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PVP Notebook: Tab Targeting
How many Rogue's out there are keyboard turners? mouse clickers? Put your hands down it doesn't matter... this week. I want to illustrate the benefits of tab targeting. Regardless of your ssytem of mobility with in the world... of warcraft tab targeting is something you need to consider working with. It has uses in PVP as well as PVE aspects of the game. In PVE it makes it extremely easy to cycle through a series of NPC's that are stacked on top of each other.
But I don't really care about the PVE aspect atm. I want to talk about PVP. As a competent Rogue playing in the arenas or even the world pvp scene you need to be able to switch targets quickly and switch back. Often times I will open up on the CC target with Sap Tab Target to the primary DPS target and cheapshot, build combo points and then tab target back to the CC target and Blind before passing CC off to my teamate. Sometimes its a matter of seconds before they break the sap and I have to target back and blind.
The only way to do this reliably each time is with tab targeting. Clicking your target you will miss click in the heat of battle and blind your DPS target wasting your cooldown. Sometimes I knowingly waste my combo points in PvP by tab targeting away from my primary and gouging the secondary. Just to give me a couple of seconds to drop another mutilate on primary.
The first time you try tab targeting if you have never before, you will find it takes a certain amount of practice to keep you from tab targeting past the target you want. This isn't a huge concern if there is only 2 but doing so in Alterac Valley with 20 other enemies near you will require you to click your target or force you through an agonizing tab target circle.
Of course I say tab targeting because thats the default key. You can bind to any key that fits the way you play. I personally have Tab bound to a mouse button on the side of my MX1000 mouse. A fun excersize is to fly on your mount, preferably elite and low to the ground and tab target. Hit stealth right as you fly up to an enemy and hit cheapshot before you land. I dont think there is anything more satisfying. :-)
But I don't really care about the PVE aspect atm. I want to talk about PVP. As a competent Rogue playing in the arenas or even the world pvp scene you need to be able to switch targets quickly and switch back. Often times I will open up on the CC target with Sap Tab Target to the primary DPS target and cheapshot, build combo points and then tab target back to the CC target and Blind before passing CC off to my teamate. Sometimes its a matter of seconds before they break the sap and I have to target back and blind.
The only way to do this reliably each time is with tab targeting. Clicking your target you will miss click in the heat of battle and blind your DPS target wasting your cooldown. Sometimes I knowingly waste my combo points in PvP by tab targeting away from my primary and gouging the secondary. Just to give me a couple of seconds to drop another mutilate on primary.
The first time you try tab targeting if you have never before, you will find it takes a certain amount of practice to keep you from tab targeting past the target you want. This isn't a huge concern if there is only 2 but doing so in Alterac Valley with 20 other enemies near you will require you to click your target or force you through an agonizing tab target circle.
Of course I say tab targeting because thats the default key. You can bind to any key that fits the way you play. I personally have Tab bound to a mouse button on the side of my MX1000 mouse. A fun excersize is to fly on your mount, preferably elite and low to the ground and tab target. Hit stealth right as you fly up to an enemy and hit cheapshot before you land. I dont think there is anything more satisfying. :-)
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posted by Cerias Shadows at 9/04/2007
Cerias Shadows
Zyk
Osiris
Khormid
5 Comments:
"The only way to do this reliably each time is with tab targeting."
Using a focus macro for blind is much more efficient!
This is very true. I like focus macros in princinple. However whenever I try to use one on my bar I end up just going back to a plain no macros approach. As a matter of fact I remove all buttons from my hotbar for pvp that contain macros of any sort. I cant prove it but the interface seems sluggish or I find myself with energy to burn and the inability to use mutilate. Wierd stuff like that that I cannot necessarily prove is caused by the macros but seems to disappear when I dont use them.
The other reason I specifically dont use a blind macro is that things often change for me during a fight and I find myself wanting to blind another target.
Granted I could probably learn to adapt it but for now it remains off my toolbar.
~CS
I'd take it you're back to mutilate-build?
Why? Will you link to armory for a peak?
I'd have to agree with anonymous, you should be using Focus. Try the addon Proximo for targeting folks in Arena. Or placing a /focus on your Sap macro and then Blind your focus with a macro that sets your current target to your focus if you don't already have one:
/focus [target=focus, noexists] [target=focus, dead]
/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Blind
I've found it useful to bind target-next and target-previous to shift-mousewheel. It leaves Tab open for other hotkeys I want close to hand, and cycling through targets feels more natural.
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