Why is Dragonsight still a thing?

[Burningskull]

I think Dragon Sight should work like Dance Partner does. You turn it on at the beginning of a fight and it stays on the whole fight reguardless of how far away you are from the person. No need for a red teather effect either.

[Schan]

I don't really have issues with it. except when people are not in range or i DC and my pary list gets messed up

[Atamis]

This is the macro i use for it. It casts on your target if there is one, otherwise whatever your mouse is hovering over. Bit hard to use at times but at the very least you can tag the tank if the other dps is busy being wild and free. You can add a <tt> line below the mo one if you just want to default to the tank if none of the other options are viable.

micon "Dragon Sight"
macroerror off
ac "Dragon Sight" <t>
ac "Dragon Sight" <mo>

[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.