Guild Wars 2

The targeting system has been a blight on the game since release, but the Jungle Wurm magnifies the problem. That Wurm is really difficult to target. When you’re up close to the boss, it is nearly impossible to select him. And the boss has often recovered from his vulnerability, by the time I manage to select him. Tabbing through the enemies selects nothing but the champions surrounding him. The targeting cross-hair is simply too high up.

Please leave your comments about pressing T to target at the doorstep. That is a band-aid to a broken targeting system, that demands a fix.

What TTS does is we have everyone target the wurm when he spawns and is easy to see/click/tab. Then you simply do not target anything else. the only people that need to target other things are the clean up crews anyways.

Please leave your comments about pressing T to target at the doorstep. That is a band-aid to a broken targeting system, that demands a fix.

^ It’s right there in the opening post.

I always use the “Next Target” key since it selects the highest ranking enemy. If you don’t have “Take Target” bind, “Next Target” may help.

There should be an option in key binds with something like “Target Highest Level Enemy” which is done by the enemy rank, health, if it’s an important event target etc.

Yeah the target system annoys me sometimes because it goes into the direction i’m facing, and higher targets are first. The problem with the wurm is the position of the target generally being far from the direct direction i’m facing and not as high a priority as the sheer amount of champion husks that generally get in the way of it. They could possibly expand the zoom of the camera further out, like for the molten boss and jade maw in fractals, but I’m not sure whether the mobs that spawn will get in the way still. (but I think the champ husks would still get in the way)

Geekfox.4267:

I always use the “Next Target” key since it selects the highest ranking enemy. If you don’t have “Take Target” bind, “Next Target” may help.

The problem is that the highest ranking enemies are the champions around the Wurm. So you can press next target all you want, it will cycle through all the champions (of which there can be MANY). You’d think that the Great Jungle Wurm would have top priority, but for some reason it doesn’t.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Please leave your comments about pressing T to target at the doorstep. That is a band-aid to a broken targeting system, that demands a fix.

^ It’s right there in the opening post.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

(edited about 20 hours ago by Mad Queen Malafide.7512)

Only after you cheekily edited it to add that comment after the above (correct) suggestion was made, lol.

Though I see what you mean about the targeting system in general, unless and until changes to the targeting system are made, that’s what you should be doing to avoid the problem you described (e.g. wasting time trying to target during burn phases).

skullfaerie.7203:

Only after you cheekily edited it to add that comment after the above (correct) suggestion was made, lol.

Eh, no, it was already in the opening post. I edited it by accident, when trying to quote myself.

skullfaerie.7203:

Though I see what you mean about the targeting system in general, unless and until changes to the targeting system are made, that’s what you should be doing to avoid the problem you described (e.g. wasting time trying to target during burn phases).

I’m hoping that the targeting problems will get some extra attention by the devs, by mentioning the problems with this boss in particular. Also, the problem with the targeting cross-hair being too high, is specific to this boss.