Extremely useful info though, Thanks anyways. Sooooo terrible trying to fight groups of things or unlock large amounts of abyssea chests lol... targeting nightmare fuel.
It (/targetbnpc) might still not target the chests reliably. Due to it being a function to target battle targets. Not tried it yet. So not sure.
I swear they wait for me to start actually using or doing stuff before altering it 3 months later though.
I had never touched F8 more than a handful of times in my FFXI career until I started farming Job Points a few months back during double CP campaigns.
And quite ironically, what I was looking for ideally at the time was a targeting command that would only target mobs, that I could stick in as the first line of my pulling macro.
So that upon killing one mob, I just click pull macro on my pad and it goes
/targetmob
/wait whatever
/attackmob
/wait again
/petonmob
After that, run in and crack other macro off, with ready move. Mob dead or very nearly dead. Repeat until 1200 JP
Failing to find such a command to target just mobs I got into the habit of just tapping F8 after each kill. Then do the rest via pull macro.
And of course, they then proceeded to take away the functionality of the F8 key from me. lol