I noticed this week with the explosive affix that tab targeting either never targets the explosive orb or doesn’t put any priority to it like it used to.
Previous to this week I had no issues getting the orbs. Suddenly now when trying to target them its like I have to cycle through all targets multiple times to target an orb. As a melee DPS this is very inefficient and has caused orbs to go off for no reason as people are having issues targeting them in large group pulls.
Agreed 100%. This is happening everywhere. I can sit there with two mobs in front of me, and an orb, spam tab and not once will it target the orb. Clicking into the orb when multiple mobs are up is damn near impossible because, sometimes, they just do not respond to being selected. We already have to deal with cleave damage not impacting them, no way to /target macro them and now we have to manually click spam to try and select the orbs in time to down them… because targeting is screwed?
Sounds like a fail to me…
I hope they look into this its extremely frustrating in places like Junkyard and Motherlode with large packs of small mobs.
This is getting annoying. It’s a weird sort of difficulty to just throw into the middle of a season. One would think they’d be familiar with the issue, since it’s happened before. A checklist of some sort, perhaps? Quality control, testing, anything really. I assume the devs play the game they create, maybe they could try out this brand new feature that Blizzard introduced in, um, Legion, called mythic+?
If I had to guess it is not done on purpose as we can tab to the orb if there is exactly one mob up.
I’ve never had any issues before this week. Tabbing because you HAVE to single target is enough of a struggle for melee. Let’s not kill tab targeting altogether.
Just ran a 10 with my partner today and we had the exact same issues; it would even target out of range mobs for my partner and avoid the explosion entirely if tabbing.
The only way we could target them was clicking which can be hard if there are a lot of mobs in a pull.
Safe to say we are refusing to run keys this week due to this.
This has been a huge pain this week.
At times having the nameplate not stack and being hidden behind other mobs making it nearly unclickable.
My group got in the habit of moving the pull away from orbs to help target them.
Even then tab targetting worked when it was the only thing in our fov.
Hopefully this is a bug and it gets fixed or reverted before the next time explosive is up.
Having issues as well.
what makes it worse for me is I have an injury irl that prevents me from using kb/m so I have a rewasd profile that lets me play with my xbox controller. I have no issues making target scan work and even had little issues with explosives prior to this week, but now it’s almost a dead week for me. I have to put in significantly more effort targeting explosives.
would like to see a fix.
I’m having this issue too - a lot of trouble tab targetting orbs.
I don’t recall this being a problem during the last time we had the explosive affix.