Guild Wars 2

Every 10 , 20 or 30 Minutes one has to reapply it. Often it simply gets left out due to oblivion, or it’s not available to your current Character.

Yea right, i’m talking about buff food. In order to prevent this issue one could simply add the buff food to the Hero panel as a personalization option for your character. If you use a buff, the duration of it gets added to the account. Then on the hero panel you can choose which buff to use and the time simply gets subtracted only if you activate it.

The duration of buffs is never synced to the content. Either you need 20 minutes for a dungeon and your buffs duration is 30 or 60 minutes. Or a dungeon needs 35 minutes and you’ve to apply two 30 minutes buffs. The remaining duration is then waisted. Also in dungeons with different kind of enemies (e.g. Fractals) you have to overwrite the buffs after just 5 minutes of use, which is simply a shame^^

Also stuff like e.g. the Birthday buff with a duration of 24 hours is a critical thing. Basically you’ve to stick as much as possible into this 24 hours. A friend of me actually refused to log onto a character he used it on, because like this he dedicated it to WvW.

I have two different systems, which could be added to this new option in order to simplify the handling.

1. (The better one) You can set a save station at any point in the world/dungeons/wvw etc.. If you interact with it, the buff setting you applied to it will be loaded to your character. This system could be perfectly coupled with a yet to come build save option.
If this would take up too much HD space it can simply be outsourced to the players directory.

2. Have a town/fractal/dungeon pre set which you can activate. And as soon as you enter Arah you load up Undeadslaying and your favorite food. If you then Waypoint to LA, you have no Buffs applyed to you etc.