Guild Wars 2

This could be a popular option: Clicking on a skill button on the skill bar, instead of triggering the skill, would pop up the window that enables you to change one skill for another.

The current set up is just the opposite of what I need: A relatively big skill button that I never-never use to trigger the skill, and a very narrow band with a tiny arrow/triangle, onto which I must carefully bring my cursor in order to change the skill.

Of course, you can’t change a skill while fighting. That’s the way the game works, and I don’t disagree with that. If, during a battle, I wish to change a skill for another, I just move away until I get out of combat, and change the skill before returning to the battle. But if I accidentally hit the skill button instead of that narrow thing, then I am twice punished: Didn’t get the wanted skill, and triggered the skill I didn’t need, all for nothing!

Making it a bit easier to change skills would encourage players to diversify their tactics. More fun!

Well some of us use some skills by clicking on them, I particularly only use 1-5 on hotkeys and every utility I use by clicking them with my mouse so your suggestions would greatly hinder my playstyle, however I do agree that the little arrow is too small, my suggestion would be that instead of the little arrow we could swap skills by right-clicking skills to open the list of other skills, and that left-click would still retain its current function. However now that I mentioned this, I don’t think I ever right clicked a skill and in fact don’t know what that actually does at the moment so I’ll need to go try it out…

Doomguard.5094:

your suggestions would greatly hinder my playstyle

Perhaps you didn’t notice that I put the word “option” in bold? :-)

An option: Just like other available options (disable double-tap for dodge, free camera, AoE fired with just one click, etc.)

edit: I should have written about a “setting” rather than an option.

Since you’ll mostly use the Utility Skills in combat, I could get behind this option.

Would make swapping the skills out easier and quicker, for those that want the option.
And for those that like it the way things are now: Leave the option off.