How Do I Mark Targets on PS3?

I see tanks mark targets from 1 to 3. How do you do that on ps3? I'm leveling a tank and target marking is an important job for the tank to do

You can set marks to the cross-hotbar, in the same manner as abilities, items and emotes.

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Originally Posted by mr_wazzabi

I see tanks mark targets from 1 to 3. How do you do that on ps3? I'm leveling a tank and target marking is an important job for the tank to do

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Marking on the PS3 is pretty terrible and slow. The best solution I have found it to use a "Cross" macro and have the melee follow the X around.

My generic pulling macro is:

/ac "Shield Lob" <t>
/ac "Tomahawk" <t>
/ac "Provoke" <t>
/mk "Cross" <t>

I put that on crossbar1 (generic shared accross all jobs) R2+X for my setup

Once in combat mode (automatically switches to crossbar2) you can take out any actions that don't apply to the job you are on.

action - sign - select the numbers/ sign you need and set it to hot bar

If you don't want to follow these options...

the default process is like this:

Target enemy (don't attack, just press the X button to select them.)
With enemy selected, press the [ ] (square) button. this opens a mini menu, scroll down to the bottom (I think) option which is "mark"
Press X button to select "mark" and this opens a new menu full of the markers (1,2,3,4, etc.)
Press X button to mark that first target "1".
now LEAVE THAT MENU OPEN.
hold down L2 or R2, (the triggers) which ever you normally use to switch to your "combat" action bars.
with L2 or R2 held down, tap R1 or L1 (the bumper buttons) to switch your target to another enemy.
Push the d-pad over on that MENU to "2"
Press X button to mark that second target "2".

usually all you need to do. once you have 1,2 targets marked, its usually obvious that the unmarked target is "3" by process of elimination.
now press O (circle) button to close the menu screens and start fighting!

There's the option to set up a shared bar for targetting like this:
http://i.imgur.com/I0a5gz3.png

The arrows are select Target Forward and Target Back from general actions (note: This cycles your anchored target). This would put them on the left and right d-pad directions so it would be more comfortable to target than holding L2 or R2 and using the L1 and R1 buttons to cycle enemies (if you need to cycle objects / npcs you'd still need to use the cursor target for them).