Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
Seems like an unnecessary and actually detrimental automation to me. People should always have to select their own target (and yes, be able to get it wrong if they aren't attentive/focused enough) IMHO.
You are right. As a player you have to select your own target and kick the butt out of it.
But I was writing about attacking a group, which is usually 3-4, maybe 5 monsters, and those are your monsters and yours alone (and your party's). With a gamepad, it could be easier and more convenient to switch between targets if you could switch to the next monster of the group when it gets KO'd, or switching between targets when you have focused another target, just like Tessa wrote, which is actually impossible with the gamepad.
You can easily change targets with the keyboard with the pressure of TAB or with the mouse.