Quote Originally Posted by Zaaku View Post
It is less about the time it takes to target a PT member and more along the lines of seeing the trauma victim's health bar on the right and being able to just click it. Even if it is only a tiny bit quicker it is much more accurate IMO and I can be confident that I will always select the target I need.

Going up and down on the thumb pad works too but if someone gets out of range or is otherwise ineligible for targeting it can throw off your count and you may come in over or short on your party list. It is doable but I'd personally just not rather risk it.
That can happen, but with a little time and practice, 2~3 mins tops, 99.9% of the time it won't, your reaction to the marker skipping a member of your party, which is plenty visible, is to not press "X" just like you clicking on a member and getting the "out of range message". It's not like it's an invisible cursor, it's a big yellow block. At most targeting any member takes 4 presses, I can press up/down 4 times pretty f'in fast. Let's be real here, if the .2 second delay from pressing up 4 times over pressing F5 is enough to get someone dead, then they were going to die anyway. Unless you've found a way to speed up casting?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post672648

Moving a mouse cursor you can still "miss" your intended target no one is perfect. Go head click on the 20 mobs surrounding your tank 5 times see how many different ones you can get w/o moving your mouse at all. Tabkey targeting through them isn't any better than my controller.