Guild Wars 2

how do i play successfully with the auto targeting off..?
the target i select always to be overlapped by clones or other people, so its hard to target..
and when every summoning requires me to target, its hard to play without it.
but the autotargeting often target some unimportant target, and its kinda bugging me..

i will be thankfull if mesmers in this forum could tell me how its played or give tips about it. =)

I just play with it on. It prevents you from making a few skill shots, but we have very few “lob-ey” shots, and the ones that are like that force you to have terrible camera angles.

Esplen.3940:

I just play with it on. It prevents you from making a few skill shots, but we have very few “lob-ey” shots, and the ones that are like that force you to have terrible camera angles.

thnx for the reply.
kinda make me think that mesmer is meant to be played by turning it on..

Well, why do you want to play with it on/off? The only advantage to having auto targeting off is for Feedback in WvW, but that’s a very, very narrow usage.

At least, off the top of my head… I’m tired, sleep time, post more information and you’ll get a more informative answer by the other Mesmers here.

I have auto-targeting off for the sake of my Engineer and don’t care for toggling it on/off between characters, and I just make use of tab-targeting/target nearest enemy controls on my keyboard to select what I’m going to hit.

Mesmer is more convenient with auto-targeting on, but the target controls are customizable enough that you can manage it all manually and be fine (I just wish we had a proper “drop target” toggle).

athuria.2751:

I have auto-targeting off for the sake of my Engineer and don’t care for toggling it on/off between characters

It really is beyond me how people can be so lazy as to noticeably impact the performance of one character because they refuse to take an action that will literally take 3 seconds to do.

Pyroatheist.9031:

athuria.2751:

I have auto-targeting off for the sake of my Engineer and don’t care for toggling it on/off between characters

It really is beyond me how people can be so lazy as to noticeably impact the performance of one character because they refuse to take an action that will literally take 3 seconds to do.

I had auto-targeting on for months before and it doesn’t have a noticeable impact on performance at all keeping it off, actually. Auto-targeting doesn’t go after something the “target closest enemy” won’t or, usually, first touch on the tab-target key. And I have both of those in immediate reach so I can grab my targets instantly without having to stutter my skills or movement.