Guild Wars 2

… prioritize enemies that are kittening attacking you over everything else.

My engineer just died because auto-targeting ignored the TWO enemies attacking me and shot at an enemy idly standing around and no, it was not closer to my character.

Agreed, +1. Every day problem with long range weapons.

I couldn’t agree more. Auto-targetting is…um…strange. It’ll often target objects over the mob standing a foot away beating you about the head. I don’t understand it at all.
if it wasn’t for the fact that I lose my target so often in GW2 (why?), I wouldn’t use auto-targetting at all.

I haven’t had auto target on since the game was launched, maybe you should turn it off.

Agreed! I actually like the auto-target system but losing your current target without doing anything and just using skills is frustrating. And auto-targetting non-aggresive mobs should also be avoided (i.e. using the Warrior’s GS no. 5 or the Ele’s Ride the Lightning). If I wanted to attack a non-aggresive mob then I would like to manually target it or at least add an option to auto-target non-aggresive mobs in the Options Menu.

Kashrlyyk.5364:

My engineer just died because auto-targeting ignored the TWO enemies attacking me and shot at an enemy idly standing around

Don’t engi bullets pierce?
Just maneuver yourself in front of the un-targeted mob and kill ’em both.

I find that in large group events my targeting will lose the thing next to me or that is hitting me or which is clearly the object of the entire event and randomly target some guy’s pet – frankly, I wish the guy and hit pet were culled but that’s another thing entirely – which is absolutely no threat and probably shouldn’t be tab targetable. I also notice that, when downed, my targeting picks something totally random (and often not even attacking me) to hit if I’m not careful. This has led to more deaths than rallies.

You guys are clearly talking about the cycling targets key. There is a completely separate keybind for ‘closest target’

Vitus Dance.4509:

Kashrlyyk.5364:

My engineer just died because auto-targeting ignored the TWO enemies attacking me and shot at an enemy idly standing around

Don’t engi bullets pierce?

Only if you trait for it. Though why anyone wouldn’t is a completely different question… I prefer the flamethrower personally, though the cone on that is surprisingly narrow.

They need to fix auto targeting.