wow, what a great question Anela

by far this has been one of my favorite threads to go through in quite a while...so super cool to see so many familiar poster and pvp friendly names here responding...

i'm almost always a solo player...i don't use any stat counters on my UI/screen, all i'm watching are health bars and cp points...

excellent point someone made regarding how an opponents health bar reacts to damage...

as someone whom started a second batch of fighters on their platform sister server a couple of years ago - i can most certainly attest to the fact that EVERYONE targets the lowest level cp toon...

if you're in that situation and reading this - either build to survive or just play nightblades and sneak away all the time...i guess if you got enough magicka you might be able to also streak away...

i usually target: players that other players are targeting, or players targeting me - if able i do my best to bring them in to areas allies are fighting in...

okay now here's where i do disagree with everyone above - based on almost six years now in cyro and having 17 fighting toons - even when i was first starting on the NA server - people generally did not go for my monster looking orc in heavy armor (often which is actually some costume)...

it is/was very noticeable even from years ago...mainly this is a small scale thing where you are able to actually get a decent visual of all the people fighting around you...

sure enough, when i started a bunch of new toons on the EU server - my orc got the same treatment...

i know that sounds absolutely ridiculous - but - we are all humans after all...

my suggestion - if you feel you are being targeted a bunch with the small group you play with - put on some fortified brass and plague doctor and just focus on perfecting your sub assault, dawnbreaker, spin to win combo

geo

When I fire Engulfing Flames into a group I begin focusing the person who either doesn't heal or has their health drop the fastest afterwards. Eliminating the low health combatants first and moving up is a valid tactic since if you waste your time trying to kill the target who would give you a hard time in a 1v1 in the middle of a group fight you're just hurting your side.

Reason being is the squishy targets might be healing that one brawler you're taking on and it'd be better for you to kill the healer before focusing them again. I know my one PVP guild had this tactic where we'd actually push through the front line of tanky melee fighters to get at the squishy healers and ranged DPS in the back. It allowed us to punch above our group size since once the heavy hitters and healers died the tanky players soon joined them.

Usually I hit each person with something and see how much damage they take. The ones that take the most damage (squishiest) are often first targets.

Also, if I see someone not healing or keeping the major resolve buff up, then 100% that person.

When facing a group of unknown players:
Healers first if they have one, if healer tanky we just move on to next target, which might be chosen by class/pvp rank if it is a harder group to fight.

Against a group we know we often tend to go for the big damage dealer first or leader.

Anybody spamming healing is target numba wan. Name called out and everything. Then the squishy guys, sorcs and NBs for the most part. Last is the tanky high HP guys.

Lowest health.
Not the Sorcs or NB. They will quite. If your are in a group with big burst go for squishy Sorcs and NB to kill fast.
Templar with low health or dk are good options.
High health necros and Warden take to much time to kill.

radiant apex of course