Target Status bar fills up too fast

With all the open world and alliance content that has been released, I'm surprised this hasn't been addressed before. The problem is twofold:

• You cannot see your own debuffs and dot timers.
• You cannot see targets buffs, especially a problem when you need to see things to do mechanics.

This has become a issue again in Eureka, and remains a problem in 24 man content. You should be able to apply filters to customize what you want to see, both on the target bar and focus target bar.

There is the option to see only debuffs you yourself caused which partially alleviates the problem, but you are right, more customization options would be welcome. As it is, if that option is chosen you don't see debuffs yours would overwrite, possibly wasting an action. Or taking away possibility to do something specifically because somone else had placed certain buff on it.

Agreed. "Prioritize mine" should be the default display for debuffs. I don't want to turn off other peoples' completely though because that leads to every NIN unknowingly using TA at the same time, and such.

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

Agreed. "Prioritize mine" should be the default display for debuffs.

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Followed by any of your own allies debuffs and then the rest from other alliances/parties. Focus Target should also be customisable as well, I'm not sure what the decision making is behind the effects for thid one, often stuff from other players takes presidence over our own.

I'd like to filter certain buffs/debuffs toward the front of the list.

For instance I don't actually care about the hundreds of DoTs on a target, but I very much want to know if it has vulnerability up.

Even if you select to show only your own debuffs/dots, if 24 plus people are fighting those will fall off and not even be displayed for yourself. So you're left with not seeing anyone else's stuff, and losing your own as well.

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Originally Posted by Jaeger

Even if you select to show only your own debuffs/dots, if 24 plus people are fighting those will fall off and not even be displayed for yourself. So you're left with not seeing anyone else's stuff, and losing your own as well.

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This has to do with where the logic takes place. The server has a limit of how many debuffs it will tell your client computer or console about, and if there are more than that limit, it chooses which by its own hidden logic. Then your client is the one filtering the list it gets according to whether they're yours or not. If some of yours weren't among the ones the server told it about, you won't see them.

In order to work better, the server would have to be the one checking which are yours and whether you wanted them exclusively or prioritized, so it could be sure those ones are at least among the ones sent. But that would be extra work for the server specifically for times when it's already super busy handling fights that involve lots of players at once.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

In order to work better, the server would have to be the one checking which are yours and whether you wanted them exclusively or prioritized, so it could be sure those ones are at least among the ones sent. But that would be extra work for the server specifically for times when it's already super busy handling fights that involve lots of players at once.

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It doesn't have to be though. A minor change in the display logic would correct the problem. You simply change which end of the routine the filtering happens on.

So currently:
Server informs client about 20 target buffs/debuffs
Client filters to show own buffs/debuffs first or exclusively depending on options

You just change that to:
Server informs client about all buffs/debuffs (not that big a change to overhead here)
Client filters to show own buffs/debuffs first or exclusively and then truncates list to 20.