Properly weaving ogcd heals is more awkward than it should be.

[natis1]

Let's say you wish to ogcd heal a single target. In a <1 second window you need to perform 4 inputs. First targeting your ally, pressing the ogcd heal button, then targeting the monster, then using an offensive action. Especially for emergency healing on a non tank, especially on controller, this can turn into far too many inputs in a short time.

Keyboard players may have an easier time as the game allows you to skip 2 of these inputs with mouseover macros. So far I have found the optimal way to ogcd heal, for basically every job is to write the line /ac "ogcd heal" <mo> 15 times in a row and spam the macro button, capping the game at 60 fps for best results but I cannot imagine how one would even try to do this on controller and it also feels bad to intentionally run the game at a worse fps.

I don't personally consider the game's awkwardness around targetting allies to be enjoyable difficulty because what difficulty is there in something that can be more or less worked around with keyboard only macros. As for fixes. A fix that would help controller and keyboard players equally well would be if using a damage ability while targeting an ally automatically switched you to your previous non ally target. There are also fixes that would only help keyboard players (like making mouse over targeting work outside of macros).

[rewd]

A fix that would help controller and keyboard players equally well would be if using a damage ability while targeting an ally automatically switched you to your previous non ally target.

This already exists and is called soft target.

[Alice_Rivers]

Is there not a way on controller to scroll through or pick a target from the party list? I know on keyboard one of my most common acts is to target a party member, drop an oGCD, then Assist Target to whatever they're targeting to return to my dps.

[AmiableApkallu]

Let's say you wish to ogcd heal a single target. In a <1 second window you need to perform 4 inputs. First targeting your ally, pressing the ogcd heal button, then targeting the monster, then using an offensive action.

Do you actually have to do that all in under a second? I might be misremembering, but I thought we can do the following (assume a 2.5sec GCD):

1. T=0: Start casting ye olde nuke.
2. T>0: Target your ally.
3. T>0.5: Use/tap/press the oGCD.
4. T<2.5: Target a monster.

Point being, you can switch targets without canceling your cast, and the oGCD will "queue" in the 1sec before it can actually go off. This gives you almost 1.5sec to deal with the oGCD heal, and at least 1sec to go back to the monster.

A fix that would help controller and keyboard players equally well would be if using a damage ability while targeting an ally automatically switched you to your previous non ally target.

I second this. I'm well aware of soft targeting, but it's never quite gelled with me.

[natis1]

This already exists and is called soft target.

I believe soft targeting only works if you scroll or dpad down to the specific party member, not if you select them by clicking on them or using function keys etc (but I may be mistaken here and if I am wrong then soft targeting more or less does solve the problem.)

[Reimmi]

I'd like it if we had a global mouseover option for heals and stuff, like wow added recently
instead of having to use macros which historically are clunky to weave