So I mean, I know I can’t be the only one who thinks the tab targeting in this game is broken. Few examples:
Why, in Torghast, if I tab target when I’m in combat with, I don’t know, 5 mobs, does tab target go to a Phylactery?
Why in a dungeon of any difficulty does tab target move off a hostile target to a yellow target? Why would it not prioritize mobs that actually want to kill you?
Why does tab target prefer to grab targets that are far away from you and pose less of a threat?
Such a fundamental feature yet seems completely broken to me
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Yeah but what about that sick anniversary mount
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someone mentioned earlier it makes snowballs
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Did you want to:
A) Target the mob who is literally right next to you
B) Target the mob who is not even fighting you
C) Target the mob two trash packs over who, if pulled, will bring the entire rest of the dungeon with them
Tab target chooses C most of the time. I don’t trust tab target.
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I find positioning is key. If the mobs are slightly off too far right or left then I’ll tab to something in the distance, which is a pain at the best of times.
Been getting better at checking my target before executing though. So that’s a plus I guess lol
Neither do I. Just now in Plaguefall before the first boss, we had literally 7-8 slimes on us and tab target chose a yellow mob 40 yards away
Was that not the mob you wanted to target? Sure those slimes may be stacking necrotic on your tank, but that critter was looking at you funny.
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You mean when I hit tab it’s supposed to target the hostile mob closest to me and not my grandmother five states away??
Yes, Blizz needs to fix it. lol
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/looks up from boredom
Does that include the knockback?
edit: I poked around on the internet and cannot find if it makes snowballs or not. It does fly though when it becomes available.
I know… we should make target selection RNG just like everything else.
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This has been broken for years and gets looked at every so often.
The best thing to do is get a handle on clicking your target when it really matters. I finally started training myself to do this. Not all the time mind you but when you cannot afford to make a mistake I click the bugger.
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Tab targetting has been broken for so long that its a meme already.
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I still suspect it was deliberately broken by the devs to try to foil bots.
There was a point somewhere, several years after I started playing in Cata and tab targeting worked mostly fine, that it suddenly broke for no reason.
After so many years without it being fixed, it has to be assumed at ths stage that it’s deliberate.
Probably yet another one out of the “nerf the game to stop the bots, and who cares what effect it has on the actual players” design manual, alongside all the nerfs to old raids.
It gets lip service every so often, but never gets “looked at” because the devs presumably think it’s “working as intended”.
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It never targets what I need it to. As a hunter, I have to be particularly careful of pulling additional mobs because it’ll always seem to target the mobs on the other end of the hallway.
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Interesting observation. Though why can’t they fix bots without breaking the game for paying players…
Protip: Tab targeting is prioritizes casters.
Let me explain it better in the following scenario:
There are three enemies in front of me in a straight line, the first two are melee, the third is a caster. As long as the caster is not casting, my tab will cycle through those 3 enemies as expected, starting from the closest, to the farthest, however, if the third one is casting, the tab targeting will target them first.
So what messes this up is sometimes there may be a npc in the background who you’re not engaged with who’s doing some casting animation while idle (i.e. the mushroom dudes at the start of plaguefall)… so as a result they may become a priority tab target.
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Oh dang this is the most accurate thread ever. I am so annoyed by Tab Targeting and I have to be super careful. How about Tab Target = enemy attacking me, or at the very least - the closest enemy.
On top of this, why doesn’t auto-attack automatically target something actively attacking me??? I get so sick of hearing my Worgen Hunter say “I need to Target something” when there is an enemy directly in my face hitting me.
It is working as intended. Tank tabs mob far away that pulls other mobs. Devs sit back and laugh while trying not to choke on nachos. Should be a video about this 
Since my arthritic pinky cannot reach the tab button while the rest of my fingers use the other buttons, I have stopped complaining about it.
But I do love to complain so let me complain for you: FIX THE DARNED TAB TARGET FUNCTION!!!
Also, when do we get ducks in the game?