Healing spells landing on me instead of my target

[VisRalis]

Never had it happen on macro-ed skills so I guess this for case of non-macro?

[Viviza]

Just a guess, but you may have been a little too aggressive with target swapping and casting at the same time. You started your heal a split-second before the swap, when normally you do it a split-second after. From your point of view you did it 'the same as always' and it feels very jarring to see your cast 'miss', but in fact you mistimed things.

It's an easy mistake to make when you're used to swap-and-cast by muscle memory. I'll do it more often when I'm tired.

[Saseal]

It's really not new, unfortunately. Usually it's from targeting the person and then hitting the button within an unnoticable second of each other, or at the same time. I'm prone to it when there's a lot going on and chaos on HP bars - one hand doesn't keep up with the other or both hands aren't keeping up with what my brain is telling them to do..... or lag is keeping it from doing any good.

I've noticed, since Heavensward, that some of my heals just go -no where- (rare, thankfully). The cure didn't even land on myself (as usually happens now and then) and no graphic or gained HP on the person I casted on. It just..... went nowhere. Cast bar, makes the casted animation and then.......... blank. Had this happen in Aery and T5 just before maint (5 and a half-manning, solo healing and solo tanking T5 and then again in a hurried, chain-pulling run in Aery *Twitch* Not good for heals to not go through).
It wasn't out of range or line of sight - the receiver and I were stationary - as well as able to receive a follow-up cure. Probably lag. My 'blank' cast incidents may also be a graphical glitch - I noticed that some NPCs 'disappear' when you take off but were there when you were on land. I also noticed some of my Holys not hitting, even though I'm practically on top of the mob I'm trying to stun. >_> No damage given, no animation reaction to being hit and no stun. I might as well have been 100 yalms away when I holy'd.

[Nadirah]

Am I the only one that heals light parties with F1-F4 to target players?

[Lacifarus]

Am I the only one that heals light parties with F1-F4 to target players?

Nah, I switch targets in 4 man like this too. Super fast heals since all of my heals, buffs and rez are set to my side buttons.

[Aphel]

Just curious, do you turn the camera with the left mouse button?

At the end of my previous mouse's lifespan I had little control over the left-click function. When I hold it down, sometimes it'll click multiple times (no sound, just metal contacts wearing out). So what happens is I have the tank selected, but when I turn the camera with the left mouse button it clicks. The tank gets un-selected and my untargeted heals heals me instead.

[Lilita]

Just curious, do you turn the camera with the left mouse button?

At the end of my previous mouse's lifespan I had little control over the left-click function. When I hold it down, sometimes it'll click multiple times (no sound, just metal contacts wearing out). So what happens is I have the tank selected, but when I turn the camera with the left mouse button it clicks. The tank gets un-selected and my untargeted heals heals me instead.

I thought that was the case, cause I do abuse right mouse button, but ever since it happened first time i was trying to pay attention who I have selected and I could swear my target never changed or disappeared. I will seriously try to get a recording of this happening, and review it more closely. It's kinda frustrating cause I can't recreate it no matter what.

[Embers]

Sadly this is not a new issue, it is one I have and have also reported on the forum. I main WHM but it got so bad I considered a new job but before I threw the towel in I got my hubby to film my screen and my KB as I couldnt consistanly reproduce the glith I thought we will catch it on film and also my fingers to make sure it wasnt something I was doing!
As a result I was able to see that when my cures were hitting me and not my target it was because I had my back to them and the "auto face your target" function had failed to kick in! Thankfully that has resolved 99% of these failed cures as I can make sure I manualy turn towards my target before casting, and if I dont I can now catch the failed cure before wasting any mp! hope this helps everyone else having this issue too!!

[Lilita]

UPDATE:
It seems its lag issue. I am leveling white mage now, and currently playing without wtfast and it happens quite often. If i change target quickly and keep spamming heals there seems to be little time window where nothing is selected and heal lands on me.

[_slowpoke_]

What you can try - as a workaround - is the following macro:

/macroicon "Cure"
/action "Cure" <t>

(Replace Cure with any other healing ability.)

What this should do is prevent you from casting Cure without having selected a (friendly) target (that's what the <t> does). While this still doesn't solve the issue of hitting the wrong target because you switched the target too late (or because of lag), it does prevent auto-selfcast.

Beware that this also prevents you from casting healing abilities on yourself while having an enemy targeted. You will have to explicitly target yourself to heal yourself. This can be annoying, but I personally got used to it (I mostly just quickly hit F1 to target myself when needed).