Guild Wars 2

So I was in a middle of a fight, when enemy names suddenly turned yellow. I couldn’t target(both tabbing and clicking) them! It was annoying. In the pic attached, I can only target the enemy with a red name. It continued for like 3 mins were my target was locked on the warrior when I would’ve wanted to target someone else. So is this a bug or is there an ingame mechanic that does this?

I believe “Taunt” causes the yellow names. It may be just a delayed transition back to a red-name.

Which is buggy as kitten atm,it’s even going through evade window/block.It seems my character buggs the kitten out after taunt being applied and when it’s gone again,alot of times im unable to move for a split sec/unable to switch weaps/delay on weap use unable to switch target for a while after taunt is gone.Taunt is Buggy as kitten.

Taunt forces you to target the thing taunting you, so the yellow lines are skill effects that signal the fact that you can’t target are basically emphasis that you can’t target them (so don’t try). It’s a clarity thing.

If they were red, you’d want to try and target them, but would be unable to because of taunt. This would lead to a period of time where you aren’t being told you’re cc’d despite the fact that you are under a cc. It would be a lot more frustrating of an experience.

Taunt is what causes the yellow names. However, the taunt condition should only last a couple seconds at most. After that, all enemies should be red again.

I read in other threads on this forum that some spell interactions during taunt cause you to get stuck in that state, which is a bug. I don’t recall which.

divine faithborn.8365:

Taunt forces you to target the thing taunting you, so the yellow lines are skill effects that signal the fact that you can’t target are basically emphasis that you can’t target them (so don’t try). It’s a clarity thing.

If they were red, you’d want to try and target them, but would be unable to because of taunt. This would lead to a period of time where you aren’t being told you’re cc’d despite the fact that you are under a cc. It would be a lot more frustrating of an experience.

I see. Thanks for the clarification!

Exedore.6320:

Taunt is what causes the yellow names. However, the taunt condition should only last a couple seconds at most. After that, all enemies should be red again.

I read in other threads on this forum that some spell interactions during taunt cause you to get stuck in that state, which is a bug. I don’t recall which.

Yeah those names were yellow for a long time.

Yea i had the same on my revenant. I guess its a bug which happend to me after transferring/copying condis back to pet/ranger. I got stuck for 15 seconds in taunt without the taunt condi boon on me, just as in your screenshot. Needless to say i did not survive

Taunt effects get stuck if you are taunted while you have the resistance boon active.
Even after the resistance or taunt effects have ended it will normally bug out until the affected person dies at which point they are free to attack anyone again.
By your screenshot you have mallyx who has access to resistance and the warrior could easily have the taunt trait so I believe this is most likely what happened.

Ashkew.6584:

Yea i had the same on my revenant. I guess its a bug which happend to me after transferring/copying condis back to pet/ranger. I got stuck for 15 seconds in taunt without the taunt condi boon on me, just as in your screenshot. Needless to say i did not survive

^ That’s what i meant,ive had it happen multiple times where my char is just uncontrollable after taunt ends,cant switch targets,cant switch weaps,cant use skills.I dont play ranger so i dont know how or what,but something is wrong with taunt currently,it also goes through my evade window and is unblockable which it doesn’t say on the wiki page.

Thanks for the answers guyz! Hope they fix these bugs asap.