Guild Wars 2

Ride the Lightning works very poorly with Autotargetting.
-If I have autotargetting on and use Ride the Lightning with no target and no target infront of me sometimes it will work, other times it will target some mob way off to the left/right and send me hurdling off a cliff to my death.
-Using Ride the Lightning as a proper escape tool cannot be done with reliability with autotargetting, because if you latch on to something you aren’t going to go in the right direction or for the full 1200 range.

I like autotargetting. It’s a great feature, but I can’t use it because it completely ruins Ride the Lightning as a general use skill, a mobility skill, and/or an escape tool.

In a similar vein the warrior Greatsword skill “Rush” (which is otherwise a clone of ride the lightning in functionality) should work the same way as Ride the Lightning. IE: It should ignore swiftness/cripple/chill.

I just turn autotarget off, it’s a crutch anyway. The downside to having the game make choices for you is that sometimes it makes the wrong choices

emikochan.8504:

I just turn autotarget off, it’s a crutch anyway. The downside to having the game make choices for you is that sometimes it makes the wrong choices

This.

But I get what the OP is saying, it’d be nice to have auto-target behave in a different manner, but I think the solution in RtL’s case is to make this skill unaffected by autotarget. It honestly doesn’t make sense to have a skill used primarily for it’s mobility auto-target, I think that’s true for any gap closer. If someone want’s to use a gap closing skill to get to a target, they player will designate that target his/herself then use the skill.

I think it’s suggestion time for me.

Shockwave.1230:

but I think the solution in RtL’s case is to make this skill unaffected by autotarget.

Yes, having RtL (and by extension, Rush) be unaffected by autotargetting would be the optimal solution.

I haven’t used auto targetting in nearly 2 weeks now, and I’d never use it anyways in anything where what I target actually matters (spvp/wvw/dungeons), but when I’m running around and stuff for whatever reason then I’d rather have autotargetting on and I’d like that to be an option for me, because with skills like Ride the Lightning and Rush, it isn’t an option.