Guild Wars 2

I am sure this has come up but the search function is … well…

Anyway, we can one-touch swap armors so why not one-touch swap armor sets? I only noticed this because I was playing my condition stuff and in central Tyria ran into a an item. Unlike hot items don’t take condition damage (bleeding gates?) so I was just stuck with my low-coefficient auto-attack wishing I had the option to just quickly swap to my beserker set which I always carry so I can break down gates that refuse to bleed.

Is this a bad idea?

You’d still have to get out of combat, though.

But good idea. How is it implemented? How is a set designated? If you rearrange your inventory, do you lose the “set” designation?

Better yet: A system that saves traits, skills, armor and weapons, then lets you reload that set. If a piece is missing, it just isn’t loaded.

DeanBB.4268:

You’d still have to get out of combat, though.

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Better yet: A system that saves traits, skills, armor and weapons, then lets you reload that set. If a piece is missing, it just isn’t loaded.

I remember The Secret World having this feature, and I remember loving it. Since I enjoy playing around with various builds, I personally would find it an incredibly useful feature to swap a saved weapon/armor/trait set with a single click (out of combat, of course).

Just like tSW, you’d have to be able to save the weapons/armor in it’s own special ‘inventory’ separate from normal inventory… and you’d probably need to cap the total number of loaded builds to two (the one that’s currently active, and the one that’s ‘saved’)

~EW

glad I mostly use power/ condition hybrids… In PvE you’ll not experience the item problem, youy’ll not do 3k-6k dmg / hit, but you will not be stuck at 350/hit either (1-1.5k is a reasonable improvement), and often skill 2 or 3 has a decent modifier on Condi weapons.

DeanBB.4268:

You’d still have to get out of combat, though.

But good idea. How is it implemented? How is a set designated? If you rearrange your inventory, do you lose the “set” designation?

Better yet: A system that saves traits, skills, armor and weapons, then lets you reload that set. If a piece is missing, it just isn’t loaded.

To implement it would be no different of a UI than the weapon set up, it’s just two sets instead of one in the equipment page, and pressing tab or whatever you wish would swap the sets no different than it does the weapons.

I agree that it would have to be out of combat.

I understand that the traits etc. bit would be far more complicated; I’m more into simpler parts first and would take it piece by piece. I mean it would be great to swap builds on the fly but I honestly have no idea how that would be done. Equipping two sets of armor though is as easy as equipping two sets of weapons.

Do a google search on gw2 forums templates and you will likely find years worth of threads asking for this.

Pre-HoT the dev response was essentially “cool idea, would be super helpful, but we’re not working on it for HoT.” Post HoT I don’t recall them saying anything more specific unless it was in the AMA and I missed it there.

It’s definitely not in the AMA.

I don’t think it will ever happen. I just wish they would fix the Tyrian side and make the roadblocks bleed.