Automatic Disengage?

[Malithar]

Are you moving around a lot, such as strafing? If you watch other players move on your screen, there is no such movement as a strafe, it's simply a client side graphic that looks much better than the reality of it. If you strafe to the right of the mob as it's dying, you're facing to the right of the mob, away from anything that you may be trying to position yourself to hit. You need to be standing in place for ~1ish seconds in order to auto attack anything within your cone of vision.

[Martel]

Are you moving around a lot, such as strafing? If you watch other players move on your screen, there is no such movement as a strafe, it's simply a client side graphic that looks much better than the reality of it. If you strafe to the right of the mob as it's dying, you're facing to the right of the mob, away from anything that you may be trying to position yourself to hit. You need to be standing in place for ~1ish seconds in order to auto attack anything within your cone of vision.

Hmmm. While I've seen what player movement looks like from other characters, I always assumed it was a display glitch kinda thing. And that the positioning/facing on the character in question was correct.

And interesting example. If you go into first person view, then run backwards away from a mob, you'll look like you've turned away from the mob to others, but you still shield block hits from the pursuing mob. Something you can only do when facing the mob. You can also still block while backing up, locked on, in third person view(although, there is a chance of weird mob pathing causing the mob to flank you.)

I'm also moderately certain I've autotargeted mobs while strafing or backing up continuously. So I kinda have to wonder about this.

Maybe I'll do some testing... once, you know... I can actually log on without getting network errors and freakish lag.