Guild Wars 2

Please fix this. What is the point of changing my target from the monster that has 0.5% health to the veteran with full health in a group when I go into downed state? Not really an issue when fighting one or two monsters but when there’s five or more with a veteran, downed state is a short experience. By the the time I switch back to the target the game changed me from I’m lucky to get two hits in.

I’m not sure if this is what is happening, but is your target switching to the last enemy that hit you before entering downed-state, or the first enemy to hit you after entering downed-state?

I’ve not really noticed any target switching happening for me at the time of entering downed-state. Can you offer an example area and mob type that you are experiencing this issue at?

Also, on a not-sure-if-it-is-related note, do you have “Right-click to interact/attack” enabled or disabled in your options?

Hi StinVec sorry for late reply, last time it happened on Tamini. It happens a lot though. Surely I can’t be the only one that gets it?

The screen does the transition to down state thingy then next thing I know I’ve targeted the one with most health while the almost dead one runs to a place where when I attack I’ll see the glorious words (out of range or obstructed) when if I hadn’t changed target I wouldn’t have died and been able to kill it

Hey Paul.
You’re not the only one to experience this. I recently went to the Harathi Hinterlands to test this out on several Tamini camps where there was also a Veteran nearby (as well as in Queensdale) and the same thing happened to me:

• I allowed myself to be downed while targeting a standard enemy and my target automatically switched to the full health Veteran.
• I also tried this in two different scenarios, one was where I had the Veteran actively attacking me, the other where the Veteran was far enough away that it was not aggroed on me with the standard enemies. In both cases my target still auto-switched to this Veteran.

Now, being downed with a few standard enemies attacking me is fine, but having my target auto-switch to a nearby, non-aggressive, full health Veteran who I then promptly attack and who then joins in on kicking me while I’m down…not fun.

I’m adding this bug to my Tracker – Living World/Game Update Bugs thread. I hope this will receive some attention. Perhaps this behavior will no longer occur after the October 15th patch…I hope.

• Combat: Vet/Champ Auto-target Switch On Being Downed
  | INFO | Report Threads: 1 , 2 |

Hasn’t it always been that way? At least you lose your target a lot, because of the auto re-aligning of the camera angle.

PS: Don’t get me started on no being able to see conditions while in downed state, that’s even more frustrating.