A GW1 type template system would be great to have in game especially now since we can change builds on the fly without having to go to a trainer and reset our traits also it would be great because we can share our builds to others easy in PvE also for PvP.
The Template would essentially be the same as GW1 but different because of gear changes being able to have different stats and sigils and runes on stuff also the template system for PvE and PvP will be slightly different here is how I would do a template system for both PvE and PvP
PvE Template System
To do it for PvE you would open you hero panel and go to your traits and on the top somewhere there would be a button labeled Save or Save Template and when you click it a window would pop up that has 2 tabs.
The first tab would be similar to your weapon bar showing your weapon and utility skills on top and below it would show your traits and everything you have set up.
The second tab would be your weapon/armor tab with the appropriate amount of sigils on the side for the weapon that you selected and on the side of that would be your armor slot and runes next to it then on the far end would be your accessories and you would be able to select the stats you want for them then when you where done on the bottom of that would be a Save button where then you can put a title for the build into it and it would save into a Folder labeled Template in your GW2 folder where everything is stored like how GW1 had it set up
PvP Template System
For the most part this would be easy to do with the current way they have PvP build making now you would click the PvP build button when in PvP and on the window that pops up you would select all your stuff like normal on that screen your traits, weapons, sigils, runes, and amulet then on the bottom will be a Save button and then you would type the name of the build. But for PvP builds they would have in brackets or parentheses when you type the name out it would show like [PvP] to show it was a build made in PvP instead of PvE so for example it would be by default like this “[PvP] Vireds Super Squisy Glass Cannon Ele build”
Linking builds/Loading builds
To link a build or load one it would be like in Gw1 where next to save in both the trait panel and PvP build panel would be a load option and when you click it then it would bring up your template window and it would show all your builds saved for your class up top and when you select it, it would show Load template and it would load it on your character and automatically do the utility skill change and trait change you would just have to put the weapons and armor on you would also have a option to pop out the build in the window similar to the save one where you can click on the other tab to see the weapons ,armor and accessories to see what the stats where on them.
For linking builds when you select the template you want near Load Template there would be a button labeled Template code and it would put a Chat code in chat and you would just have to press enter to send it to what ever chat/player you want then from there they can click on it and it would pop up the window for the whole build and they can save it to there template folder
I feel adding this to game with be useful especially when trying to give someone a build for PvE/WvW/PvP or when trying to give a player new to a class a decent build without having to type out everything for traits and linking gear and utility skills
Feel free to post your opinions about this or if you think of a better way to do this I would love to see what you think about this. On the bottom is the way it would look when saveing a build in PvE.
Below is pictures of how I feel this would look in game for PvE template makeing but as one window with the 2 tabs and would look a lot better there is the empty look and a full look I also forgot to add some stuff when making it like the load build option.