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I am very new to raiding and I am being asked to off-tank. When adds occur I am having extremely difficult time targeting with all the toons and other mobs around. The only way I ever target is by clicking on the mob, is there a different/better way? Without knowing the name of the add ahead of time, is there any way to quickly target in a raid? I am embarrassed to ask my guildees because I fear that this is a very noobish question, but alla always helps me out. So thanks a lot :)
When you are in group you can target a group member by double-clicking on their name at the top of your screen. I don't raid much, but assume you can target by double-clicking on the toon in the raid window.
I am referring to targeting an add mob...
I've never had much of an issue with this. You are in 3rd person camera, correct? It's rare that you should have difficulty click-targeting something when you are fully panned out in 3rd person view, especially if you have it oriented overhead. Dumb question maybe, but you'd be surprised how many tanks I've found who inexplicably play in first person view.
If you are really having problems you can try first-person tab-targeting. It's clumsy, but gets the job done. Using TAB to target cycles through all targetable objects in your camera view. If you have a lot of targetable objects in view (your raid mates, for example), wheel your vision in to first-person mode and run up to your intended target to that only they (or they and only one or two others) are in your view. One or two tabs and you should have your target and be able to pan back out to 3rd person.
If you are really having problems you can try first-person tab-targeting. It's clumsy, but gets the job done. Using TAB to target cycles through all targetable objects in your camera view. If you have a lot of targetable objects in view (your raid mates, for example), wheel your vision in to first-person mode and run up to your intended target to that only they (or they and only one or two others) are in your view. One or two tabs and you should have your target and be able to pan back out to 3rd person.
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I've never had much of an issue with this. You are in 3rd person camera, correct? It's rare that you should have difficulty click-targeting something when you are fully panned out in 3rd person view, especially if you have it oriented overhead. Dumb question maybe, but you'd be surprised how many tanks I've found who inexplicably play in first person view.
I often have this problem too, and this in normal grouping even. As soon as it gets a bit swarmy, I find it often hard to find the add mob.
Zooming in and out of 1p to 3rd view can be helpful, I'll try that approach.
I do use the 3rd person camera, but I don't typically have it directly overhead so I will have to try that more. When using the overhead camera do you have to turn off the auto adjust feature, where it will zoom in and out automatically when you move around? The tab command can help me too. Thanks Stugein.
I was thinking there could be some kind of command like "/target nearest" or something that I didn't know about. Is there anything like that or a macro I could make?
Well, you could type out the mob name. Like "/target goblin" will target the cloest mob to you with the name "goblin". There is no "/target nearest" or similar. You can /assist to target others' targets, but that doesn't help much off-tanking. Your best bet is to go bare minimum UI when raiding (turn off names, guilds, titles, cloaks, every extraneous distraction you can to reduce the number of obstacles to your being able to properly target.
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/target nearest would be F8. But it's the nearest to you regardless of whether you're facing it or not, and I don't know of a way to macro it.
when I off tank, I tend to go birds eye view, or expand my view so its large enough to see the entire battle. I also keep my raid box up and watch the health of those not supposed to get aggro. If I noticed one getting hit, I'll either tab around or hit F8 button. If you have group taunt you can use that as well.
How do you expand far enough to see the entire battle? Often times inside a dungeon you can't pull far enough away without hitting the ceiling.
In options I have my auto turn to mob attack toggled off so I can left click my mouse and turn my viewing without turning my person. Then I just scroll out, and manuever it so I can see. I've never had an issue in dungeons or raids. Last night we were working on Chardok and I had to offtank in a waterfall. I couldnt see a thing normal vision, so turned my view, scrolled out, and could watch the entire fight
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You might practice some of these ideas in a non-raid situation to get a little practice :)
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