Guild Wars 2

First of all I’d like to say that I really dig the GUI currently being used in GW2. It’s slick, clean and minimalistic as it should be. That being said however I do feel that there’s two things which could be added to the GUI that would i mprove the usefriendliness even further:

1. Create a small slotbar (lets say 4 slots would be enough) on the left middle side of the screen, giving room to drag and drop in any item the player desires. Such slots could be used for anything the player chooses, such as minipets, tonics, buff food etc

Why?
A: Because at the moment whenever things like minipets, food or tonics are needed by a player one has to open the inventory, scroll through the various bags and find the one item you need. A small extra slotbar would remedy this problem without causing any trouble in the overall sleekness of the GUI.

2. Place a button somewhere that allows players to swap two sets of gear at the mere press of a button. At present if one wants to swap items around you have to open the Hero-menu, right click on each individual item in question and change it.

Why?
A: It greatly minimizes the amount of clicking the player needs to do to achieve the desired setup. Whenever I’m doing dungeons for instance and I want to swap my condition damage kit for a much more healing focused set of clothes I have to swap around about 10 items all individually.

Allowing players to drag and drop items into two seperate paper doll overviews would greatly improve:
1. The overview players have of all items they have for each set of gear.
2. Speed and ease of use.

What you folks think?

I agree with 1., that option should exist.
2. should be an option in the hero panel, not directly in the UI or even a hotkey because that would be overused in WvW. The same option should exist for a second set of traits.

@Iruwen: The hero menu would indeed be a very logical location for such a button. In order to prevent abuse it would be an option to only allow people to swap kits:

1. Outside sPvP arenas/WvW battlegrounds/Dungeons, so that you cannot run a dungeon and constantly swap kits per encounter but must make a choice which one you stick with.

Or

2. Put it on a cooldown timer. So if you swapped around from condition damage to healing setup it’ll be another 5 min before you can swap again.

Both versions will force people to really think what they want to stick with, without taking away the improvement to the ease of use of customization.

I created my on thread on similar problem just now read yours
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Macro-or-visible-bag/first#post1898412