The only real trick for targeting eyes is abusing the tab-targeting mechanic. If you position your character such that the thing you want to target is the closest monster in the top left quadrant of your screen and press tab, it'll almost always pick up what you want.

Dirty MA secrets 101.

I honestly do not know how some people play with tab targeting =\

A lot of times in an MA situation you need to be able to get targets as fast as possible. When you've got a clumped blob of four hitboxes in basically the same space at long range(wasp/wasp/stinger/whirlwindbitch) and you need to target the whirlwindbitch first, pretty much the only way to do it is sneak to the front and tab through or else hope you get lucky with a click. Waiting until they're separated out costs the raid too much DPS. Each second you don't have a target is about 3k damage down the tubes.

Edited for hyperbole

Hmmm...an edit in my post is needed, lol, CRITICAL SPELLING ERROR!!!

Suppose to look like this...

I do pretty much all my targetting with tab, I don't know how people click all their targets. Are you one of those people that clicks all their abilities and pivots around with wasd?

Edit: I was wondering.. :P

Had to correct my previous post. I only click a target when they are either far apart, or the only target there. I pivot with the mouse and only use A/D for strafing while I am actively looking, or use Q/E for strafing otherwise. I do not by ANY means turn without the mouse. I laugh at those people that I duel that turn with the keyboard =\

I just bound strafe to A and D. I can't think of any time when I'd want to use the turn keys (except for summoning I guess).

I'm thinking about shifting my movement keys over one key to the right (so instead of WASD, you'd have ESDF). With this setup, I wouldn't have to reposition my hand to type. I had tried this a while ago and it hurt my wrists a bit, but I guess I just need to stop being a pussy.

Well, you can also a macro that does /target Eye Tentacle. It's not perfect by any means, but it helps a bit. They really need to fix the hit box, though.

one of our priests uses the esdf keys, and seems to like it. I personally use the ijkl for movement, which helps me alot (as a lefty). 'esdf' and 'ijkl' both have an advantage over 'wasd' in that they both allow for more buttons too be pressed / bound (can't really use tab, caps, or shift for much). If I weren't so lazy I'd start a more formal "What's your keybindings?" thread. Unfortunately, I'm very lazy.

Back on track, does a /target macro pick up the closest one to you? I haven't used a /target macro since I ran buggy Strat Dead a year ago, but it seems like it could save you a second or so of EJ hyperboledps if that were the case.

/target ____ doesn't handle multi-word expressions well, and will instead just try to match the first word.

You need to use /script TargetByName("Eye Tentacle") or whatever for more reliable results.

In my experience "/target Eye Tentacle" will always target an Eye Tentacle if one is up and near you, otherwise it will target "Eye of C'Thun."

I'm pretty sure that TargetByName will use the same fuzzy name identification. So if you do /script TargetByName("Eye Tentacle") and no Eye Tentacles are up, it will target Eye of C'Thun.

It will, but the problem with /target is that if both are up, sometimes you'll get Eye of C'Thun even though there is an Eye Tentacle up. TargetByName does not have this problem. (I discovered this when creating my TargetByName("Twilight Prophet) CastSpellByName("Ambush(Rank #)") macro for ninja-tagging timed prophet spawns during my horrible CC rep grind :( )

You might also try a "smart tab target" macro that uses an if statement to see if you're already targeting an eye tentacle, then tabs if you're not.

/script if UnitName("target") ~= "Eye Tentacle" then TargetNearestEnemy(); end;

i thought i was the only person who ever used this method of tab targeting.

i don't put the target in the top left corner though, i generally just flick the mouse to the right so my target is furthest to the left on the screen and hit tab.

i have mastered this method

WTB MQ2 /target targeting. Out of all the stupid shit I could do with that program, this was the one I actually got the most use out of. It made it possible to type "/tar dest" instead of "/target an_aneuk_dest" if you had several mobs named "an aneuk" etc present. As an enchanter, it made my targeting about 1 zillion times quicker when dealing with multiple clumbed mobs.