Commendations?

[Sleigh]

I think it'd be harder for a healer to get a commendation than a tank or DPS, honestly. All a healer can really do is keep people topped off, not be in cleric stance when healing, and be in cleric stance when they're helping with DPS during lulls in damage taken. A good DPS and a good Tank are much easier to notice.

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

Maybe it's just my perspective, but I feel a healer who stays on their game but puts out as much damage as they can is the person most noticeably helping the run out, and will most often be getting my vote.

[sheepysheepy]

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

and as a healer ill be giving commendation to any tank that holds aggro and does sensible pulls, im thinking dps will be hard to get commendations on sinse theres 2 of em and people get annoyed if you take 2 minutes extra to clear a dungeon

[Guevara]

and as a healer ill be giving commendation to any tank that holds aggro and does sensible pulls, im thinking dps will be hard to get commendations on sinse theres 2 of em and people get annoyed if you take 2 minutes extra to clear a dungeon

not so in my own experience so far. Got 11 commendations out of 13 DF runs as MNK.

[Gruntler]

I think it'd be harder for a healer to get a commendation than a tank or DPS

4 commendations in three runs--stuff flows like water for me.

[Nova_Dresden]

I think it'd be harder for a healer to get a commendation than a tank or DPS, honestly. All a healer can really do is keep people topped off, not be in cleric stance when healing, and be in cleric stance when they're helping with DPS during lulls in damage taken. A good DPS and a good Tank are much easier to notice.

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

As a tank or healer I usually give my commendation to the best DPS. Been running Roulette a lot on my WHM, and I've been doing a lot of helping newer tanks learn their job better, I mark mobs for kills if the tank isn't, I DoT targets with Aero, I Fluid Aura and Repose an add to reduce unnecessary damage if able, and I toss the odd Stone spell in between everything if I have a free moment. Healers can do a lot more than just top off the party.

[Megido]

I think it'd be harder for a healer to get a commendation than a tank or DPS, honestly. All a healer can really do is keep people topped off, not be in cleric stance when healing, and be in cleric stance when they're helping with DPS during lulls in damage taken. A good DPS and a good Tank are much easier to notice.

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

Haha yeah, there is some connection between tank and healer that dps dont have. I'd actually say its a little unfair, the healer will always have a couple extra reputation points with me, nothing i can do about that.

If i was dps, i would give it to the other dps if he managed to outdps me. dps.

[RaineMagus]

Haha yeah, there is some connection between tank and healer that dps dont have. I'd actually say its a little unfair, the healer will always have a couple extra reputation points with me, nothing i can do about that.

Eh, I actually feel pretty high affinity with the tank as as a main DPS (of all roles that I'm partied with).


Always thought of it this way:

A tank relies on the DPS to take down the enemies before they run out of defensive cooldowns, especially in a speedrun ... and the DPS likewise relies on the tank to permit them to unload their full damage.

Everyone relies on eachother in the end for success, a tank dies if the healers can't keep them up clearly.. Yet they also die if the DPS doesn't take out the enemies quickly. It's a pretty symbiotic relation... Prolonged fights also hurt the healer's MP pool, and so your healers too have a connection to the DPS [duration].

[Stanelis]

I think it'd be harder for a healer to get a commendation than a tank or DPS, honestly. All a healer can really do is keep people topped off, not be in cleric stance when healing, and be in cleric stance when they're helping with DPS during lulls in damage taken. A good DPS and a good Tank are much easier to notice.

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

As a tank I always give my commendation to the healer, no matter how good he is (unless a DPS does a very good unusual thing during the run).

[stpetepiper]

Ok, just ran my first one since patch and found out you can only give out 1 per run anyways.

[Pupwub]

I've received a few and given a few. Honestly, my overriding criteria is simply: were you friendly?

I'm a sucker for a person saying "hello!" at the beginning, "gg thanks!" at the end, and not being a douche. I don't know - I think that's the intent of the system. To encourage people to be friendlier.