Fundamental Game Play Issues

[Alhanelem]

When you hit your <stal> macro the blue arrow starts on whoever you currently have targeted (or on you if you have nothing targeted). you then have to scroll up/down to wherever the target is and hit the confirm button to cast the spell. If you're curing the same person every time (the tank) it gets super annoying having to scroll down to him every time you hit the cure macro. If he/she is in a different party in the alliance it's even worse.

If I'm curing the same person every time, I'm probably going to have them targeted already, so it's not really an issue to me.

[cidbahamut]

If I'm curing the same person every time, I'm probably going to have them targeted already, so it's not really an issue to me.

Except you can't really do that since every time they switch gear your cursor gets bumped to someone else. That's sort of the issue isn't it? That you can't keep the cursor pinned on someone because every time someone swaps gear the blinking shifts the cursor to target something else instead.

[Raksha]

If I'm curing the same person every time, I'm probably going to have them targeted already, so it's not really an issue to me.

Except when they blink and you lose target.

We come full circle!

[Alhanelem]

Except when they blink and you lose target.

We come full circle!

zing. Still you have to be pretty darn lazy for a couple taps of the arrow key to be a big deal.

[Divinius]

zing. Still you have to be pretty darn lazy for a couple taps of the arrow key to be a big deal.

It's not a matter of being "lazy".

I've been playing WHM as my main job since NA launch. I have been keeping people alive and healthy for 8 years. And I've had the discussion multiple times in the past with people of why <stal> isn't that stellar. It's not nearly as good as if the game simply didn't blink in the first place. Yes, it is a functional work around, but it is only that -- a workaround... a bandage to the bigger problem. As the game is now, you will indeed perform significantly better using <stal> than you would if you didn't, but you will never be as fast or responsive using it as you could be if you never had to worry about people blinking at all.

[Raksha]

It's not a matter of being "lazy".

I've been playing WHM as my main job since NA launch. I have been keeping people alive and healthy for 8 years. And I've had the discussion multiple times in the past with people of why <stal> isn't that stellar. It's not nearly as good as if the game simply didn't blink in the first place. Yes, it is a functional work around, but it is only that -- a workaround... a bandage to the bigger problem. As the game is now, you will indeed perform significantly better using <stal> than you would if you didn't, but you will never be as fast or responsive using it as you could be if you never had to worry about people blinking at all.

I agree with this.

[Kaisha]

If I'm curing the same person every time, I'm probably going to have them targeted already, so it's not really an issue to me.

I just use a separate Cure macro for the <lastst> tag.

No need to re-target the last guy I cured with my stal/stpc macro.