Guild Wars 2

Could we please, please, pretty please get an improvement in this department?

Simple suggestion:

1. my target. Plain and simple: my target at the moment the ability launches.

2. If I have no target, than player hitting me.

3. If no target, and no player hitting me: NPC hitting me.

Why is this so hard?

Targeting is the #1 reason preventing me from using turrets. In WvW, I don’t want my net turret to shoot coyotes, gates, or clones, period.

Giving Turrets “Target my Target” would greatly improve their application in eng game PvP. Possibly even make them a reasonable viable alternative to the current cookie cutter builds.

I remember putting up a couple of turrets when fighting a veteran Krait. Turrets turned around and started attacking nearby Krait Supplies instead of the Krait , which happened to be right in my turrets nozzles…..

What if Turrets, either through traits or otherwise, gave off an aura that buffed the Engineer alone with a unique boon called Tracer Rounds that gives the Engineer a 5% chance on hit to apply Bulls Eye to target opponent while within range of a Turrets aura. This would force all turrets to target the opponent with the “Bulls Eye” condition.

When applied to an opponent Bulls Eye would be a non-curable unique condition (like Warriors Sword off hand “Impale” skill.) This Debuff would state: “You have been targeted with a Tracer Round, you take 3% more damage from Turrets.” Only the opponent Highlighted can be inflicted with this condition.

Bulls Eye has a base duration of 6 seconds With an internal cooldown of three seconds. When inflicted by this condition it stacks respectively with the amount of Tracer Rounds on the Engineer at the time of its application. For Example:
-An Engineer standing nearby four turrets will have four stacks of “Tracer Rounds” giving him a 20% chance to apply the Bulls Eye to his target. When inflicted by “Bulls Eye” from this Engineer you would receive four stacks of Bulls Eye increasing damage from turrets by a total of 12%.

I tried to make this easy to digest, but apologize for its wordy-ness.

This suggestion comes from the perspective that there are no design limitations and the names are merely place holders. I figure this is a fun yet balanced way to make Turrets a more viable option for PvP as well as PvE.