4 Expansions later and tab targeting is still bad.

[Fhaerron]

I haven't played WoW in like 10 years and I remember its Tab targeting being even more basic than this. What exactly is the problem with it?

You have to like turn your camera to 'face' the mob.

In Shiva Savage for example, the earth mob I have to switch too, it's up but I can't tab target to it, I have to select it from the enmity list (or first turn my camera around, loosing time), then I can quickly rush to it.
Tab target here would be faster and that would be preferable because the earth mobs begins to cast rather quickly and you want to interrupt it in time.

[ErryK]

*laughs as a controller player* and people say keyboard gaming on pc is better well its not switching targets on controller is laughable easy and great

What an informative post that does absolutely nothing to advance the discussion.

[Macleod]

What an informative post that does absolutely nothing to advance the discussion.

Likewise...well done. Here, let me farm another post count, too!

[Nedkel]

You are having the problem because you dont know about the priority system this game has for tab targeting.
Basically what it does it priorities targets that your character is facing and are standing in front of your character face.
As long as npc is visible in your camera view and npc is placed next to your character face it will always target that npc instead of the npc you will have in the middle of your screen, to visualize it i made a couple of screenshots:





Once you understand it, it becomes your second nature and you wont have any problems with it. It is probably made that way for controller users, to make it easier for them because moving character around is way faster than camera on controller allowing for faster reaction times.

[GomJabbar]

I don't recall my SW:TOR or WoW experience being better, but I could be that used to it on FFXIV from playing it so much.

Could be that you got used to it. I started with WoW, and moved to SWTOR from beta until shortly after it went ftp. Then I moved to FFXIV and boy, the tab-targeting was honestly the biggest hurdle I had to overcome. Sooooo much more intuitive in SWTOR and WoW, which had very similar systems.

[Rufalus]

Have you ever tried hitting a specific target in a very kinetic swarm of players in pvp using a gamepad not a mouse?

I'm bummed that ranged phys dps has a tab target LB instead of ground targetting.

Hard to get your target on somebody in the middle of the pack and if they suddenly move then your line LB hits the wrong direction and misses most of the other people.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Targeting for me has always been a struggle. Especially in large mobs. I'm on console though, so its a bit different for us. I imagine our left-right dpad target switching is like what you are describing and it can get tetchy if you dont use target filtering. Theres a button combo you can program to only cycle through enemies (I think you can even program order of importance) but I haven't tried to attempt this as I'm set in my ways.

Some things to consider: the game gives you separate target filters for weapon drawn and weapon sheathed. This a nice feature for separating world map/instanced battles and just general interaction. For instance, when my weapon is drawn, I cannot target NPCs, Signs, Minions, or other interactive items. When it is put away, I can. You can even filter if you want to target other player characters or not. Other Alliance members or not.

Its not perfect by all means. I've noticed that if you can't see the name of the enemy above them, you cant target them--that's been my experience anyway. But these filters make my life easier, since I can't click.

[Dfess]

and mostly because I\\'m sure I\\'ve played way more of these type of games than you.

Bet /10char

[Dfess]

No. I have to disagree because you disagree ...and mostly because I'm sure I've played way more of these type of games than you, and for a longer amount of time. Otherwise, you'd know they all have tab targetting issues in one way or another.

I mean, you wanna talk smack? Put your money where your mouth is boi.

[Eli85]

If you're playing on PC and using tab to target, you're doing it wrong.