Guild Wars 2

We just need an option to make it more visible. It frequently gets lost in the effects. It’s especially bad if you have smartcasting activated.
And yes, this is PvP.

OMG, thats it!! I always loose sight of the cursor. Fix it please!
All hail mesmers.

This has been a problem in almost every MMO, and even some RTS type games, not a whole lot can fix it simply due to the nature of games now having so many effects. Best thing I can suggest is to go into your mouse settings and under pointer options enable the mouse finder toggle and tab ctrl when you need to find your pointer.

I must totaly agree. When I played Warhammer Online I had same problem and solve it by replacing cursor for this fantastic crosshair. I never lost a track after. I wish to have it here also!
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3086/6wo1.jpg

Jamais vu.5284:

We just need an option to make it more visible. It frequently gets lost in the effects. It’s especially bad if you have smartcasting activated.
And yes, this is PvP.

sorry to ask: what is smartcasting?

kito.1827:

Jamais vu.5284:

We just need an option to make it more visible. It frequently gets lost in the effects. It’s especially bad if you have smartcasting activated.
And yes, this is PvP.

sorry to ask: what is smartcasting?

Its a setting that affects ground targeted abilities. Whenever you use a ground targeted skill (EX: Grenade, Frozen Ground) instead of seeing the green circle before pressing again to activate it, the ability activates right away on the position that your mouse cursor is at.

+1.
Happened to me before because of the Fast-Ground-Target option

This has been suggested a while ago (in a big thread with a lot of other suggestions) and Anet actually replied. If I remember correctly they said they are thinking about it.

I can’t find the thread right now but one of the suggestions in it was “reduced animations”. It should be somewhere in my post history.

The problem is the haysack, not the needle.

Oh and the cursor gets invisible when you move the camera which makes is extra harder to find it in a big fight :p

This is especially true in WvW, I’ve literally spent a solid 5seconds before moving my mouse around trying to find the cursor. (that’s pretty horrible in the middle of a fight lol)

All the pro’s play with minimal special effects, if your playing to win you don’t need to see all the useless graphics that slows you down, you just need to see when your opponent goes down and when hes dead.

Yes! It would be amazing if ANet added an option to make the cursor bright and shiny in some way so that you could use it more easily with smartcasting!

This would be a very easy thing to change in game, but it would make a huge difference to a lot of players.

Rozbuska.5263:

I must totaly agree. When I played Warhammer Online I had same problem and solve it by replacing cursor for this fantastic crosshair. I never lost a track after. I wish to have it here also!
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3086/6wo1.jpg

I’d like an option to display vertical and horizontal lines that indicate where your cursor is like in this pic.

Yea I often find myself trying to locate my cursor again…sucks during clutch times when you’re trying to target someone and it just gets lost in the crowd.

Super Riceman.8702:

kito.1827:

Jamais vu.5284:

We just need an option to make it more visible. It frequently gets lost in the effects. It’s especially bad if you have smartcasting activated.
And yes, this is PvP.

sorry to ask: what is smartcasting?

Its a setting that affects ground targeted abilities. Whenever you use a ground targeted skill (EX: Grenade, Frozen Ground) instead of seeing the green circle before pressing again to activate it, the ability activates right away on the position that your mouse cursor is at.

oh ok, i know that one. but its called “fast cast ground targeting” and not smartcasting…

Hahaha happened to me before, in PvE, WvW, and PvP. +1
Sometimes I even have to shake the mouse cursor few times across the screen to spot it.