Who else absolutely hates...

[Rinoa]

Crystal,That's what i do.

[Xatsh]

I made a target macro, alt+1 to target things. Works well for keyboard only users, about the same claiming as XI with that.

They just need a /assist <player> macro and I would be happy.

[User201109011315]

I refuse to use macros.

[Zdenka]

What is it about FFXI's targeting system that seemed light years ahead of this one? I never had problems on FFXI, but I can't think out why it was so much better.

As far as I recall targeting in XI is the same as XIV, it targets left to right... regardless of distance however far.

The pointer in XI is much more clear which object you are targeting in XI though, better than both of the 2 display options XIV gives you. The circle is difficult to figure out exactly which target you are on, and the above arrow sits sooo high above your target its either off screen or too high above the target its on to usually tell exactly whom you have targeted.

As in XI there are generally 2 options to target better... pre-click someone to the left of where you assume the target you want will be (so that left->right tabbing is quicker) or always position yourself to F8 will get whom you want.

[Tsukino]

I greatly prefer left-to-right targeting. Maybe it's because I played FFXI for years with just a keyboard, but it makes just as much sense to go that way as closest-to-furthest, but with the added benefit of me being able to adjust my starting point just by rotating the camera a little.

I place myself directly to the left of what I want to target, and then it's the first I get to, even if it's three or four mobs away. It takes a split-second to set up, and there is nothing equivalently quick when targeting is done by distance.

[Gramul]

I refuse to use macros.

They're a function of the game to make custom gameplay easier.
Why on earth would you of all people not want to use them? They sound right up your alley.

[User201109011315]

They're a function of the game to make custom gameplay easier.
Why on earth would you of all people not want to use them? They sound right up your alley.

They are unwieldy.

Why should I have to materialise knowledge of every type of macro command from nowhere and then get a degree in programming just to swap out my gear/customise a target mode etc?

It's unwieldy, is all im trying to say, and I simply don't care for macros at all and want nothing to do with them.

[KiriA500]

They are unwieldy.

Why should I have to materialise knowledge of every type of macro command from nowhere and then get a degree in programming just to swap out my gear/customise a target mode etc?

It's unwieldy, is all im trying to say, and I simply don't care for macros at all and want nothing to do with them.

I got my PhD in Macro Biology, maybe I can help you out. Start with something easy, like:
/equip Head "Name of your hat"

Congratulations! You equipped a hat!

On a serious note, I think macros would be MUCH more helpful if everything in the UI didn't take so long to do. Setting up one macro to equip my Gladiator gear takes a good 15 seconds...then I have 3 macros to equip each different line of abilities. It takes me a good minute to fully get prepared for my main job, and then I can't use any of the abilities, because of the stupid timer reset EVERY SINGLE TIME you set a skill that wasn't active before.

[Punainen]

As far as I recall targeting in XI is the same as XIV, it targets left to right... regardless of distance however far.

The pointer in XI is much more clear which object you are targeting in XI though, better than both of the 2 display options XIV gives you. The circle is difficult to figure out exactly which target you are on, and the above arrow sits sooo high above your target its either off screen or too high above the target its on to usually tell exactly whom you have targeted.

As in XI there are generally 2 options to target better... pre-click someone to the left of where you assume the target you want will be (so that left->right tabbing is quicker) or always position yourself to F8 will get whom you want.

I never had a problem with targeting in XI... I believe it was target nearest to farthest in a left to right manner, lol.

[Anon]

this is big issue that needs to be addressed, also we need the option to remove our own name to make mouse targeting better.