Another Targeting Thread

There have been many threads about targeting, and each one points to a different aspect of it which needs review or alteration. I would like to touch on the fact that when someone casts a buff on me, either direct or aoe, if I am not targeting anything, I then target the caster. I find this mechanic completely pointless, as I did in FFXI, and rather irritating during behest. I turn on enemy only targeting during behest, as I'm sure many of you do, just so I can easily move from one mob to the next with little effort. Often times I'm engaged with one beast, which usually goes down quickly, then I turn to the next and start mashing my #1 skill only to see that I can't attack that target. I then find out that my target was placed on another player as I was being cast upon between mobs, so I have to cancel, cancel, cancel, then target my mob before another aoe buff can get to me and screw up my targeting again.

Now, to the suggestion. I would ask that at the very least, when I am in enemy only targeting mode, that I am unable to automatically target someone who is casting on me. I would much rather see that functionality removed completely, but there is probably some benefit to it that I am not seeing right now. Of course, maybe there is already some way to turn it off that I haven't found. If that's the case, please let me know.

I agree to this. It is an annoying feature.

and with a topic just below your, you fell the urges to open another on the same argument ? :|| don't open 1000 identical thread for the same thing if others are running ffs

Yes I did, because that thread is offering a discussion on a different point. You can't just say "This is the targeting thread" because there are too many different things to say about the subject. Go away now.

I vote YES for devs to get rid of auto-targeting after somebody healed/buffed you :)

Yes, yes, yes. This "feature" of autotargeting the mages is my main frustration with the game! I hardly ever join battle parties simply because it frustrates me that much.

Oh yes i am totally in favor of this. Targeting someone that buffed or healed me gets extremely annoying. I vote for auto-caster targeting removal or an option to turn it on and off for those that actually like it.

Is there anyone who actually likes it? If there is, I haven't found him/her yet!

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Originally Posted by Girlie

Is there anyone who actually likes it? If there is, I haven't found him/her yet!

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If there is, he/she is on drugs :P

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Originally Posted by BlaiseLallaise

Yes I did, because that thread is offering a discussion on a different point. You can't just say "This is the targeting thread" because there are too many different things to say about the subject. Go away now.

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Calm down man <_<
Just saing, there's no use in making over 9000 of the same topics of every point of view. It make worst for the devs too, since they ned to look out every topic instead of a few ones

Lol... So i was thinking maybe they can have split options. Two different on and off selections for Targeting of friendly caster and targeting of enemy caster/attacker.

Well, chances are if an enemy caster is casting on you, it's probably not a buff or heal. In that case, it would be good to know that it's casting on you.

Was just looking for a thread on this very subject as it is extremely annoying, please do something about it SE.

The one huge change they need for keyboard/mouse players:

Remove "self" from being a viable name click target. Your own "hitbox", so to speak, is massive and covers like 35% of the best real estate on the screen. To try and switch targets to something right in your face requires swiveling the PoV and clicking off to the side to avoid selecting yourself .... annoying!

bumped and liked for something easy to fix ^^

Bump! This is something that needs addressing, no doubt.

The only useful aspect I can find for the castee automatically targeting the caster is the eventual tell or emote to thank them for a timely cure or buff.

But like the OP says, maybe there's another useful aspect to it. If there were need to keep this functionality for some reason not clear to us right now; and If the D. Team were more into using the targeting commands prevalent in FFXI (like <bt>, <lastst>, etc.,) one could imagine the auto-targeting feature being replaced by macros with the targeting command <lastc>, or anything equivalent, to target the last player that cast on you.

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Altered OP title and added tags. Still wishing I could change the title of the entire thread. The topic should be escalated to [Suggestion] status.