Guild Wars 2

The AI is completely broken these days.
Example:(Electric Wyvern)
I am running around gathering in Sparkfly. I go to a tree and entangle two spiders and for some reason I shoot a third spider just past me. My pet heads toward t hat one – cool, that is what it is supposed to do. Then, before it reaches it I hit F2. The wyvern suddenly turns and goes after a fourth spider that was never even aggroed. What the kitten?!!!

you guys seem to concentrate so much on making the warrior immortal and the thief invisible that you just let the 1/3 of the ranger’s damage by a willy nilly random AI. Please fix it or give the ranger more damage that they can output themselves without having to rely on a deranged pet AI.

A possible solution is to actively use your pet, target the enemies you want it to attack and use F1 for guaranteed aggression on that enemy. Don’t just rely on/expect your pet to do 1/3 of your damage with no input, people wouldn’t like it if a warrior did 1/3 of its damage just by standing around, you need to be active in its use.

I’ve had my pet go to totally different targets than the one I’m engaged on. The AI is just not very good.

Prime Shock.9386:

A possible solution is to actively use your pet, target the enemies you want it to attack and use F1 for guaranteed aggression on that enemy. Don’t just rely on/expect your pet to do 1/3 of your damage with no input, people wouldn’t like it if a warrior did 1/3 of its damage just by standing around, you need to be active in its use.

Doesn’t do any good when it disregards your targetting.

I’m guessing this is probably the autotargeting bugging not the pet AI.

I constantly have this problem with both ranger and ele, autotargeting decides the target at random.

Karl Finnbeorn.4058:

I’m guessing this is probably the autotargeting bugging not the pet AI.

I constantly have this problem with both ranger and ele, autotargeting decides the target at random.

I’m not even sure I’d say it was “bugging”, just … auto-targeting for you. The description says nothing about the OP targeting anything, right? So, they hit F2, that thinks “ah, I need a target”, and finds one that happens to be surprising to the OP.

Annoying, but normal?

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Karl Finnbeorn.4058:

I’m guessing this is probably the autotargeting bugging not the pet AI.

I constantly have this problem with both ranger and ele, autotargeting decides the target at random.

I’m not even sure I’d say it was “bugging”, just … auto-targeting for you. The description says nothing about the OP targeting anything, right? So, they hit F2, that thinks “ah, I need a target”, and finds one that happens to be surprising to the OP.

Annoying, but normal?

But I was already shooting a target. It should have gone for that one. Instead it went 90 degrees to the right and went for a totally un-aggroed one.

Ah! I’m sorry I missed that detail. Yes, that sounds unexpected.