Guild Wars 2

I have never wanted to target a Ranger’s pet. I only want to target the ranger. The clickable pet is just more background noise that I have to sift through to actually find my target. Why would I even want to kill it? He just has another one. I could be far more efficient by just killing the ranger himself.

kaikalii.4198:

I have never wanted to target a Ranger’s pet. I only want to target the ranger. The clickable pet is just more background noise that I have to sift through to actually find my target. Why would I even want to kill it? He just has another one. I could be far more efficient by just killing the ranger himself.

Just make the game psychic so it knows what you want to target and handles it itself.

Doesn’t target change prioritize on the player after the update? Don’t remember.

Aaahhhhh Heeellll no

While it sounds odd to start with, you’ll very rarely find autotargeting useful in PvP. Use your camera and tab key well and you can target plenty fine, without accidentally going for the wrong things whenever you’ve not got anything in focus.
(You may not have autotargeting on, but it’s certainly a big reason why targeting Ranger pets would be an issue)

Both autotargeting and tab-targeting prioritise players (or Mesmer clones) over non-clone AI.
It’s probably worth binding a key to "Lock Autotarget" - which actually functions as a useful "cancel target" button. Hitting this key with a pet or other AI unit targeted, then tabbing with the Ranger in view, will set the player as your target.

Ranger pet is useful for some things… like epidemic, or stealthing off of it XD