Tab Targeting Needs to be Looked At and Fixed

[McStagger]

Right now the Tab Targeting in this game is extremely frustrating. Having TAB set to Target Nearest to Furthest is either not working at all or is extremely literal because if I have 4 enemies on my screen at varying distances, it will target the closest first and then the furthest away from me and then randomly any enemies in between.

Expectation: Target the closest to the furthest from the character position. I specify character position because the tab targeting seems to change depending on how the camera is oriented regardless of if the number of enemies on screen changes or not and will also change even if their relative distances stay the same.

If a target dies, the next tab should go to the next closest enemy. Right now, if the closest enemy dies, the next tab is a crap shoot where it lands.

Having a predictable targeting system makes target acquisition extremely efficient and is something many people are used to from other MMOs.

[actionjackson83]

Damn right, second and thirded! Makes tanking that much easier in all the chaos of add management as well. It was perfect in FFXI I don't understand why it's so damn bad in this game.

[Seidaku]

I think right now it targets the lowest number/letter mob and cycles in numerical/alpha order. At least this is my experience. So if you tab target it starts with A then moves to B regardless of distance. If you have C targeted it moves to D and so on.

I may be wrong but this is the feel I get from the system. Have not done extensive testing.

[StarMarmot]

Normal proceedings of the FATE grinding DoM:

Hah! Untagged mob. Brilliant.
Tab. Nope.
Tab. Nope.
Ok, it's tagged now, no matter.
Tab. Nope, damnit.
Tab, tab, tab. Nope, yep, one too many there, curses.
Tab. Nope.
Think I'll try clicking instead.
Click. Nope.
Click. Nope.
Click. Not interested in targeting that melee guy there, no.
Click. GOT IT. However, it's nearly dead.
Maybe I'll get this spell off in time.
Nope.

Hah! Another untagged mob. Brilliant!
Tab...

[Felis]

I think right now it targets the lowest number/letter mob and cycles in numerical/alpha order. At least this is my experience. So if you tab target it starts with A then moves to B regardless of distance. If you have C targeted it moves to D and so on.

I may be wrong but this is the feel I get from the system. Have not done extensive testing.

It use more the screen center as a fix point. It move to the enemy who is nearest to the screen center instead nearest to the player.

Normal proceedings of the FATE grinding DoM:

Hah! Untagged mob. Brilliant.
Tab. Nope.
Tab. Nope.
Ok, it's tagged now, no matter.
Tab. Nope, damnit.
Tab, tab, tab. Nope, yep, one too many there, curses.
Tab. Nope.
Think I'll try clicking instead.
Click. Nope.
Click. Nope.
Click. Not interested in targeting that melee guy there, no.
Click. GOT IT. However, it's nearly dead.
Maybe I'll get this spell off in time.
Nope.

Hah! Another untagged mob. Brilliant!
Tab...

You do it wrong ^^

Be sure that your character face the target you want and press the 0 on the numblock.

[rtpsoulx]

Target with the number pad? 4,2,6,8 <.<

[Versiroth]

It needs to work in a cone shape depending on the direction you're pointing.


\.......4.........6/...7 (7 would not be targettable at all unless you turn)
..\......3......5/
....\......2..../
......\..1..../

That way, the immediate direction you're pointing always takes direct priority. If I'm facing toward # 4 above as a BM, I don't want to cycle through # 5 to get to it just because it's a little closer. Whatever I'm facing should take presidence.

[Amiabelle]

For some reason, I thought it was simply going left to right, starting with the left-most mob currently fully visible onscreen. Thus, if my character is standing within arm's length of mob that is to her left, but the mob is half off-screen, tab-targeting will ignore that mob and move to the next mob to the right, regardless of its physical distance to/from my character.

Of course, that's not what I want, but for some reason, I thought that's how it worked.

[StarMarmot]

You do it wrong ^^

Yeah. I should just spam Blizzard 2.

[Foxydoe]

Normal proceedings of the FATE grinding DoM:

Hah! Untagged mob. Brilliant.
Tab. Nope.
Tab. Nope.
Ok, it's tagged now, no matter.
Tab. Nope, damnit.
Tab, tab, tab. Nope, yep, one too many there, curses.
Tab. Nope.
Think I'll try clicking instead.
Click. Nope.
Click. Nope.
Click. Not interested in targeting that melee guy there, no.
Click. GOT IT. However, it's nearly dead.
Maybe I'll get this spell off in time.
Nope.

Hah! Another untagged mob. Brilliant!
Tab...

HAHAHA! Oh my God, I know right?? XD

Heaven help you if you try to tab to the next enemy in front of you in a dungeon, with an attack macro still active; it's pretty much a guarantee tab's going to target the pack of mobs on the other side of the room, the offscreen ones that you can't even see, because TROLL-TAB-DOES-WHAT-IT-WANTS.