Ok, so I was running like mad through the catacombs forgetting that NCSoft nerfed serenade of eva to beyond being useless. I used it once and that was it.
Now to autotargetting. So I am running through the catacomb with aggro on me and I try to target myself to heal. Well, a mob hits me so the mob gets autotargetted. I can't heal myself. I try a few times but I have so many mobs that each time I try to click on me, then click heal, the targetting has moved to the mob again. And again. And again. Till I'm dead. WoW, GG.
Yes, when a mob attacks, you change target to the mob unless you are already engaged in a fight. I was finally able to heal but it was too little and too late.
Now in pvp you can go smack the healer first then hit your target. Unless they got a retargetting macro those heals are going to heal the attacker instead especially if healer is oop and using a force attack to heal.
The best thing about this apect if you're a recharger. If you target a mob and recharge... boom.. you flag. No force is needed. No macro... no ctrl... it just casts and you flag.
Hm, have to try that one out. I thought that if you had something in target (in this case, yourself) the target would not switch to the mob attacking you.
You could also try a macro for healing yourself (target yourself+cast a heal), that would be faster than manually clicking yourself and then the heal button.
For example on Dino Island: running trains as a tank, the mobs use both auto-target and target-removing. Essentially it feels like beeing constantly trick/switched into standing still while running with 30 lvl87 mobs that hit for 200dmg each. Standing still in such a situation = death.
And yes, I know I could just run around with myself targetted all the time, but #1 is that really how a game feature is supposed to work? Everyone has to run around perma targetting themself now? Give me a break. And #2 sometimes I still need to target specific mobs, after which target gets removed, and the cycle starts from scratch.
I might have mispoken about the targetting and pvp thing but the first post was very true. The failure to target myself for healing happened because of that rubberbanding in targetting. I tried to target myself and it kept reverting back to the mob. As for a macro, yes I would have made it had I known this would happen. Also I had forgotten that Serenade of Eva now has an EXTREMELY long reuse time.
Yeah the rubberbanding targeting is horrible all around too, I get that A LOT on any of my DD classes. ie: target mob 1, kill it, target mob 2, hit attack, target switches to dead mob 1, attack again, switches back to mob 2, and back and forth. ugh.
Yeah the rubberbanding targeting is horrible all around too, I get that A LOT on any of my DD classes. ie: target mob 1, kill it, target mob 2, hit attack, target switches to dead mob 1, attack again, switches back to mob 2, and back and forth. ugh.
wheres my AOE SWEEP, since its not possible to keep 1 target ?
i spent some days at snipes now in IL, but if u finish all mobs (4x 4 + some aggros) the corpses to old, in middle of aoe it removes ur target whole time...
hard enough to target blue mobs w/o the "nerf".
just remove aoe spoil and give dorfs something useful then,lol
( shockstamp on WarLord @55 would be nice for dorfs ;) )
I guess so far I haven't had that problem, but I have a macro for self-heal... and maybe that's the difference? Since I'm always looking at the hp of the players in party, I sometimes forget to pay attention to myself and sometimes don't discover my imminient death until it's almost too late... well, what can I say?? So I made a macro that targets me and heals and have it on my hot bar since we have the expanded ones. It works great, and perhaps sidetracks that rubberbanding?
I could definitly see issues with an MA being hit with a ranged attack while trying to pull the mob out of a large group. A good MA would purposely have no target until it was safe to attack the mob. Ever had the guy in the party that spams assist?
Range attack on MA -> Assist spammer runs into crowd of mobs -> TPW. D'oh!
I havent had the problem my self, but I could see it happening.
Auto-targetting works bad against skills like Trick / Switch / Shield Stun / Shield Bash / Stun Shot.
Because once u take off their target and hit them again, you become thier target automatically! In this case nerf the main aspect of you using this skill.
So NcSoft needs to sort this issue out cuz arg! loosing oly matches cause of this >.<