Guild Wars 2

I guess some of you might find this a strange request, and I’m sure that the vast majority of the player-base wouldn’t want this at all, but I think it would be really nice to have a consumable that would let me forget my traits.

I say this because the one thing that I like about the new trait system changes, is the little quest/treasure hunt to actually get the books required to add new traits to my character. I think it’s a great nod back to the GW1 skill system, and I would really like to experience it.

However as I already have my current character slots filled, and I don’t really want to delete any of my existing characters. This means that I’m only likely to get to experience the new trait collecting system if I buy an additional character slot to get the chance to play it, which I’m unlikely to do until a new race comes out.

Something like a ‘Potion of Forgetfulness’ would be great, you take it and it warns you that you will forget your traits and be forced to hunt them down (or buy the books) in order to learn them again. You then confirm that you want to forget your traits, and they get reset to the status that a new character would have.

You could perhaps release the potions on the Gem store with a special offer initially allowing us to get up to 5 of them for free (one for each default character slot), and then sell them for a nominal fee for resets beyond the default 5, or resets after this initial trial period.

The reason I suggest the Gem store is that a player needs to be REALLY sure that they would want something like this, and those that do would probably be prepared to pay gems for it. I’d avoid putting them in BLC though, because players might be a bit irritated to get an item that they’d never consider using in the BLC.

However, a subset of players (like me) would be really happy to reset our traits and go without them for a little while, so that we can go out into the world to re-capture them. Another subset would probably be happy with the option of paying gems to reset them ‘again’ after capturing them so they can repeat the process.

You could perhaps also include an achievement track for capturing the traits in the wild (not buying them and not getting them free because you have an existing character), but that’s less important to me than having the ability to experience this system without needing to delete my characters.

TL:DR

I’d like a consumable (gem store would be best) that will allow me forget all my traits. This would let me experience the new GW1-like system, without deleting one of my characters or buying a new character slot.