Healing spells landing on me instead of my target

[Lilita]

I am leveling astro atm (lvl 56) and after spamming Aery for a while I started noticing here and there some healing spells not landing on my targets. It's just a single spell, randomly between my casts I cannot recreate it, I haven't found any modifier key that would cast spells on me rather than targets. I am not using any macros. Just wanted to know if anyone else noticed this?

[Lacifarus]

I've had this happen a couple times. I know what you mean by tough to re-create. It almost feels like you dropped off your target but when I check I'm still on the tank or whoever.

[Lilita]

Yep exactly, sometimes I would run whole dungeon without this happening, next time it will happen twice in one run. A bit annoying since I tend to play "lets see how low the tank can go without dying" while I dps, and then bring them up with Essential Dignity.

[HeavensSword]

I like to hold down my left mouse button majority of the time to control my camera and have noticed that occasionally depending on where my mouse cursor actually is, that can cause it to change my target or clear it completely. Happens fairly rarely, though if you are saying that your target is not actually changing... that sounds like a bug.

[KisaiTenshi]

I am leveling astro atm (lvl 56) and after spamming Aery for a while I started noticing here and there some healing spells not landing on my targets. It's just a single spell, randomly between my casts I cannot recreate it, I haven't found any modifier key that would cast spells on me rather than targets. I am not using any macros. Just wanted to know if anyone else noticed this?

This happens regardless of the healer you play.

There's three reasons for it:
1) Lag. The most obvious but the easiest to anticipate. Just make sure that the party member is highlighted before pressing any key
2) Target moved out of range - Usually only a problem in dungeons and large arenas. This is generally why I use the mouse to change healing targets, if you can't click, you can't target.
3) Target moved out of line-of-sight - This is probably more like what you experience. The best example of being able to recreate this is with a Scholar. Tell the pet to stay and then walk behind objects and keep casting Psysick on it until one lands on you.

At any rate it's not a bug, it's usually a combination of lag and line-of sight. WP-hard's staircase areas are examples of where this would usually happen. Most other dungeons it rarely happens, and usually the Tank's are more aware of the line-of-sight requirement.

[Lilita]

1) Lag. The most obvious but the easiest to anticipate. Just make sure that the party member is highlighted before pressing any key
2) Target moved out of range - Usually only a problem in dungeons and large arenas. This is generally why I use the mouse to change healing targets, if you can't click, you can't target.
3) Target moved out of line-of-sight - This is probably more like what you experience. The best example of being able to recreate this is with a Scholar. Tell the pet to stay and then walk behind objects and keep casting Psysick on it until one lands on you.

When that happened to me, I had tank selected as my target for a minute or more before 1 heal randomly landed on me, I was standing next to the tank and after this happening so many times I also tried moving out of range of tank and recreate it - if i go out of range and cast a heal it simply says Out of range and my char doesn't cast anything (i do not use any macros).

[Lilita]

I also wanted to add, I am playing a healer since game was in beta, cleared all content on scholar and never encountered this problem. I did hear something about white mage heals not landing, but never experienced this, and after a while I thought it was fixed. I have however healed with mouseover macros on my other two healers. I just couldn't be bothered with macros on my astro yet (and I thought it will be more reliable if i get used to healing this way).
I suppose, since we can't recreate it, I cannot report it to bugs? Or would recording be enough?

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

While this is a great idea for 4 man parties, 8 man content seems impossible for me to go f1-f8.

[KisaiTenshi]

When that happened to me, I had tank selected as my target for a minute or more before 1 heal randomly landed on me, I was standing next to the tank and after this happening so many times I also tried moving out of range of tank and recreate it - if i go out of range and cast a heal it simply says Out of range and my char doesn't cast anything (i do not use any macros).

If you go out of range before you cast, then yes it will say out of range. But what I was referring to was "going out of range", eg you start casting and the target goes out of range.

Anyhow, another suggestion in the thread is maybe the mouse wearing out. This is quite possible too, as "gaming" mice (eg ones with more than 2+wheel) when wearing out tend to generate extra clicks. I have noticed a similar issue with moving stuff around in inventory when right-clicking which wasn't present before V3.

But as mentioned earlier, this always to me seemed like the target was moving out of range for the heals to land on myself without the target actually being unselected (eg lag?) in the process.

[Whiteroom]

I noticed this a few times in the vault as WHM. I wrote it off as being tired. Will keep my eyes open for it more though.

[VitalSuit]

I have this happen all the time on my SCH but I have yet to have it happen on my AST. I dunno what causes it but it seems like whenever I swapped targets really fast or used a global cooldown that affects me (like aetherflow or something) the next skill will be targetting me and not my target.