Innovating: Get Rid of Tab Targeting

[Atoli]

No thank you. The lack of a proper target system is actually what is turning me off of most action MMOs.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

how about we change it into a turn based system while removing the ability to move during combat too?
no thanks to your suggestion though.

It already sort of is. Everything is timed and skills have different speeds.

[Teraluna]

Like the pace of the combat now, without the ftp button mashing that is passed off as 'action combat'.
Stops you getting a little too excited about things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA7PhDJPJE

[Kaurie]

I guess another reason why action combat would not be good here is the high server latency. It was a huge issue with Blade and Soul and would be even worse here.

We already have issues with Hallowed Ground / Benediction (or even just getting hit by AoE's that we've run out of) due to high latency. Action combat would just be a nightmare.

[M0xie]

In before PS3 limitations

[Pells]

How does healing work without tab targeting? Would they get rid of it? Would it be strictly AE-based?

[Chiramu]

One of the main reasons I play this game is because it uses tab targeting. Removing it is hardly innovating, many new MMO's have moved to action combat. In my opinion, those games end up resulting in button smashing.

Mouse targeting abilities in MMORPGs is also a good system too. All they need to do with tab targeting in FFXIV is make it smarter, make it stop focusing in the stuff 50 malms away and target the one in your face.

How does healing work without tab targeting? Would they get rid of it? Would it be strictly AE-based?

TERA uses healing and mouse targeting, it is very interesting. best to test it out before you head straight into a dungeon.

[Warkupo]

Perhaps a compromise where if you're using a MELEE weapon then attacking will automatically lock on to the nearest target. I wouldn't want this kind of feature for healers/ranged characters as the number of bodies in the way would make combat very difficult to execute with percision.

[Felis]

One massive way for the devs to spice up this game is to change from a tab targeting system to real time. The resources required and the relatively radical nature of such a change would probably be too much of a shock to SE however.

Thoughts?

You can write macros for mouse targeting