Guild Wars 2

My character is a charr warrior; I just hit 80, although I am only at the lvl 72 quest.

I NEVER want my character to initiate an attack automatically. It’s OK if there is a default target when I press a button, but it this random, spontaneous shooting at NPCs just creates mobs for me to cope with.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to the setting for this. Sometimes I switch from rifle to sword to avoid this, but I’d prefer carrying my rifle until I’m in close combat.

Help?

Ctrl right click your #1 skill. It is a toggle to auto attack or not. I had to turn it off to keep my warhorn/ call of the wild/ speedy buff from attacking the nearest mob.

Characters doesnt initiate an attack automatically even auto-attack is enabled. If you can be more specific i can help you.

I am also warrior and have the same issue that causes trouble while questing… If i have rifle in my hand, it sometimes starts to shoot the target that is automatically picked while i run past it. Does not matter if it is enemy or just peaceful animal. I have been lazy though and not yet tried to adjust the settings to avoid this: now i just switch to melee weapons while running hehe.

@rhodoc: You wrote:
> Characters doesnt initiate an attack automatically even auto-attack is enabled

That is contrary to my experience.

Just this morning, my character was in an area with lots of hostile NPCs. I was trying to be discreet and identify a target to engage that would draw in the fewest add-ons, when “boom!” my rifle fired, and would not stop firing. My fingers were nowhere near the keys.

Well in my whole Elementalist adventure, i didnt experience this issue. This might be releated specific weapon maybe or combinations of somthing.

I expereinced this the other night with my warrior while I had a rifle out. I thought it was auto-attack/carelessness on my part (might still be just that) but it could be a bug with the warrior+rifle combination.

Gas up the mystery machine and restock on Garmy snacks, we have a mystery to solve!

If you go into Options, it has a button to the effect of “Auto Select Target”. If you turn that off, even if you press the attack buttons, your shot will hit the ground and not target.

Just to clarify, what happened to me the other night was:

1. I had just found a rifle on my warrior, so I decided to swap to it to unlock the skills.
2. I equipped it and set up auto-attack on skill 1.
3. I clicked on a target in range.
4. I explicitly had to press 1 to start attcking.
5. As soon as the target was dead, my character automatically re-targeted another creature—one that was just standing around, idle—and proceeded to shoot it, too.
6. As soon as the new character died, it re-targeted and started shooting again. And again. And again.
7. It only stopped when I weapon-swapped.

I have never seen this behavior before and, while I chalked it up to user error at first, I’m beginning to question that.

I think the behaviour described by Fildydarie is the same as the sutck direction key. For example you turn left, release left key and you keep turning circles. The only solution is to press the left button again and you stop. This is as far as I know a bug. The thing happening to you is that the ‘1’ key is stuck so the game didn’t see you stopped pressing it. Beside weapon swapping, it should be enough to press 1 again to stop this. Off course feel free to file a bug report cause imo it is a bug that should be fixed one day.

I use swords 83% of the time, but I have noticed the ability I have set to auto attack will “get stuck”. The icon will continue to flash until I hit it again. It will then turn off. Perhaps this is occurring with your firearm auto attack skill? Next time this happens, keep an eye on your icon and see if it continues to “cast” after downing a mob. If so, just hit it again and it will turn off.

Fildydarie.1496:

Just to clarify, what happened to me the other night was:

1. I had just found a rifle on my warrior, so I decided to swap to it to unlock the skills.
2. I equipped it and set up auto-attack on skill 1.
3. I clicked on a target in range.
4. I explicitly had to press 1 to start attcking.
5. As soon as the target was dead, my character automatically re-targeted another creature—one that was just standing around, idle—and proceeded to shoot it, too.
6. As soon as the new character died, it re-targeted and started shooting again. And again. And again.
7. It only stopped when I weapon-swapped.

I have never seen this behavior before and, while I chalked it up to user error at first, I’m beginning to question that.

So you have a free bot?

Well, weird.

I’m not at home, so I can’t double-check the options, but there should be a “continue auto-attack when switching targets”. Turn that off.

There’s an option to stop auto-attack on target swap.

Stevoli.8795 writes:
       There’s an option to stop auto-attack on target swap.

Yes, I have that set. But no joy. Zanier yet, there was no initial attack — I was trying to be discreet and not draw attention when the dad-gum rifle started firing on its own.

Prophet.6954 write:
    If you go into Options, it has a button to the effect of “Auto Select Target”. If you turn that off, even if you press the attack buttons, your shot will hit the ground and not target.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that checkbox is clear on my options, and has been for some time.

So the search goes on. :-)

Hm it would appear that the rifles have been cursed.. it’s something fairly recent, no? I don’t recall it happening on my engineer when I played it a while ago. Could technically be some kind of exotic bug.

Ticee.2451 writes:
    Hm it would appear that the rifles have been cursed.

I can verify that I curse them roundly when they get me in trouble with their spontaneous discharge.

Setch.2398 writes:

    Ctrl right click your #1 skill. It is a toggle to auto attack or not. I had to turn it off to keep my warhorn/ call of the wild/ speedy buff from attacking the nearest mob.

We have a winner! THANK YOU!!!