Do the target markers have a meaning to them? Like, Fire is kill first and gun is slice droid, etc. If so, what is the system?

 

Thanks.

Do the target markers have a meaning to them? Like, Fire is kill first and gun is slice droid, etc. If so, what is the system?

 

Thanks.

 

No.

 

They are there for teams to make target calling easier. You will find that different groups have different meanings for the different icons.

In a warzone for most it means ignore them and run around chasing everyone else.

Call of mark healers means put a tag on them and ignore them apparently

not that I know off... I've seen bull's eye used a fair bit as "first kill" target and I like using lightning bolt for whirlwind cc target, but for the most part, everyone marks their own and just state that its their CC target or whatever. making it up as you go along.

I got on the habit of making target reticle first target as it's the target... lol. Just made sense to me.

In my guild, Fire and Target are usually used to mark who to kill and in what order, while Cog and Bolt usually mark CC.

 

Lightsaber and Gun usually mark targets specified for Melee vs Ranged DPS.

 

Even in my own guild there are inconsistencies. Whoever is leading the Op explains how they're using the symbols at the beginning and we go from there.

I HATE when players take it upon themselves to mark half the other team, like flame over Pyros, hilt over a Jugg etc.

I HATE when players take it upon themselves to mark half the other team, like flame over Pyros, hilt over a Jugg etc.

 

Yea, I hate knowing what's coming at me before they take their weapon/s out too.

 

/sarcasm

 

Does it break your immersion?

Edited January 4, 2013 by Ignicity

Yea, I hate knowing what's coming at me before they take their weapon/s out too.

 

/sarcasm

 

Does it break your immersion?

 

So *** do you use when there are multiple healers? which there usually is, you don't need symbols to tell the difference in ACs, all you do is cause people to waste time and target non priorities cause your too slow to pick up on the differences in ACs.

So *** do you use when there are multiple healers? which there usually is, you don't need symbols to tell the difference in ACs, all you do is cause people to waste time and target non priorities cause your too slow to pick up on the differences in ACs.

 

Personally, in WZ's I only ever mark the healers, and then announce my targets in the Ops channel.

 

But hey, if someone wants to mark every one of the opposition up and explain all their markings for the group, I don't have a problem.

 

But then again, I don't normally need an Icon to tell who's healing (it's for the ease and assistance of the team).

Edited January 4, 2013 by Ignicity

I HATE when players take it upon themselves to mark half the other team, like flame over Pyros, hilt over a Jugg etc.

 

^this

From what I seen people use target marks for different situations depending on what there doing pvp, ops raid or just group. I am a big pvp'er and mostly puggin it. I use target marks all the time. But the only thing I target mark is the healers, as they r the ones that should be killed first. I will leave a 1/4 health player I'm fighting if I see a target mark healer on my screen, I'm going after the target marked. It is annoying when others r beating on a tank, wile the healer stands next to the tank with a big target mark above there head and just sit back and heal, heal, heal.

 

I don't look at classes or names just the healing cast bar from most healer Is how I find my target to mark. So when others mark non-healer classes its so annoying. I'm beating on a target mark and there life is not going down then I realize that some n00b target marked a PT or Jugg. I always take the target mark off non-healer classes. Just my take on target marks for pvp.

 

On a side note I use the following target marks in order. Cross hairs first as its big and gold. 2nd would be star cause again little smaller then the cross hairs but main reason it's bright gold and can see well. These two alway go on sages/sorcs as they r my first targets. 3ed would be the shield, cause again big and blue. This going on op/sound, merc/mando. Next would be the coge, harder to see size wise and color compared to the others I said. From there it's random if a game has that many healers (witch I seen). The one that I don't use at all is the flame. Reason being at least for me is that it's red. Enemy's names all come up red. So the flame blends in well with there name and is harder to keep track off. Saber and lighting bolt r up in the air as the colors r easy to track the icons r skinnier than the others so again little harder to track.