As I’m sure healers are aware, group healing targeting binds and scroll targeting just randomly stop working like 30% of the time on the new patch. this happens even when your whole group is in your LoS (see video later in the thread).
Has anyone figured out a workaround yet so we can play the game while we wait for a fix?
Edit: Still no workaround yet. I will add one here if anyone figured out how to not have healing constantly be broken.
bump devs pls fix game broken
i refuse to buy mmo mouse for new world
bump needs to stay at the top
Thank you everyone for bringing this to my attention! If you could please give us as many details about the situation, it will help us pinpoint what we need to look in to.
Just try to heal a group for 30 seconds or so and you’ll encounter scroll wheel group-mode targeting and group selection keybinds not selecting anyone in your group sporadically. This was reported on PTR and there’s mentions of it in the new patch bug report thread.
Hoping someone finds a workaround so healers can play the game while we wait for a fix.
seemingly randomly stops working, i tried to find a pattern but when i tested it on a random person (not in my group) but no matter the order i use binds in it works and stops working at random intervals
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Can anyone record this happening? Any and all details help. Such as where, what is happening at the time, etc.
i tried recording but it doesnt really help, no matter if you start the cast on someone then switch, or start the cast with the bind it’s the same outcome, sometimes it works every time in a row for ages, then doesnt work for a long time. Weapon swap doesnt change this, ability from either weapon doesnt change this, weapon type doesnt matter, location doesnt matter (at least it was the same in war, dungeon and outside) group healing on off doesnt matter, getting the out of sight pop up doesnt matter, healing someone then walking out of range before it casts doesnt matter
You won’t even be able to tell from the recording if the targeted button is being pushed. It just simply doesn’t work sometimes. Experienced it in 2 wars yesterday at 8pm and 9pm CET on Fae. Some healers switched to AOE mid war.
just wanted to edit to add that this also happened multiple times during a dungeon where my group was standing in front of me with no obstructions (even though LOS doesn’t apply in PvE). Try target someone and it just did not work.
Yep it’s not consistent. I think it’s also due to how they changed it to “cancelling” the heal target completely if a target goes out of range or out of LoS (line of sight). It’s very strange, especially with the scroll system because if you scroll over anyone LoS or out of range, it cancels fully, whereas before it would just heal yourself or come up with the LoS info (but you would still stay in the targeting mode which I preferred).
Biggest frustration is if this situation happens:
Start casting on teammate 1, but you have to suddenly scroll to save & heal teammate 3. Both teammate 1 and 3 are in range & LoS, BUT teammate 2, 4, and 5 are out of range or LoS.
Unless you: Cast on teammate 3 to BEGIN with, or you use the keybind and it works, OR you use manual target lock to pre-select – it’s impossible to scroll to their name to heal them… Lol. Keybindings and/or manual target lock are forced settings we would have to use, which restricts the way we want to play as healers, in addition to the many restrictions we’ve been given already. I’m already now under the assumption I’ll have to change my heal playstyle completely, somehow.
Solution?:
Firstly, I totally understand that this was implemented to fix healers bypassing line of sight, SO: I think it should change back to how it heals yourself (or doesn’t heal anything) if ANY of the LoS or out of range issues occur, so we can still smoothly select targets within range/LoS without unnecessary interference of “complete ability-cancel” that adds time & hassle to how we try to clutch save people dying in our team.
^^imagine that situation in a hectic war scenario where you can’t exactly keep up with which direction your teammate is, and trying to cast/scroll a heal that ALWAYS ability-cancels when trying to select their name to heal because the name next to theirs in the UI is out of range/LoS, and you can’t land your crosshair on their character perfectly to start the cast on them first. Casting-time for DE/LE is one thing, this just adds even more time to re-select a teammate perfectly which is incredibly difficult to do in wars especially. Damn I’ll be pulling my hair out with how frustrating it will be haha.
With all that in mind, then there is the seemingly bugged targeting with scroll OR keybinds even when everyone is in range, as you’ve all mentioned. So I’m not sure about that exactly, but maybe these two things go hand-in-hand together as part of the bug/issue??
thats not why it happens, and u should do yourself a favor and use keybinds anyway
This isn’t how it works or why it’s happening. Scroll and buttons randomly stop working even when everyone is in line of sight.
Furthermore, you can still heal through LoS just as easily as before when your buttons are actually working.
I’ve tried keybinds and couldn’t do it for several reasons, one of them being the way my keyboard is and my smol hands. Each healer has their own playstyle and mine has been scroll-healing which I’m perfectly happy with, until they made these changes haha. 
That’s not the whole point tho - but also yeah I wasn’t sure if that particular change had an impact on the issue, potentially. 
Let’s not turn this into scroll vs buttons. They are both not working.
Yeah for sure, like I said I just was curious if this maybe had an impact with this issue
Here’s an example where it happens with my whole group in my LoS
https://medal.tv/games/new-world/clips/FfBzzqwua62d-/d1337gMgFC8r?invite=cr-MSxiMUIsMzk1NTA1NCw
Here’s another example, but again it’s basically impossible to recognize from a video.
Devs please bump! this is a needed fix
Also posted over here: Targeted healing not working
It seems like heals are getting “stuck” on specific players randomly causing scroll and target binds not to function, or less commonly getting canceled during even brief LoS interruptions.