Guild Wars 2

Thought that it wouldn’t be painful to rush a new character to level 80 after a long time well, well, well, guess i’m wrong, i need like 50g+ to unlock all traits for one class, when it was entirely free a year and a half…

I know that it’s supposed to make the game more coherent for new players but, it’s an absolute pain for old people.

Here is the official feedback thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/NPE-Feedback-Merged-Please-read-1st-post/first

Good luck.

Amineo.8951:

Thought that it wouldn’t be painful to rush a new character to level 80 after a long time well, well, well, guess i’m wrong, i need like 50g+ to unlock all traits for one class, when it was entirely free a year and a half…

I know that it’s supposed to make the game more coherent for new players but, it’s an absolute pain for old people.

It sucks for everyone, luckily it’s being redone again in HoT, so best advice is to just slow down on that until then and not worry about unlocking everything right now.

You can unlock every single trait in the game for free.

lordkrall.7241:

You can unlock every single trait in the game for free.

Except you have to do map discovery and i hate redoing that again.

So you CHOOSE to not use the free way available to you and then complain about the way you have to use instead of that?

What if someone hates doing everything other than standing around in Lion’s Arch talking? Should that someone get everything unlocked automatically by just doing that as well?

But as have already been stated, they are changing the system with the new trait-system that is coming before HoT. (This will still require doing Skill Challenges though, if you want everything unlocked.)

lordkrall.7241:

You can unlock every single trait in the game for free.

Except the devourer queen as that event has been bugged since before the traits and never been fixed.

lordkrall.7241:

You can unlock every single trait in the game for free.

Uh… sorry, but my time is not “free”. And it takes a helluva lot of time just running around doing the unlock quests whereas in the past it wasn’t necessary. That’s obviously what the OP was getting at.

Don’t worry, they have already said that they are going to change the way we obtain traits. I assume this will either be released in HoT, or with the feature patch they drop in before it.

So if buying traits/doing content to unlock them really bothers you, just wait until the “fix” is dropped in.

I’m trying to find a link to support what I’ve said, I’ll edit it in if I find it

EDIT: http://www.tentonhammer.com/news/guild-wars-2/guild-wars-2-heart-thorns-specializations-and-jon-peters-qa

“The new unlock system is friendlier to new players and much less of a burden on alternative characters.”

The bulk of the information is under the subheading “Profession Reward Tracks”.

It is probably in these two Blogs:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-one-a-primer/

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-two-reward-tracks-and-elite-specializations/

Good luck.