Guild Wars 2

Also everytime I hit F1 and the ground target appears I also hear an annoying bird whistling sound. Any ideas what is causing this?

To be honest it sounds like on of the following:

1) You’ve changed your keybinds in GW2
2) You have a keyboard that requires you to activate your F keys (otherwise they do things like open up the internet, etc)
3) You have a macro set up somewhere

Only a few of our skills allow us to place a groundmarker – these being Traps if traited, and the Longbow #5 skill. May have missed one or 2, but they are the main ones.

The whistle sound you refer to could be the pet swap whistle, or some other skill, hence I think your F1 key is macro’d to a key string or something similar.

Dunno, any other character and the F1 key works normally. If I create a brand new level 1 Ranger the F1 key works normally. Even if I log my Ranger on on my wifes computer it still has the same problem.

I had the same problem with F3 a few days ago but for me logging out and in again fixed that problem.

F3 skill does that for me also, very annoying since even logging out doesn’t work for me.
Quick fix for me is pressing F3 twice in a row so u select ground marker and drop it right after that.