Hello.
Guild Wars 2 is one of a few games that promote supporting other players. There are many way that your character can support others. At least when you’ve prepared it only or that.
When I play PvE and go solo, my build is egoistic and self-centered. When supporting group (guild or even other players on map), not only my armor and weapon are not adjusted to become “helping hand”, also my traits should be changed. Switching armor, jewelry, skills and weapons isn’t as time-consuming as going to trainer to ask him to retrain traits, click proper ones, and move back to the original waypoint and find the group that I wanted to support. They’re already dead? They moved tired of waiting? No problem, I’ll just switch set again, go to retrain traits…
But what if there was possibility to become supporter with just one click?
If you’d click and in short time your character would change build to predefined by you, support build? You could quickly jump into action, without necessity of people waiting.
Also, when someone’s asking you “would you go to dungeon”, it would greatly improve the pace you’re ready to support your group.
The system could work similar to already existing “town clothing”: on hero panel, you’d choose “switch to another set”.
Benefits:
• Quick possibility to adjust to situation (solo/team play)
• Seems to be easy to implement (set and weapon switch already exist, reverting to remembered traits shouldn’t be too much of a problem)
• Possibility of introducing new tactics (connected to switching build and skills)
Proposed restrictions:
• Cooldown 30 minutes
• switching time: 15 seconds, interrupted on any damage taken
• No switching in WvW/PvP (or maybe?
)
I was wondering if that should be something that you could buy for gems, but as it’s something that should help others, making people work long time for this, wouldn’t seem good.
Still, switch by itself could be free if using items from your inventory, additional tab with weapon, jewelry and armor set (something like existing “town clothing” ) could be tradable for gems as something extra – additional deposit place.
Hope you like the idea
