Certain area skills should never target enemies

[tqFan]

Agreed and I’ve mentioned it many times already in various context.

Skills like

• Vire’s Might
• Forcewave
• Phantasmal Blades
• AAR
• FOI
• Inquisitor Seal

shouldn’t have default target lock imo. For me there’s absolutely no befit of it, only downsides.

Some posts on this topic:

@MysteryMeat

Against enemies with large hitboxes, you may often find yourself running into them instead of through them, which deals significantly less damage as they won’t be hit by the fire trail from Volcanic Stride. In this case, you can hold down the Force Move key while using Vire’s Might to disable direct targeting, which will allow you to control your movement better.

You can also “toggle” Force Move by binding it to a numpad key and turning off Num Lock, or by binding it to Alt and using Alt-Tab on Windows. Note that you won’t be able to interact with doors and chests while in Force Move mode, so you should experiment with the keybindings and find a setup that’s comfortable to play with.

You can read in this popular Skater guide that its author, an expert on Vire’s Might thought of / tried having Force Move toggled permanently.

A focus problem about the skill "Albrecht’s Aether Ray"

When I use “Albrecht’s Aether Ray”, I found that it will automatically focus my mouse on the nearest monster. However, I always prefer to keep the mouse unchanged, because Albrecht’s Aether Ray is a scope skill and I want to take advantage of it. Could you provide an option to turn off the feature that focusing the mouse on the nearest monster when using Albrecht’s Aether Ray?

@tqFan

Another similar issue that may arise due to targert locking

• you cast Inquisitor Seal near Callagadra but without Force Move pressed down it’s locks onto her because of her big target lock area (despite you not actually clicking on her)
  • as a result sometimes you’re not in the range of Inquisitor Seal despite being melee and as close to Calla as possible due to her big body and Inquisitor Seal centered around her due to target locking

Less aggressive/no target lock option for controller

Target lock is very useful and comfy when using a controller but when using skills like Forcewave Flames of Ignaffar it’s a little bit too aggressive and doesn’t allow you to cast Forcewave in-between two monsters to hit them both in a triangle situation which is not the case for mouse. You need to hit one after the other. You can play around it obviously by walking/using movement skills so that the monsters are in line which is an enjoyable mini-game on its own. And I still prefer controller…

@tqFan

I’d like to propose a feature

• a toggle in Options that makes various appropriate skills have Force Move (aka no red monster highlight with target lock) by default, for example
  • Vire’s Might
  • Forcewave
  • Phantasmal Blades
  • Flames of Ignaffar

It would enable to charge through enemies with VM easier for skater builds. Easier to send Forcewave in between 2 zombies to catch them both without having to hold the Force Move button. This is especially valid if you play on a controller since then you cannot even target empty space beyond the monsters.

Forcewave could be always cast according to your character rotation imo and now when I’m leveling spam Phantasmal Blades with Mouse and Keyboard, it does work much better for me with Force Move as well. I’m able to hit more enemies with a single shot on average when I have more control over the direction in which I’m shooting.

This might sound exotic but related threads / messages do come up from time to time on the forum / discord or even mentioned in guides.

Adding this thread to my collection