New Target Ring Feedback

[Wyssahtyn]

Personally, I wouldn't mind a way to revert to the old, plainer one. The side arrows on the new one just add visual clutter in my opinion, and can even be misleading considering that they, and the main one in front, still show up on enemies where facing doesn't matter. Found myself spamming True North on the Red Girl boss in the third NieR raid when she gets big simply because I instinctively assumed "arrow means it's facing me, which means I need to use True North to hit positionals".

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yes, but some enemies with no positional still have mechanics that happen in the direction they are facing, and smaller enemies can be difficult to see.


I find these additions quite helpful.

[gilmorej]

I found it kind of distracting and annoying when I was talking to NPCs during the MSQ, but I'll eventually get used to it.

I wish the arrows on the flanks scaled down smaller than they do, so that even on human-sized NPCs they fit within the concentric circles that make up the target ring. That's what made it feel distracting for me because it just looks a bit messy... Anyway, that's just my opinion. I still think they're a good addition.

[Penthea]

I found it kind of distracting and annoying when I was talking to NPCs during the MSQ, but I'll eventually get used to it.

A simple solution would be to give players options on how it appears. The ability to turn it off on friendly targets or have it entirely off would be nice. I enjoy the new target ring but I would like if people had options to choose where it appears.

[Shougun]

For npcs I think it's a bit weird. Also for enemies that don't use positional some way to convey that might be nice. In general I think it's helpful information to convey, but I certainly wouldn't mind a few tweaks and or options.

[Wyssahtyn]

Yes, but some enemies with no positional still have mechanics that happen in the direction they are facing, and smaller enemies can be difficult to see.

I'm struggling to think of any smaller enemies with no positionals outside of like Eureka. Could you provide examples? Also even if they have directional facing mechanics, there are generally obvious visual tells anyway, like orbs or beams, no? I can't think of any oblique ones.

[wereotter]

It was a bit strange at first since in the new 24-man raid I thought the arrow was an incoming attack telegraph... but now I appreciate them existing, especially for Delubrum Reginae where I definitely know I don't want to be standing in front of the boss because conal tank busters.

[Sotaris]

Always someone who complain about these QoL. Can't make everyone happy I suppose.

[ReynTime]

I liked the addition.

I never actually needed it, but it's more useful than not.
At first I thought the arrow placement was there to help with positionals, but in the end it was just to make it easier to tell where the monster is facing in larger/busier fights.

It made me realise how it would be nice if positional actions had some kind of highlight for when you're in position for the additional effect, because sometimes I'm suspicious of the game not detecting my new position quick enough. Xenoblade DE did this with its positionals having a " ! " when you're in the right position against the monster and that being an offline game I never thought it needed that. But FFXIV with its server tick issues could use something like that.

[Brightamethyst]

I feel like this is one of those things that only seems weird and distracting because it's new and different, and in a few weeks we'll all be used to it and no one will even notice any more.