Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if it is something with my settings or if Guild Wars 2 insists on doing this, but I have a really hard time targeting Engineers, Thieves, and Rangers.

I don’t necessarily mean the Red Target Circle above their heads, but more the passive targeting where if you click someone, or just use a skill in their direction it’ll implicitly target them.

When going against Thieves, I usually have the target lose itself, which I suppose I understand because thieves go stealth all the time, but I can’t fathom why it goes stupid against Engineers and Rangers.

I’ll be fighting a Ranger, then all of a sudden I’m hitting their pet instead of them. Why? What is the logic? Is this supposed to happen? Am I supposed to accept the fact that my Asura is so dumb that he can’t tell that he should be targeting the Ranger instead of their pet? Does anyone else have this issue?

The same goes for Engineers when they bust out their turrets. All of a sudden, I’m hitting a healing or rocket turret. I originally clicked the Engineer and I want to be hitting them, not their turrets.

I’m not sure if I messed with my settings at some point, but this is really unnerving.

Does anyone else experience this?

Rangers have stealth on bow too.

I believe part of the problem used to be that right clicking with the mouse (typically used to turn the screen mid-combat by most people) would actually cause you to switch targets if you -right- clicked on something else while attempting to change your visual perspective.

However, they have since enabled a feature that allows you to disable that function (if you haven’t done so already). Just open up your preferences and make sure that the box that says “interact with right click” is disabled.

If it is disabled then there’s not much else to suggest from my end.

All those classes have access to stealth and you probably have autotargeting enabled. If your opponent goes into stealth, it drops target. Then, with autotarget enabled, you instantly switch targets and begin targeting turret, pet, or another player.