Guild Wars 2

For possibly upto the last 72 hours… i know for sure like 36 hours, my auto-attack option feature has been really acting up.

Previous to this time:
Very rarely and seldomly on odd occurances would auto-attack not target the “right” mob (whether it be because of proximity to the creature and/or direction of your toon facing, targeting the “right” mob is relatively easy).

Current Situation:
It keeps happening again and again and again to me; and very very BAD may I add (to the point where i am like 20-30 range away from the nearest creature, 2nd nearest is like 800-1800 range away, I auto-attack and it targets the “other” mob). This randomly and very rarely happened in the past; mob targeting was very easy to control based upon controlling your toon, but recently there is definately something a funk with it. Not only does it occur waaaaaaaaay too often, but like I said previous, it targets things that should NOT be targeted. Even if the closer mob was not there, these things are so far away that they shoulld not become the target.

*Edit:
I should note, primarily it is Thief’s D/P shadow shot and steal skills that are for sure acting up as far as mob selection. As well as weapon skill 1 which has acted up twice now in total today, targeting a mob not only like 3-4x furthur away than the mob that was literally on top of me but on a completely different elevation as well.

Thank You,
RogueTigeR

It has to do with how they set up autotargeting. In my experience, it selects the enemy closest to the center of your screen. It has nothing to do with proximity as far as I can tell. Can’t say whether this is intentional or not (so maybe it isn’t a bug?), but I agree it’s annoying at times.

You can disable this autotargeting in the options. I found binding a key (C in my case) to “Select Nearest Enemy(?)” in the controls section to be a decent remedy.