Target NPC

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Hi everyone,

This is my first thread here so forgive me if it's in the wrong section. I've been a WoW player for a long time and have always enjoyed writing little macros to make life easier but I've never really been compelled (until now) to dive into addons.

I guess there really hasn't been a need to as the likes of Curse pretty much has everything we need for day to day playing. Or so I thought.... I won't waffle though. On to business.

We have an alt raid group banging through SoO flex and always seem to have a problem on Nazgrim. It's the add priority of course. A combination of dodging the ravagers, the yellow **** on the ground and trying to pick out those shamans is a real pain. I'm sure you all know the score :P

I started writing out a little macro to check for each add by name, target it and set a raid icon i.e.

/target [@Kor'kron Warshaman,nodead] Kor'kron Warshaman; SetRaidTarget("target", 8)

but ran out of characters to cover all the permutations of the adds that can spawn.

So now I've been looking at an addon as an alternative. I was devastated to discover that the one api function that would make this all possible for me, TargetUnit, is protected

I've seen mentions here and there regarding using a "secure frame" to achieve this but unfortunately I haven't been able to find a working example or any other references. Obviously I wouldn't expect any of you to write it out for me but unfortunately my ninja Google skills are letting me down on this occasion and would really appreciate a little direction. Has anyone seen this or something similar?

If you've taken the time to read this I hope you enjoyed the read and really appreciate any help you can offer

Edit: Sorry I forgot to mention. If this has been covered elsewhere on the forums and I've simply failed to find it, massive apologies.