Guild Wars 2

This bug is still in the game at the moment, and it’s interfering greatly with normal gameplay.

For example, I was fighting the Dredge Fractal boss with my elementalist and cast Unsteady Ground on it to slow it down as it approached the lava spot. I then went to cast Shockwave to immobilize it…

…only to find out the game had selected a random ally instead, and thus the shockwave missed and the boss rushed past us before the metal poured down on it.

In PvP, stuff like thieves (which are already iffy to target because they disappear all the time) are almost impossible to hit. I know you have to retarget them when they come back from invisibility, but this bug makes it happen randomly when they don’t disappear too. Same thing with mesmers: the game randomly selects clones even if I have the real one targetted.

It’s been 4 months. I know you try very hard. But could you, please,please, please prioritize this? If anything, game controls functioning normally should be high up on your list.

P.S. I’m wondering why there isn’t an ingame report option for controls issues?

Same here.
For me, many times the target will switch to my pet for some reason.
First I thought I did something wrong, like pressing the wrong button, but it hapend to many times without me pressing any buttons, just auto attack.
Maybe there is some kind of buff a mob can give you so attack something else instead of it?
Have no clue, but it is annoying.

Pressing a skill selects a new target if your current target can’t be attacked. Usually this happens to me when kiting because I’m facing away from my target and hit auto-attack… and suddenly have a different target. This can be disabled in Options, General, Combat/Movement, Autotargeting.

Not sure if that’s the issue you’re having or not.

[Edit:] OK, I think it’s not. I tried turning off autotargeting to see what would happen… and now I’m getting the exact behavior described above, including allies/pets being selected instead of enemies. Usually its when my mouse has been on/near them but I know I haven’t clicked. Very odd.