Guild Wars 2

Hey just started playing GW2 and I’m having a tough time targeting, or getting to my target sometimes. Like sometimes Ill be trying to attack a mob and rather than just attck the guy closest it targets the guy standing a ways away, so you get whacked on a couple of times while I figure it out….lol.
In most other games it seems when you are close in fighting the game will help to compensate and keep you at proper relation to the target.
Particularly for melee.
Perhaps I am just really out of practice, it has been a while since I had any MMO action, played a boat load of the original GW, and a handful of others.
But I thought it might not hurt to ask for some advice, is there a particular set up trik, targeting commands perhaps ?
Something along the lines of melee attack the guy closest to you.
Thanks for your consideration.

You’ll likely be a lot better off once you disable auto-targeting. This will also help you avoid targeting everything in open world, including moas, deer, etc, as you’re running around and using abilities to move faster. If you turn of auto-targeting you can still use tab to select nearest target.

Ill check things out with Targeting switched off, see how I fare. I fear I may be just whining, and simply have to improve my control of the character ?
Anyways thanks.

I recommend binding ‘Select Nearest Target’ to an easily accessible key. That can help a great deal with properly targeting things in melee. I use a combination of tab (next target), my nearest target bind, and sometimes click targeting to make sure I get what I want.

It’s probably a combination of having to turn off auto-target and improving your control. Having select nearest target bound also helps.