Razzak wrote: »

Please, feel free to correct me, as what I am about to say is based solely on my own observations.
You hit the opponent your cursor is focused on. Or closest to it. What is the tab on target used for, then? I've spent a lot of time focused on that particular aspect of combat during my fights, but I have to say I am still confused.
Let's look at a fight with two opponents. I tag one of them and find myself in a situation where both of them are directly in front of me. Sometimes I hit the one that is tagged and sometimes I hit the other one.
Is this just due to the very sensitive positioning system? Meaning I am actually closer to or more oriented towards one of them for 1 mm (P.S. How much is 1mm in Imperial system?)?
How do you focus one of the opponents during AOE fights? How do you switch between them? I am leveling a NB and trying to do as much of single target damage as possible, but many times it gets really confusing knowing who I am actually hitting.

I would appreciate your help in understanding this a bit more.

As @GnatB indicates, tab is supposed to let you focus a target. While tab is active, your attacks will hit that target only until it expires or you tab to another.

It can be useful in specifying the first one you wish to attack (such as openers), as the standard targeting does not always work as it should.

Case in point when my fireball went sideways killing a squirrel, as the game decided it was clearly a bigger threat to me than the Storm Atronach I was aiming at.

Regarding focus in AoE fights, you don't. Unless it's a target based AoE, tab will be meaningless. It's either point blank (you-centered), drop on ground (yellow circle/cone, or target specific (Meteor from MG, for instance)

In the last case, Tab will still work.

With AoE, given the target cap, you will rarely know who you are hitting, and I suspect it will rarely be who you want it to be.

GnatB wrote: »

When two targets overlap your crosshairs, you'll attack the one you're tab targeted on.

Or at least, that's how it's supposed to work, and as far as I've seen, it always has for me.

(Note: I play 1st person, so it feels much easier to actually have my crosshairs on what I'm trying to hit, as the crosshairs aren't off to the side.

@GnatB , I agree that it should be easier to target in first person. Personally, I still feel that the crosshairs are offset slightly for me.

I'd love to be able to sight in my character to my personal preference and potentially disable the crosshairs entirely (except to indicate stealth) or at least lessen the contrast.

Beyond that, if I'm not using Tab, what I'm pointed at should be what I'm aiming at.

Don't get be wrong, it's great that my skill hit the guy 30m away, but I'm a little more interested in the guy 1m away winding up his power attack.

Tab to specify and focus, field of vision otherwise, and let us sight in our personal 'kill zone.'

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

As @GnatB indicates, tab is supposed to let you focus a target. While tab is active, your attacks will hit that target only until it expires or you tab to another.

It can be useful in specifying the first one you wish to attack (such as openers), as the standard targeting does not always work as it should.

Case in point when my fireball went sideways killing a squirrel, as the game decided it was clearly a bigger threat to me than the Storm Atronach I was aiming at.

Curious. I'll admit I haven't played much recently, but I've yet to ever experience anything like that.

As far as I can remember, my attacks are *always* directed towards whatever I've got my crosshairs on. If I have a tab target, but my cross hairs are on something else, as expected, I'll hit that something else. If there are two overlapping enemies under my crosshairs, then I'll hit the one in front. Unless the one in back is tab targetted. Then I'll hit it.

Tab target is more of a preferred target, than a locked on target.

The tab targeting feature is purely visual. It just helps you keep an eye on and track a target if you want to. The target you're actually attacking is the one closest to your crosshairs highlighted in red.

Does Tab Targeting work for blocking/bashing/interrupting as well? I often find, when fighting a group of mobs, I aim the cursor at the one charging up a special, but I end up bashing the mob I had just been attacking rather than the one I aimed the cursor at.

I would think Tab Targeting would fix that, but it all usually happens way to fast to tab to the right guy, anyway.

My experience is that if you stay with the box of the tab targeted enemy your ranged attacks will always hit that character. You cannot tab target the mob and simply forget about him and have your damage hit them.

I figured the Tab Targeting system would have more of an application in PvP. In PvE, I just use the Mobs AI against them.

The real problem is that when there is a mob's corpse between you and your target, your character will often cast on the corpse rather than the mob. This needs to be fixed ASAP, it is incredibly annoying.