Am I targetting wrong or...?

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Hi, guys. Let me preface this by saying this is not a rant nor criticism about WoW at all. :hugs: I am genuinely wondering if I am simply not good at targetting and/or what I am doing wrong here. When I am, as an example, running a dungeon and a mob is pulled, I have a pretty difficult time targetting the NPC I’d like. This becomes incredibly disastrous when dealing with NPCs that are casting some thing I need to interrupt or when dealing with this weeks explosive affix as another example.

How do you target stuff personally? Do you have keep tapping keys to cycle through nameplates? Do you click on nameplates (I try to do this but nameplates get lost in the sheer amount of plates)?

My inability to master targetting is, as a DPS, really getting to me and hope for some good advice to help ease my badness. :wink:

Thank you all in advance who decide to post!
:grinning:

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Aye, it can be pretty tough, particularly in this current meta of big Mythic + pulls and casts that must be interrupted.

It doesn’t help that Blizzard keeps doing things like breaking Enemy Grid (an addon that made targeting trivial) and macros that target Fel Explosives by name.

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I just push tab until I get what I want. There might be addons that make it easier but I haven’t used any addons or felt that much of a need so far

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I click ob the explosive orb itself rather than the nameplate.

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I’ve definitely noticed a much harder time with targeting. Tab targeting seems to be kind of at random, and the changes they made to the name plates really don’t help.

Name plates used to be much larger, have your name, and were click-able. You also used to be able to set them so that they did not overlap. Targeting was much easier back then.

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You could try changing settings so that the nameplates stack above each other rather than overlapping. Pretty sure its a base game setting option.

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This. You can make them larger, too. It’s under Interface > Names, and you can select Stacking or Overlapping, choose which ones are shown, choose whether they’re shown all the time or just in combat, choose whether it includes pets and minions, and what size you want.

I usually have larger nameplates shown on my tanks, and on a healer I probably don’t have enemy nameplates enabled by default at all unless I know I need to throw an interrupt or something to help out. Makes it easier to select friendly players by their nameplates instead. :wink:

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I just stand in the fire and misdirect to the healer

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I typically tab target on my main as it is a shadow priest and can dot stuff up. However, I have noticed that tab targeting will not target an explosive orb in M+ and it sucks! I have to try to click on the orb, which is often hidden in the middle of the melee and I end up clicking on them instead. -_-

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I make sure their nameplates are always visible even if i’m not targetting them, make their nameplates stack vertically and just click ones that need to be interrupted.

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An incredibly agile, fast pinkey. That is how I target.

Try an addon like threat plates. I use that as well and if it is a huge mess of mobs, sometimes it can be easier to click directly on the threat bar and target that way.

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It’s a real problem in dungeons. I don’t think there is a perfect easy solution.

I mostly tab-target. But as a range player, sometimes I can’t figure out instantly who I just targetted – I didn’t notice a player name highlighted.

Since I don’t want to pull non-aggro mobs (wiping my group, and deserving to be kicked), I then try to use the mouse. But it is hard to SEE the mouse in the middle of a battle.

If I am just adding DPS, I just make sure the health bar of the mob has gone down. If it’s at 100%, it may be the wrong one. But if I’m trying to interrupt someone, sometimes I can’t target the right orb or NPC fast enough.

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Even though it is buggy and always has been and I know not too, I tab.

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I use this setting, however, sometimes it seems bars overlap anyway due to there not being enough space onscreen due to the pull-size.

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Back when I played between 2007 - 2011 I use to click on the enemy with the mouse pointer and click ALL my skills with the mouse pointer and I was pretty damn good. Problem with the mouse pointer is that it can be obstructed and annoying to get around an enemy in front of your target.

Now that I’m older I tab target and keybind my skills. Problem with the tab targeting is that it doesn’t pick hostile over non-hostile, close over far away enemies or enemy in range vs out of range. It is so freaking stupid. It targets what ever is in line with your character so if you tab a second to soon and the enemy in front of you is too far away to attack then it will still target that and you have to re-tab target. Needs to be more intelligent or at least allow the player to select how it should work.

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Haven’t really had that problem myself so can’t really help. A different camera angle could make more ‘room’ for the nameplates, especially if you aim away from non pulled trash.

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If they’d fix tab targeting we wouldn’t have such issues. But since I hit tab and target my grandmother five states away, it makes life real interesting.

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Though I have nothing nice to say about this particular problem, (reaping comes to mind :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:) I will say that even when you use stacking nameplates, you can’t actually click the nameplates themselves. You click the mob or tab target. Maybe it’s a Threat Plates issue, I don’t know. I probably should test it out more, but it seems as though, unless the nameplate is directly above the head of the mob I want to select, clicking on the nameplate does nothing. It’s basically forcing me to tab target, which, like a game of Whack-A-Mole, can have mixed results…

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tab aiming…always works well. When you don’t need it to lol. Don’t know how many times this got way more agro than I wanted.

I love it when are 2 mobs right in front of me and there is some RDPS no where near me. 1 close up is the active target. I want his close by friend to be next. Tab it and it picks the archer all the way out in left field gets selected?

Some help here maybe is look at macros. Have actions cast on mouseover if supported. Tab will still suck at times like it always does. But that can now be on mouse over so even if no properly selected by say tab that target if cursor on it gets it. Saves time on clicking them.

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I click on nameplates. If there is a mob you want to pay particular attention to, make it your focus target ahead of the pull.

edit: I have no idea how experienced you are in WoW so let me clarify. If you target something and type /focus into the chat box, it will create a unique name plate for that target until it dies or you leave or something.

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