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Haruka · **04-23-2014, 05:32 PM**

Is there an easier way of targeting enemies using a keyboard and mouse? lol I'm stumped with it and I always seem to target non-aggroing enemies that join the fight making it harder for me.

Melkire · **04-23-2014, 05:43 PM**

What I've done, because I hate using Tab and Shift+Tab to cycle through targets:

1. Bought a USB mouse with a mousewheel additional buttons (Mouse4, Mouse5, etc.)

2. Keybound "Target Nearest Enemy" to Mouse3 (aka clicking down on the mousewheel).

3. Keybound "Cycle toÂ Next/Farther Target" and "Cycle to Previous/Nearer Target" to Mouse4 and Mouse5, respectively. Some games let you bind target-cycling toÂ Up and Down on the mousewheel; FFXIV is not one of these.

4.Â Use Mouse3 to target the nearest enemy and then cycle closer or fartherÂ away depending on which target I'm after.

5. Use the Rotate Camera command (by default, Mouse1 click-and-drag) to rotate the camera to exclude any targets I don't want to be able to cycle to,Â e.g. if there's an Aevis way in the distance that I don't want to accidentally Â target, IÂ tilt my camera so that it's no longerÂ visible on myÂ screen. Zooming in and out to exclude targets also helps; by default, Zoom is bound to Up/Down on the mousewheel.

FreelanceWizard · **04-23-2014, 06:09 PM**

So, on a mouse and keyboard, I play "FPS style" -- WASD are my movement keys, with A and D set to strafe instead of turn. I turn using click-drag with the right mouse button. As such, my "fastest" keys are the ones I can quickly reach with my left hand from the WASD cluster, and so I focus my binds to make those my most used keys. If you click abilities to activate them, your mileage may vary. Smile

With that in mind, here's my setup:

For targeting allies, I use the F keys and a focus target. F1-F8 targets the appropriate party member, and I have F bound to "target focus target" and Shift-F bound to "set focus target". Unless I need it for something else, my focus target is basically always the tank. When healing, that makes it easy to keep him up, and when DPSing, it helps me target his target. An example of when I'd focus something else is a boss fight where I'm tanking or DPSing, where knowing what the tank is on is far less important than being able to monitor and quickly get back on the boss. Smile

In the 8 person instances, I've also used focus target to keep an eye on a healer when I'm tanking.

For targeting enemies, I have T bound to "target of target", E bound to "target next enemy (nearest to farthest)", and Shift-E bound to "target previous enemy (nearest to farthest)". If the tank isn't marking, then, I use F to target him, then T to target his target. If he is marking, I'll use E and Shift-E to cycle targets to the correctly marked one. As Melkire notes, the target next/previous binds won't target anything you can't see, so you can limit the number of targets you have to cycle through by rotating your camera. Of course, for me, when there's enough targets that that's an issue, I'm usually AEing, and so then I'm targeting using E to find whatever mob in the melee has the highest health to be my AE target. Smile

Targeting Help using a Keyboard and Mouse?

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