Quote Originally Posted by 416to305 View Post
I swear that Summoner was casting Physik more than anything else, but not even on themselves, on the tank as well! [...] I finally had to say we'll get through this a lot faster if you actually do your job and DPS.....
*cough* That situation might easily have happened with me (it wasn't, though, since I haven't really played SMN for months outside of SMN quests to give more SCH exp :p ). The reason is because I'm so used to thinking "I have a book; I am the healer, I must heal people." I try to do my best to forget that urge, though, but it happens more often than not that I forget simple things like Fester because scholars don't have it, or that my eyes stray to HP bars too often. Sure, on the good side it means I use Eye for an Eye more often than the healer sometimes (it tends to annoy me when healers forget they have it ;_; or when the WHM casts Virus despite there being an actual Arcanist-based job in the group and the boss in question uses mostly magical attacks...), but... I'm a crap SMN, and I know it XD

Anyway, my point was that it's possible your summoner usually is a scholar, and maybe they only went summoner to get caster loot. Or to try summoner out. *shrugs* It happens.
(But I do understand the frustration of non-healers using gimped heal spells when it's not really necessary ^^; It's like... "Your healing fills up a quarter of a single auto-attack by the boss. Just... hit on it instead and let me keep people alive, mmk?")


As for commendations... I usually give them to people who are friendly and open. Or to that person who was new. Or that person who died two times due to bad RNG but didn't give up. Or to the person not raging at me for making a stupid mistake like hitting the wrong hotkey and missing my self-heal and thus dying (or, in case of no one raging, the one who goes 'no worries').

A few times I don't give them, especially if I'm on a maxed-out job and my commendation challenge log is coming up and I don't want to lose the exp. I don't always care about that, but sometimes I do. Other times, no one really stood out and the person I might have commended left the place a few seconds too soon.