Explosive Affix + Blizzard Default Enemy Plates

So I use addons but for enemy plates it’s the standard default UI and during Explosive week and when they spawn in M+ during regular trash there isn’t a nameplate showing for me to switch to and focus dps.

During a boss fight however on the same character the name plates show up, but during a pack of trash you just see the animation and are frantically clicking through a bunch of mobs trying desperately to get focus on it.

Doesn’t happen on all of my attempts which is the strangest thing and can’t figure out whats going on, the run in general I was having this issue with was diabolical and almost all of them were exploding and a warlock mentioned could melee sort them because he can’t target them.

Anyone else run into this problem or have any advice?

Enable always show enemy nameplates. If they’re set to display in combat only, orbs can spawn with no plate. This bug was introduced late in legion when they locked out some addon functionality on instance plates. (to stop weak aura abuse in raids or some such)

Put a tick in all the boxes in the UI settings for both names and nameplates too.

Thanks Raijin, I’m confident that was the reason as on my main it was checked but on this character in which I had the issues it was not.