Automatically rooted during melee combat

[MercilessFir]

Hi,

I have level 15 Gladiator and have an annoying problem during combat. Whenever, I enter combat I am rooted in place and cannot move forward or backward. When strafing left and right my character circles the mob I'm attacking.

As it now I am unable to move the mob but instead locked in place toe2toe. Is there a UI setting to turn this behavior off?

Any help would be appreciated.

[fixitman]

Disable automatic target lock in the character settings. I believe it is on by default, and causes such an issue.

[Rhona]

I found it off by default and ticked it on because I love it. If I want to change the distance I just back up. With using a thumb joystick I can press for back and strafe at the same time which gives a lot of versatility of movement. But I'm a newb so that may change lol.

In character settings it's the top button of the correct page so if you don't see it change page.

[Lithera]

You will find later that auto-lock will prevent you from backing quickly out of radial AoEs so you'll want to set a key to toggle it easily in key bindings.

[MercilessFir]

Turning off the option worked. For melee being automatically locked into place without forward and backward movement was problematic especially for defending against AoEs.

Thanks,