Guild Wars 2

There are a LOT of ways to tweak your character in this game so that it can best face the situation at hand.

When the situation changes; so should the character. At the moment, this is absolutely possible; it’s just tedious. You have to make all the changes one at a time. That is inefficient, and easily resolved.

There are 4 categories that stand out to me:

• Gear
• Skills
• Traits (tier abilities; not actual trait allocation [exception for SPVP])
• Dyes
  (more? pls post if you feel I missed something!)
• (edit) Keybindings

My suggestion is to allow us to save a profile of our current allocation of the above categories; the user could then select which profile best suits the situation at hand and roll with it at their discretion. Normal restrictions apply, such as combat state, etc.

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For example, as an Engineer, I’ve developed a few potential profiles already. The three big ones for me are if I’m facing a single target; many targets; or traveling.

If single target, I rock a grenade kit, two DPS turrets, and trait for pure DPS.

If multiple targets, I go with flame thrower; one DPS turret and one “thumper” (tank turret); and trait for survivability.

If traveling, I use knockback skills and a medkit; trait for “speedy kits” (5 sec switftness for equipping a kit), invigorating speed (swiftness grants 5 sec vigor [allows for more dodging]), and survivability – then I just toggle the medkit on and off and spam the #5 medkit ability (swiftness drop) for more-or-less infinite, uninterrupted swiftness and vigor; and if an enemy tries to interrupt my travels, I send it flying with a ram-head or flamethrower vent and and continue along my way.

Anywho, to setup those presets, I have to change up to 5 skills individually (6 thru 9 + ult); gear as needed (which for me is none atm; just use the same gear for everything, but that may change as my toon becomes more developed); and up to 7 traits individually. …that’s a lot of clickin’.

What would be infinitely more preferable, is if I could set up my travel profile and name it “Travel”; set up my single target profile and do likewise – etc.

Then when I want to change between presets, I open the Hero menu; go to the -NEW- “Profiles” tab, and select the one I want. (which would be one keystroke, and two clicks, for the record)

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Additionally, allow a profile to ignore specific categories, if the user is so inclined. For example, I may want one that changes only my gear and dyes; but leaves the rest alone, or vice versa.

Yar?

- Hal

Really good idea. I think most people use different skills for exploring than periods when they’ll be fighting a lot more.

I would like to /sign this idea. I would certainly make our lives easier even if they give us limited number of preset slots and the option to buy more of them for gems. That way Anet would be happy too.

Good! Very good! Together with the possibility to traits respec is the perfect upgrade for GW2!

Thank you for the positive feedback!

I am kitten with a keyboard and I approve this thread.

robinsiebler.3801:

I am kitten with a keyboard and I approve this thread.

I freaking love the language filter on this website.

Yagu.7134:

I would like to /sign this idea. I would certainly make our lives easier even if they give us limited number of preset slots and the option to buy more of them for gems. That way Anet would be happy too.

Good call! I know I’d want atleast 3 on my engineer, so anything fewer than that by default and I’d buy some.

This is the kind of convenience of play thing that would merit the necessity to purchase it with gems to unlock any of it’s functionality; so even if we were only given one profile slot by default, I’d be fine with that.

Haltus Kain.4578:

robinsiebler.3801:

I am kitten with a keyboard and I approve this thread.

I freaking love the language filter on this website.

You have no idea how twisted I am . I pepper my posts with the word ‘kitten’ just to confuse people.

yep, please do this. I would spend gems for a 2nd / 3rd build preset option.

+1
When i play solo i use some weapon sets / gear. When some event is happening around i wanna switch to completely different weapon sets so i can support big group appropriately. So i have to go to my bags, find weapons, drag them to character slots and when the event is finished back again. Veeeery annoying :-(

Yes. I can confirm that switching weapons and skills for solo playing and team playing is more than very annoying. Please make make some presets functionality at least for weapons and skills.

Lord Kelvin.8217:

Good! Very good! Together with the possibility to traits respec is the perfect upgrade for GW2!

Trait respec would only be available in a SPVP setting, since it can already be done on the fly there. Elsewhere, it would not make sense to allow this… unless Anet allows us to unlock a ‘dualspec’ or something of that nature, but I really don’t see that happening… ever.

Lord Kelvin.8217:

Good! Very good! Together with the possibility to traits respec is the perfect upgrade for GW2!

Actually, thinking more on this, perhaps there could be a way to pay in advance for one or more trait respecs; if that were the case, then the system mentioned above would mesh pretty well.

Keybindings would be another good category for the presets. I’ve got my bindings set up so that they flow very intuitively on an engineer, but when I try to play an alt, it’s all cluster-kitten’d.

Will add this to the OP.

We were able to switch between skill builds in gw1. Why did Anet remove this awesome option ?

I approve wholeheartedly!

Please listen to this guy!

They had this basically in GW1. And that game was awesome! /sign