targeting mobs

Hi all,

I am totally new to all this so I won't be actually doing this for a while, but I was wondering if there is some way to set up the game so it can recognize and use the symbols that a group leader can put on a mob. It would seem to be helpful say if you had two hunters, that the group leader could put a star on one mob and a skull on another, then when the hunter sends his pets, one could go to the star mob and the other go to the skull mob. Or, two different mages could sheep two mobs chosen by the group leader. Thanks -- JimJ

[Ualaa]

As far as I know, you cannot target by raid icon.

However, you can place a raid icon on any npc or on a friendly target.
If you wanted, you could set up:
- Skull = Hunter A Focus
- Square = Hunter B Focus

Basically need a mapped key, which sends a keybind to each hunter in succession (or a separate keybind per hunter).
And it places the raid icon and sets focus for that toon.

You could also easily create a set of mapped keys, where a specific hunter targets their focus, and then the other toons assist them.

Unfortunately, you cannot raid mark hostile players.
So this would be a PvE thing only.
But minus the raid symbols, you can focus and such fine.
You cannot see another players focus, but they can target the focus fine, and you can assist them.

Thanks

As an aside, Blizzard have specifically answered this question.

A blue poster replied that in Blizzards opinion it would make targetting selections in raids to easy to allow targetting via the raid/party symbols and so they have no plans to implement it. If I can find the Blue post, I'll link it in.