Guild Wars 2

During the Caledon forest Meta event, “Defeat the great jungle wurm”, I have been finding it extremely difficult to target the boss on my ranger using short bow. This has resulted in several occasions with me not being able to get credit for the event. During a recent run through it, there were several people in local chat saying the same thing. I ultimately switched to greatsword and was just at the very end able to get in a couple of swings which ‘auto-targeted’ on it, and got bronze for the event.

I’m not sure if it’s related to his particular animation (e.g. his coming up out of the ground and going into the body spin) but I’ve not had this challenge with any other mob in the game that I can think of offhand (ie I can target wurms of various levels throughout the game with my shortbow).

There have been several threads talking about how quickly this boss goes down compared to other meta-event bosses in starter areas (like the Fire ele, Shadow Behemoth, etc) so it could be that the amount of time it takes to be able to acquire him as a target by clicking on him OR by autotargeting is a much larger percentage of the overall time the boss acutally ‘lives’. However, he’s obviously taking damage from SOMETHING, most likely random untargeted AOE.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not about not getting the loot at the end from the chest (although, I admit it’s disappointing). It’s just a bummer to be part of a chain like that and not be able to finish it off. And if there is something in this boss in particular, that’s affecting the ability to target him, there may be others in the game with similar issues.

Wanted to add my issues with targeting that started today while completing various areas of the map and a couple of dungeons. In large events, Jungle Worm/Shatterer/Tequatl were not targetable via mouse clicks, and cycling through tabbing often did not allow me to target foes properly either. Also, in CoF story mode and FotM today, I was unable to target any mobs with my mouse cursor. This is the first time I have ever encountered this issue.