Guild Wars 2

The new Trait system looked confusing at first, but was not so bad once you got past the visual difference.
What I was pleasantly surprised at was how good of a job the auto build did in guessing to give me a working build in the mean time.

I have to agree. I have lots of lvl 80 characters and was dreading having to reconfigure all of them. So far with the ones I’ve had a chance to work with the default settings have been quite ok. I’ve made some small changes, but had I needed to start from scratch it would have been really painful. As it stands, I suspect that all of my characters are playable as is. I likely will tweak each one as I play it, but that shouldn’t be too bad.

Must not play Ele or Theif, or bursty/gimmicky Engi builds.

Klocknov.8219:

Must not play Ele or Theif, or bursty/gimmicky Engi builds.

I had an ele (55) and a ranger(31) that were auto built. Both came out ok.

congrats you are really lucky ! :>

i got terrible autobuilds that were totally nonsensical to what i had before lmao

Haven’t had a ton of time to look, but pretty sure none of my 8 came out even passable.

But I intentionally leveled them all to 80 long ago, whether I played them at the time or not, for just such an eventuality (I figured as long as I was at level cap I’d be okay regardless of how things shifted)

Lyle.8591:

congrats you are really lucky ! :>

i got terrible autobuilds that were totally nonsensical to what i had before lmao

I’m seeing that, and it’s kinda sad. I believe they said that the autobuild was supposed to be similar to what a character was running before, so I’m curious as to what some people had prior that ended up with terrible builds. And what the autobuild code took into consideration when making selections.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Lyle.8591:

congrats you are really lucky ! :>

i got terrible autobuilds that were totally nonsensical to what i had before lmao

I’m seeing that, and it’s kinda sad. I believe they said that the autobuild was supposed to be similar to what a character was running before, so I’m curious as to what some people had prior that ended up with terrible builds. And what the autobuild code took into consideration when making selections.

hmm, yea i wonder how the autobuildin decided. i think it had something to do with the traits you had assigned at the time, as well as your equipment.

Lyle.8591:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Lyle.8591:

congrats you are really lucky ! :>

i got terrible autobuilds that were totally nonsensical to what i had before lmao

I’m seeing that, and it’s kinda sad. I believe they said that the autobuild was supposed to be similar to what a character was running before, so I’m curious as to what some people had prior that ended up with terrible builds. And what the autobuild code took into consideration when making selections.

hmm, yea i wonder how the autobuildin decided. i think it had something to do with the traits you had assigned at the time, as well as your equipment.

I could see it specing you into earth if you were wearing toughness gear I suppose. Since earth used to give toughness, but that’s still a bit of a stretch. What predefined traits did it select?

I knew all my builds were going to have to change, and planned on re-tinkering all my 80’s anyway. But then again, I’m one of those people for whom building a character is the game.

Honestly, traits and skills are the easy part compared to figuring out what new equipment I need to get for everyone.

From what I looked at of my characters, the auto-build seems to be a decent starting point. Better than having to completely redo my traits, but it does require a bit of tinkering. No surprise there, as I was expecting to have to tinker some with it, if only to get used to the new system.