Guild Wars 2

It would be nice if the weapon slots could be reorganized to fit user’s preference.
I like to use buttons 2 and 4 as primary action buttons. However for a Elementalist Staff 4 is set to burning retreat which I don’t use as often. I would like set Burning Retreat as 3 and Flame Burst as 4. That way I can still run away and cast flame burst easily.

While you can remap the buttons 1-5 to a different order, this is NOT a good solution.
The reason being it would remap the buttons for EVERY class. Instead have a class specific drag and drop ability would be more effective. Simply dragging a weapon slot to another slot to swap would be simple UI, and very easy to implement since you are just swapping elements of an array.

Sounds simple on paper, but other classes have a second weapon set that could and often does comprise of 4 weapons total, would an “offhand” weapon still be considered offhand if 4&5 are tied to 1&2? Also, many players run different weapons depending on where they are (mesmer focus/Warrior, Necro etc. warhorn – for speed). This may not be one of their primary battle weapons, but 1 the player keeps in inventory for special use. What happens to the binding if a player switches a weapon?

It’s not perfect, but I think the simplest solution would be to allow us to rearrange skills in the ‘Weapon skills’ screen (which displays all of our weapons and their abilities) via drag-and-drop as the OP suggests. Place a ‘Default’ button next to each weapon that would sort them back to their 1-2-3/4-5 order.

This would probably only work within the weapon skills themselves (1H Mainhand would swap 1-2-3 but not 4-5. Offhands could swap 4-5 but not 1-2-3, and 2H could swap any of the 5). That way whenever you equip the weapon, the skills will be in the order you have chosen.

I’m not sure if Engineer Kits appear on the menu, but I would hope they could be rearranged too.

Edit: Conjures as well. What about transformations? This might start getting a bit out of hand.