Guild Wars 2

Please fix Ranged attacks obstructed when there is absolutely nothing obstructing them at all.

This happens all the time. You literally have to walk almost completely on top of a target to hit said target. This is a little ridiculous.

Even on totally flat terrain with absolutely no obstructions this happens.

Please Fix! Thanks.

There are a lot of things wrong with ranged targeting since HoT dropped, the one you mention is one of them. Maybe it’s time to create a collected ranged targeting bugs thread where we can post them all?

The one that annoys me the most is when, in the middle of a fight, the game switches my target to another mob and starts attacking it instead, and in the process bewildering my pet who starts running back and forth between several mobs, when all I wanted was to hit a single one.

Another is the tab-targeting order which seems to be completely off, sometimes giving me a target way off in other directions than the one I’m facing – or something much much farther away than the closest enemy standing right in front of me.

And don’t get me started on targeting yellow or white things in the world (like Tequatl’s fingers, or the Exalted explosive in the south lane when fighting the Octovine in Auric Basin). It takes a lot of effort to find the exact spot to click to target these. And you can forget about Tab-targeting these.

Yeah, this all started with the release of HOT.

Targeting in GW2 has been, and continues to be a complete disaster.

“Target nearest” for example, simply doesn’t. Nearest non-aggresive non-aggroed mob that’s off in the distance? definitely. But that aggroed mob that is eating your face? not so much.
Obstructions happen right and left when there is a clear line of sight.
Tab is nothing but trouble. It is more likely to target a non-aggressive creature sitting nearby than it is to go to an aggressive mob.

However, I don’t think that the targeting of non-aggressive mobs is broken code as much as immature “pranking” of the players. It makes our characters look stupid, as if they would randomly suddenly decide, as pact commander, to randomly shoot a non-aggressive critter off to the side.

To be honest I don’t really know what they did to it, but if it’s not reverted to the old (less bad) way it was working, they need to fix what’s there now. I have a sneaky feeling it’s the verticality introduced in the maps with HoT that messed it up, but that’s just a wild guess. It is extremely frustrating though, especially when you’re on a timer, like in challenges and trying to target the Exalted explosive in Auric Basin.