Guild Wars 2

FIX TARGETING

First of all, please don’t move this to the Bugs forum, because this is not a bug. The targeting is working exactly as intended. The way it was designed to work however, is TERRIBLE. The bad targeting has plagued the game since release. There’s been dozens of posts about it, and zero replies from the devs. Not a single post of a dev simply coming forward and saying, “yep, it’s bad, we want to address this issue”

GW2’s targeting system is without a doubt the number one cause of death in the game. And it needs to be changed. It affects every area of the game, be it PvP, WvW or PVE. It affects every class equally as well. This needs to be changed. The targeting fails on every possible level:

• When you click to target, it often refuses to select the correct target (especially large bosses are a big problem, like selecting the Jungle Wurm, good luck with that.)
• When you target the closest target, it often doesn’t.
• When you TAB target, it often prioritizes the wrong target over a massive boss right in front of you. This is why so many people get into fights with Moas during the Claw of Jormag fight.

I do not understand the current implementation of the targeting system. Further more, I do not understand why it worked so well in Guild Wars 1, and yet works so terrible in Guild Wars 2. If you want to fix the classes, start by addressing the foundation of the game. Address targeting.

If we can get devs to respond to people Photobombing Marjory and Kasmeer, you’d think we could get at least one reply on the biggest problem in the entire game?

Since that last patch that addressed the tab targeting, it has been working for me to a satisfactory level. Of course, that is in compairison to pre-last patch tab targeting. I find I can actually use it now and it is working as I expect to work. For instance with the new LS when a champ pops up and I see a champ and I’m within AA range, I hit tab I have yet to see it fail in targeting the champ first. This is especially easy when I’m playing 1500 LB Ranger and champ farming. I also have not played GW1 so I can’t compare. Now, when I just hit a skill and it auto-targets for me sometimes it is hit or miss. Not sure why. Sometimes it’ll target the highest level creature within range, sometimes it’ll target just the closest target. Not sure why, but when I hit tab it auto goes to the highest level creature closest to me. YMMV.

Didn’t use to auto target when you hit a skill to the closest creature to your cursor or something like that? I’m not sure but I think I remember noticing that at some point or it could just be a false memory.