Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this has been raised in the past, but is there a way to toggle hide/show the tool tips for skills? Some skills have tons of chain moves that tend to clutter up the screen.

I know some people are used to using the keyboard for everything, but it’s kind of hard when you have a tiny keyboard and big hands. :/

You mean the text that appears when you mouse over a skill? I did not know this was a tooltip, it looks closer to some piece of lore or something

The text actually describes the skills effect, duration, etc. and is fine the first time around. But when you’ve used the same skill, like, 1000 times…

I am also seeking a way to remove the tooltips.

I assume this was never resolved, and there isn’t a way to do this, which is unfortunate, because like many, I’m a clicker, and will always be a clicker.

Tooltips really get in the way.

Hopefully an option is added in a future patch (please!)

This is one of my biggest bugbears. Some skillchain tooltips reach nearly to the top of the screen. A simple toggle on/off button in the options menu would suffice and is so easy to implement that I don’t know why the option isn’t already present.

Not just that but its really freaken annoying when I right click an item to see its menus options on to have it completely blocked by the kitten tooltip. Maybe not a hide option at least a relocation option so I can place it somewhere it wont block my view.

the option to remove it is to stop skill clicking.

Re-do your keybinds so you never have to use a mouse for anything other than camera control.

TexZero.7910:

the option to remove it is to stop skill clicking.

Re-do your keybinds so you never have to use a mouse for anything other than camera control.

Also one option to never get a headache again is to decapitate yourself.

I asked about this ages ago, they won’t change it. GW2’s ui/overlay elements are all about invasiveness and clutter, not being able to see GW2.

Wish they would replace the pointless skill effects box with a ‘Show/Hide Massive Tool Tips’ box though.

this has always been a glaring dark mark for this game: the UI is horrible. this game would improve ten-fold if we just had something as simple as customizable UI options.

I wish they would give us the option too, im near sure we had this option in GW1 to disable the skill description unless we had our edit skill bar open, ( in the case of GW2 this would be the Hero tab )

Ideally we could disable it or worst case put a 3 second delay on tooltips. When I roll over my shatters skills the key areas of the center of the screen are covered.

Paul.4081:

TexZero.7910:

the option to remove it is to stop skill clicking.

Re-do your keybinds so you never have to use a mouse for anything other than camera control.

Also one option to never get a headache again is to decapitate yourself.

I asked about this ages ago, they won’t change it. GW2’s ui/overlay elements are all about invasiveness and clutter, not being able to see GW2.

Wish they would replace the pointless skill effects box with a ‘Show/Hide Massive Tool Tips’ box though.

I mean if you want to go to the extreme sure you can decapitate yourself.

My point was that its far faster to push buttons than scroll your mouse everywhere, and you’ll notice a drastic increase in your actual player skill if you rebind your keys instead of clicking but hey continue on looking for a fix to a non-issue.

TexZero.7910:

Paul.4081:

TexZero.7910:

the option to remove it is to stop skill clicking.

Re-do your keybinds so you never have to use a mouse for anything other than camera control.

Also one option to never get a headache again is to decapitate yourself.

I asked about this ages ago, they won’t change it. GW2’s ui/overlay elements are all about invasiveness and clutter, not being able to see GW2.

Wish they would replace the pointless skill effects box with a ‘Show/Hide Massive Tool Tips’ box though.

I mean if you want to go to the extreme sure you can decapitate yourself.

My point was that its far faster to push buttons than scroll your mouse everywhere, and you’ll notice a drastic increase in your actual player skill if you rebind your keys instead of clicking but hey continue on looking for a fix to a non-issue.

Please listen to this guy. Get a mouse with more buttons on it, bind them to 6-10 and profession skills, then use keyboard 1-5 for weapon skills. 10x better, no tooltips and it will improve your skill because you won’t have to look at the skill bar anymore.

It is known.

