Guild Wars 2

I think anyone who is a chef or has chef friends has found out that consumable buffs are actually pretty kickass. Even level 55 consumables can give a great boost to a level 80, and I’ve taken to bringing with me a hoard of pies to snarf down for extra precision and life on crit. However, it is pretty easy to forget to go into my inventory, find the pie, and use it when the buff wears off.

Thus, my suggestion: Put in a consumable slot somewhere in the skill bar, similar to the F1, F2, F3 etc skills. Bind it to something like F6, a key I don’t think anyone uses, and maybe add it on the right hand side where the boons are. It’d be amazing to just be able to hit F6 as soon as I see my boon fading, and then keep fighting.

You could also slot in different consumables just like you do with skills. You could hit the arrow and see all consumables available in your inventory and their current amounts, and swap them depending on your needs. I think having a slot in the bar would also encourage people who aren’t as aware of them to use them and keep them up consistently.

On an aside, the durations seem very generous. With an easily accessible hotkey and a reminder to keep them up, it might be better for supply/demand to have consumables have shorter durations, closer to 5-10 minutes. I was surprised and impressed that a lot of them last 30 minutes but maybe it’d be easier to go through my stash of over 100 pies if they went a bit faster. It would also help chef become a slightly more lucrative profession, instead of having to sell your valuable lotus root and saffron concoctions for a few paltry coppers.

Surprised at no responses, but then again, I did write this at 3am my time :p

I agree with your post. It’d be nice to have something on the UI to easily consume my chocolate cherries

Jemmi.6058:

I agree with your post. It’d be nice to have something on the UI to easily consume my chocolate cherries

Thanks! And seriously, once I find a consumable I like I usually just make a ton of them and go through them. It’d definitely be nice to streamline it a bit.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Inventory-Slot/first#post158453

I just made a post about this too. I’m all for it. I’ve had 7 Golem in a Box I just keep forgetting to activate since it’s in my inventory.

+1 – I post to /map ‘Will RP for food’ and people mail me food. I now have a whole bank expansion full of it because I forget to use it.

Agreed and plussed (it’s a word cuz I say so). It’s very clunky to have to open your inventory to activate items.

Thanks guys I know this isn’t the sort of idea that gets people all fired up and excited but it’s a simple convenience issue, it’d just be nice to have.

Yes please. There should be one slot for consumables (whether it be food or potions or whatever). One slot is all that is needed since most people probably just mass produce 1 consumable that they like (-cough- magic find -cough-).