Enmity Meter: Add a Gold Star

I made a suggestion in another thread long ling time ago. I had ms painted an example. I cant tell if the picture is still up or not. Mobile browsing is iffy..

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1607736

Someone care to take a gander at my post?

I agree there needs to be an additional signal of having a 'safe' aggro lead.

When I group tank, the red square on the mobs beside my current target can mean anything from "no need to even flash for the rest of the fight" to "you're about to loose the whole group to your BLM". This forces me to either waste precious time tabbing in a game with a terrible tab targetting system or constantly draining my MP pool flashing just to be safe, which uses up a cooldown every single time.

A gold star would be hilarious.
(Even better would be numbers on the enemy list that show my lead over the second person in the aggro list, but that would probably be a much bigger strain on a system that is already horribly laggy sometimes.)

I think that it has been working fine until now as it is, and it keeps things from being boring. You have to be really aware of everything, check all the targets from time to time (you do this anyway if you're rotating your combo between them, so if you see any target whose aggro is increasing more than it should, you simply focus on it a bit more until it gets back to normal), etc.

To give you an example, I didn't like the last buff to PLD aggro, to be honest, because it took away some challenge and made the job easier. It also made brute-forcing pulls and speedruns easier and expected (flash flash flash flash zZzzZzz...), instead of having to use your brain on some of them.

But that's just me.

I'd rather they just put the enmity % numbers back that were in beta (or alpha?) but change it so that if you have top enmity it lists it as a percentage relative to the second highest enmity.

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Originally Posted by Yshnal

To give you an example, I didn't like the last buff to PLD aggro, to be honest, because it took away some challenge and made the job easier. It also made brute-forcing pulls and speedruns easier and expected (flash flash flash flash zZzzZzz...), instead of having to use your brain on some of them.

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PLD simply lacks enough flavor by design to be challenging to play, and the enmity thing was to make up a little for the enormous advantage WAR had in multi-target enmity. I'd like PLD to be harder and more interesting to play (and WAR for that matter) but it needs a complete revamp for that. Secondly, they made enmity hilariously easy on purpose to stop geared DPS from harassing lesser-geared tanks for losing hate in DF.