Cannot see AoE while fighting big Mob

[NoRyoKu]

Hiya

Here is something annoying, I play on PC and when I fight tall and big monsters, the camera tends to go on the back of my caracter and look up to the face of the enemy. This way, I Cannot look on the ground the see the red attack AoE of the monster because the camera is looking into the sky. Even if I try to replace the camera down, because the monster is too big it always points up. I know you can guess with the monster animation but it is really annoying

Is there something to do about that???

Thx

[Bixby]

Are you locking on? Either manually or through the auto-lock-on setting? If so, that's the problem. You can either stop locking on entirely and learn to live without it, or make sure you've got the lock on/off key bound to something convenient so you can turn it on and off as needed.

[NoRyoKu]

Yes indeed i'm always locked on. So the camera movement are also locked on. When fighting against mob like that, i'm gonna try "unlocking", Good idea thx

[Estellios]

I believe there is an option in the character config that auto-locks. You might have that turned on and should probably disable it.

[Okipuit]

We're aware that some of the camera behavior when locking onto a large enemy can be less than optimal, and we plan to adjust this sometime after patch 2.2.

[Odd]

AFTER 2.2!?

Great, another 6-8 months of this.

[Zirael_Foxfire]

AFTER 2.2!?

Great, another 6-8 months of this.

Too busy with housing or another useless Lightning event.

Hey, thanks for the suggestions! We'll be sure to deliver them to the development team for consideration.
As for being able to eat food at a table? You'll be happy to know that we're proactively looking to make this happen.

[TirionCrey]

The Question to me is...why does anybody ever lock-on to any mob in this game at any time anyway O.o
It limits your movement(can't walk into the mob), you can only strafe...the whole controls are just stupid while being locked-on the target. Not to mention there is literally zero reason to do it at any time...so yeah...they could just not fix it at all and I wouldn't care.

Now...the camera not going back to it's initial distance after it close up cause of the surroundings or anything...that shit is messed up and that's gonna be fixed in 2.1...so yeah...they prioritize the right things at least.

[NoRyoKu]

The Question to me is...why does anybody ever lock-on to any mob in this game at any time anyway O.o

If you are not lockon, the enemy can go behind you and you will be unable to attack, you are going to waste time to turn around, while lock-on you always face the target wherever it goes. Also, when lock-on, you are turning around the target when pressing the left or right direction. Very usefull not to go to far from the target, you are always at the same distance. This is the advantage I see

[NoctisUmbra]

The Question to me is...why does anybody ever lock-on to any mob in this game at any time anyway O.o.

For melee jobs, it is an effective way to make sure you are always facing the target, and therefore your Auto Attack string never gets interrupted. DRG and MNK can often be required to move back and forth between the target's side and rear.

While a player using kb+mouse can accomplish this with proper strafing, it is almost required for a gamepad DRG or MNK to use lock-on to strafe between the two positions without the risk of sacrificing any auto attack hits.