SE, can you get rid of heal tagging?

[Professor_JoJo]

a broken mechanic is a broken mechanic and should not be accepted... If I were playing wow or any other mmo and repoted it to a GM i would see it fixed within a week. Not ignored like it is here.

I don't exactly believe it's broken, like a player previously stated, if you heal a player who has hate on a mob you tag that creature because a percentage of hate has been transferred to you, sometimes enough to pull agro.

[kronpas]

here's a good example... A group of RMTs goes around hitting people with regen and cure not to be nice but to guarantee when a particular monster spawns they tag that target. It's bad enough they exist but to start that to claim targets is insane. To claim a target any other way than to be the first to hit it, proves there are major flaws to the claiming mechanics. Enmity is one thing but to claim a target by healing is a broken mechanic. If you think otherwise this is obviously your first MMO, and you're obviously idiots.

Tagging doesnt mean much in this game, you can still claim full reward given enough dmg done on a tagged mob. So its a fair game: you heal it you tag whichever linked to it.

Its not automatically broken if it doesnt behave the way you want.

[Chewzer]

If FFXIV was supposed to be just like other MMOs, what would be the point of playing it?

Nothing is broken, it's exactly the way it's supposed to be.

[Jarlax]

Just don't think of it as the mob being tagged, it doesn't work the same way as it does in other games. The definition of broken is not working as intended, this is working how they intended. If you are saying you want apples to taste like oranges, then go buy oranges.

[SMNaCarbie]

OP, I get it and think others are just unclear. I've noticed this, it happens 2 different ways, 1 I believe is a bug the other isn't.
First is when an AOE is used to "gather" enemies. Every enemy hit is purple, I heal and it turns red. This is a bug. Whether the bug is it turned purple from the AoE or it got assigned to me, I'm not sure, but it should not happen like this. But it's not a big deal since everyone shares rewards.
Second is when it turns ORANGE, which means the enemy is attacking but has not been attacked. I heal and hate turns towards me. Because I did the first action that pulled hate, it turns red and I have technically tagged it. This is not a bug.
The thing is, you bring up other MMO's, but very few have the 3 stages of attraction, yellow, orange, red/purple, and instead just have 2, yellow to red/purple. I'm not sure if this orange stage is what you're talking about, but if it is, then that other player has not actually claimed the mob yet and you are by helping.

[Valiant]

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I have seen both orange and purple turn red... but only have seen this in areas where I'm 20+ levels higher than mobs being pulled. Now in alot of MMOs I have played I always have atleast 1-2 healer classes. I know healing pulls enmity but I never seen it claim mobs through enmity or have claim change through enmity, even with such a great variation in levels. Maybe orange to red through healing enmity may be working as intended but I can't see purple to red as working as intended. Aldo doesn't do this but cure 2 and regen has. Maybe I should have been clearer in the opening statement. Both orange and purple go red, but I have only seen this on my WHM and only in areas where mobs are 20+ levels lower than me.

[Nailkita]

I believe Orange does not mean you've tagged it.

Yellow Bar = I'm not aggrod at all
Orange Bar = Hey I'm attacking cause my buddies are attacking
Red = You got me.
Purple = Other guy got me first.

Orange != tagged, only red or purple, you may have its attention, but it hasn't been "claimed" yet.