Force pulse only targeting critters?

CaffeinatedMayhem

What is up with targeting on Force Pulse? I'm having to kill every critter in the vicinity before it will actually target! You know, target, the NPC that's outlined in red? Apparently rats, spider, centipedes, and aything else is more important than what I'm aiming at. Any desto staff attack has a non-zero chance of missing the target, but this is ridiculous. Have to kill 6 spiders now before I can target a mob.I really hope this is slated for fix in Update 24.

Isaura

I'm glad someone is pointing that out because I just HATE it when I'm targeting a mob who's perfectly located in front of me... And my char just literally turns around to kill a poor rat who had nothing to do with our quarrel. Happens all the time, and with a lot of different abilities, and it's ridiculous.

Kiyakotari

Yep. Fighting Worm Cultists, accidentally nukes a rat. Happens all the time.

Foxhearted

This happens to me all the time with other skills and LA too. Guess my characters want to show off their aiming skills at the tiniest critters? That's cool and all but I'm more impressed when they hit the actual target.

validifyedneb18_ESO

l2p 4head

jk. Never had this problem myself, maybe because I open with AOE which kills any small targets first.

pdblake

Lightning Staff, all the time, everywhere and anything.

It's basically a stick, just throw the damned lightning at what the stick is pointing at!

fastolfv_ESO

from what ive learned channeled abilitys ranged attacks/ultimates target the lowest health target in front of you not what you are looking at or tabbed so that ice comet hitting a nearby rat isnt a coincidence or accident its coded to do that

rpa

Characters in gaem seem to really hate and prioritize tiny harmless critters. Opening with some single target expensive and powerful thing is not a good idea.

pdblake

fastolfv_ESO wrote: »

from what ive learned channeled abilitys ranged attacks/ultimates target the lowest health target in front of you not what you are looking at or tabbed so that ice comet hitting a nearby rat isnt a coincidence or accident its coded to do that

That does seem to make sense of what is happening.

CaffeinatedMayhem

fastolfv_ESO wrote: »

from what ive learned channeled abilitys ranged attacks/ultimates target the lowest health target in front of you not what you are looking at or tabbed so that ice comet hitting a nearby rat isnt a coincidence or accident its coded to do that

Nah, it's mostly like map errors, I see it in trials. Ever die to the AoE underneath a dragon in Sunspire, but you're near the back of the DPS group? Same thing. Just really REALLY annoying, and I swear it's worse in gamepadUI.