So last night I came back to retail after about 4 months just to see how different it is (some pets can heal? WTF?)Not going into everything, but what I would like some help with is to understand macro targeting.
What brought me to this was i was running from Org to Razor Hill. Yes i am trying to mimic what was, to what is. No FP’s that were not there, mailboxes, mounts…you get the picture. Anyways, as I was running past neutral snakes and little critters i wanted to shoot them. What i found was I had to specifically click them with the mouse.
Now i may be missing something, and the option may be in there somewhere, but got kinda used to Classic now.
So, I would like to target, whether neutral and / or enemy without a mouseover or pet.
Then either an Auto Shot or a specific shot command ie. Cobra Shot.
/Targetenemy does not recognize neutral. I may just be missing it altogether like I said, 'cause it can’t be this difficult.
Classic wrote as this.
#showtooltip
/cleartarget [dead]
/targetenemy [noharm]
/cast Arcane Shot (replaced in retail with Cobra Shot)
Retail won’t target that little bunny and let me put an arrow through it.
How would I write one for retail? I find quite a few that have the pet tied in, yet most seem to be mouseovers. Which has it’s applications, but not what I am looking for.
In retail, targetenemy will cycle through hostile units and critters are neutral and non-hostile. Neutral units that you have attacked will count as hostile, although something like a critter is dead in 1 shot. Not sure if you could have your pet taunt it to make it hostile first…
Thank you Tink 
Yes it seems as though it is just the new way. /targetenemy will pick up larger neutrals it seem though. Plainstriders, boars ect. I imagine it has to be due to the fact there are so many critters in retail. Not many in Classic to pull your targeting off. Beside people like their little battle pets (got yelled at in retail barrens the other night for killing a tiger cub) I reassured the person it would re-spawn. Besides they grow into the big ones that would kill us without thinking twice about it…
Back to Classic for me for awhile, not a huge fan of retail at the moment. It is just too over simplified for my taste. It gives me the ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ feeling. I think the final straw was I saw Hurricane bow in AH (don’t get me started on new AH) speed of 3.00? Then ALL bows 3.00!? What what what? why? I know I know hunter rotation blah blah blah, i am not going to be a top ranked player ever. I play for fun, a casual if you will.
To have Hurricane speed of 1.80, and have Improved Aspect of the Hawk proc? It is like a machine. Fun open world stuff, now just blended into what everything else is.
I would gladly accept more changes to Classic, because they were there from the beginning. Classic is not Vanilla, so why not include some added features. I’ll start with Transmog, does not affect gameplay, and these shoulders, my god these shoulders.!! Thanks again. LB
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