Or, you know, Anet could fix the issue.
Those who click are happy, those who don’t click don’t get the problem anyway and so were already happy.
Yay, happiness for all.

The tooltips are a real-bummer, scarring an otherwise awesome UI. Please add a configurable hover time. It is disappointing that the main part of the screen is covered constantly.

Any possibility this will ever be addressed?

Hmm, my thought was that skills are to be operated with keys 1-0 above qwerty, not mouse clicking (which is absurd in an MMO).
Thankfully, I’ve had a Razer Naga for 5years and have all of my skills and Fskills bound to it.

This “fix” you’re asking for is not needed. Mousing over something was always intended to be used to grab more info about the target you land on. That’s why you have tooltips for everything you own on your account.

Wanting to fix something that isn’t broken is a bit of a waste of resources.

Pilot.6094:

The tooltips are a real-bummer, scarring an otherwise awesome UI. Please add a configurable hover time. It is disappointing that the main part of the screen is covered constantly.

Any possibility this will ever be addressed?

Even a one-second delay would be helpful.

I just wish some of you would realize that some people are clickers and will remain clickers. That is their right just like it is your right to play the game the way that you are comfortable.

I too would like to see that option in game. No I am not a clicker, I usually use keybinds. What is also annoying is when my mouse gets bumped, and accidently lands on a skill, and the tooltip pops up as I am fighting. I have to reach over and move my mouse off of the skill to get that huge box to go away. Give us an option to hide it, please.

It’s great some people use a Razer Naga, I do, but still prefer a combination of clicks and mouse keys. Most players do not have a Razer and it is a design flaw. If skills weren’t meant to be clicked they should remove that option from the UI, I’m sure that would go over well. Everyone can have their own play style, a good UI can easily support everyone’s needs. The fact that you are not a clicker is meaningless – it is a serious flaw in an otherwise excellent UI.

Can you change the behavior of the skill tooltips, by adding a rollover delay (ideally configurable) before they pop up? As a mesmer rolling over any of my shatters completely covers the center of the screen where all the action takes place. It really is a shame because the UI is go great everywhere. Combat involves me looking at tooltips that I’ve seen a million times rather than the enemy in front of me.

I would imagine this is quite a simple thing to adjust and it would add so much to the immersion and usability.

I can imagine how annoying it could be mainly with shatter skills as their tooltips are huge and show up instantly , however I’m wondering… do you really use mouse that much to click on those skills? Or you are just used to randomly release your mouse over the skill bar and then accidentally hovering those skills? My main is a mesmer and I just wonder how someone would be able to play having it click on each and all skills there. Sorry if you have some issue or something that require you to play in a different manner, in this case apologize me for this comment and ignore it.

Everyone has their own play style, I’m sure ANet can see the stats on how many people click vs use hotkeys. I’d wager most players still click. I use both personally situationally. Mousing and clicking is no more difficult than hotkeys (with the exception of the obstructed view).

Everyone saying “You should just use keys”, you need to relax.
I use keys and a gaming mouse, but I understand there are people who don’t.
How will it harm me if there is an option added? Not one bit.
I have an option to run the game with minimum graphics, I don’t use it, but it makes life better for some people.

You’re like people I’ve seen on other games forums saying they don’t use this feature or that feature so they want it removed, no consideration for others!

Peace out!

yes I need this option so we can turn it on or off

I would really like to be able to toggle the tooltips off also.

Agree I would like to have the tooltips go away too, clicking has always felt more natural to me.

OR, and this has to have been brought up in the past but the search function on this forum is all but useless so why bother looking, they could have a UI like LOTRO where you could move all your UI elements around wherever you want or toggle them on/off, or open up the game to addons which would be even better. I would have gotten bored with WoW long before I finally left if I hadn’t spent so much time farting around with my UI.

Edit: Stop clicking your skills!

As a semi-clicker, I agree. I use hotkeys for 1-5 but anything farther than that is simply not comfortable for my left hand so I click, lol.

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