Guild Wars 2

You sort weaponskills by default by cooldown. This is also the order in which new players learn the skills. This is fine.

However, as the recent change to guardian greatsword skill cooldowns shows, when you change cooldowns, this has the effect of re-arranging the order of the skills that players have become accustomed to.

If this starts happening frequently (and I can guarantee that we are going to see more cooldown adjustments in the future) having to relearn where all your abilities are could be rather annoying.

The ability to let players choose the order of their skills already exists in game – with utility skills.

Can we branch that out to weapon skills as well? Even ignoring possibly changes to order from patches, there are a couple skills I’d love to switch the order of. If players could change the order of their skills it would allow more customization and also mean that if arena.net changes the order in which new players learn skills it needn’t inconvenience existing players.

This should be in the suggestions forum.

Anyway, supported. There’s no reason for this to not be an option.

no way-why would they even consider letting you switch them??not only is it a silly idea it is a waste of time.play the game as intended-whiners whine until the game is broken-geeeez

You are meant to learn skills in a specific order, it just makes sense to not allow you to reposition them. Besides, nothing is stopping you from re-binding the skills to different keys. That 1234 crap isn’t very ergonomically friendly anyway.

as soon as i bought a decent controller for my PC, i might give it a try while playing GW2
seems like it would fit into the battle system...
i know what you are thinking, "controller and mmorpg? how could you!" :P

andybmcc.8751:

You are meant to learn skills in a specific order, it just makes sense to not allow you to reposition them. Besides, nothing is stopping you from re-binding the skills to different keys. That 1234 crap isn’t very ergonomically friendly anyway.

because keybinding those skills in a different order applies to ALL your characters.

andybmcc.8751:

You are meant to learn skills in a specific order, it just makes sense to not allow you to reposition them. Besides, nothing is stopping you from re-binding the skills to different keys. That 1234 crap isn’t very ergonomically friendly anyway.

1. Rebinding keys doesn’t solve the problem. If I switch my keys so that the Guardian Greatsword abilities work like they did pre-patch, then every other weapon in the game will work differently than it did pre-patch.

2. Obviously, you would only be able to reposition skills that you’ve unlocked.

It’s kinda funny that we have to ask for such a basic feature.

Good points. I’d rather see bug fixes than minor UI changes though.

This will only get worse with time as they re-balance other weapons and classes. Plus they’re already breaking their ‘policy’ with for example mesmer staff 4/5 and engineer offhand pistol 4/5. There’s no sensible reason I can see for this to have been changed now that players are used to it.

Allowing us to arrange the order how we like is a clearly preferable solution for everyone, though.

I would support this.

I would expect that you would only be able to rearrange skills once all are unlocked for that weapon set. For instance, you would not be able to swap locked skill 5 with locked skill 2 as soon as you create your character. This would keep it so that you unlock the skills in a particular order — and many people would be fine with keeping that default.

Once they’re all unlocked, though, let players rearrange to personal preference. Per character.

I would rather be able to sort my 1-5 skills however I want to. There’s nothing wrong with the method of unlocking skills in my opinion; I just like to organize my skill bars according to functionality.

As pointed out you can just keybind them.. not really a bit deal.. if you change lot between alts, well you must have the time to change that in a whimp as well;)
I suggest that they fix all the bugs first:)

I feel, as an Elementalist, we desperately need this. I would like each of my AoEs with each element to be on the same buttons for example with the staff. Anything else is very difficult with the larger amount of keys I have to use now with everything extra that’s going on. And it should be very simple to add a drag and drop. here’s to hoping.