It's been funny but enough is enough

[Avoidy]

I use cone. I was standing right next to something I wanted to target. I pressed tab. It locked onto an enemy behind it and to the left. I hit tab again. It targeted something behind it and slightly to the right. I angled the camera up so that the only thing on my screen was the enemy directly in front of me, and -- at last -- it targeted that enemy. Usually it's not this bad, but sometimes....
Oh, and we can't forget enemies with hitboxes that you can stand inside of, that become untargetable with Tab while you're inside of them. Great system.

[Hanayumi]

Is there a tab option to scroll thru the enimity list in order, id feel like that would be helpful for me at least.

[AmiableApkallu]

Is there a tab option to scroll thru the enimity list in order, id feel like that would be helpful for me at least.

There are separate keybinds: System Menu > Keybind > Targeting > Cycle Up/Down through Enmity List.

[Gemina]

From the outside looking in, it seems people would simply just like for tab to read their minds.

Even games with better targeting systems have their setbacks. It is physically impossible to move(tab) at the speed of thought. So best of luck with this.

[Edelgarde]

Yes please fix the goddamn thing.

[Shurrikhan]

From the outside looking in, it seems people would simply just like for tab to read their minds.

Even games with better targeting systems have their setbacks. It is physically impossible to move(tab) at the speed of thought. So best of luck with this.

"I'd like not to have to cycle through all available enemies for the off-chance than in a cycle or two more, it won't skip over, due to their leftward movement, the person I'm trying to target..." = "I want my tab-targeting system to read my mind. Direct neural link or bust!" ?

???

[Midareyukki]

"I want my tab-targeting system to read my mind. Direct neural link or bust!"

:| God no, I've seen enough SAO to know where this is going.

And well o: the issue is that the enemy list isn't a thing in PvP, so relying on it is a bit weird. But other games do at least have some more intuitive systems than the one SE has. Cycling through enemies will forever be a pain, but for some reason FF14's gets wonky fast.

As for dungeons... usually the stuff you need to target specifically is either really large or often detached from the main group. I'd say the worst case would be Dohn Mheg's frogs that you need to silence bc those are tiny. I don't much care for tab targetting there, and if I need to, there isn't that much to cycle through. It only ever becomes an issue when applying Bard DoTs as they move around xD

[Shurrikhan]

the issue is that the enemy list isn't a thing in PvP

Aye, which is weird, as with just small modifications (e.g., showing job icons) it could be wonderfully handy.

[Striker44]

It's actually very intuitive and reliable, just not in the way I think people expect (or in the way I expected, at least). I've played games where tab-targeting goes in order from closest to farthest, which made me very confused when that didn't seem to work as intended in FFXIV. Then I learned the FFXIV tab system goes left-to-right instead of close-to-far (and shift-tab goes right-to-left). As soon as I learned that, it's become much, much more sensible and useful to me.

[ASkellington]

It's actually very intuitive and reliable, just not in the way I think people expect (or in the way I expected, at least). I've played games where tab-targeting goes in order from closest to farthest, which made me very confused when that didn't seem to work as intended in FFXIV. Then I learned the FFXIV tab system goes left-to-right instead of close-to-far (and shift-tab goes right-to-left). As soon as I learned that, it's become much, much more sensible and useful to me.

Yeah but it still isn't what I want. I don't want a tab targeting system that goes from left to right. That isn't useful to me or wanted by me what so ever. I want a tab targeting system that goes from closest to farthest.