Tab Targeting is a Broken?

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Tab targeting is not working correctly or is this some design to make the game more challenging?
I can have a npc or a player in pvp right in front of me and tab target will select a target out of range. Heck sometimes it will select something I most definitely do not want as a target. Sometimes the targeting will just randomly drop and pick something else up. Seems to happen often enough to be a serious problem. Someone could be in execute range and right there and the game will drop the target.

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Yes, as a melee class.

It can be very annoying. Especially when in PVP you have some one right in front of you and one attack will kill them…

But nope. my tab decides the dude standing 35 yards away is priority.

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The amount of accidental long-range tab targets I do is just absurd. Default UI needs a better target reticle so I can at least see what I’m attacking.

In WoW’s defense, FF14’s tab targeting is hot trash. Difference is the target reticle is pretty darn obvious what you’re attacking. Disregard the fact you have to tab 10 times to get the target you want.

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There is also a new Combat Target System you can check in the settings.

But it has its issues’ especially when you are surronded by Minor add’s and pets. its hard to use it sometimes.

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Tried it. It is not an improvement. Especially in pvp.

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Blizzard claimed that they fixed this a couple years ago, so I wouldn’t hold my breath for an actual fix anytime soon.

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Tab targeting has never fully worked in this game. Mob hitting my in the face? Let’s tab target and target the mob 30 yards away…

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Yea, it has its up’s and downs for sure.

Try Executing someone then a pet runs in front of you and ruin’s it :stuck_out_tongue:

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flight is gone too…we now glide…until
we deplete our blue dragon glider ballz…

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i like the new action targeting…
was never a fan of tab targeting…
now i turn toward something,
and i’m targeting it…
all they need to do now is give me
a stop auto-target button…so i can ignore
things that target me, unless i want to attack
that particular mob.

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tab targeting has NEVER worked correctly.

I’ve actually had a few instances where I tabbed to target and it selected a mob BEHIND me that I couldn’t even see.

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Fighting a warlock or DK with 10+ pets at once time is annoying.

Tabs onto a minion every time and makes the fighting impossible.

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that happens when the mob in back of you
has attacked you…or has agro’d on you…
i wish we could turn that off…
but the developers seem to think it’s
a sensible approach to agro and targeting.

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that’s a great example…also solvable by
allowing us to turn off the auto-target
function for which there is currently
no turn-off option…

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I like your outfit, i havent seen that since my main shammy in MoP.

Then i left her in the dust.

sigh… i do miss my shammy.

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Its not just tab targeting that sucks its also spam targeting will in fact target an out of combat mob and keep right on casting if you dont watch it. A lot of times I have seen in dungeons what tanks think is DPS pulling extra mobs on purpose when its actually just their target dying and their spam shot grabbing the next guy in range.

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Tab targeting in WoW is exciting. The randomness of it is designed to keep playing fresh and break up the monotony of scripted fights. Does your blood not race when you tab target that rat instead of the mob eating your face. Do you not look on in wonder at your pet/ minion running through packs of mobs to something you have tab targeted somewhere in the great beyond? Those things do not sound like something that is broken but more like a feature! sips coffee

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Tab targeting and hunter auto shots go back to the dawn of time. Like peas and carrots.

Let me shoot that next guy……….
Tab
Extra packs train starts running towards the group

Feign death.

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I generally solve this with a two pronged approach:

  1. Macro to use the old pre-Legion tab targeting scheme (what I wouldn’t give to have the original scheme back though…).
/console TargetNearestUseNew 0
  1. Separate tab targeting into Target Nearest and Target Next via the mousewheel down/up respectively (in my setup - choose whatever you want for yourself). Target Nearest is a godsend for melee vs. plain tab targeting.
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tab targeting is great for a tank. i used it as often as i can. at least as a tank i can’t mess up so bad i bring extra packs.

I feel bad for ranged lol