4 Expansions later and tab targeting is still bad.

[Tsukino]

Tab is simple once you understand how it functions.

It targets, in order, from left to right on your screen, in your field of view.

This is how it functioned in FFXI as well, and IMO this is vastly superior to closest target first, because you can easily manipulate it by rotating the camera. In a system where you only target the closest enemy first, if you want to target the fourth-closest enemy you have to hit Tab four times, but to target the same enemy in a system that goes left to right on screen, you can quickly throw the camera into position to where that enemy is directly to the leftmost side of the screen or the next target to the right of the current one.

I would normally agree with you but, the problem is "target nearest enemy" is broken and doesn't work half the time. It just picks something at random.

Next time, try putting this in your OP instead of just complaining that it's "bad" and not as good as WoW. Although I prefer left-to-right I agree it's definitely a problem if the game seems to have an option that doesn't actually function properly. It does seem like the best solution is to give everyone the ability to use a system that works for them, but that is pretty bad if it truly doesn't work as described.