First of all, is there a macro like /target [dead] Spore? (Apparently, no.)
This quest is super fail:
every single Spore is tapped (herbalists farming the elementals)
if you kill them, most of them disappear underground (raid marker removed on death)
turns out it’s a major botting area to for herbalist / leveling DK characters
After some babyraging about the stupidity of it, I employed a “bot” myself (Water Elemental in aggressive stance) to clear it up. 7 bug, 6 bot reports and 50 minutes later, quest complete.
I guess Blizzard should remove option to hide nameplates. In retrospect I figure those big gray labels would have helped.
Edit: Beside Interface / Names / Enemy NPC, I can also recommend finishing absolutely every one of these melee, so that you precisely know where they are. Also, if you pull anything else, make sure to kite it away.
When I did this quest last week on an alt, about half of them were tapped at any time. The death animation increases the hitbox significantly for a split second, but the final dead pose is a very small sphere that you can’t click on if another mob is ontop of it. Definitely not a good quest
Thanks for the responses
Good to talk it out, however silly.
Must admit the frustration is a mind state thing - it all begins with Lurielle being protected by ice elementals immune to my school of damage, taking about five minutes to clear a path, casting untalented fireballs, arcane blasts and missiles. Better to undress, run in, suicide, corpse run. Sad
The same behavior is discussed on wowhead. The fix is relatively simple, global tap is available now. If nothing else, on the corpses.
Ultimately it boils down to the presence of 4+ bots at the location, exploiting dynamic respawns while running around and tapping everything without killing it.
