Having read the posts about clickers and keybindings, I'm going to make a few changes to the way I play. I'm a reformed clicker by the way. Useful as they were, none of the posts I read address one of my most fundamental and irritating problems: Efficiently and quickly acquiring the right target.

Some examples: How do you target a sprinting rogue between a lod of fat taurens? How do you find the right mob to peel off when there are several warriors and you haven't bothered to spend time on assigning targets? Is there some magic way to identify untanked mobs? Why do I sometimes inexplicably lose my target in the middle of attacking? What's the most efficient way to switch between 2 or 3 mobs to try and hold aggro on all of them. I find that tab is utterly useless. It will never select the target right in front of my nose. When there are two mobs and I have one targetted, tab often irritatingly won't switch me to the other one. I have a macro to /target Blackwing Mage that only seems to work at fairly close range. When I see a mage at say 30 yards it will still target Legionnaires instead.

Am I just slow and cack handed and should have played more 'whack the mole' when I was little? I play a rogue, occasional priest and noob tank in case anyone is wondering about the mix of examples.

Tab Tab Tab Tab

Oops, tabbed past my target

Shift+Tab

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I *think* it was Wodin who posted (a long, long time ago) that Tab targetting seemed to work in quadrants in regards to your field of view with the nearest, left quadrant having the highest priority when Tabbing through targets. He mentioned that if you wanted to Tab-target something, it's best to readjust your camera so that target is in the bottom left quadrant of your field of view.

Edit - Correction: Furthest left quadrant, at around 9 o'clock.

Playing lots of Starcraft/Warcraft 3 will help you with your micro, I mean, targeting ability. Also, editing the config file to allow your tab targeting to select targets 41 (or more) yards ahead of you (best tweak ever) is also really handy for picking out people in crowds.

If your raid is taking the time to mark all the mobs with lucky charm symbols then I would suggest you use bananabar its a pretty useful mod. For instance lets say you want to attack the moon, it tells you the name of the moon mob, it also tells you how many people are targeting the moon, It has a similar function for hunters mark. You do not have to use ctraid to use this mod it works stand alone, it adds to the main tank window if you do use ctraid.



http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/a...s-ct_raid.html

"targetNearestDistance" = "41.000000"


Edit- List of config.wtf options.

Much appreciated.

After playing for 2 years, targeting can still be tricky. I find the on board <target previous enemy> functionality especially unreliable, particularly where there are several identically named mobs.

When I need to quickly obtain a fresh target I will try to capture it with my cursor at the same that I'm spamming the Tab key. Occasionally I get lucky and tab to the target before I could have successfully mouse clicked. Also, I've gotten quite good at quickly adjusting my facing in order to increase the likelihood of tabbing to the correct target.

There are actually two settings that control tab targetting behavior:

SET TargetNearestDistance "X"
SET TargetNearestDistanceRadius "X"

TargetNearestDistance controls the maximum distance from which targets are acquired in a 45 degree frontal cone.
TargetNearestDistanceRadius controls the maximum distance from which targets are acquired in a full 360 degree arc.

It seems to me that targets are picked from nearest to farthest first from those in the frontal cone and then from the full circle.

Keep in mind that the units for these settings do not correspond to yards. From a rough test it seems to me that 1.1 units ~= 1 yard. So 30 yards would be 33 units.

is it possible to make tab targeting target mobs behind you?

or some equivlency?

edit: i'm slow, nevermind

Forgive me if this has already been posted, but what do I need to edit specifically to allow tab to pickup targets at that range?
edit: Perhaps I should have read further down the topic. My bad.

Trying play with the "farclip" setting. That'll do what you want.