My friend has been having this issue for a while where her ranger’s F1 skill to get the pet to attack would come up with a ground targetted AoE like shown here.
It’s been happening for quite some time now, probably since December and it’s like this even on different computers (I’ve tried logging in to see if it’s ok on my installation of gw2 and the issue is still there).
Manually using the mouse to click on the attack button doesn’t cause this, but using the keyboard does. I’ve tried rebinding the key, unbinding it and then rebinding it and it doesn’t make a difference what key I bind it to it still happens.
The circle goes away when the smart aoe cast option is ticked, but it’s hard to play with it on all the time and very frustrating with the aoe circle constantly appearing with it off.
