Suggestions for the targeting system (Discussion)

[Shurrikhan]

Some things I've always wanted:

• Being able to set an "offensive" and "support" target. This is primarily useful for healers, but also for Black Mages, Dragoons, Bards, and to an extent every job. Actions which cannot be cast on the "offensive" target will be cast on the "support" target. Actions which cannot be cast on either will be cast on self. This can be reordered to "offensive" -> self -> "support" as well, as to make self healing default.
• The option for your Focus Target to automatically swap to your previous target when you target your Focus Target. (I.e. the MT is my focus target, and I'm targeting the boss. But now I want to actually heal the MT. When I swap targeting to the MT, the boss automatically becomes my focus target. When I change to any other ally, it swaps back to the MT. Or, if the boss is my focus target and I'm targeting the MT, swapping to attack the boss makes the MT my focus target for the time being. (This is much less useful, at least for healers, if the addition above has already been implemented.
• Durations optionally viewable via focus target and on party list. This would be via subscript, but large enough to be readable, and therefore slightly reduces amount of status effects viewable at a time for a given party member via party list. By default, it only affects key durations like HoTs.
• Status Effect display filters and orders.
• A context menu added to our skills, whether via Hotbars, Crossbars, or the Action & Traits pane, which allows us to change certain settings for already bound actions or to add a modified version of said skill to our hotbars or crossbars. Options include Mouseover/Mouseover if Available/Target/Focus Target, and for Ground AoEs On Button Down/On Button Release/On Target/On Focus Target.
• Separable Target of Target UI element with optional status effects and status effect durations display.