Aiming with controller

How do you all aim with the controller?

I’m using a ice shard sorc build and it can be really annoying sometimes trying to accurately select enemies. There are two current options that I use:

1. no lock-on. I sort of just aim myself towards the enemy and fire away.

  • Benefit: I can select doors, chests, pick up items, etc while doing this.

  • Con: enemies behind me are untargetable, and I waste a lot of spells hitting nothing

2. lock-on with right thumbstick

  • Benefit: spells lock on to a target automatically, no aiming myself required, can run one direction while casting spells in the opposite direction

  • Cons:

    • impossible to target items while an enemy is in range
    • autotarget system seems to pick enemies that are super far away instead of closer enemies
    • switching targets in this mode is…weird.

How do you guys aim with the controller? I currently use a combination of both, but neither feels great all of the time.

Unfortunately, this has always and will always be a limitation for ARPGs with a controller.

They could try adding a twin stick aim but that also adds a new list of cons EX. more difficult to use all of the main buttons other than the Rs and Ls.

And Bliz has said that there are no plans for M/KB support on console so we just kinda always get the short stick.

I move toward what I want to shoot