Thread: 3.4 Changes to Face Targeting System

Originally Posted by birdy_reene

I main bard also, and I forget what the original keybinding is (im on pc) but I have it set to button on the side of my mouse now. and it causes me to untarget the enemy and about face (turn around). I just keep the camera pointed at the enemy, as soon as the gaze attack is over, I hit tab to retarget and just have at it spraying my attacks at it. only people I could see this new feature screwing with his controller peeps.

yeah this isn't what I'm referring to. What you're speaking of is more in regards to the auto attack change. I'm talking about how Face Target works as a game setting. Where everytime you hit a skill you will face the target so you can hit it. There is also a command /facetarget which can be bound to a key. I do not know if they are mutually exclusive or not. I don't use the command but I have the setting on in character configuration. This allows me to be on the move and soon as I hit a skill it turns me to face the target and it. (not under wanderer's of course unless using something like feint) So how does this "face target inaccessible while moving" effect this? Imagine not being able to use your straighter shot proc as you move because face target doesn't work while you're moving? Or Hell I play WAR in dungeons sometimes... I over power as I'm moving because the face target game setting (the one in character config) allows me to still hit as I dodge AoE's from packs of mobs.
As some have pointed out in their posts they think this is reference to the command. I have to say I really hope so.

Originally Posted by Nikkita

I'd actually like some clarification on what it means by As a bard there are times you briefly (and I mean VERY brief like maybe 1 or 2 GCD's MAX) drop out of Wanderer's Minuet so that you can still attack and move. Or I've heard of the use of Feint on MCH to do something like this as well since it doesn't make you "cast".

If you're a PC player, I assume they're talking about the Face Target command which is by default bound to the "F" key.

It's useful in PVP as a melee, since if you jump, you can spam F to keep your character facing towards your enemy. I think they were talking about that, more than anything.
Feint should be untouched, and still act as the same ability.

Originally Posted by Nikkita

I'd actually like some clarification on what it means by As a bard there are times you briefly (and I mean VERY brief like maybe 1 or 2 GCD's MAX) drop out of Wanderer's Minuet so that you can still attack and move. Or I've heard of the use of Feint on MCH to do something like this as well since it doesn't make you "cast". Does this mean I no longer can attack and move even out of Wanderer's? what part of the feature are they speaking of? Because there is an actual game setting and a command. Being that I'm in Wanderer's 99% of the time the auto-attack thing is rather irrelevant to me but I truly don't follow exactly what they mean by "feature inaccessible."

I have no idea what they meant by that translation. At present, I will not only attack mid-jump to continue while running away without backpedaling, but even use the face-target key mid-leap as not to ever delay an auto-attack during movement away when out of WM. And if the line refers only to the new feature (of not needing to face target for AAs), I don't really see the point in the feature in the first place; unless you were moving away, you'd always end movement on a controller or in Legacy configuration towards your target. Now you can't AA while facing the target and moving deeper into the enemy hitbox or backpedaling out of it? What?

Edit: If it's just that my F key would gain an internal cooldown or be unusable mid-stride, which won't be necessary except for blocking or parrying now that AAs no longer require face-target anyways, then I'm happy for the change. It could just be a lot more clear in that translation.

Originally Posted by Kaze3434

thats not how time bombs work.

What do you mean?

I know that time bomb is not about "gaze" but "action". so if you face away there and stand still, there won't be any action coming out from you to trigger the bomb. But with the new auto attack even though you face away, your auto attack won't stop anymore, resulting in the detonation of the bomb. So you have to sheath your weapon to do this, or run out of the range of auto attack and stand still to avoid death.