Sacred Soil acting up since 3.2

Been looking on the forums and elsewhere on the interwebs and have not found anyone else complaining about this, so here goes.

I play on PS4 (if that matters). When I use Sacred Soil now, there is no targeting icon displayed (as with other aoe spells/skills that are placed). Now when I click on Sacred Soil it just puts it where I am standing. I even reviewed a video to see if the target icon is appearing and disappearing really quickly but it isn't-- its just not there anymore.

Thoughts?

It now lands around the target but I thought you had to do a macro to specify that.

It's the intended effect of the new ground target placement when using macros. Using a /ac or /pac command instead of the raw ability button for Shadow Flare, Sacred Soil, Place, Asylum, Freeze, etc, will drop the effect on the specified target if using tags, or your hard target if no tag used.
See related
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Pet-issue-3.2
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3588308

My other issue is that it is not listed among the changes to job skills-- and to me, this is a pretty big change. If what you are saying is true, and that it now "appears" around the target you have selected, it really changes it's versatility. Im thinking specifically about all the times In A1S when I placed it in a corner we were running toward during jumps-- so handy. If a player now needs to be in the spot where you want to place it-- seems to be a bit of a nerf to how it can be used?

** just saw the links... ty Rongway-- hoping it is fixed soon!

That explains why it isn't always where I wanted it. Thanks.

So let me get this straight, I can...
/ac "shadowflare" <t> to drop it on my target or,

/micon "Sacred Soil"
/target <mo>
/ac "Sacred Soil" <t>
to drop it on a party member?

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Originally Posted by Sarynth

So let me get this straight, I can...
/ac "shadowflare" <t> to drop it on my target or,

/micon "Sacred Soil"
/target <mo>
/ac "Sacred Soil" <t>
to drop it on a party member?

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Yis.

I dunno why Sacred Soil is acting up like that if you don't have it macroed, though @_@

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Originally Posted by Fernosaur

Yis.

I dunno why Sacred Soil is acting up like that if you don't have it macroed, though @_@

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I have it macro'd with Fey Covenant-- (I do love this macro) But there is no targeting involved in the macro--

/micon "Sacred Soil"
/ac "Sacred Soil"
/pac "Fey Covenant"

Can't recall if I have a wait time in there for Eos or not... am going to fuddle around with it tonight and see if I can get it working again. Hue hue.

I don't use macros at all on Shadow Flare or Sacred Soil. Shadow Flare acts normal with a targeting reticule and Sacred Soil centers on myself. It's not right.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

It's the intended effect of the new ground target placement when using macros. Using a /ac or /pac command instead of the raw ability button for Shadow Flare, Sacred Soil, Place, Asylum, Freeze, etc, will drop the effect on the specified target if using tags, or your hard target if no tag used.
See related
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Pet-issue-3.2
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3588308

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That's a good improvement considering I have a macro for using that and Fey Covenant, though this means that I might have to tweak them a bit.

Remove the <t>.

/ac "sacred soil"
This one will make the skill act like normal and have a ground targeting icon.

/ac "sacred soil" <t>
Instantly cast Sacred Soil around the target, if no target, nothing will happen.

The only thing this feature broke was Pet placement in macros since <t> and nothing are considered the same command.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

Patch notes:

/petaction Place <me>
/echo Tells Pet to place itself on top of you.

/petaction Place <f>
/echo Tell pet to place itself on top of focus target.

/petaction Place <t>
/echo Tell pet to place itself on top of target.

/petaction Place
/echo *BUG* If no target is selected, ground target is used to place pet. Otherwise it will place itself on top of target.

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Originally Posted by Rawrz

Even though I'm targeting myself sacred soil doesn't just activate and yet PLACE does. Same with shadowflare. If <t> it will place automatically, if nothing a place marker should appear.

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Macros used:
Pet Action Place Macro
http://i65.tinypic.com/54hdp2.jpg
Sacred Soil Macro
http://i65.tinypic.com/33fgaab.jpg

Video of test:
Pet Action "Place" Bugged While Targeting 14 seconds in shows the bug.

I've had a few incidents where I've been scratching my head wondering why sacred soil wasn't working. One time in particular, I hit the button, didn't get a reticle, didn't see the zone anywhere, and my cooldown had been used up. It works most of the time though. I've just had a few sporadic incidents, which is abnormal.

I don't use any macros on sacred soil.

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

I've had a few incidents where I've been scratching my head wondering why sacred soil wasn't working. One time in particular, I hit the button, didn't get a reticle, didn't see the zone anywhere, and my cooldown had been used up. It works most of the time though. I've just had a few sporadic incidents, which is abnormal.

I don't use any macros on sacred soil.

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Same issue here - No macros but behaving as if /t or /tt is used.

I don't know what everyone is talking about as my Soil still works as intended, I even checked it after reading all of this since I was curious. This has to be a glitch, sorry guys.