Thread: Anyone else having trouble with random target switching?

I'm not sure why, but whenever I am around more than one target. I cannot seem to stay on the target I want to attack. One example of this ithe first boss in NCF (spider). He drops his egg sack, I tab over to attack the egg sack and all of the sudden I am back on the spider boss again...?

This is really frustrating in PvP. Trying to finish off someone with 300 health, but I cant stay targetted on them for more the half a second...

Before you ask, I DO NOT have the combat option selected to allow the game to auto select targets.

It seems to me that something has changed in the game. I didnt used to have this problem.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Does anyone know a way to fix it?

Yes, ever since the Dead and OD went live. It's rare, maybe once a week. But some of the old target bugs are back. Sometims the only way I can get it to lock onto the correct heal target is to use Fkeys. I haven't expericence it in years, but I've seen it since the Dead update.

Yes! Nearly always seems to re-select the last target I had attacked, so I find myself in an instance turning round to follow back to the corpse of whatever we just killed.

Really frustrating, and I assumed I was accidentally hitting a key to reselect last target, although I couldn't find a key listed for this.

Yes! Doesn't seem to have a rhyme or reason. It's not every couple seconds as you report but every other fight or so, for me, and my kinmates report it as well. It's really annoying.

I had exactly the same thing in Watcher last week, couldn't stay focused on my designated tentacle.

Was frustrating as I was main DPS for my group and I kept spinning round to tgt the other way.

Indeed, been seeing this behavior since the update. Also, when soloing against a single mob occasionally get the message that I must select a valid target to attack...while the mob is hacking my bits and pieces off and the targeting ring is all proper lit on his feet.

Also find that backspace is frequently failing to select the nearest mob.

Ouch. I've never experienced this myself pre or post update, but it sounds pretty nasty. :/

Originally Posted by Vilost

Yes! Doesn't seem to have a rhyme or reason. It's not every couple seconds as you report but every other fight or so, for me, and my kinmates report it as well. It's really annoying.

Same thing is happening to me :/

OMG I thought I was imagining things! Yes, I've had this happen a few times since Update 3.

Originally Posted by Downing

Yes! Nearly always seems to re-select the last target I had attacked, so I find myself in an instance turning round to follow back to the corpse of whatever we just killed.

Really frustrating, and I assumed I was accidentally hitting a key to reselect last target, although I couldn't find a key listed for this.

Thank GOD! I thought it was just me as well hitting some key by accident.

Originally Posted by TUX426

Thank GOD! I thought it was just me as well hitting some key by accident.

Me too!

I hope the devs are looking into this!

i have noticed this too.


also, the game will switch targets depending on where your mouse is when you use hotkeys. this has annoyed me since i started playing.

I can confirm. I hope this bug will be fixed quickly because is very annoying.

Same issue Was thinking it was my Captain.

Same thing is happening to me ... thank the gaming gods it isn't just me; I thought I had somehow reverted to newb playing skills overnight.

Is there any update to this problem. I've experienced it as well healing on rk, captain, and minstrel.

Thanks for mentioning this - at least now I know why my warden is running around like a berserker in crowded areas chasing something random instead of hitting the mob attacking her - I didn't know what was going on!

This is starting to cause problems in raids, especially when crowd control is involved.

Last night at the Blind One, I mez'd one Shadow, targeted the next one, beating on a Minstrel, and mez'd... the one I had already mez'd. The other LM in the group was having similar problems resulting in a wipe.

The same thing has happened numerous times when I'm on my Hunter in OD - I target one thing and end up hitting something else, sometmes mez'd sometimes not.

It's not simply annoying, it seems to be happening more often and is causing unnecessary problems. When a raid that should be on farm mode repeatedly wipes because of something like this, something drastic is wrong.

Major sign here.

More then once its gotten my kinmates killed in OD when my heals go to the wrong target.

This may be a really silly statement.. But here goes anyways.

Has EVERYONE that posted in this thread submitted a bug report? Not 1 person. But everyone.

If 1 person has a bug it's a low priority. If 100 people submit a bug the priority goes up. Furthermore, the more people having this issue, the more data the devs get and thus the faster they can resolve.

Obviously lots of people get affected so report it...

Dave

Originally Posted by Aydee

This may be a really silly statement.. But here goes anyways.

Has EVERYONE that posted in this thread submitted a bug report? Not 1 person. But everyone.

If 1 person has a bug it's a low priority. If 100 people submit a bug the priority goes up. Furthermore, the more people having this issue, the more data the devs get and thus the faster they can resolve.

Obviously lots of people get affected so report it...

Dave

Good one. I will submit a bug report because this very anoying bug still seems to live on my Champion.

I am also experiencing targeting problems:

1 - when i am attacking a mob, sometimes the mob gets deselected after I fire a skill. I was not able to determine if this happens every time I use an specific skill or if it is random. It happens quite often - I would say that between 20 and 30% of the fights. In my case it does not switch targets. It just deselect the target I was attacking.

2 - If there are two mobs and I tab to select the closest one. Then I press tab again to select the next one. If I attack the second, in some cases the game does not recognize that I switched to the new mob and still attacks the one that I had selected first. Quite annoying because I switched targets for a reason and sometimes I end up pulling the mob I don't want to fight.

3 - I also experienced one instance when my char shot a Quick Shot without me pressing the key. My hand was not even close to the keyboard and my character shot the mob. It happened once with me inside an instance - Tomb of Elendil. It also happened with another player in my fellowship the same instance. He claimed he didn't shoot, but his character was the one who shot an arrow and pulled a mob prematurelly.

I did bug the 2nd issue above because it happened 2 or 3 times in sequence. I did not bug issue 1 because I thought it was my fault. I will pay more attention and if it happens again, I am going to bug it. And issue 3 happened only once with me (and once with the other player). If it happens again, I am going to bug it.

It seems that each update brings some small issues/problems that we didn't have before. It is quite annoying to be honest.

Originally Posted by Robek

1 - when i am attacking a mob, sometimes the mob gets deselected after I fire a skill. I was not able to determine if this happens every time I use an specific skill or if it is random. It happens quite often - I would say that between 20 and 30% of the fights. In my case it does not switch targets. It just deselect the target I was attacking.

I had this happen repeatedly last night while skirmishing. I'll submit a bug report today.

Thanks for posting these issues.

I've been having these issues too, very annoying and unpredictable.

I was running the new skirm with a PUG and this kept happening to me, got us into a lot of trouble with my AOE Rune Keeper attacks..

I experienced something similar a couple of weeks ago. I was targeting a bat, wanted to pull it, but my char hunter a morroval instead. This didn't happen just once, no idea what causes it.
Usually I play a melee fighter, so it doesn't happen, but I had the problem with ranged professions.

Just remember that you're replying to a thread that's a year old, guys.

Once in a blue moon. And a very blue moon it has to be. Keep in mind that if you accidently "de-target" your target (i.e., clicking the ground by accident) then the next damaging attack will cause you to target wherever it came from. So this may or may not be your intended target.

Originally Posted by ChromiteSwiftpaw

Just remember that you're replying to a thread that's a year old, guys.

Sad, isn't it? That it has never been fixed after all this time...

As far back as I can remember, there has been targeting problems in this game. It is very common to select a mob to check it's morale or such, and suddenly you attack it, even though you did not click your mouse or choose any type of attack. As for target jumping, extremely common, especially with some classes like minstrels and hunters. Happened a lot just last weekend to my husband's minstrel and my hunter.

Well, at least they fixed the ridiculous bug where the game kept jumping to mob bodies as targets AFTER they had been looted.