What cross eye person did they get to design this garbage. It always takes way to many clicks, for it to actualy target the ONE FRONT OF me. This game is such a joke. Fire these incompetent developers
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I’m pretty sure this used to work reasonably well when I first started playing the game. Not sure when exactly I noticed it getting less and less good at just hightlighting the mob just in front of you whacking you about the face whilst you’re frantically pressing tab cycling through every yellow mob within a hundred miles…
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Then add in the over the top effects. It’s a pain trying to attack things in dungeons when you are a melee
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Definitely noticed Tab targeting being worse. Was being whacked in the face by a Kuchong earlier during a Mantid Assault, and Tab decided to target a random Mantid I wasn’t in combat with instead…
I love tab targeting the urns in Torghast during a mass pull.
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They designed it in like 2004 
so quite understandable that it is bad.
Imo, try out some of the action combat games instead, Often vastly better overall compared to WoW.
You can just use stacking nameplates(or some ui addon that supports this) + mouseover macros and you’ll never ever use tab targeting.
I play Melee with Action Cam enable and on Full so this should be much easier for those of you that don’t.
The first target selected is the one closest and directly in front of you.
By repositioning your character and or the camera angle, more often than not, the target you want selected will be.
Now imagine doing this with Action Cam on Full. 
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you can bind tab targeting to mouse SCROLL up and down to go forward and back when you targeting something it is so much faster
i think tab works really well as a melee tbh. i feel like there is some logic to it, for example if i’m fighting a pack of mobs and one of them is casting, i usually tab to that one first. as a ranged where you’re standing still casting it’s probably better to click targets though.
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As a range DPS:
I am running to a rare, it is ahead and at 5%. Near it as a few passive yellow mobs. Rather than go for the hostile red mob, tab selects the passive yellow targets to its side. The rare is killed before I can get a hit on it and I am left looking stupid attacking a trash passive yellow mob.
Tab targetting just seems to love going for everything but the mob it should.
The 2004 Version worked perfectly. It was the redesign during Legion that turned it into the mess we have now. Not even the addon created to revert the change works anymore.
It literally doesn’t. I was just doing torghast as enhancement on my shaman. Standing with 2 mobs on me, I was going to tab target to interrupt the cast. Got a phylactery in target. Pressed tab again. Another one. Pressed tab again. Got another one.
Like, bruh. Those phylacteries are like 40m away from me. Those mobs are right in my face. Why would I ever want to target those phylacteries?
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Wow is the only mmorpg I play where you dont automatic target a mob hitting you. I hate playing melee because “you’r facing the wrong way” even when a mob is just slighly to a side. Auto facing a mob as a toggle would be great.
Tab really doesnt work and should be replaced
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tab targeting was always problematic since people have different expectations towards how it’s supposed to work. at this point they should just let you select which profile you want to use
I have occasionally not noticed tab target has moved elsewhere and my shiny hammer goes flying off to another pack. The other time I have issues is when you’re surrounded by mobs and you need a specific target, I just end up selecting it instead because tabbing through is a nightmare at that point.
Same , during bfa i could easily tab target inside +15 s without getting punished and now this just is not the same.
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I think it started working differently around WoD (but could have been sooner and I just didn’t notice).
I think it Vanilla it worked quite well. It may just be that the game world was simpler back then but now every zone is so densely populated that Tab has so many targets to choose from that it just can’t decide…
I personally never understood the appeal of tab targetting. I just click what I intend to hit. But I might be biased due to mostly played dot classes, so tab targetting is not too plausible when I need to refresh a dot on a specific target in a pack of 10. But even then, why would I cycle through every target to get to a specific one, and risk pressing tab one too many times, when I could simply reduce all that into one click… I just don’t get tab targetting in general.
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