Easiest Way to Mark Multiple Targets?

Hello everyone, I'm still quite new to this game and I needed some advice on marking targets. Currently I am a level 26 Marauder and I play on the PS3, I use the controller for every thing but I also have a keyboard which I have yet to implement. My problem here is that I feel like switching between my hotkey bars is slow and mixes me up and times, this doesn't help especially when the target cycling feels clunky to me. So what do you recommend , should I suck it up and get used to it, change some things up or use my keyboard somehow (Macroing and key binding is still new to me, any tips on that would be awesome).

I would say the easiest way is to use a macro to quickly target 3 enemies at once. This will handle most enemy groups you come across. First make it so you are targeting enemies only and use the following macro:

/mk attack1 <t>
/nt
/mk attack2 <t>
/nt
/mk attack3 <t>
/target attack1

This should set it up so you quickly tag 3 enemies. Once the mob is reduced, it shouldn't be a problem for dps to handle the 1 or 2 mobs left. All that remains is that you find the priority target and initiate the macro to mark it as 1. The rest should take care of itself.

If you are in a fc or playing with a friend who uses a pc, you can also ask them to mark enemies for you. Most should understand the problems inherent with the ps3, but the above macro is a good standby for those parties where you have to mark yourself.

wait... so you can target enemies by their symbol using macros? i was wondering if you could do that, i'd be a big help as a DD.

So i could use this makro to target the next enemy in the line?

/target attack5 (or wherever it starts)
/target attack4
/target attack3
/target attack2
/target attack1

or does it deselect the previous target if the new target is invalid. i mean, if there is no "attack1" target left, does this macro select attack2 or nothing?

Wow, thank you so much Anova :D, I'll have to try this out next time I'm on. Also I'm hoping to find some cool people to play with in the future, the few friends I have that play are all on different servers so I've been running around by myself while trying to learn as much as I can to be a good team player.

If you didn't discovered it yet, please know that you can cycle between targets holding L2/R2 and pressing L1/R1. Doing so the targets get focused and selected.

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Originally Posted by Michelasso

If you didn't discovered it yet, please know that you can cycle between targets holding L2/R2 and pressing L1/R1. Doing so the targets get focused and selected.

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Yes sir, I use that quite often, but now that I'll be able to mark them in groups it will make things easier hopefully.

Thanks alot Anova, you just freed up a lot of space on my hotbars. I was using 3 mouse over macros.

Somehow this does not work for me. It marks the first mob with 1 and cycles through the other mobs but skips to mark 2 and 3 somehow, like it would cycle through them too quickly.
In rare cases it would apply mark 2 if i would mash the button like crazy. Anyone know whats up with that?

You could try adding /wait 1 between each command?

Don't know if that will resolve it but what you are describing could be some sort of lag issue maybe?

It does mean that it would take you about 4 seconds in which case you could do it manually almost as quickly.

Not sure if you can /wait 0.5, might be something to test?

You can also simply do a macro for /mk attack <t> and tab to the next target and hit it again and it'll increment the mark number.

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Originally Posted by Orophin

You can also simply do a macro for /mk attack <t> and tab to the next target and hit it again and it'll increment the mark number.

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I fail... I had 4 <mo> macros for this... didn't even know /mk attack alone auto increments... /sigh

Thanks :D

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Originally Posted by Anova

/target attack1

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this doesn't seem to work, i get the error message that this action is not allowed on the current target.

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Originally Posted by Naryoril

this doesn't seem to work, i get the error message that this action is not allowed on the current target.

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Try /ta <attack1>

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Originally Posted by Orophin

You can also simply do a macro for /mk attack <t> and tab to the next target and hit it again and it'll increment the mark number.

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I tried this and it doesn't work as you imply. I have to create a macro for each target I want to mark before pulls. You made it sound like I could scroll through my targets with 1 macro like target 1 is marked with 1, target 2 as 2 and target 3 as 3 with one macro. Does this happen? I have to set up three separate macros to do this.

Edit: Nvm!!! IT DOES WORK! I forgot to remove the 1 in my macro. Ty for the insight. :D

Edit 2: Actually it doesn't work as well as you would think. In order for it to reset you have to click on the mob again before the body disappears to reset the target from 1. Otherwise it will continue to mark from 1-x. That is excessive and annoying to have to remove the mark. I would rather have 3 macros and not worry about my targets.