Healing spells landing on me instead of my target

[Nadirah]

Am I the only one that heals light parties with F1-F4 to target players?

[Lilita]

1) Lag. The most obvious but the easiest to anticipate. Just make sure that the party member is highlighted before pressing any key
2) Target moved out of range - Usually only a problem in dungeons and large arenas. This is generally why I use the mouse to change healing targets, if you can't click, you can't target.
3) Target moved out of line-of-sight - This is probably more like what you experience. The best example of being able to recreate this is with a Scholar. Tell the pet to stay and then walk behind objects and keep casting Psysick on it until one lands on you.

When that happened to me, I had tank selected as my target for a minute or more before 1 heal randomly landed on me, I was standing next to the tank and after this happening so many times I also tried moving out of range of tank and recreate it - if i go out of range and cast a heal it simply says Out of range and my char doesn't cast anything (i do not use any macros).

[Lilita]

I also wanted to add, I am playing a healer since game was in beta, cleared all content on scholar and never encountered this problem. I did hear something about white mage heals not landing, but never experienced this, and after a while I thought it was fixed. I have however healed with mouseover macros on my other two healers. I just couldn't be bothered with macros on my astro yet (and I thought it will be more reliable if i get used to healing this way).
I suppose, since we can't recreate it, I cannot report it to bugs? Or would recording be enough?

Nadirah
Am I the only one that heals light parties with F1-F4 to target players?

While this is a great idea for 4 man parties, 8 man content seems impossible for me to go f1-f8.

[Aphel]

Just curious, do you turn the camera with the left mouse button?

At the end of my previous mouse's lifespan I had little control over the left-click function. When I hold it down, sometimes it'll click multiple times (no sound, just metal contacts wearing out). So what happens is I have the tank selected, but when I turn the camera with the left mouse button it clicks. The tank gets un-selected and my untargeted heals heals me instead.

[Lilita]

Just curious, do you turn the camera with the left mouse button?

At the end of my previous mouse's lifespan I had little control over the left-click function. When I hold it down, sometimes it'll click multiple times (no sound, just metal contacts wearing out). So what happens is I have the tank selected, but when I turn the camera with the left mouse button it clicks. The tank gets un-selected and my untargeted heals heals me instead.

I thought that was the case, cause I do abuse right mouse button, but ever since it happened first time i was trying to pay attention who I have selected and I could swear my target never changed or disappeared. I will seriously try to get a recording of this happening, and review it more closely. It's kinda frustrating cause I can't recreate it no matter what.

[KisaiTenshi]

When that happened to me, I had tank selected as my target for a minute or more before 1 heal randomly landed on me, I was standing next to the tank and after this happening so many times I also tried moving out of range of tank and recreate it - if i go out of range and cast a heal it simply says Out of range and my char doesn't cast anything (i do not use any macros).

If you go out of range before you cast, then yes it will say out of range. But what I was referring to was "going out of range", eg you start casting and the target goes out of range.

Anyhow, another suggestion in the thread is maybe the mouse wearing out. This is quite possible too, as "gaming" mice (eg ones with more than 2+wheel) when wearing out tend to generate extra clicks. I have noticed a similar issue with moving stuff around in inventory when right-clicking which wasn't present before V3.

But as mentioned earlier, this always to me seemed like the target was moving out of range for the heals to land on myself without the target actually being unselected (eg lag?) in the process.

[Lacifarus]

Am I the only one that heals light parties with F1-F4 to target players?

Nah, I switch targets in 4 man like this too. Super fast heals since all of my heals, buffs and rez are set to my side buttons.

[Embers]

Sadly this is not a new issue, it is one I have and have also reported on the forum. I main WHM but it got so bad I considered a new job but before I threw the towel in I got my hubby to film my screen and my KB as I couldnt consistanly reproduce the glith I thought we will catch it on film and also my fingers to make sure it wasnt something I was doing!
As a result I was able to see that when my cures were hitting me and not my target it was because I had my back to them and the "auto face your target" function had failed to kick in! Thankfully that has resolved 99% of these failed cures as I can make sure I manualy turn towards my target before casting, and if I dont I can now catch the failed cure before wasting any mp! hope this helps everyone else having this issue too!!

[Lilita]

UPDATE:
It seems its lag issue. I am leveling white mage now, and currently playing without wtfast and it happens quite often. If i change target quickly and keep spamming heals there seems to be little time window where nothing is selected and heal lands on me.

[_slowpoke_]

What you can try - as a workaround - is the following macro:

/macroicon "Cure"
/action "Cure" <t>

(Replace Cure with any other healing ability.)

What this should do is prevent you from casting Cure without having selected a (friendly) target (that's what the <t> does). While this still doesn't solve the issue of hitting the wrong target because you switched the target too late (or because of lag), it does prevent auto-selfcast.

Beware that this also prevents you from casting healing abilities on yourself while having an enemy targeted. You will have to explicitly target yourself to heal yourself. This can be annoying, but I personally got used to it (I mostly just quickly hit F1 to target myself when needed).