Guild Wars 2

So this is a plea to roll trait behaviour behaviour back to how it was initially in beta.
I honestly don’t think ArenaNet could have possibly gathered enough data in order to make this change a viable one, and what we’re seeing now is the result.

Class diversity is incredibly low at the moment, due to desirable traits being locked behind major investment. Players are pouring all of their trait points into particular lines, leaving others out of favour.
This is also compounded by how slow and expensive it is to gather enough armour sets to allow true class experimentation.

The change was made because ArenaNet perceived that certain trait combinations were incredibly powerful when all major traits could be chosen at any degree of mastery.
But I honestly don’t think the limited time available in beta was enough to allow the playerbase to come up with effective counters.

Who’s with me?

Not me, A-net already killed the trinity while I want classes to be more proactive about build choices, as what you would propose would turn our character professions into straightjackets. Raising the level cap to 99 would help as well as making it so that when all is said and done you have exactly 90 trait points to spend at max level would be best. Beyond that you just make it so that people would not have to think about build choices and professions would be too powerful.

Irena.1062:

…and professions would be too powerful.

I’m not saying I agree with TC, but if all professions are too powerful, then none of them are too powerful.

I prefer being forced to make choices on how to build my class