I nver played mages in XIV yet, but as Gladiator that is what I'm leveling right now, I can not use Cover without losing a lot of time.

Sometimes, the one I want to cover has already healed, death or ran away. Even when I'm at time to cover him/her, I've to go back to the "Enemy channel" to keep fighting. Usually my Stamina bar is full when I finish so... there's a problem

I don't know if there was a way to auto select Party characters prior the update, but it would be good take FFXI tageting system here. I think it was a perfect System (but I may be wrong :P)

Greetings!