Guild Wars 2

So I have a pretty simple question, how in the world do you handle RtL? People tend to use it as a mobility, not always a gap closer, so how do you do it given these restraints:

I almost feel the necessity to have on autotarget for dealing with slippery/stealth classes.

Auto target causes RtL to target someone and dash to them not where you’re pointing.

How do you quickly deselect targets fast enough to use it effectively?

You just answered your own question… but anyway, I just left click like a madman 2-5 times in my desired direction and use it.

There’s probably an easier way to reliably deselect a target but I haven’t figured out that one yet!

ronpierce.2760:

Auto target causes RtL to target someone and dash to them not where you’re pointing.

How do you quickly deselect targets fast enough to use it effectively?

In your case, you don’t
Otherwise: De-activate auto-target and left click in desired direction (‘till target isn’t locked anymore) and use skill

I move the mouse to the top of the screen, doubleclick, then RTL away.

teg.1340:

I move the mouse to the top of the screen, doubleclick, then RTL away.

I’ll have to try that. Currently I use the escape key to deselect and that is hard to work with the left hand with everything else the left hand is doing.

I alwasy have auto target off.

I only use hot keys to target. One for nearest enemy, one for next enemy, and one for previous enemy.

I had to turn auto targeting off just for playing DD ele. I also just bound a key for nearest enemy and found it much easier. When i had it on i often found myself running into something i didnt want to. If youre surrounded and need a quick getaway, slamming into someone or something randomly or not going the direction you want can get you killed. You’re better off just binding a key to nearest enemy, and you alredy have tab for next enemy, it just takes some getting used to. before i got used to auto target being off I rtl right off a cliff a few times while fighting. I bound it to C, i can just hit it with my thumb easily and not have to move my fingers off WASD. Also bound about face to the X key so after i jet away from them i can quickly turn around and run back into them and attack if i have to.

if you need autotarget just target something/someone out of rtl range in the wanted direction

tbh you`re way better off with auto target disabled, it`ll cause you more stress then anything, trust me

As for deselecting, this game you need RMB to turn about, camera etc, which I`ve generally got held down almost 100% of the time, which means when you press LMB dozens of times to deselect someone/thing, all you are doing is making your character walk forwards. (Bad Anet, BAD! grabs newspaper)

You could try mashing Escape key, but that also stops your cast, looting etc & finally drops your target, but because you are bashing Escape, it also stops you from moving where you were &/or stops whatever cast you are also trying to do afterwards.

wtb more binds for each of these things, would make life kitten loads more easier!