Guild Wars 2

I’d like to request an enhancement: optional, moveable hot bars. Can come from an item (like a “utility belt” or other equippable item), or can just be something that can be added as an optional UI element. I see it as a small 4- or 5- item extra set of icons that, when clicked, use an item or consumable, or equip a piece of gear. This would NOT offer more Inventory space (items would still need to be placed into the inventory screen), they’d just allow me a “short cut” to access them on-demand.

I’d love something like this for when I want to:

• Keep food handy for dungeons – it’s a pain to have to open my inventory, then locate my food, especially in the middle of big fights. I usually carry around 3 or 4 different food items, but usually forget to use them because they’re buried at the “bottom” of my inventory screen.

• Use certain consumables like the Ash Legion Spy Kit (useful as a 10-second panic button in PvE but only if you keep the inventory screen open so you can rapidly-access the item)

• Put my minipets on a special little bar so I can flip between them when RPing.

• On my Warrior or even my Ranger, keep seldom-used weapons that I carry around with me but usually don’t have time to swap to.

• Etc.

If you really want to make me happy, just allow me to invoke as many as I want, which I can drag around on the UI wherever I want to place them.

How about it? Pleeeeeze?

would like to see this too!

Yees!

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I agree this doesent seem pointless, i could fill five extra slots easy....

Also along the same lines, it would be nice for 2 hero screen combat dolls. At the moment we have one combat and one town doll with slots... I would like to be able to upgrade with gems to 2 combat dolls so i can switch entire armor sets at click of a button.

Jezath.7395:

I agree this doesent seem pointless, i could fill five extra slots easy….

Also along the same lines, it would be nice for 2 hero screen combat dolls. At the moment we have one combat and one town doll with slots… I would like to be able to upgrade with gems to 2 combat dolls so i can switch entire armor sets at click of a button.

Not a bad idea, but I’d add this as a stand-alone request, as it’s very different than what I had in mind (more like Weapon Switching, but with armor than a general “utility belt” sort of thing). That said… I’d certainly use it!!

ImagoX.4718:

Jezath.7395:

I agree this doesent seem pointless, i could fill five extra slots easy....

Also along the same lines, it would be nice for 2 hero screen combat dolls. At the moment we have one combat and one town doll with slots... I would like to be able to upgrade with gems to 2 combat dolls so i can switch entire armor sets at click of a button.

Not a bad idea, but I’d add this as a stand-alone request, as it’s very different than what I had in mind (more like Weapon Switching, but with armor than a general "utility belt" sort of thing). That said... I’d certainly use it!!

Yeah i agree, so I did here it is..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Hero-page-Armour-Town-doll-upgrade/first#post860187

I will appreciate any ideas on how to make the title better or more informative lol..

Yes please. Though you might want to change the title of this topic. Extra hotbars, no… I don’t want this to become wow. But a item belt bar would be SO necessary in my opinion. The way it is now is a nightmare :p all we need are 3-5 slots and it would make the game so much better.

Absolutely useless and more bullcrap on my screen that is UI that i have to look at. I would like to see infront of me not some random UI item bar that has absolutely NO BUSINESS ON MY SCREEN. how hard is it to put your food items at the top of your inventory and be done with it? are you so lazy you want a button to fight you fights, manage your food buffs which are super easy to do fyi.
why are you asking for such a pointless thing that can be achieved by applying BRAINZ. ?

no really, why do you need it? its like addons for other games like WOW. they had addons, and the people stopped playing the game but became a game of press the UI

In DDO, you can have 20 hot bars. Why AN stuck us with only one is beyond my comprehension.

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One of the main selling points of this game was the reduction in hot bars. I personally see no need in this and so oppose adding them.

This is a want and so should be ignored

Drasleona.5049:

no really, why do you need it? its like addons for other games like WOW. they had addons, and the people stopped playing the game but became a game of press the UI

I gave several reasons why – guess you didn’t bother reading. Don’t like/want them? Don’t use them – easy enough. Me, I’d like a nice, little 5 or 6-slot “utility belt” area for the stuff I don’t want to bother with opening the full UI pane to access. Guess gawd-like playerz like you don’t need that kind of help. Gratz.

Drasleona.5049:

Absolutely useless and more bullcrap on my screen that is UI that i have to look at. I would like to see infront of me not some random UI item bar that has absolutely NO BUSINESS ON MY SCREEN. how hard is it to put your food items at the top of your inventory and be done with it? are you so lazy you want a button to fight you fights, manage your food buffs which are super easy to do fyi.
why are you asking for such a pointless thing that can be achieved by applying BRAINZ. ?

no really, why do you need it? its like addons for other games like WOW. they had addons, and the people stopped playing the game but became a game of press the UI

By this logic, why have hotbars at all? Why not leave your skill sheet open and just choose skills from there? Better yet, let’s get rid of all UI elements and just have everything be /commands. Go back to the MUD days. Because progress is clearly meant only for the lazy.

