This game has the worst targeting system I've used in any MMO. Auto-targeting with Tab often has a non logical result. Also if I attempt to click via mouse often one has to click a few times on a mob to get it to register. Even if it does manage to highlight a mob selected either of these ways, it often deselects for absolutely no reason at all resulting in some not so nice words from my mouth.
Senario: Soloing through Lagash, I have a rat agro me and then a gargole with 2 little rats. I press tab it select one of the little rats. If I continue with my aoe freezing and nuking it'll not be pretty as the little rat will have died quickly and then I need another of the targets for my next spell of choice to actually fire. In what logical sense would the game select for me pressing the ol' faithful* tab to select an Earth totem at my 160 degree angle off my view of sight!
This is one of hundreds of sad events during my time with Astellia.
The last 2 days it's really been hard coming back into the game after also playing AAU where the targeting simply...works. I've played pretty much every MMO since eq1 '99 and I'm sure many of us have. I don't recall any of them leaving me this puzzled and annoyed over targeting.
If I have a couple of mobs on me, the mob I have selected is about to die which would result in my spell not working by the time it goes off due to that mob being dead but the others being very much alive, The last thing I want when I press Tab to hopefully select a mob with more health points, is it selecting a FRESH new mob off far behind me off my view of reference to also bring it into the mix.
There's an option within targeting 'Only Auto target engaged enemies'. YES, this would be a nice thing, but it simply is broken, it does not! work. Nor does angle front option.
I seriously hope you know of this issue and you're doing something about it. It's such a great game with so much potential for the future but, If the targeting system remains how it is for too much longer I and perhaps others with fade away from the game and find something else.
Senario: Soloing through Lagash, I have a rat agro me and then a gargole with 2 little rats. I press tab it select one of the little rats. If I continue with my aoe freezing and nuking it'll not be pretty as the little rat will have died quickly and then I need another of the targets for my next spell of choice to actually fire. In what logical sense would the game select for me pressing the ol' faithful* tab to select an Earth totem at my 160 degree angle off my view of sight!
This is one of hundreds of sad events during my time with Astellia.
The last 2 days it's really been hard coming back into the game after also playing AAU where the targeting simply...works. I've played pretty much every MMO since eq1 '99 and I'm sure many of us have. I don't recall any of them leaving me this puzzled and annoyed over targeting.
If I have a couple of mobs on me, the mob I have selected is about to die which would result in my spell not working by the time it goes off due to that mob being dead but the others being very much alive, The last thing I want when I press Tab to hopefully select a mob with more health points, is it selecting a FRESH new mob off far behind me off my view of reference to also bring it into the mix.
There's an option within targeting 'Only Auto target engaged enemies'. YES, this would be a nice thing, but it simply is broken, it does not! work. Nor does angle front option.
I seriously hope you know of this issue and you're doing something about it. It's such a great game with so much potential for the future but, If the targeting system remains how it is for too much longer I and perhaps others with fade away from the game and find something else.
