Guild Wars 2

have four consumable items slots in the main game screen. use f5-f8 keys as the macro keys to use these items. any consumable items can be placed into these slots. these consumables would be an easy way to use consumables when readying for an event or doing other things like dungeons or leveling an alt. these slots would save bag space also (only four unless more sets could be cycled through). These four slots would retain the items for the whole account so that any alt could use them without having to swap or transfer consumables. soul bound items may have a problem with these slots though..

I think that would be too close to the potions used in other games, which I know anet stated they want to get away from.

While I would enjoy having less stuff cluttering up my bags, I don’t think this will realistically be changed any time soon.

Lorgus.6148:

I think that would be too close to the potions used in other games, which I know anet stated they want to get away from.

Can you elaborate on this? Did Anet also say why they wanted to get away from that?

Its better than having your bag open and push it to one of the corners so you can click them.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

Lorgus.6148:

I think that would be too close to the potions used in other games, which I know anet stated they want to get away from.

Can you elaborate on this? Did Anet also say why they wanted to get away from that?

I don’t recall where I heard it but I think it’s the same rationale behind not having mana bars and manacosts. Health potions make health just another bar to manage (kinda like mana) and bar management makes the game “unfun”