Ground targetting broken?

[Roo Stercogburn]

When I try to ground target, I get the targetting marker which sticks to my char. Sometimes if I wiggle the mouse it will move, sometimes it won't.
If I press the spell key a second time it will fire the spell...centered on me.
The behaviour is consistent across 2 completely different PCs.

For the love of god why did they change the way this works? Or rather, doesn't. Its seems to be completely random whether it works or not.

Is there a way to disable the marker from sticking to your char? This is the most bolloxed up piece of targetting I've tried to use in a game in the last 5years.

 

[Xandax]

Yes - it happens to all of us, it broke with the 1.1 patch it seems.
Most annoying.

 

[Cybwyn]

Yeah, it's knackered at the moment. First noticed it in a fortress siege last weekend. With the horrendous lag and this shiny new bug, I lost count of the number of times rain of fire was set off at point blank range.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

I figured out how to make it work most of the time.

Press spell key.
Right click on random area of screen to cancel ground target.
Press spell key again
Left click ground target.

This seems to work most of the time. Its still a bit sticky but it gets around it. Thats 4 keypresses where you should need 2 which in RvR is far too fiddly in most situations.