Guild Wars 2

before you get rid of them completely, you should make Skillpoints account bound. that way we can make the most of them, use them to their maximum potential before they disappear completely.

What would the purpose of this be? The things unlocked by Skillpoints won’t stay unlocked after the change anyway, and the stuff crafted with skill points will be just as craftable after the change due to them changing into the new currency.

Nobody knows how the transition between the old and the new system would go. You asume that only skills unlocked at the moment of the transition will be transferred. I find that extremely unlikely.
The way they did the last transition of traits is that all existing characters (despite the level) got all traits unlocked (although the traitline stayed unlocked till you where ate the appropiate level). I imagine the same is going to happen here.

Instead of fixating on one way of doing this transition properly, trust them they will do it properly and fair. They have done so in the past at all scores (yes they ruined the trait unlock system, but the transition for existing characters was fair and ok).

I suspect that all skillpoints only have use as a currency after the patch, so it doesn’t be needed for them to be accountbound

Skillpoints are being made account bound (when they’re converted to mystic forge currency and added to the wallet.)
Making them account bound now would be extra work (figuring out how to make skillpoints account bound since they’re separate from other currencies) for something that’s only going to be around for maybe 3 more months.

that doesn’t help the toons people have now that don’t have enough to buy theyre skills/traits. meanwhile they’re mains have 500+ and nothing to do with them.
and its really not alot of work. just throw them into the wallet like the other 90 currencys.

mercury ranique.2170:

trust them they will do it properly and fair. They have done so in the past at all scores

you and i have very different memories of the big changes my friend.

KaosNinja.4967:

that doesn’t help the toons people have now that don’t have enough to buy theyre skills/traits. meanwhile they’re mains have 500+ and nothing to do with them.
and its really not alot of work. just throw them into the wallet like the other 90 currencys.

I’m guessing you don’t have any programming experience. Nothing is that simple.

The skill point changes as we understand them are as follows:

-Skill points from leveling and skill challenges on the map will be “Hero Points”.
-Utilities and specializations will be unlocked with Hero Points.
-Upon reaching level 80, with no skill challenges completed, you should have enough points to unlock most (but not all) utilities and core specializations.
-The only points your characters will have when the change hits will be those gained by leveling and skill challenges.
-There is no expectation that anything unlocked will remain unlocked. That goes for both traits and utilities. People want traits to stay unlocked, but we have no reason to believe that will happen.
-All surplus skill points (from leveling past 80, e.g.) will convert to a Mystic Forge currency.

Making skill points account bound now would ultimately accomplish nothing other than enabling you to spend gold to unlock traits sooner rather than later.

KaosNinja.4967:

mercury ranique.2170:

trust them they will do it properly and fair. They have done so in the past at all scores

you and i have very different memories of the big changes my friend.

If you quote me please quote me fully!

I allready said that the change itself was bad but that the transition was fair.
I find it extremely rude if you pull qoutes out of content, pretending I said something else. Bleh!

Does anyone know what will happen with the scrolls of knowledge?