Grabco said:
Unfortunatley tab selecting does not allow a pally or shamman to be in melee combat and quickly target someone for healing or in the pallies case Hand of Freedom or Hand of Protection. But yeah when you are a hunter or lock and standing at range tabbing people works the best.
And when you are a healer, click casting on the unit frames works best, because you don't have to do
any targeting. I even click cast Arcane Intellect, Remove Curse and Dampen Magic on my mage, because I want every ability at my disposal right there, usable with the minimum possible effort.
I get the impression most twink healers don't even have a unit frames addon to show more than just their own party, and instead combine the plain awful default interface with dragging the out of party members onto the screen to see health bars (which also don't clearly display poisons or magic debuffs that can be removed).
With my focus pre set to an FC I don't even have to click cast, because the button I use to heal myself, is right next to the one for my focus, and casts the same set of spells.
And standing still to TAB select? Are you serious?
No hunter should ever be standing still. Hell, no /player/ should be standing still, unless it is necessary to cast a spell with a long cast time (and for a hunter autoshot doesn't require that, it needs something like the swing timer that comes with the quartz addon, so you can see when you need to /pause/ to let the auto-shots off.
You should be using you own movement to move the enemy to where you want them, whether this is leading them towards backup, zerg-herding (to one side of midfield to clear a path for an FC team), or continuing to move towards their FR while killing them, so you get there quicker.
On my shammy I know the point out of the door based on my average lag, at which to hit Q for ghostwolf, and all the turning points round obstacles, all the way to the enemy flag and out their door, that will get the enemy flag home in the shortest time possible, because getting that flag out of their base before they even pick yours up is a big advantage.
The split seconds you lose from doing anything inefficiently can be win or lose situations.
Like when someone is standing still to buff up just after they rez, and the enemy FC is already half way down your tunnel, then the few seconds they spent not moving could mean an enemy cap, thanks to a missed cast from them being just out of range, that could have slowed them enough to be taken down.