Quest Mobs not having their nameplates showing up

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Edit:
Just an update that I have observed while playing tonight…

If the quest is a straight up killing quest, the nameplates show up over the heads and I know who I need to kill.

If the quest is a pick up quest/drop quest from a mob, their names do not show up over their head. All of this is in the starting BE area…

I posted this in bugs forum but didn’t get any responses. Please forgive me if this has been addressed before but I have noticed that the mob nameplates are not showing up on some of the quests.

I.E. I have a quest to collect pelts from shadowmaw panthers. When I go to do the quests none of the shadowmaw panthers have their nameplate above them to show where they are. When I mouse over them, it doesn’t even indicate that it is for a quest. I haven’t played in a while so I don’t know if this is something new. This isn’t for all mobs as humanoids still have their nameplates over their head. I have tried Ctrl V has people have tried in game to have me do but that doesn’t work.

I just did the “Dealing with Zeb’Sora” quest in the Ghostlands and none of the mobs had their names over their head unless I selected them. Same with the Arcane Reavers. I disabled my add-ons but that didn’t help…reloaded the UI and that didn’t do anything.

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Default key to make nameplates available is V.
You might have accidentally hit it.
Check your ‘names’ options in interface options as well. Hope that fixes it!

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Hitting V doesn’t help because the nameplates show up on some quest mobs, just not on all of them. I’ve gone through all the options as well.

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Go with NPC Names, All NPCs. Quest target NPCs will still get highlighted healthbars and nameplates over the rest.

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That may be what I have to do, I just didn’t want the ones that weren’t quest mobs to have their names over their head.

Thanks.