Guild Wars 2

Since Tuesday’s patch, I’ve been noticing that when I leave a target selected for a long period of time, it will eventually deselect itself.

I am aware that clicking on the terrain auto-deselects targets, so when I noticed this happening, I intentionally did not click anywhere else. The target continued to auto-deselect after an extended period of time (1 min or so).

If specifics are needed: I was playing an up-leveled necro in the Labyrinth, and I was noticing this repeatedly with the Viscount of Candy Corn boss (mostly because it takes a long time to kill), although I believe it happened with the Lich as well.

I think this has always been the case even before this patch. It is every noticeably with world Bosses. I never thought it was a bug. It would be nice if this got fixed.

I’ve noticed that if I click on something (gate, wall), then use the right mouse button to look away from the object (aka looking for enemies in wvw), it deselects my target.

That is 9000 kinds of annoying when I can’t keep track of 2 different bits of information on my own. And as far as I know this never happened until last patch.

There was a thread about this in general discussion about a month back. It was discussed whether this could be

- faulty mouse brands
- right click on right mouse turning
- mobs going off screen
- large mobs with part of them off screen

A variety of mice were being used. Right click was discounted. The general conclusion was that it was a bug (but it would be good to have an option to turn off right click activation!).

Stooperdale.3560:

There was a thread about this in general discussion about a month back. It was discussed whether this could be

- faulty mouse brands
- right click on right mouse turning
- mobs going off screen
- large mobs with part of them off screen

A variety of mice were being used. Right click was discounted. The general conclusion was that it was a bug (but it would be good to have an option to turn off right click activation!).

The OP mentioned that they were aware of some mouse click target loss issues, so they intentionally didn’t right-click at all and the target would drop.

“I am aware that clicking on the terrain auto-deselects targets, so when I noticed this happening, I intentionally did not click anywhere else. The target continued to auto-deselect after an extended period of time (1 min or so).”

Also, there is a game option to disable right-click to interact/attack.

Thanks, I’d looked for it before and not seen it.