Guild Wars 2

Dear ANet,

Having non-hostile Shouts turn on your auto-attack for no reason wasn’t a good idea when Guardians did it, because of its strong habit to make you facepull things. Why give it to us too, instead of fixing it on Guardians and leaving ours as they were?

Sincerely,
Warriors

To clarify, casting stuff like For Great Justice (or Retreat, in the case of Guardians) now acts like a hostile ability, and will autolock targets and cause you to attack them. When you’re casting it pre-fight or just to rebuff while out of combat – perhaps even avoiding combat – this can be quite a bane. There’s no point in it counting as hostile because it doesn’t impact enemies at all, and while it seems a little trivial to complain about, it is really, really obnoxious – especially with ranged weapons equipped. Mashing Esc won’t always cancel the auto-attack, and it’s kinda silly being forced to turn away from everything ever just to rebuff a boon habitually.