Lol... You guys sound like a bunch of old men sitting on park bench complaining. I don't mean to be outright offensive, but come on. You don't know how target lock will work. You have no idea.
More or less, there are basically two pieces of information and everything else is Chicken Little the 'sky is falling' drama.
One piece of information is that there will be beta testing and anything put into the update will be tested by OTM and players. Some form of a target lock system, it seems, will be part of that. We have no idea what that system actually is.
Here is second piece of information from Admin:
In terms of genuine clan v clan competition, personally I think there is going to be more competition and more tactics, because now you have to decide whether to engage earlier than you would like to get a lock, but then risk getting wiped because you don't have enough people yet, vs waiting and potentially losing the boss to someone who engages earlier.
It just adds an extra dimension to the competitive aspect, now it's not 100% just dps, it's now also going to be how good is your tank, healers etc.
Please read this. It does not match your hand wringing, gnashing of teeth and tearing of clothes attitude. It does not tell us exactly what target lock is, but it does indicate that it is not simply a first hit lock that you all are losing sleep over. Notice the phrase "it's not 100%
just dps, it's now
also going to be how good is your tank, healers, etc."
This seems to indicate that the lock will be a combination of things, more robust than the artificiality of dps as the sole measure, but also not just some first hit 'lock and survive' scenario.
If that is the case, and we dont know that it is, it simply means that an all dps team, taking none of the risk, may not be able to get a kill. It is not clear from this that such a team cannot get a kill, only that they now actually have to compete on a level playing field. It does not imply a lack of competition. It specifically implies that the nature of that competition will change.
Am I missing a post that would make your nelly nervousness make sense?
Will it work and be fun, etc? I have no idea. Neither do you.