Guild Wars 2

Lately it seems like I’m constantly dropping whatever I’m targeted on and suddenly targeting something else. I hit a skill, and find I’m either targeting nothing, or something other than what I was targeting seconds ago…

Is anyone else having this issue? Can anyone explain if something in the game has changed, or what I may be doing to cause this? It’s driving me insane.

Do you use auto targeting and/or target promotion? (Press F11 to bring up the options screen in game.)

Another possibility is you could be accidentally selecting targets when right-dragging the camera during movement.

Autotargeting is not selected (because it’s annoying when I use a shout, say, and my character decides to start autoattacking the nearest mob)

Promote skill target IS selected, but I don’t really know what that does. The tooltip says “Automatically promotes targets to lock targets when selected.” I don’t know what that means.

If you have Promote checked, then that’s about all you can do. It could be that you are accidentally “right-click targeting” with your mouse, but I think its also likely that the problem is due to an ANet bug which causes this kind of weird spurious target-switching that many people have noticed.

I have this annoying problem as well. I have yet to find a good fix for it, beyond what has been mentioned here.