How do I turn off auto targeting?

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How do I turn off auto targeting. every time I walk by something it auto targets it. and i do not want this feature in game. I like it the way it was before. “Enable action targeting” is Not checked. and It is still doing this when I am near a enemy. I don’t understand why it is doing this. Can somebody help me turn this thing off please

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If something attacks you, you’ll target it. There’s no way to disable that functionality that I’m aware of.

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Doing it to me too cant turn it off even though it is off

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I was told a macro that does it. /console SoftTargetEnemy 0 but you have to keep activating every log in

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Thats the same as unchecking Action Targeting in the Options screen. Options screen version might stick better.

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The one that worked for me was /console SoftTargetInteract 1 - it disabled auto target and even disabled the floating icons on npcs and objects.

You can also use the Advanced Interface Options addon. Go to the addons section under Menu > Options > addons, click on the + and go to “cvar browser” section, find “SoftTargetInteract” down the list; double click the number (mine was set to 3 and red, indicating some kind of error), I’ve set it to 1 and the issue gone away.

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Option, Combat, Scroll all the way down to Enable Action Targeting and click it off. It will stop auto targeting things in your view, have had it pull extra on accident in dungeons because i tab target.

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NONE of these stopped me from auto targeting and attacking after my pet had stopped attacking. I did not tab target and the targets that did attack were far enough away I could see I did not target them. Basically, I have to throw my hands up in the air when my pet is like almost done and pray I do not engage more targets.

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heres what the pvpers use
/run C_CVar.SetCVar("SoftTargetEnemy", 0)
/run C_CVar.SetCVar("SoftTargetEnemyRange", 0)

Something to note is that I’m pretty sure all the SoftTarget cvars are secured, meaning they can’t be changed via /console and need to be changed via C_CVar.SetCVar.

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Looks like Plater addon can override this… In the Advanced Tab of Plater settings, leftmost column uncheck the Soft Interact boxes