Food is a great boost to stats when eaten but unfortunately I always forget to eat it when in a big fight, or I eat one and then it wears off while I am fighting and I am too distracted to eat another. This I feel reduces the functionality of food in the game by a lot.
My suggestion would be to give the player an option to set a stack of food to auto consume so that it refreshes once expired. This then would continue to be consumed until the stack runs out or the player turns off the auto consume.
Benefits would include:
- Better use of food in the game (food would become less pointless)
- Increase the market of food through the Black Lion Trading Company
- Encourage more players to not only craft more food but also harvest more ingredients.
Please feel free to comment on this suggestion. This also could be added to other consumables like maintenance oils and sharpening stones etc.