Guild Wars 2

First off, I would like to say that I’m thrilled about the feature pack coming on April 15th. The entire pack seems to be focused on alt-friendliness and convenience and I will for sure spend a lot more money in the gemstore from now onwards.

Now let’s get on topic. With the new skins wardrobe and recent news about ascended and legendary being account bound, promoting alts swapping, I just thought that it would be perfect and very convenient if we also had a stat wardrobe. This would mean that we would unlock a stat combination and then be able to “apply” it on our armor in different characters. With this system implemented, we could just log in, press H, select our stats, select our skins, select our traits and be ready to go.

I really haven’t thought about the details of the system, nor the “unlock” progression, but I consider this would make the game perfect regarding alts and stat-swapping. What are your ideas about this? Share your opinion about the flaws of the system (both in gameplay and in-game economy). Thank you for reading!

Completely agree. I would like to pick up the game again and try another playstyle but the idea of regrinding different stat combos on ascended gear really turns me off.

Legendaries would lose their only purpose, besides looks.
So I’m against this change. (and no, I don’t have a legendary weapon)

Honestly, presets in general would be pretty awesome. Being able to toggle between set traits, and armor with the click of a button. I’m sure it’s something they’ve considered, but are putting off for now. The feature patch is brining a lot of nice things to the game, hopefully a feature patch in the far future does a “stats wardrobe.”

I think a change like this would hurt the already lackluster crafting market (and for that matter the loot market) pretty hard. Instead of buying new sets of weapons and armor people could just buy one and switch the stats around.

Excellent idea. I would love this feature.

Swapping gear between chars can become really tedious for sure. And it’s the same with minis.

And in a way, this is a restriction, and maybe they will address this when the news for “removing restrictions” comes out.

I agree with OP. Please let us withdraw unlocked stats for free or for a really small fee (basically like traits).

As gosferano has mentioned, this would make legendaries (let it be weapons, armour or trinkets) lose one of the main purposes (stat swapping), but now that they will allow exchanging all that stuff among the different alts in your account, wouldn’t this just be a convenience QoL change? I would never have imagined a system like this for its many implications, but considering it will be possible to just unequip one alt and equip another one, I think the stats wardrobe would just encourage the new system.