People who ask for marks in DF

[Orophin]

It's been my experience that most tanks I've grouped with can't keep up with a sustained Fire 2 spam. This is why I just prefer to single target stuff.

Marking is especially useful in the lower levels when DPS just hit whatever they feel like, regardless what you pulled first and is actually missing HP out of an enemy pack.

[HiirNoivl]

Thats just so wrong. Dont know where even to begin with.

Sargatanas representin'

[juniglee]

Whuuut.

Not hard to just open the mark menu, leave it on the top right corner of your UI, and just tab + click 1, tab + click 2, tab + click 3 is it? Only takes me like...10 seconds? I'm sure I'd be called inefficient for not using macros, but I prefer them this way...

OP just reeks of laziness.

[Judge_Xero]

I leave the Mark Icons on my Skill Bar. When the mobs are grouped it makes it easier for the DD's to find which one they are suppose to be hitting. I was lazy at first, because I didn't think marking would make a big difference. But now I do.

[DartFx]

I do not care what mob you are attacking because its not like I am going to lose hate on any of them

Lol, what? You're never gonna lose hate huh? Hmm never knew PLDs were Hate-keeping gods. Always figured those were Warriors. Wild Zumi used FlashSpam. The attack was ineffective.

[Garnatian]

Not all DPS classes can use purely AoE.

Also, if you keep aggro on everything with everyone hitting different adds your DPS are terrible.

/thread

[Stryker]

I mark in public DF's of regular dungeons. The ones used for SR's I don't. I assume the people I'm playing with are brain dead and need it because that way I won't be disappointed when they actually turn out to be brain dead.

I kind of treat it as a test. If they can attack the marked mobs successfully then I'll continue to try. If they are all over the place and I know that it's going to be an uphill fight I just let them pull the mobs and die.

Sometimes I'll mark a mob with 1 to indicate that it's the most important mob of that bunch, the rest being trash. But I feel like certain circumstances need markings, but not all. That being said, with how bad a lot of my DF's are I mark just as a precaution. Wiping usually takes more time than me marking, even though it means I have to do even more work.

[Aloysous]

I was in a party that was marking and it ran so smooth that I always do it now.

[ChriskoOnAnotherLevel]

OP, I think it is sad you have all jobs leveled and posted something this utterly clueless.

You are correct that AOEing can produce high DPS in the event of a 3 or more pack pull.

What you forget is that doing this costs resources that will not be able to replenish fast enough before the next pull.

So while your AOE theory might look good on paper, the delay created by having to wait for resources does not work out unless you build the party specifically for this goal.

Even when built specifically for this goal, overall run speed will be compromised in the case of single target dps.

[ExarKun007]

Don't think of marking as telling your group to kill 1 first. It's more "ill have enough aggro on 1 to keep it off you I youchoose to focus it. Anything else, it's your ass".