Guild Wars 2

Since the latest patch on Tuesday, I’ve had constant issue with my target being dropped. This occured within the new dungeon and within PvP. It tends to switch target rather than drop target, often to an allied target if there are allied pets, minions or clones around, and does so every two or three minutes.

I haven’t been able to figure out what exactly triggers it besides the presence of allied creatures. I have target drops before, but they were rare occurrences in the past. This is a frequent problem at this point. I cannot rely on my target sticking and skills I use often miss because my target has switched to something benign.

I have auto-targeting off and promote skill target on. I use a Logitech G600 mouse and I thought it may be the mouse, so I updated the drivers and software, but this did not resolve the issue.

I noticed the same thing after the patch and cannot explain it either. I have auto-targeting off and promote skill target off, perferring to choose my own targets. In the new dungeon I regularly found my target had switched to a party member.

Have you turned off Right-Click Targeting?

They gave us an option so they might have messed around with the backend on targeting.

Mouse losing focus -right click to turn not working [Merged]
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Mouse-losing-focus-right-click-to-turn-not-working-Merged

The recently added option to ‘Disable Right-click Targeting’ has helped with the issue of selecting a nearby friendly target while moving your camera with the right mouse button, but it has done nothing to solve the issue of your current target being dropped for no reason.

This happens because the mouse tracking has an issue to where the game reads you as releasing the mouse button (despite your having never released it) and then re-‘clicks’ the button down quickly. Due to this issue, if your cursor was over/near another friendly, then they become your new target as if you had intentionally clicked on them to select them.

However, disabling right-click targeting and interaction has simply made the issue of a new target stop happening. The issue of losing your target due to the glitch in mouse focus persists, only now we just have target loss due to the quick un-click and re-click of the right mouse button over an empty area of the screen which deselects the current target, instead of both target loss and random friendly selection.

In fact, most of the time that this issue is present (it is inconsistent), it actually loses and reacquires focus several times a second, which prevents character and camera orientation with the right mouse button and leaves the game in a completely unplayable state. Some days it is very bad and prevents you from even being able to play, other times it is only a couple times a minute, but leads to frustration and not playing the game the rest of that day.