Guild Wars 2

For players that move with the mouse, and control the camera via right clicking. Please give us an option that disables it from targeting! We use the LEFT CLICK to target and the right click for Camera Control, we also hold down both buttons to move.

In PvP it is very common to lose your target in the fray because of the current ability to target with both left & right click. So a simple repositioning of the camera, or moving can cause us to lose target and is very frustrating.

Please just give us an option to Disable right click targeting. Or think about it at the very least.

Thank you in advance.

It appears that the right click doesn’t drop target as long as its not clicked on another player or “pet”. But as I said in a big chaotic Zerg this is often times impossible if you move with the mouse or look to move the camera. So just an option to disable it from targeting at all should fix the issue.

I was posting to tell you that I agree with you, Irishbrewed, but apparently that is forbidden.
Got an infraction for saying that I find the accidental targeting through right click extremly annoying
So I am affraid I have to disagree with you just so I can keep my posting privileges :p

I got the same infraction, so showing support towards a sugggestion is against the rules, cool.

Anyway, I definately agree, when youre panning camera around and accidently retarget someone it’s so unbelievibly annoying.

melkathi.5203:

I was posting to tell you that I agree with you, Irishbrewed, but apparently that is forbidden.
Got an infraction for saying that I find the accidental targeting through right click extremly annoying
So I am affraid I have to disagree with you just so I can keep my posting privileges :p

What? You got an infraction, for agreeing with me. Well what a bummer

Yeah I really think this could be a minor change that would really benefit pvp for a lot of people. Hope they take a gander at the thread.

Thanks for sticking your neck out there for me

Well at least we do know that someone at arenanet has read the thread

Though I also need to thank you. I hadn’t made the connection between right click and the annoying targeting. We had been wondering in ventrilo why only some of us had this very noticeable problem. Makes sense that it has to do with they way we control our character.

There is panel in options for game controls, if you don’t like them like this, change them, don’t ask Arenanet to change whole game. Why I never had a problem like yours in this game?

Ikcen.7518:

There is panel in options for game controls, if you don’t like them like this, change them, don’t ask Arenanet to change whole game. Why I never had a problem like yours in this game?

No this option is not currently in the game, I’m suggesting it would be nice to have that option for players who move with the mouse. I’m not requesting anything game changing, but currently moving the camera can cause you to switch targets. I would just like to target with a left click only so this doesn’t mistakenly happen. The characters and pets are rather larger from the current POV and there is very room for on screen open inventory in big battles thus confounding the problem.

Thanks for the reply

Ikcen.7518:

There is panel in options for game controls, if you don’t like them like this, change them, don’t ask Arenanet to change whole game. Why I never had a problem like yours in this game?

If you read the original post carefully, the request is to include an option to do this. The game control options do not allow you to fix this problem at the moment. If it was as easy as you make it out, people having the problem would have fixed it.

I was wondering why I had constant target loss. I’ve used right click to pan and double button to move for years. Thanks for explaining! And yes, I would -love- to have target change on left click only. Hitting tab a zillion times to get back to a target that isn’t ctrl-T’d is inefficient, and clicking the target while leaping around in combat is impractical especially as my mouse is my means of motion.