Guild Wars 2

This is my biggest problem in PvP especially against turret engis and hunters. I keep attacking the AIs and it screws me up. Do you guys manually click on the person you want to target or do you have a key to use?

I usually just tab to whatever it is I’m going after, though some skills don’t actually require targeting a player like that. Some things, like mesmer sword auto attacks, cleave the area in front of you, so you can tap the key for it without actually having your enemy targeted.

You can ctrl + left click on an enemy (or ally) or assign a hotkey to ‘call target’ to get an aim icon and ‘take target’-target on someone or something, this is for your whole group how-ever and can get overcalled by other people, but can also come in handy for any reinforcements that came to help you. I usually manually click before my hotkey sometimes bugs out (I should likely reassign that at some point.)

If you’re afraid to mess with team targets you can either get used to manually clicking, tabbing through (fine vs Rangers, not so much vs Turret Engineers) and have something assigned for nearest target if you have keys to spare.

Like mentioned above; targetting without a target works for quite a lot of weapons/abilities, such as any melee-weapon will hit what’s infront of you (in and out of stealth) and certain abilities (such as an Engineer Rifle’s Blunderbluss) will hit targets in a decent cone infront of you. Even an Elementalist Fireball will explode in a decent radius damaging things infront of you if no target is taken. Something worth getting used to for quite a few classes (especially vs stealth users.)

In return Targetting a foe isn’t a fail-safe and projectiles will still hit whatever gets in their path first, though it often requires fast positioning from the enemy unless you’re in downed state. (Nothing like hiding behind someones pet to stomp Warriors or Engineers.)