Guild Wars 2

All i have seen lately is nerf this nerf that. Yes i main a Thief so enough said.
My Suggestion is to allow us to max all Traitlines once we hit lvl 80. This would put everyone on the same playing field with builds come from how you trait and gear. I believe this will add balance to all classes in Pve,PvP and WvWvW. What do you guys think?

Don’t see anything good coming of this.
Decreases build diversity, potentially dumbs down combat, potentially makes certainly classes greatly overpowered, high potential for conflicting traits. Diversity is the big one.

Build Diversity would come from how you Trait/Gear. I dont understand how combat would be really be all that effected other than by how people build via Traits/Gear,as for certain classes being overpowered by such a change it would be alot easier to balance in this scenerio then as Traits are now.But imo i dont think any class would become overpowered or anymore broken then how it is now.This just gives all classes the the ability to be on the same playing field.

While I would greatly enjoy this; I don’t feel it will ever come to fruition. I play a support Guardian; if I could pick and choose EVERYTHING I would ever need. My healing and DPS would be through the roof. If an entire party were to be able to do this; people would be complaining more about content being “Too easy.”

how utterly boring and lacking of choice. NO!

Lack of choice? You would now be able to chose between 15 trait options if anything it opens up more build options.
As Aura said he/she plays a support Guardian he/she would still have the option of say, going a Shout/Mediation build but would have more option on how to enhance those skills and add other option to the build.Weapon choice and utilities would still help to offer stronger build choices.

It would ruin any semblance of balance as all the current traits are based around having only 7 customizable and 8 static traits suddenly increasing the amount would raise player power rather ridiculously (some more than others but everyone would get much stronger)

As for the choice thing, sure you get to choose more traits in total but your choice is less important because your taking that many.

Where before its about weighing the pro’s and cons of putting points in a trait line deciding which traits in either tree would work best etc it would be “well I get them all so I don’t have to think about it as much”

And of course diversity would drop as theres less combinations of 15 trait choices out of the big pool than there is of 7 out of the big pool.

If they DID allow traiting all lines fully they’d have to redo all the traits to lower their power OR buff everything else up ridiculously to compensate.

All in all it WOULD cut down on both diversity and choice that actually matters while raising power in ridiculous and uncontrollable ways while giving nothing really beneficial to the game as a whole.

Dasorine.1964:

It would ruin any semblance of balance as all the current traits are based around having only 7 customizable and 8 static traits suddenly increasing the amount would raise player power rather ridiculously (some more than others but everyone would get much stronger)

As for the choice thing, sure you get to choose more traits in total but your choice is less important because your taking that many.

Where before its about weighing the pro’s and cons of putting points in a trait line deciding which traits in either tree would work best etc it would be “well I get them all so I don’t have to think about it as much”

And of course diversity would drop as theres less combinations of 15 trait choices out of the big pool than there is of 7 out of the big pool.

If they DID allow traiting all lines fully they’d have to redo all the traits to lower their power OR buff everything else up ridiculously to compensate.

All in all it WOULD cut down on both diversity and choice that actually matters while raising power in ridiculous and uncontrollable ways while giving nothing really beneficial to the game as a whole.

I do agree with most of what you have said but i still maintain that allowing us access to all traits would still provide diversity and choice. For example i play a burst Thief i wouldnt trait toward vemons and vemon share and i wouldn’t gear condition dmg so i would pick traits on all trait lines as well as weapons/gear to suit my play style(how it should be). But if all Traits are unlocked yes I would be more powerful but it would come down to Player skill,weapon&gear choice and utilities.Balance is about making things fair and even the reason you only get an Amulet with stats in PvP.Pve content will eventually be revamped so increasing difficulty would not be and issue.

I just got a kick out of “dumb down combat”. Because zerging is really THAT skillful? lol

You forgot something !!
It will be good if we maxed out all trait trees. The builds will be diverse as we will be able to select 3 from 12 traits. The other reason to do that is that we are forced to get traits we don’t want just to get specific stats or vise versa( forced to get stats so we get specific traits).