Guild Wars 2

The Action Camera is pretty fantastic except on a couple skills. What makes it less effective than Auto Target at the moment is that single target skills such as Steal have a much smaller “hit box” than Auto Target. In a PvP fight with an enemy jumping around everywhere it can be difficult to line up a single target shot.

What would be great is to allow users to adjust the size of the Action Camera hit box. That way I could increase its size and not have to be quite as precise.

I’m not sure if I understand you correctly, but I think you’re talking about the fact that in action cam mode you have to be pointed almost directly at a target in order for some skills to hit it, even if you have the target selected. I’m frustrated by this too. I’m not against your idea but I’d like it for a start if skills would just fire on a selected target no matter which way you’re facing.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

I’m not sure if I understand you correctly, but I think you’re talking about the fact that in action cam mode you have to be pointed almost directly at a target in order for some skills to hit it, even if you have the target selected. I’m frustrated by this too. I’m not against your idea but I’d like it for a start if skills would just fire on a selected target no matter which way you’re facing.

Yes, the “hit box” which is the area that determines if the crosshairs are on target or not are fixed. With a lot of skills it doesn’t matter since they are AoE, self target or melee. The ranged single target skills are very unforgiving with the current system.

Holding target might help but could break other aspects of the Action Camera.