If there are no monsters, or if it runs out of monsters, it moves to the next zone It’s more like a series of calculations and is really hard to describe.įirst it checks near you with two initial zones. How your character faces doesn’t matter, but your camera does. Type 2: ConeĮssentially this is a cone in front of your ‘camera’. This behavior of scanning is why some people claim that FFXIV does not have “tab targeting” or that the tab targeting algorithm is not good. The moment you have a target, any target (even yourself), it does a pure scan in that direction starting from that target, without depth used at all.

It’s once you have a target and want to “tab” to another target that this method gets a bit trickier. When you have nothing targeted, it does usually go to the nearest monster near you - imagine a circle around you. Do note that regardless of type, the calculation does require for the enemy to be visible on your screen. There are two types of distance calculations. It’s an option, though very few players use it since it costs 1 - 2 action slots. In Actions & Traits, General, you can allocate Target Back and Target Forward to your cross hotbar.

There is another way to tab target, if you don’t mind losing a button slot (or two). To go the opposite order, you would use the Auto-Run button (L1). To tab target, you would activate a cross hotbar (R2 or L2 or R2+L2) and while the cross hotbar is activated, you would use your Hotbar Switch button (R1). Filter targeting is covered later in this guide. The d-pad targeting is not the equivalent of “tab targeting”. That is known as “filter targeting” and works differently. Many players use the d-pad left/right to target enemies. This can lead to people believe that tab targeting, in the traditional sense of using distance, does not exist in FFXIV. This is not the default in FFXIV, and additionally there are many controller players who do not know how to actually “tab target”. “Tab targeting” traditionally is often thought as distance-based, where things near you are picked before things that are further away from you. On a keyboard, you can use Tab to go through enemies (and shift+tab to go back).

The term “tab target” comes from past MMOs where using the TAB key on the keyboard would be used to go through enemies to target - and FFXIV also has that. This is because you have to actually pick enemies to target your skills, unlike some other MMOs that require no specific targeting and are only using player direction. Final Fantasy XIV is known as a “Tab target” MMORPG.

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