Guild Wars 2

Recently I have noticed that I will (apparently randomly) switch targeting from the mob I am fighting to either a friendly character or a nearby unfriendly player/creature. This happens most frequently when fighting Champion mobs (especially the world bosses like the Shatterer) but can happen on anything. I will also spontaneously target something even though I haven’t clicked on it … I suspect this may be related.

In busy fights this is extremely annoying as it can take an age to click back on the target that I actually want to focus on.

This happens in all PvE zones, and WvW.

Well aside that targeting just sucks kitten in this game you should open “Options” window and see if you have certain options marked. I highlighted options that you may check first (in Combat/Movement menu)

I have the same issue with random target switches, often to friendly NPC’s or even their corpses.
Autotargetting is turned off
Right Click to Attack/Interact is turned off.
I have not tried the “Promote Skill Target” option yet, and don’t know what it means even

This issue is recent, in the last few days this has started to happen. It is especially noticable in World Boss fights, probably because I have (or try to have) the same target for a long time.

I am having the same issue and especially in WvW it is quite annoying. Many in my guild are having it as well and it has started to occur some days ago.

Same here. Not sure when it first started exactly, but I noticed it for the first time rather recently. Sometimes the auto attack just switches to another target, often a friendly one, e..g. a party member in a dungeon group.

puretom.4072:

I have not tried the “Promote Skill Target” option yet, and don’t know what it means even

It is a odd one. If you hit a skill key without a target selected, the game, if Autotargeting is set, will select a target for you.

What the Promote Skill Target do is make this the equivalent of you having hit tab or clicked the target. Meaning that the target stays selected no matter how you turn your camera or move about.

Without Promote Skill Target set any target selected by hitting a skill key gets dropped if it wanders out of camera view, or the characters attack arc.

And in all honesty, the mouse code in this game downright sucks.

Same here.
really really annoying
Switchet target even when I had my hand not on the mouse and just did autoattack.
Can anyone from A-Net have a look at that?