Area of Effect: Display Markers

[Tetsaru]

Holding the button brings up the AOE target, releasing it casts the spell.

If you have enough time to consider radius, you have enough time to hold the button.

That, or, if it's a move that hits everything surrounding you (like Blizzara), you could just hover your cursor/mouse over the spell's icon, and the AOE ring would show up then before you actually set it off. I've seen League of Legends do it that way for certain moves.

[Undrentide]

i really like this idea, i hope someone at SE reads and implements this

[Kerrigen]

I've been dreaming about this for ages and I hope the devs will consider adding something like this. Nicely put thread, wondeful idea.

[Doho]

i like this thread. a whole bunch

[Enma]

With some practice, or just a distance meter, you can solve the problem. What I care much is why the hell we have a cap on mobs that can be hit?! (You know that it's probably 8 or so)

[Hohenheim]

With some practice, or just a distance meter, you can solve the problem. What I care much is why the hell we have a cap on mobs that can be hit?! (You know that it's probably 8 or so)

wow thats not ok lol, they need to add the max amount of people that it will hit on the description.

[Elexia]

Most people figure out AoE ranges pretty quickly, at least all the good mages have. If this is implemented hopefully it's client side, otherwise in content that requires more than 3 mages it's going to be a visual mess.

[Psykotsu]

Most people figure out AoE ranges pretty quickly, at least all the good mages have. If this is implemented hopefully it's client side, otherwise in content that requires more than 3 mages it's going to be a visual mess.

It doesn't really take much to figure out AoE ranges on spells. Your "good" mages will just be casting spells quicker since they understand the range and the mages-in-training will take a little bit more time matching up the indicator for what they want their spells to hit.

It would definitely have to be client side. I don't think they wanna take anymore steps backwards.

[Hohenheim]

Most people figure out AoE ranges pretty quickly, at least all the good mages have. If this is implemented hopefully it's client side, otherwise in content that requires more than 3 mages it's going to be a visual mess.

That's very true, but at the same time this could really help new/old players in my opinion. I'm obviously not saying that the old players need this but it couldn't hurt if implemented properly this could add more substance to timed/precision attacks .

[Hulan]

This isn't a bad idea, and I certainly would not complain if it were added, but I'm afraid I must be the first to make the ever-cliche "that's too easy" argument. I won't say that this is something that should not be added ever, but for myself, I always took great pride in knowing exactly how wide my radius was without any visual indication (for the record, this refers to FFXI, I decided to change gears in XIV and play melee classes, but the principle is the same). It's just another one of these little things that separate a practiced mage and a new mage, and something experienced players can be proud of knowing.

As I said though, this isn't a bad suggestion outright, and it might do more good than harm.