Tab Targeting

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Was just curious if anyone else has noticed the bizarre behavior of tab target since the start of Shadowlands. In groups it seems tab will completely ignore the multiple hostiles in your face and try to pick up something in the distance. This is most apparent and annoying in Torghast where I’ll be trying to tab to another target that’s currently punching me in the face and tab keeps cycling through non-hostile jars in the background.

Am I the only one or does this seem to be happening to others as well?

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it hasn’t worked the way i expected it to work since cataclysm

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If I remember correctly, tab targeting cycles through all mobs in the area and will try to avoid targeting any mob you have previously targeted.

Try this :
/cleartarget
/targetenemy [noexists][dead]

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Yes in fact the other day it seemed with similar behaviour as ALT TABBING, in the sence that it was just going through all the distant targets

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No, it feels like the move to SLs messed something up in tab targeting. Just yesterday I had a mob in my face that I tried to tab-target, and WoW instead targeted a mob to my left almost off screen.

It should always go first to the mob that’s up in your face, I would think.

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feels like it’s felt in bfa, didn’t notice anything new

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OMG. The amount of times in Ardenwald there is a hostile mob DIRECTLY in front of me and I TAB to target and fire an arrow and hit some freaking moth in the distance… ughhh haha.

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I hadn’t played melee in a while and was on a WW monk this weekend. I had to hit tab 15 times before it targeted the mob right in my face smacking me with a sword, 12 of those were out of melee range and included 2 that were in another room…

But its been bad for as long as I’ve been playing. Not as bad as some other games (I found ff14 10x worse), but still annoying.

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Agreed, I’ve always felt it should be based on proximity and prioritize enemies that are currently casting so you can get an interrupt off.

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it’s gotten worse every time they’ve tried to improve it

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This.

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Tab Targeting has never worked since Vanilla. You have to use a Macro to make it ‘target the closest mob’ because it sequentially cycles through all the mobs within certain reach.

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I just logged in to say “YES”, yes, I am having major issues with TAB targeting.

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Yep. In Bastion with new toons the other day, wife accidently got close and pulled one of the level 60 Foxes. I hit tab and through a taunt, planning to help fight the one mob and back up.

Instead I pulled one of the deer which aggro’d its friends and we all got swarmed. The deer are yellow, not aggressive…

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also having issues with it, i even went into keybinds to confirm tab targets nearest first and it does yet with things in my face the mob far off to the right or left or even a non agressive gets targeted first.

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im having deja vu.

i didnt notice it myself this time around but this subject comes back pretty much every xpack

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Yes. It should only cycle mobs within yards of you or the target if you’re already in combat. The fact they haven’t addressed this after what 8-9 expansions is a little silly. it does FEEL a little worse this xpac but I’m not sure if actually worse --or the leveling mobs are just a little more unforgiving to solo players this go’ round making it seem that way.

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Could you share the macro?

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Eatgrass already wrote it.

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It’s worse this expac. Sometimes, cycling through the mobs, it won’t even settle on the one I want and I just have to click it.

This is snarky game mechanics. The devs are having fun with their little joke.

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