Guild Wars 2

Note: I’m sorry if this has been suggested before but here it is anyway…

I’ve played since day 1 and completed all my personal goals. I currently have 5 Level 80s and no desire for leveling another alt. If there’s new goal I want to achieve next – that’s learning a new profession on my existing main character whilst acquiring a separate set of gear and skills (ala FFXIV:AR and the coming EQNext).

I think this would be good feature for those who prefer to stick to their mains or for those altoholics initially then settled to a new main char later like me (I was once an altoholic for a year until I stick to my new main char).

There would be a disadvantage of course, like you’ll only get a map completion reward once and finish personal story once – though since this is an endgame feature than an early goal for new players.

This feature might be open to some exploit or something unintended consequences (i’m not sure yet) so some restrictions could be applied like you can’t switch while in combat or a timer before you can switch to another profession.

So here’s some few pros and cons that came into my mind:

Pros

- Cycle armor sets (light, medium, high) without relogging on different character

- Reuse character-bound items like legendaries when switching professions

- No need to worry that you might lose guild chat when changing profession

- Some players hate your profession? Switch profession (if you don’t want to find another group)

- No need to re-explore map

Cons

- Armor-type specific gears and Profession-specific items will only be useable by that certain armor class/profession

- You can only finish personal story once

- You can only get map completion reward once

- A requirement before a player can achieve this feature

I’m also thinking of not everyone would have access to this feature at first. So some soft of requirements should be completed first like acquiring account bound items across Tyria and then completing a set of event chain that will lead you to an ancient pedestal on Crystal Desert and ascend your character there.