EQ2 - targetting

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I've noticed a problem in targetting in EQ2 that seems so obvious that
I'm wondering what I'm missing.

I had a 66 enchanter in EQ1, and I recently decided to start down the
enchanter path in EQ2. I just got my first mez spell (Fascinate) and
tonite I had to do some serious mezzing, which was fun... far more fun
for me than doing DPS or healing.

However, I ran into a problem that I've noticed before in EQ2: when
dealing with "grouped" mobs, there doesn't seem to be any good way to
determine which mob you have targetted. Normally as an enchanter I
assist the tank and then use the "next NPC" key to get a mez target,
but since that key doesn't always work, you need to be able to see the
mob you've got targetted.

With grouped mobs, ALL of the mobs have their names show up circled,
and ALL of them have a targetting circle on the ground. I think that
your target may have a blinking name, but I was staring at my screen
very closely tonite, and I really couldn't see any difference. And it
seemed like the "next NPC" key wasn't working very well, so I was
reduced to "use mouse to click on mob and see if it's going down, if
so click on next mob".

I talked it over with other people in my group, some of whom were EQ1
veterans, and they agreed the targetting was a problem (although they
felt I was doing a decent job). Just wondering if there are any
tricks that other people have picked up to handle mezzing.

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Also if you look at your target window, it will tell you what is targeted.
To cycle through mobs, hit the TAB key.

Peter

"Ryan T" <ryan@dontemailme.ca> wrote in message
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> "murdocj" <murdocj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I've noticed a problem in targetting in EQ2 that seems so obvious that
> > I'm wondering what I'm missing.
> >
> > I had a 66 enchanter in EQ1, and I recently decided to start down the
> > enchanter path in EQ2. I just got my first mez spell (Fascinate) and
> > tonite I had to do some serious mezzing, which was fun... far more fun
> > for me than doing DPS or healing.
> >
> > However, I ran into a problem that I've noticed before in EQ2: when
> > dealing with "grouped" mobs, there doesn't seem to be any good way to
> > determine which mob you have targetted. Normally as an enchanter I
> > assist the tank and then use the "next NPC" key to get a mez target,
> > but since that key doesn't always work, you need to be able to see the
> > mob you've got targetted.
> >
> > With grouped mobs, ALL of the mobs have their names show up circled,
> > and ALL of them have a targetting circle on the ground. I think that
> > your target may have a blinking name, but I was staring at my screen
> > very closely tonite, and I really couldn't see any difference. And it
> > seemed like the "next NPC" key wasn't working very well, so I was
> > reduced to "use mouse to click on mob and see if it's going down, if
> > so click on next mob".
> >
> > I talked it over with other people in my group, some of whom were EQ1
> > veterans, and they agreed the targetting was a problem (although they
> > felt I was doing a decent job). Just wondering if there are any
> > tricks that other people have picked up to handle mezzing.
>
> Look around in the options, you should find an option for a target arrow
> there - it is off by default. I found that made things a bit easier for
me.
>
>

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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:58:03 -0500, "peter walker" <nospam@cox.net>
wrote:

>Also if you look at your target window, it will tell you what is targeted.
>To cycle through mobs, hit the TAB key.

Problem is lots of times you have two of the same type of mob so the
target window doesn't tell you anything, except for the health, which
can be useful to see if it's going down... in that case MT is on it.

I also find that mentally it just slows me down a bit to hit "next
npc", stare at the main screen for a moment, and then think "oh yeah,
I can't tell what's targetted, check the target window.

Oh yeah, I'm supposed to yell at you for top posting. Consider
yourself chastised.

