Assist Macro does not work when target is friendly

[Rivers]

Thanks Khatovar. In my first post I mentioned that even when I click on my assist macro on the slave, it will not target my masters' target, I (hope I was) wrong, it could have to do that I really activated this option in Jamba as you mentioned in your first point. But now I disabled it.

Your second idea helped my to identify the problem better.

When I right-click on the friendly NPC the first time (without having this NPC as my target before), my slave does not realize my master's target changed and wants to interact with my masters' PREVIOUS target. WTF? It seems latency is the problem here. When I right-click on the same NPC again, my slave finally gets it as his target.

So...how can I improve this behavior? Any Ideas?

[Lax]

When I right-click on the friendly NPC the first time (without having this NPC as my target before), my slave does not realize my master's target changed and wants to interact with my masters' PREVIOUS target. WTF? It seems latency is the problem here. When I right-click on the same NPC again, my slave finally gets it as his target.

So...how can I improve this behavior? Any Ideas?

/assist has an inherent delay, because when you target something, your client has to tell the server that you targeted something. The server then has to tell the other players that you changed targets. Until your other clients have received the message that you changed targets, they will still pick up your old target.

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There's really only one way to improve the behavior, and that is to have a lower ping. Otherwise, you want to either a) pull auto-assist out of your keys, or b) purposefully wait about half a second (or at LEAST the amount of time described by your ping) after targeting, before doing something where you MUST NOT have the old target.