Suggestion for Controller user for ground marker placement

[Rongway]

make a macro like:

/micon ability
/merror off
/ac ability <t>
/ac ability

You'll either cast the ability at your target without the ground target, or you'll get the ground target as a fall back if you don't have a target.
Yes ground targets are a pain with gamepad.

This doesn't address the issue at all.

Ground target abilities have a radius of effect, as well as a range. If a target is 34 yalms away and has a hit radius of 5, it is effectively 29 yalms away for the purpose of AoE attacks. If you have an action with a 25y range and a 5y radius, you can effectively hit things up to 30y away. Given this particular target and this particular action, you can hit the mob, but it's unnecessarily irritating to do. You have to drag your cursor out to just-barely-not-out-of-range, so that the very edge of your ground target overlaps with the mob's hit circle; however, if you move it even a pixel too far, the cursor goes purple and you have to reposition. You cannot just center it on target with a macro.

The ground target circle should just stop moving away from you once it reaches max range, so you can put your mouse on or beyond the mob you want to hit, and still get it with a ground AoE.

[Magictrix]

This doesn't address the issue at all.

It effectively removes the need to ground target in the first place.

You cannot just center it on target with a macro.

The macro doesn't center it on a target. The macro overrides the need to position the ground target in the first place by just casting the ability straight up on the target -- which consequently happens to be "centered on target with a macro".

[Rongway]

It effectively removes the need to ground target in the first place.

I demonstrated a clear need to use a ground target. Read my reply again.

The macro doesn't center it on a target. The macro overrides the need to position the ground target in the first place by just casting the ability straight up on the target -- which consequently happens to be "centered on target with a macro".

That's a total contradiction. It doesn't center on target. It happens to be centered on target. Read my reply. Your solution is completely unrelated to the problem presented in the original post, which is explicitly about placing a ground target at extreme range.

[Magictrix]

I demonstrated a clear need to use a ground target. Read my reply again.

That's a total contradiction. It doesn't center on target. It happens to be centered on target. Read my reply. Your solution is completely unrelated to the problem presented in the original post, which is explicitly about placing a ground target at extreme range.

Ok you're right.

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make a macro like:

/micon ability
/merror off
/ac ability <t>
/ac ability

You'll either cast the ability at your target without the ground target, or you'll get the ground target as a fall back if you don't have a target.
Yes ground targets are a pain with gamepad.

[Rongway]

still missing the point of the thread

You're still missing the point of the thread.