I can't agree more. It's the most frustrating thing to be in a healing intensive fight, and not have a good targeting system. I know that a lot of people don't want the game to resemble any previous MMOs ever made, but there is a reason that this targeting system is used in both FFXI, WoW, and just about any other MMO I've ever played. It makes healing so much smoother....

Would it really break the game to be able to heal the person I want when I need to? Or should I just resort to spamming heals on myself while they are in AoE mode?

Hopefully this is a simple fix that will be done in next patch. It should be fairly simple.... I'm baffled that it isn't in the game already.