Flicker targeting of other players

I’m not sure if this is a bug, but I’ve noticed this odd thing over the last few days.

I’ll be flying around the Dragon Isles, and for a brief instant I’ll auto-target another player, and then stop targeting them. (I assumed I was losing target is because I’m flying out of range of them, but I started doing very quick turns where I shouldn’t be out of range, and the de-targeting still happens.)

But I have no idea why I’m targeting them in the first place. I’m not typing much of anything when flying around, mainly using the mouse.

Now, I think that this has only started since the Secrets of Azeroth event went live, but I don’t know that it’s related to that.

Any thoughts?

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are these friendly or enemy players?

I’ve been having this happen for at least a month now on all my characters. It was most noticeable when flying in to Tyrhold Reservoir towards the time rift NPCs, but it happens a lot in Valdrakken too.

For me at least, the targeting is so fast that I cannot even see who it actually is.

If it is enemy players or npcs, it may be caused by action targeting. Do you have that enabled?

I do not, have never enabled it in the past either.

It always seems to be friendly players. I couldn’t tell you if I have action targeting on, because… well, patch day.

Still happening in Valdrakken as of 10.1.7 today.

I’ve had this same issue for around a month now. Action targeting is off, and I’ve also wiped my WTF and Cache folder. Also tested turning off all my addons. ):