Doctor Archive

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gelfling_winterfell wrote:

Has anyone else noticed a problem with targeting and healing yourselfin the last few days? I haven't had any problems healing other players but every now and then I get a spate of "invalid target" or "too far" messages when trying to heal myself. This happens whether I have the creature targeted or nothing targeted and so far I've only experienced this while grouped.

I've also been experiencing another targeting issue when surrounded by 2 or more creatures; my target will change from the one I was attacking/defending to another one without my having clicked on or having changed anything.

...gelfling

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Here is the issue I believe.

In the last patch they changed the auto target such that when you get attacked you auto target the attacker. With the current assist healing system when you have a mob targeted and it is attacking someone else your heals will attempt to heal the mobs target. The comination of these two features is, I believe, the cause of the problem.

The CM Corr has made a post in the Corr forum and I have added QEF'ed it as it impacts us as well.

Yes, I have noticed this problem. Usually I press ESCape to un-target something so I can heal myself. But lately it doesn't work all the time, so then I press F1, which targets me. It's hilarious, because I'm a rifleman, and my toon goes into all kinds of convulsions trying to turn the rifle around on myself.

yeah I don't like the new auto-assist feature. It is really causing me some problems when I am about to go down and try to heal myself and yet I heal someone else that is either almost full health or very little damage, and then I got down because of the misdirect.

The problem I'm having is with Aggro. Often, healing myself seems to drag creatures who weren't attacking onto me. Sometimes you can't tell if the creature is actually attacking you or not; Only the HAM of the creature you're attacking shows on screen.

So in a frenzy, I see I'm taking a ton of damage, hit a heal, and heal someone else because it turns out that the creature I'm attacking isn't attacking me, but another creature is. I actually died yesterday because of that.

I have also found out, the hard way of course, even with the reduction of hate towards us for heal'n. If your group pulls a mob onto them, and they are all fight'n one creature/NPC at a time, once you go to heal the tank all the others that aren't be'n attacked will turn on you and began beat'n you to a pulp. Just a warning.

I generally don't have a problem healing myself. CTRL + 1, and then hit the heal button or Enhancer.I thikn last night was the only time I've ever had an "Invalid Target" trigger. And I am not sure how it happened.