Open world PvP Zone

[Wintersandman]

And that holds a valuable lesson to learn from when making any "optional" PvP zone or tagging system - Don't allow interaction between tagged and non-tagged people. AoEs of non-tagged people should simply ignore tagged people, single target abilities and autoattacks trigger a warning message along the lines of:"You need to turn on the flag to do that".

FFXIV already has this in place. You can't attack Leve Quest targets so they already have the logic.

Panning your camera to find a good angle the guy wasn't blocking was also a common necessity. .

Tab targeting... I am sure you have used it before.

As Frost Mage, you had to purposely forego you natural defensive tool, Frost Nova, to not get tagged. Priests similarly had to be careful with Psychic Scream in their daily farm activities. Combat rogues had to make sure not to use Blade Flurry etc etc.

I am sorry but having played both classes you didn't *NEED* those tools and wouldn't hinder you much. I played Priest, Mage, and Rogue and I never had an issue with accidentally getting flagged.

AoE farming in a group was cumbersome, as you easily triggered a tagging chain reaction.

Hopefully if you were in a group you could take out one straggler jumping in the fray.