell, non BRD probably never read ab out it

[kikix12]

Fun fact, Been leveling my Bard lately, Every single run where i used Palisade on the tank for mass pulls or tank busters, never get thanked for it, no one mentions it, no commendations.

To be frank, there is little reason to thank you for Palisade, like there is little reason to thank Melee for Goad or healers for heals. It's part of your job (well, optional, in this case). You do it to get better results for the party, yourself included. It's all within the "Thank for the run" or similar phrases at the end.

That being said, commendations are actually a pretty bad way to base anything off of. I know that I tend to randomly give commendations to a DPS unless:
1) The tank was extraordinarily good.
2) The healer (other healer, usually, as I main healer) did a very good job keeping everyone alive.
3) The DPS did something terribly bad for me to not consider them as targets for commendations.

Reasons are simple. I just don't have the luxury of looking at every single animation that happens with every single attack, or every single buff of every single player. I base my healing off of the tanks health and the speed at which it goes down, not whether there's an icon on his bar. Other than that, only buffs I can actually put on and debuffs I can heal matter, with DPS when I have the time. Hence me, and people like me, have zero idea who actually deserve commendations unless something special happens.
This "randomness" and not knowing what others are doing (or not doing) is probably why you didn't get commendations (or there could be someone more deserving, too, and there's only one commendation per player).