Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if it’s a broken system, a bug, or a glitch or I’m doing something wrong,
but I’ve been playing for over 4 years now and until today I still cannot keep a target!

I enter combat, I click on an enemy, or I call him a target so I can recover focus by pressing T and I start fighting. Never, ever, have I been able to keep a focus on the target for longer than 5 seconds. It simply stops.

This is troublesome on a caster because: Autotarget will select a new target for me if I lost focus, sometimes wasting a spell/skill on a target I didn’t want to hit.
Warrior: I turn of auto-targetting because it disables maneuvability, but in exchange, I’ve seen the depths of many fractals because I use [Rush] while I lost focus that split second, running into the lava at Grawl Shaman, or off into the abyss on the Cliffside/Uncatagorized.

I want to know if I’m the only one with this problem. Whenever I fight something of Elite class or higher, I just have to call the target so I can keep clicking T because te focus simply stops on its own in 5 seconds or less.

do you have ‘Promote Skill Target’ enabled? this tends to help with keeping a target, even if your camera changes angles, or the enemy runs off somewhere

nottsgman.8206:

do you have ‘Promote Skill Target’ enabled? this tends to help with keeping a target, even if your camera changes angles, or the enemy runs off somewhere

I’ve tried that, yes.

check your mouse. I had the same issue for days and kept wondering why I was loosing target at some point. It didnt stop. Then I tested my mouse with photoshop, simply clicking and moving and I saw an additional dot sometimes. The mechanic was broken and did doubleclicks from time to time which made me loose my target. Try to clean the mechanic with some air pressure.

Aury.1367:

check your mouse. I had the same issue for days and kept wondering why I was loosing target at some point. It didnt stop. Then I tested my mouse with photoshop, simply clicking and moving and I saw an additional dot sometimes. The mechanic was broken and did doubleclicks from time to time which made me loose my target. Try to clean the mechanic with some air pressure.

Ill give that a try

Edit: it was of no difference to the targeting, sadly

Then check your key combinations ingame, maybe some key got a weird second function which causes this.

Aury.1367:

Then check your key combinations ingame, maybe some key got a weird second function which causes this.

Alas, nothing noticable. I also lose focus simply when moving the camera or strafing/walking around. So I lose focus when I only press W and to move.

It does seem to have slown down since last week. I now can almost keep 10 seconds a target