How do you mark targets?Follow

Is it class/job only? I was in a couple dungeon instances where someone marked the targets to kill sequentially. It really helped distinguish which target to take out first.

Shift-M brings up the menu by default.

I'd be interested to know how to do this on PS3 in case I level MRD further.

Anyone know how that is done on the Playstation?

Could also setup a macro to mark a mob when you an ability on the mob kill two birds with one stone so to say. This way dps knows which mob you are hitting, wish more tanks did this.

You can also make macros that target based on the marks.

So you could use them for CC, put the X on something and then have a macro that just sleeps X.

My binds are usually 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, E, R, T, G, V, X since I use a split keyboard. For marking I took hotbar 6 (since I don't use it), bound the keys to 7 through = and the alt variants (so it's a full bar) and assigned 5 marks, 3 CC, and 2 ignores. I then hid the bar and shared it across classes so that I can mark with any class using those hotkeys.

To be fair, WoW doesn't have built in voice either.

In this day and age if I were running end game content I would expect any people joining my guilds group as a pickup to have all 3 major voice chat programs installed and setup.

Oh that's right they did add that, but it was so bad the player base never really used it and still don't.

Most people who join in won't end up speaking, but being able to quickly relay instructions during combat is pivotal to success in the end-game environments of most modern MMOs.

Since we haven't really seen or heard anything about end game in XIV there is no telling if real time communication is necessary. I am personally a fan of it as in my opinion it allows for more difficult encounters. However, you do raise a good point about accessibility with people who don't or can't speak the same language. With the much slower combat pace of XIV maybe it will be possible to still have interesting encounters without the need for fast communication. The mark system and <calls> are a good start towards allowing people to communicate non-verbally.

In FFXI, I recall running Salvage one time with an end game LS I was a part of for a short time. They did all of the communication through /p chat. After that, I didn't touch Salvage until until a friend in my LS asked me to fill a need for his group, and he had me set up Ventrillo to use at least for that run. It amazed me how much smoother things went with the voice chat. I didn't even say anything, though I tried (I didn't realize at the time that there was a push to talk key).

That is one of the key issues facing XIV voice chat, excluding people who can't speak english is bad enough, but excluding people who are on PS3 is even worse as they will be a sizable part of the population.