Wand Targeting is Awful

[Brutal Sloth]

Whats up with wands not at all focusing on the nearest enemy to you? It seems like wands will shoot for the farthest target, often ones completely out of the wands range. I'll have enemies right on top of me and the wand just slings it out for the farthest target right over the ones on top of me. Target lock often does this too, can we get proximity targeting please?

Addendum: Why the hell are the numbers for the book decorations so damn high?? Really should not have to farm old books for 4 hours to make a single prop that doesn't even raise comfort. Please take a 0 off of those figures.

[Kosevich]

Originally posted by OniGrin:

Addendum: Why the hell are the numbers for the book decorations so damn high?? Really should not have to farm old books for 4 hours to make a single prop that doesn't even raise comfort. Please take a 0 off of those figures.

There is tons of books in desert region of the game. You have literally nowhere to spend them exept crafting bookcases.

You can try to buy / exchange it from other players. This is really very common loot.

[LudwigVH]

Originally posted by OniGrin:

Whats up with wands not at all focusing on the nearest enemy to you? It seems like wands will shoot for the farthest target, often ones completely out of the wands range. I'll have enemies right on top of me and the wand just slings it out for the farthest target right over the ones on top of me. Target lock often does this too, can we get proximity targeting please?

Addendum: Why the hell are the numbers for the book decorations so damn high?? Really should not have to farm old books for 4 hours to make a single prop that doesn't even raise comfort. Please take a 0 off of those figures.

I'm not playing any of the mage classes but have seen enough mage game play to understand what you are saying. Use Tab targeting for the nearest mob in front of you, was one of the tips given in the very first shroud we encounter after leaving the spawn point as a new character.

I will agree with you on the the cost to craft a single book, seems off by a lot for some unknown reason.

[Martin]

Using a wand requires some legwork.. you can't just stand still.. as for books.. i don't loot them.

[Chance_HC]

i understand the pain of locking on with wands, i have the same issue every time there's a few enemies close by it always seems to keep locking onto the furthest one and even after trying to unlock then trying to lock onto the closer one it usually keeps locking onto the one at the back which is frustrating.

[Subsonic]

Wands are "easy mode" but yeah, you gotta work with them a bit. Positioning and the tab key. As for books...meh, whatever. They're everywhere, this is just a nitpick.

[Sunderbrass]

Wand targeting is very sensitive to where the dot on your reticle is when you click LMB. So with multiple targets you have to make absolutely sure the dot is on top of the nearest target before you click or the built-in auto-targeting (not the TAB lock) will send your wand shots to whatever target is under the dot or closest to being under the dot. It will absolutely choose the farther target over the closest when the dot isn't on top of a target.

[Storm Reaver]

The white dot in the middle of the screen needs to be permanent when holding a wand. The fact you have to shoot before it even shows up is weird. It then slowly fades away.

[Brutal Sloth]

[/quote] I'm not playing any of the mage classes but have seen enough mage game play to understand what you are saying. Use Tab targeting for the nearest mob in front of you, was one of the tips given in the very first shroud we encounter after leaving the spawn point as a new character.

I will agree with you on the the cost to craft a single book, seems off by a lot for some unknown reason. [/quote]

I'm aware of target locking and mentioned it in my post, it often does the same thing of locking to the farther targets. Frankly you waste lots of time and camera movement trying to get it on the proper targets and by then something else has closed in during the previous enemy's swing.

[Brutal Sloth]

Originally posted by Subsonic:

Wands are "easy mode" but yeah, you gotta work with them a bit. Positioning and the tab key. As for books...meh, whatever. They're everywhere, this is just a nitpick.

Wands and magic are the only real viable weapon for solo play, normally in games like this I run 2h builds. However, the wind up for 2h is slow and enemies eat the hit while swinging like you just gently spit on them, otherwise you just jump attack. 1h and shield takes forever to kill things and gathering mats for arrows is horribly tedious and not worth the pay off.

Yes the book thing is a nitpick, they are everywhere but I wont waste the inventory space on them for general adventuring because they contribute to nothing but aesthetic. Thus, 80 old books for a single stack of books prop is hilariously outrageous and farming them is a waste.

[Brutal Sloth]

Originally posted by Chance_HC:

i understand the pain of locking on with wands, i have the same issue every time there's a few enemies close by it always seems to keep locking onto the furthest one and even after trying to unlock then trying to lock onto the closer one it usually keeps locking onto the one at the back which is frustrating.

The best counter I have for it at the moment is picking up damaging blink and just blow through anything that gets close. However, for larger enemies there's a solid chance you get hung up on them and just blink into their attack. For some reason blink does not phase through enemies so much as collide into them with some damage. could be a cool ability to pick up as a "charge" attack for people running melee though.

[Drat]

This is yet another example of the dumbing down of games to make them console compatible. All games now have to use some type of auto aim or aim assist to help the console kids be able to play and it always ruins the experience for the PC players. All we can do is hope that they add an option to allow manual aim because as the OP stated, the wand target "assist" always picks the worst possible target, including targets out of wand range.

[grinsekeatzchen]

Originally posted by Drat:

This is yet another example of the dumbing down of games to make them console compatible. All games now have to use some type of auto aim or aim assist to help the console kids be able to play and it always ruins the experience for the PC players. All we can do is hope that they add an option to allow manual aim because as the OP stated, the wand target "assist" always picks the worst possible target, including targets out of wand range.

I tried playing this game with controller. Believe me, when this was a decision for the "console kids", then it was the only one. Because most of the game is stupidly tedious with controller.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Every weapon does this, though. The only time you aim yourself is specifically when you're pressing the input to stand still and aim yourself. None of it feels particularly good.

[Drat]

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

Every weapon does this, though. The only time you aim yourself is specifically when you're pressing the input to stand still and aim yourself. None of it feels particularly good.

I'm not sure what you mean.
1. Melee aim assists to nearest target.
2. Staff aims with right click and shoots right where you aim.
3. Bow shoots right where you aim.
4, Wand is the only one that auto targets furthest enemy from your crosshairs, especially if one is out of wand range.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Originally posted by Drat:

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

Every weapon does this, though. The only time you aim yourself is specifically when you're pressing the input to stand still and aim yourself. None of it feels particularly good.

I'm not sure what you mean.
1. Melee aim assists to nearest target.
2. Staff aims with right click and shoots right where you aim.
3. Bow shoots right where you aim.
4, Wand is the only one that auto targets furthest enemy from your crosshairs, especially if one is out of wand range.

One hand melee lunges at an enemy with little regard for which direction you've actually pointed at. Two handers are almost impossible to aim freely and require you to maintain facing with target lock to hit anything. Bows aim automatically just like wands if you're shooting without holding manual aim.