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In a unitframes addon such as Pitbull, xPerl, or Shadowed Unit Frames, you will have a lot more control over exactly where the target and the target of target window appear on your screen.

You can experiment a bit with checking who your friends are looking at. In the standard UI, the target of the target will be shown just to the left of the target window. Pick combat in the right hand menu and you’ll arrive at this screen. To set this up in WoW, press ESCape to get to the game menu, and then select Interface. There are also addons which quickly show you who has threat, intended to help tanks figure out when to taunt.īut keeping an eye on the target of your target is a solid, reliable, basic way to make sure that you have the information that you need. A boss mods addon might plaster a warning across your screen when you need to taunt, or highlight the players who are about to get nuked randomly.

In a game like WoW with huge numbers of available addons, there might be specific ones to make this easier in different situations. If you can see the debuffs on your target’s target, then you can attack the boss and taunt as soon as the debuff goes up on the current tank (ie. The debuff makes tanking very difficult (maybe it reduces tank threat, or increases the amount of damage that the tank takes) so a second tank must taunt as soon as it is applied.

A boss puts a debuff on the tank every X seconds.

If a healer can keep an eye on the boss’s target, they will know to start casting a heal as soon as the target switches from the tank.

A boss can cast a spell on a random member of the raid.

everyone else agrees to let one player pick a target and then will all switch to the same one.

Your group is using a main assist – i.e.

For example, if you are a tank and your mob switches target to someone else (a healer, maybe), you can quickly taunt them back.

You have some ability to control threat.

Keeping an eye on your target’s target will help in these sorts of situations: If you are soloing and don’t have a pet, it’s pretty much a given than anything you attack will be hitting you back.īut there are times when that won’t be the case. It is often useful to be able to check who your target in a MMO is attacking.