Guild Wars 2

I have noticed that while engaged in combat, it is very easy to lose sight of your mouse/cursor due to all the spells and animations of attacks cluttering the screen. Sometimes I lose track of my mouse and accidentally click on a skill I didn’t intend on using, or rotate the camera in ways I didn’t intend to as well. It would be nice to be able to change the color of your mouse so it would be easier to track. Definitely not a major issue, but still food for thought.

I agree, when you’re in the middle of a big fight and everyone’s spells are going off, it’s hard to see the cursor. I use auto ground targeting, so it’s important to tell where my cursor is within the battle.
Here’s to hoping they make the cursor a little more flashy, something like flames around it when you’re in combat (also serve as a “in combat” indicator).

yes a big white plain looking cursor would help me.

People let go of right-click during fights?

What’s all this about clicking skills? Why would you do that to yourself?

I agree! I don’t use auto-ground targeting, but manual targeting you STILL need to know where your mouse is! White would probably be too easily lost in the white aura/org/halo effects. Maybe a darker or much brighter gold color? With a white or black outline to make it more visible would be great.

white with a thick black outline works best for any colour in the background.

Shroom Mage, I click skills on accident when I don’t intend to. I use the number skills instead.

Shroom Mage.9410:

People let go of right-click during fights?

What’s all this about clicking skills? Why would you do that to yourself?

Yeah, how else do I lay down the 400 AOE circles I have as an Elementalist?
Even with auto-casting ground spells, I still have to let go and position my mouse where I want it to go. What class do you play that you don’t have to do this?

This to has happened to me, it’s really bad in WvWvW Pvp. Multiple times I’d lose my cursor only to find it again when its to late.

I thought I was the only one that was struggling with mouse cursor issues.
Improving the cursor would make a big difference for me.

Need mouse cursor to be visible not to click skills but to ground target reticle spells, and yes it does get lost in the fireworks sometimes.

I favour extra large “inverted” mouse for general use, and I’d love it in the game. The thing about inverted mouse (which basically is always the complementary colour of whatever it’s on top of) is that it’s always visible, because it’s never the same colour as what’s beneath it.

Trenith.1832:

Shroom Mage.9410:

People let go of right-click during fights?

What’s all this about clicking skills? Why would you do that to yourself?

Yeah, how else do I lay down the 400 AOE circles I have as an Elementalist?
Even with auto-casting ground spells, I still have to let go and position my mouse where I want it to go. What class do you play that you don’t have to do this?

I play a necro in pvp with a sceptre,focus and the staff. i only let go of the R.mouse for a fraction of a second to cast with the staff and only longer if i have determined that it is ok to do so.

also start using the big huge fluorescent lime green area on the floor instead of quickcast, it makes for the worlds biggest an brightest cursor ever and it is right there in the game, it does not get anymore visible then that… really ,its like huge ! doh..

quickcast is not quick because you will lose track of your cursor no matter what color it is.

I never lose track of my cursor in other games but for some reason in this one I do on occasion lose it.

Smackjack notes about the green targeting indicator which works well enough with a large radius indicator but with a small radius indicator (mesmer blink), in the middle of WvW chaos, with a cursor position that makes the indicator out of range (and thus not bright green) then you’re in some serious trouble when you’ve lost the cursor.

I’m not sure if the problem is the cursor ‘hiding’ while right click is held down for camera panning or the actual color of the cursor/cursor border not contrasting enough.

This is the first game I’ve had this happen to me as well.

I don’t know what kind of cursor would be easiest to see in the thick of battle though. Maybe a negative-color one?

I wish there was a way to change it in game as easily as we can change windows cursors…

totally what i need too. i need to shake my mouse till i see wher it is smetimes, very bad for mmo

And all this time I thought it was just me. I never click the action bar, as in never, ever, but this still gets me killed or nearly killed all the time. Whether its my inability to click on that bad guy in the back tearing me to pieces because I don’t know where I’m pointing (then there’s the issue of sometimes being able to click-target, sometimes not, even if you happen to know where the pointer is, possibly worthy of another thread), or being unable to lay down ground aoes on time, this is annoying as all get-out.

I don’t even think its the cursor color/graphic anymore. I’m convinced the cursor simply vanishes all together during combat on many, many occasions. Glad I’m not alone at least, misery loves company.

This Issue actually hits me pretty hard. I’m “color deficient” in my vision :/

needs to let us change colors or between some differnert colors

Please give me the option to change the cursor color, there’s already enough light brown in any game ever.

Found this thread on a google search, wondering if there’s some kind of mouse cursor mod or something. This game gets carried away on particle effects and it’s too easy to lose the mouse cursor in there.

I need some ability to customize it.

We need this to be able to play if you want the game to be action oriented combat..

this game has more settings in options then any other game i have seen, but something like this that has been a problem since open beta still hasnt even been looked at…

I really have to agree on this subject. The mouse cursor is “lost” during combat and i have a hard time finding it sometimes. And, when using ground targeting (as i play necro alot, with marks) it is extremely annoying to say the least. Suddenly your placing a mark /spell 50 meters outside the combat area. Please, do as this favor to change the size and / or color of the cursor.

still no reply about this? its driving me nuts, zzzz cant we just change it to be like bright illuminate or something

if we edit the game file for it we will get baned ay

Agree with the mouse issue

Yes to options on mouse pointer color and size. I lose track of it in huge battles in WvWvW and would love being able to tweak my mouse pointer for better visibility.

Arena employee? Anyone?

yes, let us know where our cursor is at all times, please.

Agree with this

I’m convinced there’s a bug that makes the pointer disappear.

+300 for this topic. Please change the cursor so thakittens easier for people with color deficiency.

Yes absolutely, this is an asap fix that should be already here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/A-More-Visual-Mouse-Pointer-During-Battle/first#post2720531

Why not just add a checkbox to the options menu: “Use system cursor”. That way people have the option of using their default cursor in-game.

Appears this is a low priority with them, i lose several seconds of time that I would rather use fighting, and this can happen multiple times during just killing one monster. And of course, it’s fatal during pvp or wvw against a real player.

I have to target the monster or invader then move cursor to some skill and then try to find the dang thing again, wiggling it all over the place. No I dont play WoW, and have 14 fingers covering the entire keyboard including 8 of the number keys or whatever they have to do in that game to micro-manage. The cursor is much larger in the other games I play.

The ground in the game is chock full of light brown palette as someone mentioned.

Can’t they just give us this in the options menu somewhere. How hard can it be?

I agree, this has been an issue for both my wife and I for ages. We thought well maybe it was just us, we’re getting old or something… Glad to see that it’s not just us! Please, it should be such a simple fix that would help so many.

Jf you can run in windowed mode or “windowed full screen” you can use
https://github.com/fritzw/gw2-cursor I hope they make an in-game curser option soon

I would also like an option for a larger cursor, or heck, even mouse trails…

I would agree in this if my eyes wouldn’t be a predator’s one – tracking the movements precisely, instead of seeing difference between colors.
This is where my “Different Style UI GemStore Unlocks” cames in. Woot!