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On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:16:39 GMT, murdocj <murdocj@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 06:39:59 -0500, "Ryan T" <ryan@dontemailme.ca>
>wrote:
>
>>"murdocj" <murdocj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:hd1ft0hg4kald6ljv6p6utjclhhbb4fdtb@4ax.com...
>>> I've noticed a problem in targetting in EQ2 that seems so obvious that
>>> I'm wondering what I'm missing.
>>>
>>> I had a 66 enchanter in EQ1, and I recently decided to start down the
>>> enchanter path in EQ2. I just got my first mez spell (Fascinate) and
>>> tonite I had to do some serious mezzing, which was fun... far more fun
>>> for me than doing DPS or healing.
>>>
>>> However, I ran into a problem that I've noticed before in EQ2: when
>>> dealing with "grouped" mobs, there doesn't seem to be any good way to
>>> determine which mob you have targetted. Normally as an enchanter I
>>> assist the tank and then use the "next NPC" key to get a mez target,
>>> but since that key doesn't always work, you need to be able to see the
>>> mob you've got targetted.
>>>
>>> With grouped mobs, ALL of the mobs have their names show up circled,
>>> and ALL of them have a targetting circle on the ground. I think that
>>> your target may have a blinking name, but I was staring at my screen
>>> very closely tonite, and I really couldn't see any difference. And it
>>> seemed like the "next NPC" key wasn't working very well, so I was
>>> reduced to "use mouse to click on mob and see if it's going down, if
>>> so click on next mob".
>>>
>>> I talked it over with other people in my group, some of whom were EQ1
>>> veterans, and they agreed the targetting was a problem (although they
>>> felt I was doing a decent job). Just wondering if there are any
>>> tricks that other people have picked up to handle mezzing.
>>
>>Look around in the options, you should find an option for a target arrow
>>there - it is off by default. I found that made things a bit easier for me.
>>
>
>Thanks for the tip. I was actually just thinking last nite after I
>stopped playing that I ought to check the options.

I checked the options and you are right, there are a ton of targetting
options... arrows, circles around names, targetting circle, glow, you
name it. I've experimented a little and think I have a combo that
works pretty well.

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If you target a PC you hit the creature his attacking. So, just target
the tank and you will hit whatever he is hitting.

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>
> And how does it help him to determine what mobs *not* to attack?
After
> all a chanter is for mezzing mobs not attacked by the MT...
>

I suppose you could argue that if you know which one the MT is
attacking you can not mez that one and move on to another...
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hbh3@sbcglobal-dot-net.no-spam.invalid (Lanfiir) wrote in
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>>
>> And how does it help him to determine what mobs *not* to attack?
>> After all a chanter is for mezzing mobs not attacked by the MT...
>
> I suppose you could argue that if you know which one the MT is
> attacking you can not mez that one and move on to another...
>

One problem, targetting the tank will not tell you which one he is
attacking, it will merely cause any offensive spells you cast to hit the
mob he is targetting. Now if you then /assist, you will be targetting the
one being attacked.

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Graeme Faelban <RichardRapier@netscape.net> writes:

> hbh3@sbcglobal-dot-net.no-spam.invalid (Lanfiir) wrote in
> news:AoACd.10808$wi2.6606@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com:
>
> >>
> >> And how does it help him to determine what mobs *not* to attack?
> >> After all a chanter is for mezzing mobs not attacked by the MT...
> >
> > I suppose you could argue that if you know which one the MT is
> > attacking you can not mez that one and move on to another...
> >
>
> One problem, targetting the tank will not tell you which one he is
> attacking, it will merely cause any offensive spells you cast to hit the
> mob he is targetting. Now if you then /assist, you will be targetting the
> one being attacked.

Targetting the tank (or any player) will highlight whatever his target
is, unless you've turned that off (or failed to turn it on, not sure
what the defaults are) in the targetting options.

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"Graeme Faelban" <RichardRapier@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> hbh3@sbcglobal-dot-net.no-spam.invalid (Lanfiir) wrote in
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>
> >>
> >> And how does it help him to determine what mobs *not* to attack?
> >> After all a chanter is for mezzing mobs not attacked by the MT...
> >
> > I suppose you could argue that if you know which one the MT is
> > attacking you can not mez that one and move on to another...
> >
>
> One problem, targetting the tank will not tell you which one he is
> attacking, it will merely cause any offensive spells you cast to hit the
> mob he is targetting. Now if you then /assist, you will be targetting the
> one being attacked.
>

Actually it does. The target of your target glows faintly blue (iirc) with a
blue arrow over their head. But only when grouped with the person.


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