Commendation performance?

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Good point about Holy because it's definitely true! There's nothing like having 5-6 mobs that everyone is trying to take down, and I start spamming Holy watching them drop 15% HP or so with each shot of it. Sometimes it's funny, almost like "oh let me just take care of these for ya'll...." I wish there was a way to remove commendations like negative ones haha. Like the Copperbell HM I just did as WHM where the DPS was a BLM and Summoner. I swear that Summoner was casting Physik more than anything else, but not even on themselves, on the tank as well! Problem was no one was even remotely close to dying, tank would go from 100% HP to like 85% and she'd be casting Physik on him. I finally had to say we'll get through this a lot faster if you actually do your job and DPS.....

I usually dish out commendations like:

Tank generally first providing he was good and got us through it quickly. So roulette etc where you just want the tomes or something, did he get us through really fast without pulling too much? Usually would go to him.

Did a Bard take the time to actually use Ballad whether I needed it or not? Generally would give them the commendation since 99% of Bard's don't use it.

Was someone super helpful? Like saying it's my first time and someone clearly explaining everything for me? Would go to them.

Sometimes I'll give it to the other healer, but for some reason I'm kind of weird that way, almost like I just immediately automatically hate the other healer even if they are good!

I don't always give them though, and my friend says I'm a dick for it. But I'm like they are called commendations, if no one did anything that stood out, then I'm not going to give it to someone just because.

[Noxifer]

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.