Guild Wars 2

I think I requested this about a year and a half ago, but it can’t hurt to ask again. Something that has been lacking is the ability to quickly switch gear/traits/skills between different builds. While we can have two sets of weapons, it’s awkward and time consuming to switch armor/trinkets/traits/skills and even weapons aren’t necessarily compatible between builds. Many people have a WvW set of gear and a PvE set of gear or even more depending on the situation. A WvW build that may be good for roaming is not necessarily ideal when defending.

For myself, I don’t necessarily want to level a bunch of alts to try new builds, nor do I have that kind of time, nor am I willing to give up my primary build in order to experiment, and I also don’t want to waste 12+ slots in my inventory carrying around a set of gear that I have to swap manually for given situations. Traits and skills, one has to kind of keep written down so you don’t forget…multiple tabs would be so much more convenient.

I realize that what I’m asking for here has a manual work around, but it would be a huge quality of life improvement that would almost surely encourage people to experiment with more builds…something ANet has said they want to encourage in the past. I think it would encourage more build diversity and cause less hard feelings than the constant tinkering and tampering with the professions and traits, which still has to be done, but if people had more options they’d be less likely to complain.

well Ihad the same problem,

At first I just bought the bag epansion slots and maximized bags (18 slots as I could afford those)

I had 2-3 armors and corresponding weapons and food on charcters I played multi role.

Then I noticed I was dedicating over 50 slots on most characters for armor and weapons, and some food

SO I bought alt slots and just made alts for specific purposes, no longer needing to swap just running the builds I prefer.

Now I have 15 characters, several dedicated to wvw, several pve/dungeons and only a few which shine in both area’s, now I have 1 armor on each character and I just make another if I want to try out things.

I’m now working on a few sinister armors to try out on rabid wvw charaters to see if they become pve viable. (which does go against the second step, but I need to see and experiment, I have 14 characters I play, 3 of which are wvw only rabid roaming builds)

But on the other 12 I still find I have 1 main set and 1 backup set, unless the main set is ascended, which shows me I made a decision on the character. Still each build with weapons food and trinkets tends to take a 18 or 20 slot bag…

Yeah, Traits/Equipment/skills build templates would be a big QOL change and I think most of the players will be happy about that.

so sad that this feature isn’t implemented yet.
they brought two feature-packs to us now:

featurepack 1 – was a good pack with nice changes (skinsystem)
featurepack 2 – full of crap nobody asked for, not even worth to be mentioned.

I don’t get it why a feature like trait / gear / weapon – tab isn’t implemented .
If you wanna play PvE – WvW – Open World – Other Dungeons – solo – groupplay – you wanna switch your gear and traits all the time.
Since two years they didn’t get it at Anet.