World of Warcraft®

In Warcraft III the Mouse cursor changed depending on the faction you were playing, for example an undead hand for the scourge, green hand for orcs, or a night elf hand for the elves. In World of Warcraft we only have the human based cursor depend less if the player is aligned with the horde, is there a way to change that or no?

Most of WoW's textures, sounds, spell data etc can be extracted from the <wow dir>/data/*.mpq files. Among them, some can be replaced by custom files by simply creating a file: for instance, if in patch.mpq, you find a file called "sounds/creatures/somesound", create a directory called <wow dir>/data/sounds/creatures and put a sound file called "somesound", it will be used instead of the file in patch.mpq. However, for some other files (like, mostly, 3D textures), this does not work as it could be exploited to make some objects transparent (like a wall in WSG), or more visible (like a flag carrier in WSG). Actually, it was done by modifying the mpq file itself, which is no longer possible.

Anyway, my point is that the texture of the cursor is probably somewhere in these files. If you google "mpq extractor" or this kind of things, you should find a tool and some explanation about how to use it. Try to see if you can find the cursor, and when you do, try to replace it with something else by creating a file.

I am almost certain that there is no way to do it via an addon (which would automatically decide which cursor to use based on the faction, etc). You could do something awful which is to display something around your cursor, but it would be slow, consuming (in terms of cpu power), and ugly.

I want this as well, and I want the option to make it bigger. if you got a large monitor you almost need a magnifying glass to see the cursor.