Guild Wars 2

This came up due to a discussion about Ride the Lightning, but I feel this is applicable to all gap closing skills be it Savage Leap, Lightning Leap, Swoop, etc.

In what situations is having gap closers affected by auto-targeting useful? The answer is simple, situations where the players has no target and wants to use a gap closer.

Now how often are there multiple enemy encounters? Very frequently. Does autotargeting sometimes result in the wrong target being chosen from the players perspective? Yes. Is this a big deal for most skills? Not always. Is this a big deal for gap closing skill? I think it always is, because not only is my skill on cooldown, but my positioning is now wrong, so it’s a double whammy.

Does the negative effect of an undesired auto-target warrant disassociating gap closing skills from the auto-target feature? I don’t know the answer for the majority of the playerbase, so we’ll see what people say in the thread, but for me and people I’ve discussed it with, it seems like a good idea to at least have another check box to unbind gap closers from auto-targeting.

just turn off auto-targeting? gg

Khezekiah Bellamy.5016:

just turn off auto-targeting? gg

I have it off because it bugs me. However, there are people who use it.

I would almost like to be able to set autotarget on a skill by skill basis though that might be overkill. Some abilities I’d like to autotarget while most I wouldn’t want that. If they make you not lose target when turning your camera that will help a lot.