Guild Wars 2

It’s worse than b4 the update and very confusing. My C key (mapped to target nearest) don’t work at all. Was doing invasion today, it was a nightmare.

I like the fact that it targets champs first now in those situations, as it was very hard to pick them out b4 among gazillion mobs that spawn around them, but the rest of the time the targeting sucks. I also don’t like the ground targeting system, never have. The ground fields that get locked onto your mouse if u want accuracy is an awfully cumbersome system and the the alternative, ur aoe’s just drop around you, which is terrible if the enemy is not near u and u end up wasting ur skills on cd.

Why can’t we have lock on target system like we had in gw1 and where it brought you automatically within range of the target for all your skills be it ranged or otherwise? It would resolve this targeting problem once and for all for everyone would it not? And more importantly, simplify the targeting system. Why does a targeting system need to be so complex anyway? Does it really make it better? I don’t think so.

All i can say, since the start of gw2, i’ve been struggling with it’s target system. I’m just can’t get a grip on it and it’s terribly annoying especially since this game encourages such a big group play. But this new system since the update just isn’t working very well. It makes the whole combat chaotic and clumsy and it’s a real shame as it could be great when combined with the mobility we have.

I’ve also always been confused by what the melee assistance option does. Been meaning to ask about it but keep forgetting. As far as i can tell it does nothing obvious to me. It certainly don’t bring me within target range, which is the thing i would have thought it should assist you with?

As for the melee target assist, it prevents you from walking through the enemy once you’re within range. As for the targeting system, I’ll let someone else comment on it.

Yes, the new targeting system is horrible. Even worse is they built in a priority system. If a Vet is behind a normal mob it continues to select the vet over, and over, and over. I have to use the other keybind JUST to select the mob I want.

I hate it!

Evan Lesh.3295:

The change to ‘Target Nearest’ was unintentional and actually didn’t even reliably use distance before. This was reported in the bug sub forum and has already been addressed. Thanks for the reports! You targeting will be back to normal soon!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Abhor-the-new-targeting-system/3060291

Khisanth.2948:

Evan Lesh.3295:

The change to ‘Target Nearest’ was unintentional and actually didn’t even reliably use distance before. This was reported in the bug sub forum and has already been addressed. Thanks for the reports! You targeting will be back to normal soon!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Abhor-the-new-targeting-system/3060291

Yea well the issue with “target nearest” is just one of the problems here. but it would certainly help a bit if at least that was restored.