Assisting the tank on PS3

[GeekMatt]

Its excruciatingly easy to target your teammate on the ps3 using the up/down DPAD to scroll through your party list. At this point you could use a <tt> (Target of my target) macro.
Alternatively, you could target any given mob (Assuming your tank is doing his job) and use a <tt><t> macro.

I'm a PS3 tank, so I don't typically worry about these things and haven't used the above macros myself, but I see the above often mentioned. As a PS3 user I suggest recommending to the PS3er to setup their targeting filters to effectively do what they need, there are tutorials out there, I've written one myself for a fellow forumer elsewhere.

[Reauland]

Something else you could try is marking your tank with one of the placeholder targets not commonly used for marking mobs like "/mk Triangle <t>". You could then use a macro to assist any tank with a "/as Triangle" macro.

The only downside is if the tank should turn it off for some reason, otherwise, it works great.

[Estellios]

Something else you could try is marking your tank with one of the placeholder targets not commonly used for marking mobs like "/mk Triangle <t>". You could then use a macro to assist any tank with a "/as Triangle" macro.

The only downside is if the tank should turn it off for some reason, otherwise, it works great.

I dunno about you but I'd really not like a triangle over my head for an entire dungeon lol

[Reauland]

I dunno about you but I'd really not like a triangle over my head for an entire dungeon lol

I wish they'd actually made the "button" markers only visible for the person who placed them. They could make for some great and versatile target placeholders if only they weren't so . . . aesthetically challenging . . .

[evilneko]

you can target a Focus by using a macro after you had set up a focus
/target <f>

and select the target the focus is targeting with
/assist <f>