new healer player facing issue

so i have just started white mage healer role few days ago . the problem i am facing is that when i dungeon i click on my tank to heal for example from party menu and then press tab to shift to an enemy target it doesnot work .is this normal ?

i thought tab clicking will make it so that it will automatically shift to a enemy target .am i doing it wrong ? i play on keyboard mouse between if that was not clear .

Edit: i think the problem was that i had auto target somehow ticked off in target settings in character menu .enabling it seems to have fixed it in dungeons.

Glad to hear you fixed your issue - you could also try manually targeting by clicking on the desired target with the mouse but that is time consuming of course, especially in the heat of battle.

It's really helpful to /keybind the function "Target Nearest Enemy" (on the Targeting tab) to something very close to your hand's resting position, like G. Also the Target Nearest NPC or Object function, which I like to have on V. These two keybinds will make targeting things trivially easy.

As a healer who plays with a mouse, you might also like using mouseover macros for your healing actions. These will cast on any party list slot that your mouse is over without you having to change targets, so you can just always have the boss targeted. They will also work on the Target of Target healthbar. You can also mouseover a character model, but the party list is easier because the slots aren't moving around in the middle of combat.

Macro example:

Code:

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/ac "Afflatus Solace" <mo>
/micon "Afflatus Solace"

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The /ac line uses the action. The /micon line sets the macro icon. The <mo> is the mouseover target tag.

I make frequent use of mouseover healing macros and find them very convenient. Since macros do not queue, it is better to repeat the /ac line as many times as possible. For example, if you repeat it 14 times and play at 60 fps, it will give a pseudo-queueing time of about 0.23 seconds. This queueing window is shorter than that of a normal action, but it also has advantages that a normal action does not. If the target is out of range or line of sight, a normal action will not be queued — even if you move into range immediately after execution. Even in such cases, a pseudo-queueing macro will still work.