I would love an action bar.
How I envision an action bar to appear in GW2:
I would like it to include a space for Toys/Gizmos (such as Bobblehead Lab, player instruments), a space each for food, utility buff and a booster, mounts (e.g. magic carpet, riding broom) as well as a space for a costume brawl weapon.
The spaces would be item-type specific, so you wouldn’t be able to put e.g. food in a utility buff space, or a booster in a costume brawl weapon space.
It’d be great if this bar was account-wide, so you could access these particular items without having to drop them off/pick them up from your bank.
I don’t think that this set-up would create exploitable niches. If there was a worry that this would benefit low level alts too much or be too confusing for new players, I’m sure Anet would just level gate it anyway.
Just to clarify: in my mind, the action bar would be like a seperate account-wide inventory space- not just a hotkey-type-system to a particular item located in your bag.
If anything, I’m sure Anet would highly benefit from a system like this. Allowing players to access gem-store items on characters without cluttering their inventory/bank may improve sales. I know plenty of people who don’t have player instruments/toys because they know that they’d sit in their bank and not be used (because they don’t want to clutter inventory space). My point here is that these gem store items will appear more attractive to players, thus a potential rise in sales. There could even be some sort of incentive for repeat purchases (e.g. if you buy two instruments, you get a total of two instrument slots).
I’ve also seen people discuss similar ideas for WvW blueprints and certain tokens (e.g. geodes and bandit crests). I think spaces for WvW blueprints would be handy, but it would be difficult to include all varieties without cluttering this action bar. Geodes/Bandit Crests belong in the account wallet as a currency in my opinion as they are largely similar to dungeon tokens.
