I don’t know how to call that new feature (new for me anyway), but some quest will replace our cursor with an item we have to use for the quest, so that clicking the NPC will actually use that item.
I have at least 2 quests now that I can’t complete because of that : I need to actually talk to the NPC, but because the cursor has been replaced by the item, the only thing I can do is use the item on that NPC.
And I checked through the option, and I can’t believe there are no option to disabled this.
How do I go around that? Is there a hidden option somewhere? Is there an addon I could use? Is there another way to just “talk” to the NPC?
Thank you
It should be a quest item, can you complete the quest attached to that item first?
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I need to talk to the NPC in order to complete the quest.
In one case, I had to bandage the NPC, then bandage 2 pets nearby and come back to the now healed NPC to complete the quest. But the bandage still show in place of the cursor so it just bandage it again and again.
In the other cast, I need to talk to the NPC to lure her farther, then cast the spell in my inventory. But the spell appears as the cursor so it just try to cast the spell, and I get an error saying that I cant use it here.
I would try exiting the game and then deleting your WoW cache folder to see if there is a corrupted file making things bug out. Won’t hurt anything and might actually fix it.
Which quest and on what character, Madanach? You seem to have a few that you are active on. 
I’ve done a lot of quests recently so they are all kind of a blur right now, but from what I recall the icon should change when you are hovering over an NPC that you can use it on. Similarly to how your cursor changes to a gear when you can activate something, or the mount icon when you can get into a vehicle. It should be normal for other interactions. If it isn’t changing back, that may be a UI issue. Tindomeral’s suggestion may help, but if not, I’d recommend resetting your User Interface.
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Yes I am an altoholic. But I admit it.
1rst Quest : Arelion’s Mistress
Character : Azmeran
Outland, Hellfire Peninsula
I have a scroll in my bag, and I need to talk to Viera Sunwhisper to lure her outside the town before casting it to her.
But I can’t talk to her because my cursor has the scroll already placed on my cursor.
I already abandonned that quest and went straight to Zangarmarsh.
Second quest : Pet Up
Character : Oreyn
Broken Isles
I had to heal Zantini, Stringfellowe and Speedy IV, then talk to Zantini to complete the quest. All 3 are healed, and the yellow “?” is above Zantini’s head, but the cursor is still replaced by the bandage I used to heal him.
Thank you. I just tried this one and I see what you mean.
It looks like if you right click on the NPC 2-3 times, with her favorite wine in your inventory, you’ll get the option to give it to her.
As for the other one, I didn’t have any issues with that quest but I see from comments on wowhead that others are. Their recommendation is to do a /reload ui. That seems to work for those that did it.
In either case, I would definitely submit bug reports on both quests so our QA team can take a look.
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I will certainly try the /reload ui this evening, when im at my computer. And I will also send the bug informations for those quests. But it saddens me a little that we can’t just toggle that option on or off, but hey, if reload UI works it will be just fine.
Thank you for your time.
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I have tried all your options by right-clicking 70 times and reloading, but nothing has happened, I cannot complete the quest, this is now 8 months after the original post.
Completed at long last, after so many clicks
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