Guild Wars 2

What’d be the point of fielding an army of minions or pets if you could simply tab target the player?
I’d say it’s working as intended.

Vitus Dance.4509:

What’d be the point of fielding an army of minions or pets if you could simply tab target the player?
I’d say it’s working as intended.

Hardly. Just as their megaserver system doesn’t really allow players the control they need to focus on a specified “channel” their targeting system leaves much to be desired, simply because every other mmo out there has the option in controls to never target pets.

Or standing in front of a champion GIANT I press tab and get a risen bull. Than a chicken. Than a grub.
Or how about pressing tab, pressing 1 and you suddenly get hit from behind because your focus target is 180 degrees behind you. Im not kidding. I dont even have a clue how I could attack it. Happened 3 times so far.
Tab targeting in mmorpgs never works 100% but in gw2 its really bad.

I don’t even know why can we target non-players by TAB anyway. Those are static or less of a problem, so there is time to kill them with AOE or target by Click.
Yeah, clicking in stacker mobs are so brilliant… totaly not working well

Solution:

Click on target with mouse.

Desired target is now selected. Done.

Ctrl+T also locks on target so if you lose it you can just hit T to get it back.

William, try to click in a zerg…
I can click a guy and an another one at 5 meter away gets selected. :o

If they would let us choose to not target neutrals or walls it would be a huge improvement. Minions and pets are hostile so we should be forced to cycle through them.

RoyalPredator.9163:

William, try to click in a zerg…
I can click a guy and an another one at 5 meter away gets selected. :o

ALSO, William needs to understand that for MANY the locked target(using the CTRL+T) gets dropped most times, so, still an issue. The targeting in this game is abysmal as are many other things in this game.

I will agree that the targeting system in this game is horrible. Targeting in the first Guild Wars was easy because you rarely had much stuff to target in the first place. But, in this game you have huge zerg WvW battles with tons of targets, and clicking on them isn’t always easy. I rarely ever clicked anything in the first Guild Wars, but in this game you almost have to click in some areas because the number of targets is too big to cycle through.

I actually have a comment on targeting in general. The targeting system at the moment imo is ok towards OP comment but the targeting of some spells specifically the rangers has to be looked at again. When playing my thief I tend to notice sometimes some ranger skills stay locked on me even when I’m in stealth. And when in HotM and practicing on the NPC sometimes my stealth doesn’t pop up when the one I had previously popped goes away. Just an observation I had when playing thief.

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Zoso.8279:

When playing my thief I tend to notice sometimes some ranger skills stay locked on me even when I’m in stealth.

That has nothing to do with acquiring a target. That has to do with the way channeled skills work. Channeled skills activated before you go into stealth will still track you while you are stealthed. I used to use this a lot on my ranger. Back when Rapid Fire had a really long activation time, I would use it right before a thief stealths. For the next several seconds, I knew exactly where the thief was because my arrows would track him.

You realize there is body blocking in GW2 right? Even if you target the necro, projectile attacks will pop on the first hitbox they contact, and the rules for melee attacks aren’t even clear but they certainly do not default to what you target either. Tab targeting is pretty much only useful for non-projectile range and gap closers.

nicknamenick.2437:

Me wanna target the necro:

Tab
> minion
Tab
> more minions
Tab
> turret (omg.. what)
Tab
> turret 2
Tab
> turret 3
Tab
> thief suddenly in your face (wow it did worked but i want the necro)
Tab
>God
Tab
>Mom
Tab
>Random rangers pet
Tab
>NECROOOOOOOOOO!! oh wait nvm i am already dead.

Prior something like this:

ALWAYS PLAYERS before pets/minions/all other crap..
And start with the nearest..
How hard can that be..

I’ve had this experience, but with a necro, a mesmer and a hunter. I eventually had to try mouse clicking on them (of course it was 3 against 1 so I think it was a fools errant to begin with :P ).

Illyasviel.4361:

Or standing in front of a champion GIANT I press tab and get a risen bull. Than a chicken. Than a grub.

Actually they’ve fixes that… Champions have priority… you probably already tabbed through the Champion though. So not a targetting system problem.