Another Targeting Thread

[BlaiseLallaise]

There have been many threads about targeting, and each one points to a different aspect of it which needs review or alteration. I would like to touch on the fact that when someone casts a buff on me, either direct or aoe, if I am not targeting anything, I then target the caster. I find this mechanic completely pointless, as I did in FFXI, and rather irritating during behest. I turn on enemy only targeting during behest, as I'm sure many of you do, just so I can easily move from one mob to the next with little effort. Often times I'm engaged with one beast, which usually goes down quickly, then I turn to the next and start mashing my #1 skill only to see that I can't attack that target. I then find out that my target was placed on another player as I was being cast upon between mobs, so I have to cancel, cancel, cancel, then target my mob before another aoe buff can get to me and screw up my targeting again.

Now, to the suggestion. I would ask that at the very least, when I am in enemy only targeting mode, that I am unable to automatically target someone who is casting on me. I would much rather see that functionality removed completely, but there is probably some benefit to it that I am not seeing right now. Of course, maybe there is already some way to turn it off that I haven't found. If that's the case, please let me know.