Guild Wars 2

I’ve died for the third time in less than half an hour now not due to my own skills, armor issues or other crap, but due to targeting bugs, and an incredible amount of lag.

There shouldn’t be a 20second delay when pressing a key, be it a utility, skill, or health. I shouldn’t jump off a cliff side and take 2x the fall damage because I hit the ground, only to then watch myself jump off again and again take falling damage.
When I left click on a target to select it, and said target is selected, if I hit 1, I should start shooting at that target, NOT THE MOB STANDING BEHIND ME. Not the target that is well out of target range and off to the side either!
Shooting at a targeted monster should continue to do so while the monster is in range. Not just randomly switch and decide to start shooting something else.

This is making the game anything but fun, and nearly unplayable.

sounds like you have major issues with your system and/or connection.

you might also want to review your target settings

No he’s right, suffering from huge lag spikes too, even lost connection 3 times in 10 minutes, same for my wife, but oddly not for my daughter, all 3 playing in different maps at the same time. Something is seriously bugged. Never ever lost connection before aside from the very beginning when the game started in August

GrandmaFunk.3052:

sounds like you have major issues with your system and/or connection.

you might also want to review your target settings

It is well known there are major targeting issues in this game. It is ridiculous that right-click targeting does not have an option to be disabled yet. People have been complaining about it literally since day 1.

Targeting is indeed broken. I enjoy having to manually target enemies since the targeting thinks I can hit something from 3000 away.

This lunacy with jumping/falling is pathetic. I just slid down the entrance to the Weyandt’s Revenge puzzle, went off the edge, landed in the water (alive), then fell off again, and hit a rock on the way down and died.
Is this some sort of sick joke Anet?

Yep. Having the same problem. Just started in the last few days. Probably something in one of the latest updates.

Same problem for me for the Wayandt’s Revenge puzzle, I died 3 times at the end in the same way. Even if I waited for like 30 seconds after falling in the water at the end, I’d just respawn upside and fall on groundside to death because I moved.
After those 3 tries I even died at the first fall (never happened before) because of the same thing.
I hope this gets fixed very soon.