Guild Wars 2

I just started playing GW2 and I have noticed something that really bugs me. Is there no way to tell how much aggro you have on an enemy or when an enemy targets you? I have looked through the options over and over and I might just be missing something extremely obvious but I can’t find anything similar to showing the target of my target or an aggro display. Is the only thing that shows targeting the flash of the crossed swords that I have only noticed a handful of times? Again, a new player so I don’t know that much about the game, it’s just the only thing that is really bugging me about this game and I wanted to find out if there was some ui mechanic for the aggro system

wiki…http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro…

It needs citations so parts could be incorrect. There is no target of target, or an aggro ui, such as is found in other mmo’s. Whether or not they add this functionality in the future remains to be seen.

One thing is the crossed swords icon above their heads. That means aggro on you.

Gestankfaust.4216:

One thing is the crossed swords icon above their heads. That means aggro on you.

Or anyone in your party. So the surest way to know that the aggro is on you, is when the mob actually chases you instead of others around.

Yramrag.3026:

Gestankfaust.4216:

One thing is the crossed swords icon above their heads. That means aggro on you.

Or anyone in your party. So the surest way to know that the aggro is on you, is when the mob actually chases you instead of others around.

lol…sorry your post made me laugh. So simple, yet….

:D

Me and two other mesmers were attacking a champion harpy in WvW that was guarding a skill point. All of us were using Greatswords and for some reason the kitten thing had a thing for me. I didn’t think I was doing any more damage to it than the other two. Thankfully I could drop an Ice Wurm to distract it every minute so I could but some distance between me and it.

It’s pretty easy to tell for most mobs unless you never move. They have to face you to attack, same restriction as player attacks. If you move and they don’t turn with you then they are not targetting you. Of course this can be very difficult if you happen to be fighting an ooze.

Who is being targeted is also mostly irrelevant a majority of the time since most melee attacks will hit whoever is within the arc of the swing anyway. It doesn’t matter if you are targeted or not. For ranged you can tell from the path of the projectile but you shouldn’t be standing too close or in a line with someone else anyway. If you are standing in front of someone you will get hit by any projectiles meant for the person behind you.

killcannon.2576:

wiki…http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro…

It needs citations so parts could be incorrect. There is no target of target, or an aggro ui, such as is found in other mmo’s. Whether or not they add this functionality in the future remains to be seen.

a target’s target wont really work in this game since (as Khisanth.2948) anyone standing in the way of a projectile or within a swords reach will get hit, which mean you may not even hit the target you have, but could be hitting 5 others enemies instead (that can be used to your advatage, if you need to kill some mobs but keep in eye on others to remove boons for example when they get some on them (specailyl might or fury boons) you can target the ones that gets boons while just standing near others and hit them