Do people treat you differently on different jobs?

[Lium]

I've noticed something of late. When I'm on my main, RDM, I often get two or three comms and people seem to compliment me a lot or even joke around with me in dungeons.

When I'm on my SAM, it's the opposite. I'll even get rude comments sometimes. Now this could totally be because I don't play my SAM as well as RDM, I'll readily admit. But I'm not terrible. (Most of the time.)

It's weird. Do SAMs have a reputation of playing badly or something? Are people like, "Oh damn. A SAM. Prob a FOTM reroll." This has happened on other MMOs. I'm just curious if this happens here, too.

With me, I don't care who is in the group as long as we clear the dungeon without any problems.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I've never noticed a change in the way people treat me. But I also greet everyone and keep lively in dungeons and that seems to do well in getting both commendations and friendships. No one has ever acted different because I was one class or one race.

[Kathyz]

SAM are not FAM.

But yeah normally jobs more popular are more hated because of reasons

[MaethusXion]

I remember during HW I'd have healers not healing me on DRG for the meme, even when I'm taking less individual damage and most of the time what was killing me were room-wide unavoidable AoEs combined with the meme-maker healers...

Haven't had that problem with RDM or SAM though.

[LunaChild]

No. Like you said, people on my dc don't care what job we got in the party as long as we clear the content and they did what they should.

If anything, most of the problem is healers that push healing work to their co-healer so they can push their dps regardless of what job they are.

[LittleChickenNugget]

If anything, most of the problem is healers that push healing work to their co-healer so they can push their dps regardless of what job they are.

I'm guilty of doing this sometimes, but only when I see that my co-healer is really heal-happy. If they don't do anything but heal and heal constantly regardless of everyone being 90-100%, then I'll just let them take the healing reins until I need to pop in and assist them. Otherwise might as well focus on DPSing.

[MOZZYSTAR]

If there are any prejudices against SAMs, I don't know 'em. I know RDMs are considered really useful with their rez & heal abilities. Might be why you see that difference?

For Healer/Healer, I noticed that back when I did play WHM (and even more recently in the past year when considering levelling WHM up), I definitely got more comms more frequently as a WHM than as an AST and it's not the case of knowing WHM better than AST, because I was very rusty with WHM skills and such XDD. As a WHM, I would usually get 2-3+ per dungeon/raid/trial/etc., but as an AST I'm lucky to get more than one at time. When AST first came out (for a good few months) I almost never received comms as an AST, and was often excluded from parties in PF as they would choose WHM or SCH in specific (usually WHM). Now, that isn't so much of an issue.

To contrast healer & DPS, if I give pointers on mechs as a healer, I almost always get commendations and people almost always listen to me; however, when I give pointers as a bard/DPS, I almost never get comms and sometimes am outright ignored or given lip, like "you don't pay my sub."


P.S. I can do an amazing job (imo XD) as bard with making sure to always be playing my songs, using certain buffs in certain situations strategically, making sure to pop MP/TP regen as necessary, dealing a lot of damage, popping up a lot of procs, etc. and still get no comms. I don't think it has anything to do with performance/knowledge sometimes. I think people are less likely to watch/observe certain DPS classes.


Edit:

I remember during HW I'd have healers not healing me on DRG for the meme...

I had issues with LNC/DRG as well, but in ARR. I even had people harassing me in my first few dungeons as a young and ignorant lancer about being an "LOLdragoon." I had no idea I would one day transform into a beautiful dragoon so I was like "...I'm a lancer, not a dragoon. o.O /newbness flaunts full blast/." The harassment did die down after a while (I rarely had issues with AoEs), but there were the occassional monkies who wouldn't heal me for being an "LOLdragoon," or would spout off unwarranted remarks in dungeons & such. Out of all the classes I tried, I think I definitely got the most harassment as a LNC/DRG.

[whiteblade89]

I got way more comms when I used to main ninja back in HW. Now that I main samurai, I get significantly less. But hey, it's to be expected when Goad is the best you can give someone. Also, samurai are always the last ones to be rezzed, in my experience. Which also makes sense, to a degree. Sucks to suck, I guess lol
/Shrug

[Remus]

Just play SAM in end-game content like raids and people will complain because your are not boosting their e-peen on fflogs and won't take you cause of that.

[Fhaerron]

No, because, whenever I bring a job to something I make sure I actually know how to play it and don't perform too poorly.