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[Memitaru]

I just started my aco and I'm trying to figure out what the best way to do targeting is. Is it the F2-F5 keys? Clicking the faces in the party list? Tab targeting?

[superhbman]

The idea with heal targetting is that you should minimise your reaction time.

Personally, I click the faces / HP bars in the party list (the click area is quite big). If you intend to use the party member selection keys, the healing spell hotkeys should be on a different hand. A gaming mouse would be ideal in this situation; you can either map the party member selection hotkeys on your keyboard and your healing spells on your gaming mouse or vice-versa (I haven't personally done this, but this method has been proven to be highly effective).

Tab-targetting is horrendously inefficient. Tab-targetting cycles through all available targets and you might not be able to select your desired target quickly enough.

Still, these 3 options aren't the only methods possible in the gaming world. My preferred method is mouse-over heal so I don't even need to select people to heal them. Alternatively, click on the person to heal them works wonders too. The idea is to reduce your reaction time as much as possible, and these 2 methods reduces reaction time by 1 click. Unfortunately, RO2 doesn't have these features.

Have fun healing.

[Memitaru]

Thanks! I was clicking faces but got to wondering if maybe there was some other way people were using. I feel like it'll be easier in dungeons than while training since I've also gotta help fight what my party is fighting during training.

[Owlsu]

I use F1-F5, I tried clicking the portrait pictures but found it sort of glitchy as sometimes it would click a monster behind the portrait rather than the person.

[superhbman]

Thanks! I was clicking faces but got to wondering if maybe there was some other way people were using. I feel like it'll be easier in dungeons than while training since I've also gotta help fight what my party is fighting during training.

Oh yea, if you use the 'assist' key while selecting a party member, you will then target the thing that your party member is currently targetting, making it convenient to attack the same monster as your party member. Conversely, select a monster and use the 'assist' key to target the thing that the monster is currently targetting, useful for healing the party member that the monster is currently attacking.

I use F1-F5, I tried clicking the portrait pictures but found it sort of glitchy as sometimes it would click a monster behind the portrait rather than the person.

Yea it happens, it's terrible. You will need to point the camera somewhere else so that the party member frame isn't in front of monsters. Make the camera face a wall or something. I would like this to be fixed.

[JohnSmiley69]

I use F1-F5, I tried clicking the portrait pictures but found it sort of glitchy as sometimes it would click a monster behind the portrait rather than the person.

I also use F1-F5 to select my party members, while using the mouse to click the skills I wish to use. I keep my thumb on the W key so I can move. You can easily change F1-F5 to 5 other keys if it makes it easier for you. I originally clicked on the portraits, but like Owlsu said, I also had issues and found the F1-F5 buttons faster and more accurate for me personally.

[Viiolent]

Just get a razer Naga elite. Probably the best thing I have ever bought for mmos. This mouse makes doing anything in this game so much easier. Took a bit to get used to, now I couldn't live without it. 12 keys right at your thumb.

Edited by Viiolent, 22 May 2013 - 05:33 AM.

[vonnegut]

Just get a razer Naga elite. Probably the best thing I have ever bought for mmos. This mouse makes doing anything in this game so much easier. Took a bit to get used to, now I couldn't live without it. 12 keys right at your thumb.

+5 billion. This changed my life. True story, kids.

Oh, in the interest of full disclosure, I got this like 3 days ago. Before that I was using F1-5 and I would click on the squares (faces go away for more than 5 people) for raids.

Edited by vonnegut, 22 May 2013 - 06:09 AM.

[Memitaru]

I was already ordering a gaming mouse for LoL so I'll have to fight a way that works well for healing too! Thanks for the assist tip, I didn't know about that.

[vonnegut]

F1-5, or redo all your hot keys in a formation that works best for you. Healing with the F1 keys work just fine, I wanted less movement in my left hand because I have mild osteoporosis in the wrist and the 12 keys were easier.

[Finraziel]

I prefer to just click on the party members on screen (the faces), if I'd use the hotkeys I'd probably just get confused about who's who and lose more time than I gain.
As for gaming hardware that helps, I have a logitech G27 mouse, not quite an mmo one but also has quite a few buttons, but it doesn't work well for me. The buttons on the G27 arent that well laid out though, maybe a naga would be better, but I find I'd rather just focus my mousehand on pointing where I need it to point and beside that only use left and right click.
I do have and use a logitech G13 though (gamingboard, or whatever you call them). It helps a lot, plenty of buttons to map all my skills too, a thumb joystick that allows me to manouver and still be able to select skills, and buttons next to the joystick that I currently use one of as shift to put even more stuff under the buttons beneath my main fingers of my left hand.

[SumPsychoChic]

You can also go to game settings and turn on the option to tab target to party members.

[Fold]

If you have a Naga, you can bind your party targetting directly on the mouse. I use this for RHDs and it's extremely effecient compared to clicking on frames that you can't even move.

For raids, I just drag my frames down near my water charges so I have everything compact in one area. Makes it extremely easy to target people and I can manage multiple things in a small area as opposed to looking all over my screen for bars.