Intervention and Cover in Alliance Raids and BA

[IntrovertAnt]

Why can't I cover or use intervention on people outside of my party, but I can heal them with clemency?

[Inuk9]

Also, we need a good QoL implementation for targeting alliance members for gamepad users. Do you know how obnoxious is to revive an alliance member in a PS4?

[Jeeqbit]

Most actions only work on party members, which means not alliance members or normal players. The only exception off the top of my head is heals and raises.

The majority of content involves just your party. It's only a slight problem in alliance raids and open world content when you see someone at low health and want to help them with actions like Cover, but instead have to watch them die.

[Kurando]

Well the tooltip does specifically state that Intervention and Cover require a "target party member" for it to function, while other actions like Clemency and Raise just say "restores target's HP" or "restores target to a weakened state". See the slight difference in the wording of the descriptions.

[Dhaid]

Honestly id like them to update this to just 'friendly targets' or even 'allies' so that during duties with protecting npcs you can do a little extra to protect them. Would be fine with just 'player' since its really only annoying with alliance raids, and tanks would be able to actually use their offtank cooldowns during them.

[Grimmjow_Jaegerjaques]

Also, we need a good QoL implementation for targeting alliance members for gamepad users. Do you know how obnoxious is to revive an alliance member in a PS4?

L1/LB + left or right on D-Pad

[Doozer]

It would also be nice to be able to Shirk a tank in a different alliance. Since there's only one tank each, there's nothing you can do to help the MT with aggro without lowering your DPS or something. And I can't really tell them to "git gud" when I take aggro from them while in OT stance.

[Bright-Flower]

It would also be nice to be able to Shirk a tank in a different alliance. Since there's only one tank each, there's nothing you can do to help the MT with aggro without lowering your DPS or something. And I can't really tell them to "git gud" when I take aggro from them while in OT stance.

Came here to say this. ^

[reckless76]

It would also be nice to be able to Shirk a tank in a different alliance. Since there's only one tank each, there's nothing you can do to help the MT with aggro without lowering your DPS or something. And I can't really tell them to "git gud" when I take aggro from them while in OT stance.

This is especially bad for Paladins in the lvl 50 alliance raids. Where the only DPS combo is also the enmity combo. It's nearly impossible to not take aggro away from non-paladin MTs. I actually have to stop attacking once in a while. Looking forward to that issue hopefully going away in ShadowBringers.

[Vidu]

Well the tooltip does specifically state that Intervention and Cover require a "target party member" for it to function, while other actions like Clemency and Raise just say "restores target's HP" or "restores target to a weakened state". See the slight difference in the wording of the descriptions.

Just because the tooltip tells you that thats how the skills work it doesnt mean that its a good way for those skills to be working - just because I know that I cant use intervention on someone who isnt in my party it doesnt mean that it wont be incredible useful at times. (Little bit offtopic: the biggest offender to this in my opinion is actually the fairy-theter the scholar has - if "your" tank isnt MT there is no use for the theter since it only works on partymembers)