about distance and stuff

I've been in and out of the game for a bit (by which I mean I was in both not-ARR beta and ARR beta, and nothing in between or for a while after), and I've finally gone and bought the game and a subscription (with game time cards).

I just have one little question. Is there some way to know the current distance between you and a mob or other object besides just pressing keys until it works? As a magic user, I tend to like to engage at or close to maximum range, but it isn't always easy to know when you're actually there. I searched google a bit, and most things I could find were tips on everything but what I wanted to know, or plugins that didn't actually have any features yet or didn't say anything about being able to tell me my current distance from my target.

If not, oh well, I'll learn to deal.

I dont think theres any way to see the distance but for melee and tanks the hitbox (the circle around mob when clicking it) is actually what you look for for ranged its in 70% cases may range so run away till your skills grey out and back in till available again ^^

When you target a monster the MP/TP points (next to the ability in the hotbar) will be red until the monster is in range, then it will switch to white, then you can attack.

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Originally Posted by Eye_Gore

When you target a monster the MP/TP points (next to the ability in the hotbar) will be red until the monster is in range, then it will switch to white, then you can attack.

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I just keep wishing there were an equivalent for AoE skills centering on ourselves. As Bard, I need to make sure I stay within 20 yalms of the healer in case he/she needs my Mage's Ballad, but there's nothing to indicate quite how far that is. I still don't have a very good feel for it.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

I just keep wishing there were an equivalent for AoE skills centering on ourselves. As Bard, I need to make sure I stay within 20 yalms of the healer in case he/she needs my Mage's Ballad, but there's nothing to indicate quite how far that is. I still don't have a very good feel for it.

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Same thing for Cover on my PLD its within 10 yalms. The measurement system has to be comparable to US/metric measurements, ilms being inches/centimeters, yalms being yards/meters and malms being miles/kilometers. So 10 yalms should roughly be 30 feet (US) and so on, as to how to judge that in game, should be about 10 steps, roughly (probably a little less). The scaling seems a little off as if I had to go 10 malms in the game, on foot that would take some time to get there.

i guess it would be nice to have as an optional feature kinda thing, but after playing for a while youll develop a pretty good idea of the ranges for all the things

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

I just keep wishing there were an equivalent for AoE skills centering on ourselves. As Bard, I need to make sure I stay within 20 yalms of the healer in case he/she needs my Mage's Ballad, but there's nothing to indicate quite how far that is. I still don't have a very good feel for it.

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this annoys me so much in ST/WoD when a healer in my group likes to run around to other side of the room for god knows what.. when i see thier MP runnin low gotta run around looking for them just so they get the ballad buff = =