How can I see the cast bar of my focus target?

As it is, the cast bar (and thus the name of the spell being cast) is obscured by the focus target's name. Is there a way to have the name disappear when casting, like it does in your own party? It's so hard to see what's being cast as it is.

Not sure, but if u set focus box to max size it should help, also move it ofc if it colide whit main target "box"

Pretty sure this is one of the things they said they'd be changing in 2.1.

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Originally Posted by Ninix

Pretty sure this is one of the things they said they'd be changing in 2.1.

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Strange, when i sett demon wall as focus target i see his name, buffs and when he cast repel, the cast bar and name of the cast. The fix in 2.1 wasent that mostly about how buffs are shown and in what order?

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Originally Posted by Phai

Strange, when i sett demon wall as focus target i see his name, buffs and when he cast repel, the cast bar and name of the cast. The fix in 2.1 wasent that mostly about how buffs are shown and in what order?

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Yes you can see these things somewhat, but are you seeing the full cast bar and the full name of longer named spells? Or is the name overlaid on it? It should disappear like the party window when someone is casting.

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Originally Posted by Phai

Strange, when i sett demon wall as focus target i see his name, buffs and when he cast repel, the cast bar and name of the cast. The fix in 2.1 wasent that mostly about how buffs are shown and in what order?

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You're confused. 2.1 hasn't happened yet. There was a hotfix last month that moved the debuffs you cast on a mob to the left hand side of the target bar. They have said that in the 2.1 patch (which, again, hasn't happened yet) they will have fixed the castbar in the focus target window so you can actually read it 100% of the time. Demon Wall's Repel is generally readable currently; Anantaboga's Imminent Catastrophe is not.

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Originally Posted by Calyanare

You're confused. 2.1 hasn't happened yet. There was a hotfix last month that moved the debuffs you cast on a mob to the left hand side of the target bar. They have said that in the 2.1 patch (which, again, hasn't happened yet) they will have fixed the castbar in the focus target window so you can actually read it 100% of the time. Demon Wall's Repel is generally readable currently; Anantaboga's Imminent Catastrophe is not.

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Im sure ur right, so i stand corrected. But i use focus target alot and havent noticed that spell name dont show at all. IL try play when awake next time then :)

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Originally Posted by Calyanare

There was a hotfix last month that moved the debuffs you cast on a mob to the left hand side of the target bar.

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How about a separate row altogether for debuffs!

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Originally Posted by JohnJSal

As it is, the cast bar (and thus the name of the spell being cast) is obscured by the focus target's name. Is there a way to have the name disappear when casting, like it does in your own party? It's so hard to see what's being cast as it is.

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In Patch 2.1, we will be making adjustments to the focus target's display positioning in order to address this!

What about a Focus cast modifier?

For example, if I set a key (let's say Shift) and use an ability while holding Shift, the ability will be cast against the Focus target instead of my actual target.

Focus is good, but without a Focus cast modifier it has very little use.

Until they add your idea if they do (which would be good), you can still use /ac "Fire"<focus> to attack your Focus Target.

I use it a lot as White Mage to have Main Tank selected et cast various DoT's and Virus on Titan for example.

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Originally Posted by Grym

What about a Focus cast modifier?

For example, if I set a key (let's say Shift) and use an ability while holding Shift, the ability will be cast against the Focus target instead of my actual target.

Focus is good, but without a Focus cast modifier it has very little use.

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You can do this with macros.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

In Patch 2.1, we will be making adjustments to the focus target's display positioning in order to address this!

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Thanks god you are finally fixing this.

It's been only 3 months+

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...et-Casting-Bar

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Originally Posted by Grym

What about a Focus cast modifier?

For example, if I set a key (let's say Shift) and use an ability while holding Shift, the ability will be cast against the Focus target instead of my actual target.

Focus is good, but without a Focus cast modifier it has very little use.

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A macro of
/macroircon "Ability"
/action "Ability" <f>

will use the ability on your focus target.
This, of course, requires another hotbar set up with all these macros on it or you can use a redundant macro of

/macroircon "Ability"
/action "Ability" <t>
/action "Ability" <f>

or

/macroircon "Ability"
/action "Ability" <f>
/action "Ability" <t>

depending on if you want the macro to prioritize your target or your focus target. It will try to do the first line, if it can't, for example invalid target, it will execute the 2nd line, which if you execute the 1st line it won't do because cooldowns. You might want to filter errors in whatever chat log you primarily use though.

I still see the focus target bar over the cast bar. how do i fix it?

Ya this didn't seem very fixed, still pretty difficult to see the casting bar.

it definitely hasnt been fixed. at least on ps3.

It was fixed at one point. One of the hotfixes seems to have (unintentionally) reverted it.