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[Jericho]

What is it about FFXI's targeting system that seemed light years ahead of this one? I never had problems on FFXI, but I can't think out why it was so much better.

[Zdenka]

What is it about FFXI's targeting system that seemed light years ahead of this one? I never had problems on FFXI, but I can't think out why it was so much better.

As far as I recall targeting in XI is the same as XIV, it targets left to right... regardless of distance however far.

The pointer in XI is much more clear which object you are targeting in XI though, better than both of the 2 display options XIV gives you. The circle is difficult to figure out exactly which target you are on, and the above arrow sits sooo high above your target its either off screen or too high above the target its on to usually tell exactly whom you have targeted.

As in XI there are generally 2 options to target better... pre-click someone to the left of where you assume the target you want will be (so that left->right tabbing is quicker) or always position yourself to F8 will get whom you want.

[Punainen]

As far as I recall targeting in XI is the same as XIV, it targets left to right... regardless of distance however far.

The pointer in XI is much more clear which object you are targeting in XI though, better than both of the 2 display options XIV gives you. The circle is difficult to figure out exactly which target you are on, and the above arrow sits sooo high above your target its either off screen or too high above the target its on to usually tell exactly whom you have targeted.

As in XI there are generally 2 options to target better... pre-click someone to the left of where you assume the target you want will be (so that left->right tabbing is quicker) or always position yourself to F8 will get whom you want.

I never had a problem with targeting in XI... I believe it was target nearest to farthest in a left to right manner, lol.

[Phen]

I never had a problem with targeting in XI... I believe it was target nearest to farthest in a left to right manner, lol.

nearest to farthest did not take priority of left to right. As far as I can tell that is the exact same. Also the XI click targeting is just as bad really, in fact I believe the circle target is the default in XI.

By the way has anyone on keyboard been playing with the directional arrow targeting? I was playing around with it the other day and it worked very well... but I am still locked into tab/nearest npc styles.

[Atomisk]

As far as I recall targeting in XI is the same as XIV, it targets left to right... regardless of distance however far.

The pointer in XI is much more clear which object you are targeting in XI though, better than both of the 2 display options XIV gives you. The circle is difficult to figure out exactly which target you are on, and the above arrow sits sooo high above your target its either off screen or too high above the target its on to usually tell exactly whom you have targeted.

As in XI there are generally 2 options to target better... pre-click someone to the left of where you assume the target you want will be (so that left->right tabbing is quicker) or always position yourself to F8 will get whom you want.

F8 is still the default to target closest npc in ffxiv. but an /assist command would be nice.

[Nergui]

I hate the new functionality of 'change view'. Where it used to switch between target centered and player centered, it's now 3rd person and 1st person.

Seriously, who plays an MMO 1st person view?

[Felis]

What about the damn double letter when using chat-specific keyboard..

Which double letter? And why do you using chat-specific keyboard? I have it off.

I hate the new functionality of 'change view'. Where it used to switch between target centered and player centered, it's now 3rd person and 1st person.

Seriously, who plays an MMO 1st person view?

Which new functionality of 'change view'? The functionality is the same as in the beta and FF XI. Maybe you need to try press c (target lock) instead of v (change view)

[Hawklaser]

this is big issue that needs to be addressed, also we need the option to remove our own name to make mouse targeting better.

You can do this, but its all or none. No in-between of just removing your own name.

[wish12oz]

What is it about FFXI's targeting system that seemed light years ahead of this one? I never had problems on FFXI, but I can't think out why it was so much better.

QFT

I just don't understand why FFXI has so much right and FFXIV got all that same stuff wrong. Search, targeting, the ability to actually read the chat log, the auction house, etc.