Gathering Question (User Interface)

[Drosser]

I'm a PC player and I noticed something today, while I was mining. I ctrl+clicked on one of the options from the window and it brought up that cusor hand that points at things from the side. Much like the Wind-Up Cursor minion. If you don't move the mouse, it just stays there and locked onto one of the lines. Is there a reason for this? Is there something I'm missing? I'm curious as to what this could be.

[Estellios]

All I can think of is that for whatever reason that activates the gamepad selection cursor which is the hand that you saw.

[Niwashi]

On a PS3/PS4 controller, that indicates the item you'll harvest. You use up/down buttons to set it to the item you want and then X to activate the mining action. I assume it's comparable on PC with keyboard/mouse. A player who prefers the mouse could click items directly (so wouldn't really need a selection indicator) while a player who prefers the keyboard could use up/down arrows to select and enter to harvest the selected one.

(I'm speaking from knowledge on the PS3/PS4 part of that comment, but from conjecture on the PC part.)

[Nuker]

The keyboards numpad can be used to move through menus, 8 is up, 2 is down and so on. In gathering you can click on the option you want to farm (e.g. mining copper ore, you select copper ore on the first node) then for each point after, get close get close to the node, press 0/ins on the numpad to select the node, again to open the menu and a 3rd (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th depending on the node) press to mine the item

I can't say why ctrl+clicking bought the hand up for you as on mine it's up all the time when gathering as I use the above method to get through it faster.

Nuker...