Excluding Helmet, have slots in the Hero Equipment window beside each respective body armor slot (Shoulder, Chest, Hand, Leg, Foot).
In these slots, upgrades may be placed that lies dormant until you go underwater – Suppressing the normal slot upgrade in your equipment.
If nothing is in the Underwater slot, the normal slot remains active.
Once underwater, play-styles change – We swap weapons and utilities (we’re forced to)… Why aren’t we at least given the option to swap Upgrades as well?
There’s a lot about GW2’s Underwater combat that needs work. Weapon variety… Utility-options… The sluggish feel of combat…
Having some semblance of game design knowledge, I figured the Upgrade-slots would be the easiest to tackle first.
- Most people don’t even bother to purchase a Rune for their Breather item
- Virtually no one would bother creating a second set of gear for underwater combat
- The Superior Krait Rune is currently worth less than 1 silver… Cmon… That’s just sad
I think making customization with underwater runes easier would help people enjoy it more deeply – At least until more fundamental change can be hashed out.
It’s the change with the least unpredictable implications, both for gameplay and programming.
Thought-in-progress:
Allow upgrades to be extracted from the Underwater slots without cost?
Instead of having the slot linked to each individual equipment, have them be character-specific AND non-binding. This way, the thought of wasting a rune in Water-slots is left behind, and people may more freely experiment on underwater ideas.
