Guild Wars 2

I’d like to see some better auto-targetting especially in pvp. Idk how many times auto target has decided to choose a turret or flesh golem instead of a player. I don’t mind it as much with Mesmers although I still think it could be improved somewhat there as well. I know you can click on a player and manually target them but it can be nearly impossible when you’re in a kiting situation. It’s like “no, i dont care about that turret, no game i dont care about that other turret, no game i dont care about that little golem thingy!”

As a side note it would help in pve as well. I’ve went to attack something directly in front of me and auto target selects something way off in the background. And of course as soon as that happens it pulls some mob from far away (which usually isn’t a big deal but still annoying).

I rather not “dumb down” the PvP experience for players who don’t keybind their “Nearest Target” key in Settings, or manually clicking/tabbing through a horde of flesh golems.
There’s a few things in this game that should be prioritized, like passive procs, boon cleanses, AI wrongfully targeting others, etc. but I never thought the auto targeting mechanic itself was an issue.
My 2 copper.

maybe you should just use manual targeting then?

i use ‘nearest target’ and ‘cycle target’ and it works out fine for me

I’ve turned it off too. The number of times I tried to fear somebody only for them to stealth and my fear to hit their pet or rock dog or whatever (so going on full cooldown instead of 5") is insane.