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Posted by: Vired swordhammer.9134

Vired swordhammer.9134

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.

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Posted by: Iason Evan.3806

Iason Evan.3806

Totally agreed. ArenaNet says, “We know the community wants this” but have never committed to delivering it. Odd that there are interface/UI things that are better in GW1 than in GW2. Templates were amazing.

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Posted by: Vired swordhammer.9134

Vired swordhammer.9134

Totally agreed. ArenaNet says, “We know the community wants this” but have never committed to delivering it. Odd that there are interface/UI things that are better in GW1 than in GW2. Templates were amazing.

one can only hope that they will add it into the game especially if they know the community wants it

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Posted by: imbigbuck.8534

imbigbuck.8534

Templates would make things a lot easier, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were already planning to implement this in the future. However it’s something that probably won’t come out for a while, they still have a lot of fixes to work on for the latest feature pack and I would prefer it if they would work on some more living story before adding in more things like this.

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Posted by: Vired swordhammer.9134

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bumping post to see if more people will reply

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Posted by: Toroquin.3605

Toroquin.3605

Well… yes, that’s all I have to say. I miss the GW1 templates, and it would make sense too implement it now that we have free respec in all game modes.

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Posted by: Corax.7381

Corax.7381

There’s little reason NOT to add something like this in, but WHEN it’ll come is a different question. I hope soon (after the China release), since ANet made respeccing free and convenient.

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Posted by: Vired swordhammer.9134

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saw a post like this hopefully 2 will grab more peoples attention about templates and adding them in game

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Posted by: TEKnowledgy.1760

TEKnowledgy.1760

Would be nice I’m starting to get burnt out on changing my traits depending on what I’m in the mood to play. Would be nice if each of the templates supported armor and skills aswell but I’d settle for traits alone, if nothing else. I take long breaks from the game at times, sometimes i come back and don’t remember what my secondary builds are. lol Template system would solve that. I try to remember to screen shot my builds but usually forget about the screen shots…..
Even if it was a gem thing maybe give 2 template sheets free and if people want more templates for builds maybe sell em at 200 gems per. (global agenda game did something like that)

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Posted by: velmeister.4187

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“We have removed everything you loved about Guild Wars 1 and introduced everything that you never wanted in Guild Wars 1. So, if you hated…… you must play Guild Wars 2.”

Feature patch killed me.

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Posted by: Wasbunny.6531

Wasbunny.6531

I just downloaded the free trial of GW1 last night and after a few minutes of play realized that it had two things I’ve been dreaming about and begging for in GW2; customizable UI and build templates.

So many have posted requests and justifications for including build templates in GW2 that I don’t need to add much more. I do think ArenaNet is planning on adding this feature in the future as the new free anywhere trait reset system seems to suggest.

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Posted by: Jim Hunter.6821

Jim Hunter.6821

I’m sure it’s coming ”soon”, so probably about another 2 years.

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Posted by: Gibson.4036

Gibson.4036

Now that we have free respecs, this is the next obvious step. I’m hoping that ArenaNet gave us free respecs partly because templates are in the works.

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Posted by: Khorrax.2108

Khorrax.2108

I still don’t understand why Guild Wars 2 launched without free trait respecs and template saving/importing.

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Posted by: soistheman.7208

soistheman.7208

I still don’t understand why Guild Wars 2 launched without free trait respecs and template saving/importing.

I don’t understand even more why they have made free & anytime trait change on April patch without template function…

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Posted by: Harper.4173

Harper.4173

We’ll probably get templates eventually. Perhaps 6 months from now or so.

But yet – it is abysmally bad that the game has been out as long as it has been and no template feature has been added.
And having free trait reset added without this just feels so wrong on so many levels.

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