Why is Dragonsight still a thing?

[Burningskull]

Any skill that requires you to select a party member or use a ground targeted AoE is hell on Controller. I'm currently playing DRG and thanks to the fact macros tend to not work I have a habit of just using Dragon Sight as a personal buff. On a controller you have to hit Down on the d-pad at least twice just to select the person under you, then hold L2 or R2 and use your ability. It's a lot to do in between rotations especially with all the oGCDs DRG has. And if the person is out of range like the person above said Dragon Sight doesn't just activate for you and your cursor change back to the enemy you are fighting. You have to hope you notice it didn't activate then quickly hit circle to go back to fighting the mob. It is a very annoying skill to use.

[Darkstride]

Would it be all that bad if it just auto-linked to your nearest party member, which would likely be another melee. If there are only ranged it would likely link to the tank, but you could easily fix that with a shoutout or an Elusive Jump prior to using it, and then jumping back in to the target.

[Acidblood]

Personally I prefer:

/macroicon "Dragon Sight"
/action "Dragon Sight" <t>
/action "Dragon Sight" <f>
/action "Dragon Sight"

So it goes on my focus target by default but otherwise just works normally.

FFXIV desperately needs a dual target system though, so you can have a friendly and enemy target at the same time.

[ReiMakoto]

I don't think Pressing Circle + Down + Right Trigger + Button + Circle + X is going to be any faster.

You could move your party list so the tank/melee dps is below you then just press
1. Down
2. Down
3. Dragon Sight.

It sounds like youre not using the soft target system

[Gokuhan]

You could move your party list so the tank/melee dps is below you then just press
1. Down
2. Down
3. Dragon Sight.

It sounds like youre not using the soft target system

The problem arrives if your target is out of range. MCH is very strong right now, so if you try and use it on the MCH and they are out of range, your "soft target" remains on the MCH when the skill fails to activate instead of resolving back to the mob if the skill activates properly.

You could always just use it solo or on a tank, but your not getting the most of the skill then.

[Renkei]

You could move your party list so the tank/melee dps is below you then just press
1. Down
2. Down
3. Dragon Sight.

It sounds like youre not using the soft target system

Soft Target System doesn't revert to last target if the target is out of range, It uses Dragon-sight on yourself and forces you to Manually select the target.
It's much better to use this macro

/macrolock on
/target <2>
/action "Dragon Sight"
/action "Dragon Sight"
/targetlastenemy

The Soft Target System doesn't work for targeting last enemy when the target of a targeted spell is out of range.
What i was implying was that it should still revert your target back even when target is out of range, or tether them even if they are out of range, and not give them the buff until they go inside the radius.