Guild Wars 2

So in my preferences I set Ground Targeting to Instant and ticked the shiny new “snap to target” box that was supposed to FINALLY let me use AoE skills efficiently with the way I play.

Except, it doesn’t. Not exactly. Say I use the above settings and want to use Smite (Guardian Scepter 2) on target.

If I press 2 on the keyboard, it works like a charm. Instantly casts Smite on my current target and everything’s peachy.

But I don’t generally use the keyboard to use skills. I use the mouse. When I left-click on Smite on the skill bar, the skill is instantly cast… at my feet. As long as the cursor hovers over the skill bar, the game acts as if I don’t have a target selected, and that makes me a sad panda (or quaggan?).

To me this is a feature to turn ground targeted skill in to PBAoE.

Doug Whisper.2465:

To me this is a feature to turn ground targeted skill in to PBAoE.

It was never a problem to cast an AoE skill at your feet. This seems more like an oversight to me. Clicking on the skill and pressing the skill number key shouldn’t produce completely different results.

It sounds a bit attention-grabby, but I’d really like to hear an official response to this.

I’m sure this is an oversight by Anet. Like you, Ariurotl I use the mouse instead of the number keys to use the skill bar. Since there’s been a setting for “Fast with Range Indicator” setting for ground targeting, it makes no sense for them to duplicate it here. I’ve been wanting an option for this for years. Now that it’s available I STILL can’t use it. <sniffs, then dabs single tear>

I only just noticed this a couple of days ago.

Usually I use the keyboard with my left hand while moving with the mouse in my right, works fine and ground targeting is far easier in many cases. But sometimes I’ll click on 6-0 skills if I’m not moving and I realised I was casting at my feet.

I’d assumed I’d simply lost target on anything but that wasn’t the case, now I understand what’s going on.