Guild Wars 2

Why in the world does my character AIM and SHOOT at the Last target in front of him, EVEN if its out of range??
I can have 3-4 enemy ABOUT to hit me..and it will Aim 100 yards away..and MISS, to far, Not in range..
Talked to a few friends and they have the same problem, also..
I quit 3 years ago, and this is still happening.

You attack the target YOU have selected. Are you meaning to ask about to how to select the correct target?

You could just set a key for “Target closest”. Autotarget is probably never going to be reliable. Tab is marginally better.

if you cant handle tab targetting, try switching to the action cam and aim your gun yourself.

Autotarget will prioritze event mobs or the highest grade mob. Even if theyre not even on your screen. Autotarget is truly unreliable at the best of times

Auto-target is basically the game’s last resort to attempt to make your attacks useful if you didn’t select a target. It’s giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you do want to fire an attack in the direction you’re facing, because that’s the commands you’ve given it, and then it’s trying to find something in that direction that you might be trying to hit and providing feedback on the result.

There are numerous ways to select a target so that you’re attacking the right one instead of firing randomly and hoping the game will select a target around you and that it will be the one you wanted to hit.

Next Enemy (bound to Tab by default) will cycle through them in what the game considers order of priority, starting with bosses, then champions and on down to randoms.

Or you can bind Nearest Enemy to a key. I usually find that less useful because you’ll end up attacking some random mob behind you when a champion is right in front of you, but there are times it can be a useful option.

(There’s also other keybinding options like Previous Enemy, and targeting allies, as well as selecting the target someone else in your group has called out, but I think those are more situational.)

You can also click on any enemy, object etc. to make them your target. (I find this useful, especially when I want to hit an object, like a bomb or a barrier, which the game tends to consider lower priority but I might want to get rid of earlier.

Or you can switch to action camera mode and move the mouse to aim at whichever enemy you want to target. This might be the best for you since it’s the closest to what you’re already doing. Just point your character at the thing you want to attack and that will become their target.

Danikat.8537:

(There’s also other keybinding options like Previous Enemy, and targeting allies, as well as selecting the target someone else in your group has called out, but I think those are more situational.)

You can also call target while solo. I use that to mark a target I want to get back to later when I need to switch to a different target. I also use it to mark the highest priority target before engaging combat so I can easily select it in case I accidentally switch or any other issue that might come up. This is especially useful if you need to prioritize one mob out of a blob.

Love all the comments, but its STILL stupid that my Guns AIM at the target OUT of range, in the BACK of a group…
NOT the front person.. not 1 of the front persons, NOT 1 of the 5 persons in FRONT of the 1 OUT OF RANGE..

IF, it would HIT all those in front on its way to the person in BACK…I would love it.. but it dont.. aND THIS COULD BE FIX EASILY..CANT IT??
If I wanted to Aim out to the Archer shooting at me(who is HITTING me, as im NEVER out of his range when he shoots) I would rather Tab/T/… at HIM when I want to..but its the other 5 people in front of ME, that are in range…I would LIKE to hit..

Its so much fun..
Insted of picking CLOSE enemy..it selects Farthest, OUT OF RANGE..
I select the one I can hit..Kill it, and it JUMPS BACK to another OUT OF RANGE target..
This should of been fixed YEARS ago..

AT THE VERY LEAST…a target I CAN HIT..Why is it aiming OUT OF RANGE..

It’s a shame you don’t have any control over this at all.

This is like having AUTO POINT AND AUTO KILL/shoot..
You enter an area and anything in front of you is Chosen If enemy…AT RANGE, even if its not what you wish to shoot..
You get passed it, and see YOUR target, and you shoot behind you..yes it happens..

Throwing bombs? YES, throw them…would be NICE if the CURSOR/POINTER would be center of where Im looking, NOT where my cursor is/was…Which could be ANY PLACE ON THE SCREEN…
My Pistols?? NO..I wish them to shoot Mid range UNLESS I pick target.. Yes you can turn off AUTO FIRE…but IF you are forcing me to USE IT…I dont think I would AIM/SHOOT at something OUT OF RANGE..

If I had to choose…AT RANGE target or first to Shoot me..

Use action camera feels like you’re playing an FPS game..

it might help your “pistol-ing” probs