Guild Wars 2

I know this has been posted before because i posted in the last thread i saw about it, but it’s still not here and still hasn’t been mentioned.
The game needs a button to instantly deselect your current target. Escape serves this function but is contextual and will prefer to do things like cancel skills or close windows before deselecting the current target. Ground clicking is equally unreliable, especially in circumstances where the player model limit may come into play.

Whether i’m attempting to use a manually aimed Napalm ball to trigger a blast finisher, trying to use a bundle to hit a world object (at least two mini dungeons require this), or even just wanting to aim a ground target skill at the top of my screen, having a target selected is often an inconvenience. One that could well prove fatal (and has, in at least one case regarding those mini dungeons).

It can’t possibly detract from the game (except, i guess, in pvp situations where players have beaten an opponent who would have won if they could only drop target on command) and has the potential to ease a lot of headache in the upcoming content.
Can we please get a binding to deselect current target?

There is a hotkey setting called “Lock Autotarget”. I know the name doesnt make sense right…but it works. Go test it out in the heart of the mists. I found this out on these forums a long time ago.

Okamikazi.8652:

There is a hotkey setting called “Lock Autotarget”. I know the name doesnt make sense right…but it works. Go test it out in the heart of the mists. I found this out on these forums a long time ago.

he doesn’t want to lock his target… he wants to unlock and drop it.

Okamikazi.8652:

There is a hotkey setting called “Lock Autotarget”. I know the name doesnt make sense right…but it works. Go test it out in the heart of the mists. I found this out on these forums a long time ago.

I tried it out. It does work… after a fashion. It will fail to deselect every now and again, for no reason i can readily discern

well that’s unfortunate. I never had a problem with it.

Just double click somewhere on your screen.

‘Lock Autotarget’ Locks onto your target if you are holding it down. Once you depress the key, it removes the target.
If you tap it, it basically just deselects your target.

i’m finding that in the heat of combat, often it really doesn’t. As an engy, i need to occasionally select the boss in order to napalm blast, but the rest of the time it’s made a lot easier if i have them untargeted, so i can still throw nades or drop mortar shells at their feet (at the top of my screen) while having the camera almost totally top down in order to better see ground markers/other nearby.

I’m not sure if it’s just that i often need the key to work while i’m pressing other keys, and it doesn’t properly identify, or if it’s some other issue, but Lock Autotarget just doesn’t work well enough as a deselect key for my purposes.

This is an optional function right?

well over the week since posting this i’ve fairly heavily tested the ‘lock autotarget’ function as a drop target button, and it’s not reliable. at all. approx 33% of the time it will work as desired, another 33% it takes 3-5 key presses to get it to actually deselect my current target, and the final 1/3 of the time neither love nor money will make it drop my target and i have to resort to spam clicking around to unselect my target.

This was mostly tested in fractals, and high scale at that (40-50) and it’s just not viable in this function. Having to stop my rotation to wrangle with a keypress for 2-3 seconds is simply too inconveniencing.

Did HoT bring any new keybinds which could work in this regard?

Narrrz.7532:

well over the week since posting this i’ve fairly heavily tested the ‘lock autotarget’ function as a drop target button, and it’s not reliable. at all. approx 33% of the time it will work as desired, another 33% it takes 3-5 key presses to get it to actually deselect my current target, and the final 1/3 of the time neither love nor money will make it drop my target and i have to resort to spam clicking around to unselect my target.

This was mostly tested in fractals, and high scale at that (40-50) and it’s just not viable in this function. Having to stop my rotation to wrangle with a keypress for 2-3 seconds is simply too inconveniencing.

Did HoT bring any new keybinds which could work in this regard?

Odd. I have never had this happen with lock auto target. It’s always dropped targets 10/10 times. The only things wrong I could see is:

• Your keyboard keys are sticking, thus locking the target
• Lag causing keys to not register

What areas/actions are you trying to drop target on?

The only thing that may help you that came with HoT is action camera. Some people love it some people hate it.