Guild Wars 2

Targeting was re-broken on 9/9. There are numerous other Game Bugs Forum threads to this effect, and nothing has been acknowledged or fixed. Specifically, pressing the key to target “Closest Enemy” is completely busted, and trying to TAB to select the next or previous desired enemy is also working poorly.

• Almost without fail, targeting the “Closest Enemy” selects someone or something off screen. Almost. Every. Single. Time.
• More often than not, this target is not even an enemy. (YELLOW text targets are NEUTRAL. GW2 has always been like this, but it’s been even worse lately).
• Very often, “closest” is not selected. I often wind up aiming at something out of range before the guy right in front of me. (TABBING is all over the place range-wise. I see no clear pattern as to what constitutes the “next” enemy. It seems to be just any targetable thing at any range.)

Yellow targets should never be selected. (Closest Enemy/Next Enemy/Previous Enemy… do you see the commonality here? Enemies!)

Targeting should preference enemies in your field of vision first.

Target Next should go to the next furthest enemy, and keep stepping outwards as you press Tab.

This was all so functional in GW1. Never a problem. Since 9/9 I’m having to go real slow and deliberate in combat just to make sure I’m targeting the guy who’s attacking me and not aggroing a monster offscreen. Not cool.

In fact, targeting has never been working as it really should… there is already a long thread about it: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Targeting-Still-Broken-Please-Fix-It/

Yeah, like I said, there are numerous other threads in this forum. And I can’t really think of a more important, more basic issue than proper targeting in a game revolving around combat. Can you? So where’s the acknowledgement and the bug fix?

Hamfast.8719:

Yeah, like I said, there are numerous other threads in this forum. And I can’t really think of a more important, more basic issue than proper targeting in a game revolving around combat. Can you? So where’s the acknowledgement and the bug fix?

Yeah, it’s the most basic thing for playing this game. It’s the basic foundation of the main game mechanic.
Also, I just wanted to mention that thread as it’s one that has had most visibility lately, even though no dev responses there :/