Quote Originally Posted by Shirana View Post
is it not possible to change options in any way to view a targets HP?
All mobs have a visible health bar in this game. If you're asking how to view actual numbers, no, I don't think there's a way. The person you mention probably just knew roughly how many total exp Ifrit has (collected by a parser, probably), looked at the amount of HP bar that was left, and knew that it represented around 8000 HP.