Tab targeting is remarkably bad

[SamSmoot]

For me always targets furthest enemy away and not closest one. Tab targeting really sucks

Here, I just use a macro with the Targetenemy command on my mouse wheel button. It always targets the closest thing unless there's something within a few yards behind me.

It works like this:

TAB with no existing target: Always starts with closest, then steps outward until furthest in range, then returns to closest.

TAB with existing target: Steps outward from there.

Targetenemy command: Always picks closest, even if there's an existing target further out. (This works over a very wide arc, I'd estimate 270 degrees, and is not limited by cone target mode unfortunately, so it tends to catch closer targets to your side.


A good place to try this is on a row of practice dummies. The ones close to the Kholusia arrival point are easy to get to if you're in the Crystarium