If you use the thing you are claiming people are lacking, you’d see why your post is devoid of it.

Nate Gray.9241:

Drasleona.5049:

Absolutely useless and more bullcrap on my screen that is UI that i have to look at. I would like to see infront of me not some random UI item bar that has absolutely NO BUSINESS ON MY SCREEN. how hard is it to put your food items at the top of your inventory and be done with it? are you so lazy you want a button to fight you fights, manage your food buffs which are super easy to do fyi.
why are you asking for such a pointless thing that can be achieved by applying BRAINZ. ?

no really, why do you need it? its like addons for other games like WOW. they had addons, and the people stopped playing the game but became a game of press the UI

By this logic, why have hotbars at all? Why not leave your skill sheet open and just choose skills from there? Better yet, let’s get rid of all UI elements and just have everything be /commands. Go back to the MUD days. Because progress is clearly meant only for the lazy.

If you use the thing you are claiming people are lacking, you’d see why your post is devoid of it.

get rid of all UI elements? puhh please. when did i say that? i said something thats a peripheral and a freaking convenience thing that can be one in 2 actions, doesn’t cause an issue to me. have you heard of lineage 2? it has a lot of skills to use. i play that game with the ui off, and its fun. especially in pvp, because i dont know my own health i fight better.

now i’ve been in dungeons used consumable items and i find it super easy. i have my inventory set to open at a specific region on the screen so when i hit the hotkey for inventory i know 100% where the item im looking for is. its right where the party ui is when its at the top left. do i need an extra ui sitting on my screen because it takes me 2 clicks to do it. no.

why do i want a clean ui and screen, so that i can see the person whos biting the dust, so i know where my pet is, so i am aware of whats coming at me. i dont play the UI. i play the Game with the UI as a convenience on its own. its very easy to play gw2 with UI off, when your health gets low you can see it on the edges of the screen.

minor gripes such as oh im too stupid to organise my inventory when i know i will be needing an item from it in the next hour probably [ dungeons ].

simple fact of the matter is. its a mindless idea and i have no idea why this is needed. there is a 2 keystroke method of doing this, why not learn it?

Yes, I would like to see hotbars, just not so much that they fill my screen.. I think one 5 slot hotbar would be good.

I guess it would depend on the extra hot bar is used for. Unlike in more conventional MMOs, each segment of the hotbar in GW2 serves a specialized purpose. For instance:

• Tilde (~) : Swap weapon
• 1 – 5: Equipped weapon skills (including those from Environmental weapons and bundles)
• 6: Healing ability
• 7 – 9: Utility skills
• 10: Elite skills
• F1 ~ F4: Special abilities

There’s a certain kind of genius behind the skill layout and how it’s uniform across all professions and every player who plays them. If an extra hotbar were to be introduced, it would have to serve a dedicated purpose instead of a general purpose that extra hotbars in other MMOs usually serve.

I’m thinking this:

• ALT + 1: “Apple” consumable (eg. Most foods)
• ALT + 2: “Wrench” consumable (eg. Sharpening stones, tuning crystals, artificer potions)
• ALT + 3: “Black Lion” consumable (eg. Karma booster, Repair kit, Revive Orb, etc)

This bar could be placed where the Boons and Conditions currently appear, while the new locations for those Boons and Conditions could be above this new bar, or even above the HP orb.

I think that seems reasonable. Those are consumables that generally have a lasting effect and would be nice to access for quicker reactivation before the expiration of that buff. At least that would have dedicated purpose: consumables. However, having a hotbar just so you could consume a Karma jug without opening your bags is just plain silly.

Optional Hotbars for Consumables & Mini-pets would be nice.

I`d say it`s best to add optional hot bar/sidebar with 5 or so slots, which you could enable and disable from menu. Not necessarily to add hot keys to it (though it never hurts to assign them through options), but a small organized list of consumables would be really handy.

rather than making more bars on the screen why not just patch in a num-pad 1-9 item hotkey that u can tab open in ur inv and place what u want there. i think that would be most excellent.

this is a good idea. i dont see myself using it but i can see how others would.

Yes please, some manner of hotbar where you could put consumable/on use items in, like: Potions, Food, Siege plans etc. That would work wonders!

Why is this thread back again.

NO one of dont want them UI is fine

Krosslite.1950:

Why is this thread back again.

NO one of dont want them UI is fine

Obviously people do.