So when running M+ as melee we can no longer tab into an explosive orb if there is more than 1 mob up. This is definitely different than the last time explosive was up. Please fix. This is TERRIBLY annoying.
Everyone is experiencing this. Unfortunately, no communication to fix it… Getting annoying these quirks going unaddressed.
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Agreed, i have gone through few M+ as of this week as a melee dps. It is quite frustrating in clearing up the explosive orb.
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Having the same issue. Tab targeting just alternates between mobs (even if there are only 2) and doesn’t target Explosive. Since macro’s don’t work, physically clicking the orb seems to be the only option.
Really hoping this isn’t a permanent change.
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And manually clicking the orb is next to impossible if there’s more than a couple mobs standing on top of it.
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Had a failed timer on ML 14 with azerokk. Orbs spawned inside his hitbox so I cannot click on them. Adds are nearby in view so tab targeting selects them instead of the orb. Orb goes off and we wipe.
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Day 3 and explosive is still bugged. Will we get any info on this?
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This is an utterly awful bug. Please tell me it’s not intended, Blizzard.
I don’t recall tabbing explosive orb before … you just have to get some nameplates on, and click on it and it’S gg
Still a fail, not a gg, when you have to get a third party add-on to make something organic work in game. 
You can still tab target to them, they just changed something with the priority list it seems. They probably did something to make it less reliable because people were likely using addons or weakauras to announce they had one selected, while spamming tab to find one. Some kind of “IF target name=Explosive Orb, THEN play sound and flash an icon on the screen”
So the people with addons for orbs screwed over those not using one (like me) who were just doing it by tab targeting ? Eh sure not surprising
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I know for a fact that they used to be tab targeted like any other mob, and would be in the cycle if you tabbed through everything. Now is different than it was pre-8.3. This is awful compared to before.
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This really needs some comment.
Is this a bug or did they gain the ability to LoS your tab key?
Player vs’ interface is bad.
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I think the change is likely deliberate or them experimenting. They did implement some kind of fix for orbs spawning in out of bounds areas, maybe that has something to do with the tab issue.
Then again, explosive weeks are almost like not even having an affix with how trained people are stomping them. On most runs(assuming better than average) you’re lucky to have even a couple go off at all. Maybe 1% of total damage taken, by the party, is from explosive orbs and that usually happens if you’re kiting the mini bosses with adds.
They might rework them to appear less often but have more health and do more damage or something. Guess we will have to wait for an official word from Blizzard on this whole issue/topic though.
Seems like they adjusted something, as the explosives once again get picked up through my tab-targeting rotations.
It’s not 100% but I’ll take 80-85% over the 0% I was experiencing prior.
It’s still pretty bad.
What it looks like is if you have any other mob in front of you it wont tab target. So in some cases you can point out from the pack and pick it up pretty easy.
But there are some bosses like the three witches in Waycrest where it gets extremely hard to find an angle where you’re pointing at the explosive and not also one of the witches.
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