Guild Wars 2

I was playing around with some options again and started to wonder if the “Promote Skill Target” option may be bugged, because it seems to only serve it’s function if “Autotargeting” is active as well.

If neither of them is active:
Nothing will be highlighted but skills hit every target they can hit.

Only “Autotargeting”:
Targets will be highlighted when in range and facing the target. When turning away from the target highlighting is lost.

Only “Promote Skill Target”:
Highlighted targets are locked, so that facing away from them highlighting is not lost.

Both are activated:
Targets will be highlighted when in range and facing the target. When turning away from the target highlighting still remains.

From the description I was of the impression that when activated “Promote Skill Target” would lock targets as long as I struck them once and didn’t deselect them.

Lets take a Thief using Heartseeker as an example. Thief initiates combat through autoattacking and the target is locked and remains highlighted even when the thief faces away from it. Now the thief decides he wants to leave combat or simply get some distance between himself and the target. So he deselects manually (doubleclicks the ground) turns and uses Heartseeker to propel himself away.

This is something that can already be done by disabling “Autotargeting” and selecting all targets manually. While “Autotargeting” works fine and provides the choice to manually select a target or not, “Promote Skill Target” should work the other way around and provide the choice of manual deselection or not. It should promote and lock a target that is struck and not one that can be struck as “Autotargeting” does.

So is this a bug an inconvenience or working as intended?

Does nobody know?

Well, no.

I’ve been at a loss to understand how this option is supposed to work too.

I run normally with autotarget off and I would have expected it to highlight a struck target. It doesn’t.