I just want to say THANK YOU SQUARE ENIX for finally giving people who queued as a preformed party to give the solo queuer a commendation. A little too late but I thank you.
When I first did Haukke Manor my tanking friend *cough**cough* was not available. My WHM friend was on and I think I ended up doing this with a friend BRD. So we ended up DFing the tank. It was enjoyable! We had a nice conversation and had -fun-. It wasn't just a dungeon run. I still remember their comment, "I'm a paladin! I should have a HOLY SWORD not a stupid DAGGER!"
In other news, I'm almost always a BLM >.< Even when I like tanking as PLD my anxiety levels just go up the deep wall. As such I usually -do- commend the other DPS but I'll change my mind if they a) only said hi or b) weren't the best of players. For example, in my last two Haukke Manor HM runs I had another BLM who was in full myth and zenith gear. Yet his dps was abysmal. I don't mean to say I used a parser. As someone who likes to think she is ok with BLM, seeing Fire>Fire>Fire3>Bliz1>Bliz1>Bliz3 really sorta hurts. Especially when I feel like Haukke Manor HM feels almost reliant on DPS doing a good job. Or when you have a tank doing big pulls that no one said no to and you have the bard unleashing or auto-attacking some of the mobs while the tank gathers them up.
I don't have a healer up and most like I'll be getting ACN -> SMN end game but maybe SCH for the queues.. Anyway as PLD I usually give my commendation to the healer. Unless a DPS was great.
I've been lucky enough twice now to get commendations from all three other people in my light parties. Strangely enough I think both of them were in Lost City. One of them I know was a preformed group but the other was before 2.28... as BLM that made me super giddy. But it might have been my willingness to help out with doors on Diabolos even though I just... don't like to do it.
Edit: I do say a lot about "skill" but almost all of those situations have been because either a) no one spoke but me or b) everyone was too busy running that personality didn't come out anyway. I prefer it if people actually made runs enjoyable unless they were more like speedruns where everyone knows that the goal is to get to the soldiery asap.
When I first did Haukke Manor my tanking friend *cough**cough* was not available. My WHM friend was on and I think I ended up doing this with a friend BRD. So we ended up DFing the tank. It was enjoyable! We had a nice conversation and had -fun-. It wasn't just a dungeon run. I still remember their comment, "I'm a paladin! I should have a HOLY SWORD not a stupid DAGGER!"
In other news, I'm almost always a BLM >.< Even when I like tanking as PLD my anxiety levels just go up the deep wall. As such I usually -do- commend the other DPS but I'll change my mind if they a) only said hi or b) weren't the best of players. For example, in my last two Haukke Manor HM runs I had another BLM who was in full myth and zenith gear. Yet his dps was abysmal. I don't mean to say I used a parser. As someone who likes to think she is ok with BLM, seeing Fire>Fire>Fire3>Bliz1>Bliz1>Bliz3 really sorta hurts. Especially when I feel like Haukke Manor HM feels almost reliant on DPS doing a good job. Or when you have a tank doing big pulls that no one said no to and you have the bard unleashing or auto-attacking some of the mobs while the tank gathers them up.
I don't have a healer up and most like I'll be getting ACN -> SMN end game but maybe SCH for the queues.. Anyway as PLD I usually give my commendation to the healer. Unless a DPS was great.
I've been lucky enough twice now to get commendations from all three other people in my light parties. Strangely enough I think both of them were in Lost City. One of them I know was a preformed group but the other was before 2.28... as BLM that made me super giddy. But it might have been my willingness to help out with doors on Diabolos even though I just... don't like to do it.
Edit: I do say a lot about "skill" but almost all of those situations have been because either a) no one spoke but me or b) everyone was too busy running that personality didn't come out anyway. I prefer it if people actually made runs enjoyable unless they were more like speedruns where everyone knows that the goal is to get to the soldiery asap.
