Guild Wars 2

Hey I have been thinking about this since I saw the Horizontal CDI theard at the begining of this month. I also saw a trait in the Engineer subforum asking for something like this.

In Guild Wars there are three main components PvE, WvWvW and PvP.

In PvP traits are not a problem in between matches you can change your build and start a new match. However PvE and WvW share the same traits and these cannot be reset whenever you want. You have to buy the required training manual to reallocate your traits. This is quite understandable one of the moneysinks ArenaNet has placed in the game to keep the economy healthy.

Both PvE and WvW by themselves also have different components. In PvE you have roaming, meta-events (like the temples and the dragons) and dungeons. In WvW you have roaming (to some extend), the behind the line attacks and the zerg.
All of these activities can possibly ask for different build of skills and traits and can propably not be unified in one ultimate trait build. Also e.g. Engineers who build theire character around the flamethrower have to sacrefice traits in their underwater combat since they cannot use the flamethrower in the water.

My suggestion is to have “trait-challenges” like the skillchallenges but for traits. When you hit Lvl 80 your are able to buy an extra traitslot from the manual trader say for 2g. When you aquire this you can go and visit these challenges around the world to aquire the neccessarry 70 points to have an entire build. When you have all 70 points you buy an regular grandmaster training manual from the trainer and make your extra build.

I am not saying you should be able to this infinitly but say 2 times so you can have a PvE, a dungeon and a WvW build between wich you can switch.

You do not need the Manuals to reset. Once you have unlocked the current ‘Tier’ of traits, you can ask the vendor for the manuals to allow a retrain. Only a few silvers, compared to 2 Gold.

I still think we should be able to save and load builds(traits and skill line up) on the go, and the cost should be zero. Getting rid of the tedious mechanics that made changing builds hard was one of the best post release changes Arenanet ever made to Guild Wars. It is a massive tragedy that such a user friendly and logical system didn’t make it in to the sequel, just ahead of them charging money for using way points.

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I still think we should be able to save and load builds(traits and skill line up) on the go, and the cost should be zero. Getting rid of the tedious mechanics that made changing builds hard was one of the best post release changes Arenanet ever made to Guild Wars. It is a massive tragedy that such a user friendly and logical system didn’t make it in to the sequel, just ahead of them charging money for using way points.

This. It’s amazing how many basic QoL features from GW1 didn’t make it into GW2.