Guild Wars 2

I would like a place/box to place food items in onscreen. I hate opening up the inventory to find my food item every time i want to use it. I know ANet wants to keep the UI as clean as possible but to me this is a problem. be really nice to have a consumable box onscreen.

I agree consumables are a bit clunky at the moment.

A similar solution would be to give potions and food a slot to drop them in where they would be used automatically. A key-bind or visual toggle would be useful to turn off the auto consumption when not needing the buff.

ooh. I like grubnicks idea. dedicate a food slot in our bag. Ever Quest did this sort of. once you ate some food you would keep eating when your hungry if you had food. This way the buff that food provided stayed up. However it always calculated from the top left(been a LONG time). So yeah. I like the idea of auto eating don’t need a HUD ui box though.

This would be Awesome! The UI box could also be used for monitoring:
Number of items collected while harvesting, when i need X amount more for my item.
A certain harvesting tool for uses left
Number of items collected for a NPC during events
Other consumables like Sharpening Stones
Wear on my favorite piece of gear
Etc.

Good idea, and something I’ve wanted on a few occasions.

This is an occasion where a game with more customizable action bars would win. Though… it wouldn’t really help me, with my 10 bag slots taken up by the various foods I discovered while leveling my cooking =P