Guild Wars 2

Builds
We still cannot save our Builds, I am really sorry about this situation. I would like to play more offensive, but my expirience warns me for doing so (even with my defensive Builds, I often switch also to my defensive armor to stay alive for longer in critical situations). My wish would be 1 Build (only Traitpoints) for each Traitline (means the NPC asks you about your Earthmagic-Build and you give him your points, it is not only needed to use any points for Earthmagic, it is only called so to reduce your Builds to 5).

For each of your Builds, you can save Traits and skills with name. You can switch freely between these builds, even if they have different Builds (big letter, if i mean only the points). You have a new rider for loading/saving/deleting them, for example there are listed your builds below your Builds, you can save “cantrips” below “Earth Magic” and below “Fire Magic”, if you have two a “cantrip-build” for both Builds. This way you can switch fast between a offensive build and a defensive build without looking on the traits (with my Mesmer I switch my builds a few times during one dungeon-run and it may goes fast, but I still let my allies wait each time…). To change one of these 5 Builds, you can speak to a same NPC like now.

I really think, we need more Builds to switch freely between and 5 are may much for many players, which have no love for playing around and enjoy the ability to switch between them, but 5 is still a strong limitation. You are never able to comby really any trait with only 5 Builds, for example, the Mesmer has many interrupt/daze-traits and you can’t have all in one build: 30 domination (vulnerability and stun on daze + damage and vulnerability on interrupt), 30 duelisting (fury on interrupt), 30 chaos (boon and condition on interrupt) and 30 illusions (daze-shatter recharges faster and becomes AoE). Furthermore there are traits to reduce your weapon- and utility skills recharge (including the ones able to interrupt). You see, 5 Builds give you a lot of possible builds, but even more builds you cannot play (I have actually more than 5 possible Builds for each of my professions).

I know, these days many run around with only one build, that not only never changes the points, but also never changes traits or skills (or weapons), but even for these would this be a great chance. There are a lot of glass-cannon builds or “perfect” builds (means a build of a really good player, that works out really well and you can say what you want, some builds are more effective than others…), but because many players only copy these builds and some of them do not only understand the copied builds, you have a slightly useless player in your team. Furthermore, in some situations some skills are extreme effective and how often i have already seen pro: use this skill here. non-pro: I don’t have this skill. If they have some more chances to copy, we could bring them may finally to look a bit more into their traits and skills.

Different Lists for different situations
Of course, these solution works only for PvE and WvW, in sPvP should exist another List, no need to divide between Builds and so on. Furthermore, there is really a complete different list (in PvE and sPvP) for underwater-fights. Your weapontraits dont fit anymore, many skills cannot used underwater (making their traits also useless). Yeah, actual Underwaterfights are a minority in GW2 and many players do not only take the time to change their Build, but if not only skills, but also traits could be saved independent to your fights on land, the first step to make a earnest underwaterfights would be done (instead of unusable landskills, there should come only-underwater-skills, especially complete uselsess skill-types and professions with only one underwater-skill suck. BTW, the charakters to switch your Underwaterbuilds should be found underwater to make the difference more obvious.

Also I made some suggestions about secondary professions (one new traitline with less choices than your actual traitlines and additional 4 utility skills/1 elite), if this should bring it ever into the game (I really dont think, that this tiny changes are so horrible to balance, but you still have far more important things to do), there could be added more Builds for these additional traitlines.

Where to save them?
For what do we have our Forum? We can post into the different forums and if we klick on the name, we can do a strong limitated amounf of things. There could be far more things be done. First, there is always the black shadow and your name, Why not give players the ability to be part of the Forum with your Main? You can choose to stay with your forumname (chris.0000) with the black shadow or you can choose a main charakter (Machine Interface) with the charakters Look. I dislike the Chris (I was nervous about tipping my data right for linking my accounts and thought, it would be only a name for automatically naming me after logging in like at the NCsoft-Account) and I dislike the Numbers behind it. There is only one Machine Interface, so for what do I need the chris.0000?

Furthermore, there were sides to show your charakters and userpages on the wikis for GW1 and I am sure the same does exist for GW2, but these sides are not linked to each other, even the wiki may use another userame than your Charakters or forum. If someone clicks at chris.0000 or Machine Interface, you could link him to my side, where I can write about myself and there is also a list with my charakters. The charaktersites can have a text (perfect for RP-charakters) have some automatical informations (guild of the charakter, level, title, used skills and weapons, image of your charakter in its actual armor, saved builds, and so on (you can hide things, if you want). I think, it is not needed to explain, how much player would love this.