It's me, again! (AST checkup)

[Rongway]

I'm fairly certain they nerfed the healing recieved bonus on Synastry so that if you cast a direct heal on the person you've targeted with it they don't recieve any bonus heal beyond the initial hit. .

They get the piggyback heal whether you Benefic/II/Aspect yourself, them, or another party member. It's counted as having an unspecified source though, so it won't show up in the chat log and you won't see it if you have pop-up text disabled (like a DoT).

I'm not sure why they programmed it that way instead of making it flying text like a HoT tick, other than it might have implications for enmity generation (that is, the piggyback heal doesn't generate additional enmity).

[Lynesse]

*reads the latest couple responses*

Just relax. c:

Let yourself learn. Go easy on yourself.

Any mistake you make will be caused by inexperience, and I guarantee you it will be the result of you trying to compensate for someone else's mistake.

This is totally different from the sort of negligence, willful ignorance, or belligerence that gets people kicked from groups.

You are attentive, conscientious, you learn, and you are putting in a lot of effort. No one can fault you for anything.

We've all wiped parties. We've all stood in something and exploded. We've all forgotten how to do a mechanic.

[Maeka]

See, responses like the ones in this thread from various people are why I love the XIV community, and why I say that it is miles better than WoW's.

If I had posted something like this on WoW oboards I would have gotten a 5-10 page thread of people telling me I suck and I should go back to playing Hello Kitty or something, lol.

Thanks! I'm still reading responses, and hopefully here sometime like when I get home, I can get the opportunity to do some more dungeons and see if I can slowly start working some of this stuff in.

[Maeka]

So, a thought came to me as I was doing today's Trial Roulette..

One thing I have always sucked at as a healer is trying to get into a decent routine of how to access the F5 through F8 keys to heal the latter 4 people of the alliance quickly and easily because I've found that the only way I can do this reliably is click-target them from the group window which is far slower than the F keys. It works but there's a good 1-1.5s delay and it limits my movement when I'm trying to do that.

Part of the problem is that I use an ergonomic keyboard and F6+ is split up from the rest of the F keys (google image 'microsoft natural keyboard' if you've never seen one).

Kinda wondering if maybe I should try pulling out the Nostromo or something for that.

EDIT: Looking at it, I'm not sure that would work either, because it does have 14 keys, so 12 hotkeys + 2-3 extra keys but that doesn't fix the targeting problem.

Hmm.... Shift+Mouse Wheel for Group List? That'd be a little faster..

EDIT2: Nevermind, there's no Cycle Party List, only Alliance. Weird.

[Lynesse]

I click on party members. c: It can be faster than you think!

I have a single macro that is basically just <tt> to quickly swap between the MT and an enemy the MT (or anyone else I've selected) is targeting. I click everyone else.

My UI is setup in such a way that I keep the party window near the bottom, to the side of my skills and enemy list/healthbar, and I make sure to keep my mouse close to it at all times.



Edit: This is a better screenshot of how I setup my HUD. I made some improvements today, actually.

[Rongway]

Hmm.... Shift+Mouse Wheel for Group List? That'd be a little faster..

EDIT2: Nevermind, there's no Cycle Party List, only Alliance. Weird.

For some reason they didn't use the same terminology for Alliance targeting as they did for Party targeting. It's "Scroll up through Party List" and "Scroll down through Party List" in the mouse wheel settings.

[Maeka]

Also another question:

I attempted to bind one of the buttons on my mouse to "Cycle Down Enmity List" and when I do this, it highlights the mobs in the Enmity List (kinda like mousing over them) but won't actually target them (my previous target is still targeted).

What's up with this?

[Rongway]

I attempted to bind one of the buttons on my mouse to "Cycle Down Enmity List" and when I do this, it highlights the mobs in the Enmity List (kinda like mousing over them) but won't actually target them (my previous target is still targeted).?

That's the soft target feature. It's meant to allow you to use a one-time buff or spell at someone and then go back to what you were doing on your original target. Maybe you want to Combust a secondary target and then go back to Maleficking your main target, or throw a card at a DD before going back to focusing on the tank. That's what this is for. It'll use your next action on your soft target, then switch you immediately back to your hard target.

If you want to convert it to a hard target, you can press the Confirm button (numpad0 by default, but you could bind it to a mouse button or something if you want).

[Maeka]

That won't really work for what I want it to do then... mmh. That's kind of frustrating. Wish there was a way to turn that off. I wanted a hard-target, one button solution that instead of cycling through targets near me, I wanted it to cycle targets in the enmity list so that I wasn't limited by what was in my direct viewing angle that I can pick up a target and start DPSing immediately. But having to hit a confirm button after finding the right enemy means yet another keybind and at that point I might as well just click the target from the enmity list, something I was trying to get away from in the first place.

Also.... changing the mousewheel so that it cycles the party list... is that hard or soft target?

[Lynesse]

If you have nothing selected, it will select that party member. If something else is already selected (including an enemy), it will soft target.