Healing during Odin

Since I upgraded to PS4 I thought I could finally participate and get something higher than silver. But I was still unable to target party members. I saw Odin fine but after tapping him once my concern is keeping people shielded/up are there any ways to improve this?

My bf says to turn off all effects of other players to see if that helps, I haven't ha the chance to test, but I'm sure some of you have. Thanks!

Don't feel too bad about it. I had the same problem on PC. Occasionally during the fight I couldn't target my party members unless I was really close to them. Seems like it gets overwhelmed with the maximum character display limit along with a million things happening at once.

You'll just have to run around like a maniac trying to "find" them and get close enough to target them. Sometimes you have to be literally on top of them.

Happens on PC too.

I just spam AoE heals (Medica/Medica II/Succor) and hope it hits them.

open your map, locate your party, stay close to them, also change your hard drive to a ssd, helps a lot, but im on ps4 and only took like 5-10 secs to load all players when i did odin

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Originally Posted by AldoVonAlexandros

open your map, locate your party, stay close to them, also change your hard drive to a ssd, helps a lot, but im on ps4 and only took like 5-10 secs to load all players when i did odin

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Thanks for the tips everyone, I didn't know PC players also had trouble seeing. To the above poster or anyone with one. Does SSD help with this in your PC/ps4? If it's not that significant I'll just do whats suggested with being close/AOE.

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Originally Posted by AldoVonAlexandros

open your map, locate your party, stay close to them, also change your hard drive to a ssd, helps a lot, but im on ps4 and only took like 5-10 secs to load all players when i did odin

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There is a defined character limit regardless of what hard drive you use. That is, your client will only render a certain # of players. Most of the time you won't notice it, but when half the active playerbase on your server is trying to flood Odin you WILL achieve this cap. Unfortunately, there is nothing you or I can do to prevent it, as it's hard coded in to help reduce stress. Players closest to you do get priority in rendering order, so yes, staying close to them at all times is about the only thing you can do to be able to target them. Of course, as a healer, this also means getting into the danger zone with the tanks (which is never a good thing).

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Originally Posted by AldoVonAlexandros

open your map, locate your party, stay close to them, also change your hard drive to a ssd, helps a lot, but im on ps4 and only took like 5-10 secs to load all players when i did odin

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The map dots!! why didn't I think of that :) thank you

Getting in close is scary :P thanks everyone. Hope this helps someone else this was insightful.

I found you can also get credit from raising people too. Not that it's preferred over healing your PT but yeah.

My Friend has gotten gold twice on ODIN his response as heals was to go in a grp with full rng they are most likely not gonjna die and you can attack /raise on the side.

I've gotten gold on Behe(In a heal, tank, heal, tank, 2 dps party) and Odin as heals. But yeah I had to run around trying to target my party members. After a while I just went to my custom targeting filter that targets any PCs and started targeting anyone I could and that needed healing/rezing.

So I joined a party in the odin fate yesterday. I tried going to where their dots were on the map and targetting with up / down on the d-pad. I could only get one player to target this way. All I can think is line of sight issue, but not convinced since I ran everywhere I could think. Anyone else had similar issue?

Since we have slider for how many characters we can see, why not add unlimited option instead of just maximum which is 200 i think. Some of us are playing on PCs that can handle it.

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Originally Posted by Velo_Vandore

So I joined a party in the odin fate yesterday. I tried going to where their dots were on the map and targetting with up / down on the d-pad. I could only get one player to target this way. All I can think is line of sight issue, but not convinced since I ran everywhere I could think. Anyone else had similar issue?

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Maybe the game was lagging and they actually moved from those places on the map? I don't think there are typically los issues there. AOE heal and raise corpses, and heal others. Nearly guaranteed gold.

I've not tried it yet but can you stick up a way mark on one side of the FATE to let the party know where you're goin to be stood? That way they can stick in range or come running over with their tail between their legs.

I've never tried laying way marks out of dungeons but is assume it works?

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Originally Posted by slakyak

I've not tried it yet but can you stick up a way mark on one side of the FATE to let the party know where you're goin to be stood? That way they can stick in range or come running over with their tail between their legs.

I've never tried laying way marks out of dungeons but is assume it works?

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I did another odin fate yesterday... we failed v_v and again it was impossible to find my party members on PS3. The blue map dots were not up to date, and I would run all over pressing dpad up/down, but it rarely found someone. I used AOE heals but they only hit party members and again it was not much use if only hitting one or two that didn't need healing.

I'll try this suggestion of using a waymark and asking my team to return for heals. For finding ko'ed players from my party, i'll try asking them to mark themselves to see if they get render priority.

Honestly I think this rare boss fate idea needs a re-deisgn - from the launch to now these fates are always overcrowded to the point they can't be experienced properly. Particularly for PS3 players. Could channels within a zone help alleviate overcrowding? In other games you can request to join your party leaders channel if there's space available.

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Originally Posted by Velo_Vandore

Honestly I think this rare boss fate idea needs a re-deisgn - from the launch to now these fates are always overcrowded to the point they can't be experienced properly. Particularly for PS3 players. Could channels within a zone help alleviate overcrowding? In other games you can request to join your party leaders channel if there's space available.

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I healed it on PS3 and scored gold. Half the time I didn't see my party but I ran everywhere and aoe healed, and I could get them healed up. If they die its easy to find them. Also never stick to just healing your party or rezzing them, thats how those fates fail.

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Originally Posted by AiChyan

I healed it on PS3 and scored gold. Half the time I didn't see my party but I ran everywhere and aoe healed, and I could get them healed up. If they die its easy to find them. Also never stick to just healing your party or rezzing them, thats how those fates fail.

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I did raise and heal loads of non-party members, but was frustrated that I couldn't find my own party members that needed healing / raising. How do you mean easy? You just run around randomly pressing up/down on the d-pad? Didn't work for me at all. Hopefully the marking and waymarks will work out next time.

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Originally Posted by Velo_Vandore

I did raise and heal loads of non-party members, but was frustrated that I couldn't find my own party members that needed healing / raising. How do you mean easy? You just run around randomly pressing up/down on the d-pad? Didn't work for me at all. Hopefully the marking and waymarks will work out next time.

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Easy as in they are dead so the blue dot will be sitting there unmoving :p It gets frustrating and I hope whatever measures you take will help you out next time <3 Good luck!