This may be the reason I put my controller down for this one

I am getting extremely aggravated and I'm not even dying... The target aim for mercenary on Xbox is atrocious, I keep having to maneuver and line myself up or else my Merc has ADHD and can't figure out which target to focus on... Which usually happens when fighting an elite and the elite spews out enemies or summons them and my Merc can't figure out who to shoot at resulting in a near death experience almost every boss/elite playthrough.. it's extremely irritating especially when I'm having aoe's spewed at me as well...
I mean it's like my Merc is very indecisive at the start of every fight almost please fix this, I love this game but I don't want to have to sacrifice my favorite class for another because of a simple bug that can be fixed... Don't blizzard this one please!!!
Sincerely Kontagian

*I just wanted to make this clear that I may put my controller down for a little while... Not forever, just long enough to calm down lol
GGG you have an amazing game here...

Targeting on console is broken. Seems the only fix as of right now is playing a class that doesn't rely on targeting.

I tried playing Witch DOT build and that didn't last long.

Wen you go to your skills and put a new skill on your bar, go to an empty spot and place the focus fire skill there its a toggle made for this. One toggle is the normal adhd shooting the other toggle is the target wont change as long as it is in range. Its a icon with what looks to me like two fingers pointing up

Good to know thank you!! Although since said comment it seems like GGG did a great job fixing it!! This game feels and plays amazing!!!

@rick_c
Idk how to tag in this anyways, I have a chormomancer witch that has literally walked through the game, definitely more fun than my monk lol. You just got a know how to build, I can help...
My username/Xbox gt is "Kontagian"

Sorry, never got notified of your response....

The issue I am having, which I have with most all other ARPGS. Is the console/controller targeting. I didn't know about the focus fire thing so I will give that a shot.

The main issue I am having is that with my contagion/essence "dot" build. I need to be able to focus down one creep to get my dot explosion to trigger. I will be trying to cast spells and randomly my character will target things behind me or somewhere I do not want to cast. This is super frustrating when you shoot a AOE bomb but it auto targets to the one mob behind you as opposed to the mass of mobs you assembled in front of you.

Also another main issue is that when you are in a boss fight with lots of adds, to take the boss down I need to keep dots rolling. So I need a way to be able to auto target the boss, apply dots, swap off the boss, aoe creeps down.

They do offer you a long hold placement option, but it also auto jumps to things and has a rubber-band effect so it is hardly useful.

This is not a problem with PC play because cursor gives you the ultimate freedom for spell placement. I may have to just re-roll warrior/melee like i have done in other ARPGs.

Another odd thing is I am missing the General Settings section on the Inputs tab. SO I have no control over the targeting settings that were there originally. Not sure if you have this problem also.

I really like the game, I will continue to play it. But the build I want to do is a real slog through the game. I am 42 hours in, character is lvl 38 on the first third of act 3. I know I am going slow, but my damage is probably hampered by 20-30% because of my targeting issues.

Any advice?

It seems that the focus fire setting in the key binds slot has helped enough for now. Now I would just like to be able to click the right stick to bounce between bosses and regular mobs.