Guild Wars 2

Many players, including me, are accustomed to using the right mouse button for mouse turning. In GW2, Mouse 2 — the right mouse button for most mice — defaults to mouse turning, which is good, but is a “special” button that can’t be remapped to other functions, which is bad.

Problematically, Mouse 2 also serves the same function in the open world as double-clicking with Mouse 1, and this behavior cannot currently be disabled. The result is that attempts to mouse-turn while the cursor is over any clickable in-game object amounts to a double-click on that object.

The consequences are often confusing, such as inadvertent target switching in combat, or potentially fatal, such as unwittingly attacking large onscreen presences such as mosshearts when simply trying to navigate past them. Attempting to mouse-turn in crowded situations such as dynamic events or WvW zergs is akin to spinning a roulette wheel, and losing control of a character in such circumstances is frustrating, to put it mildly.

I strongly suspect a wide range of complaints about Guild Wars 2’s targeting system are actually related to this behavior, and that many players I’ve seen complain about the targeting both in-game and in the forums would benefit if the right mouse button could be reserved for mouse turning.

Thus I ask that ArenaNet consider allowing players to disable the right mouse button for anything but mouse turning in the open world interface. Right-click functionality could be retained for menus, the skill bar and the like, but the redundant double-click effect on world objects would be removed with this option.

Alternatively, please allow mouse turning and Mouse 2’s multiple functions to be reassigned to other buttons in the Control Options dialog.

Offering the ability to safely mouse-turn without risking unwanted consequences would make the game much more playable for me, and I’m pretty sure it would do the same for many other players.

Thanks for reading this.

This times a million. I can’t keep a target on a single fight, I always right click to change camera → boom, just targeted and auto attacked random neutral mob.

Specially fun with thief using expensive initiative skills and changing camera angle. Steal going to full recharge after trying to steal something from an ally or trying to use some ranged skill on ally. Also awesome with warrior using the kill shot, but luckily I won’t lose my adrenaline even if I try to blast my ally’s face off.

Don’t forget when you are fighting an enemy in a farm, you go to move the camera and start harvesting.

Or stop fighting to res someone.

Or open up an NPC dialog box.

Why isn’t there an option to mouse turn without pressing any buttons. Why would I want to turn only my camera. This is the most akward feeling part of the game for me.

Yea this needs to be fixed i’m sick of it, This is my number one problem with gw2

This is something that has been bothering more and more lately, just want to show my support of having this option added.

This has to be fixed ASAP! all that festival crap while still main mechanics of the game are broken… I bought the collector’s edition of the game because i believed in it, and yet i got the tunnelvision FOV (without a sufficient justification other than: “our game was’t meant to be like that”) and no right click target disable… i am losing fate…

therefore: BUMP!

I agree 100%

The Mouse 2 functionality in GW2 is not intuitive at all, because it deviates so strongly from every other title I actively play. At the very least an option to customize its functionality to disable its effect on targeting/attacking would be fantastic.

+1
I really want to see that change, sometimes is so frustrating when you turn and it picks different target.