Guild Wars 2

I mean come on, make it soulbound and it will sell like hotcakes. The current iteration just isn’t worthwhile.

for 500-700 gems and account bound? im sold. but we know this is not for the best interest of anet, hence why i will keep running one build unless i can afford an LA trip

Personally I’d like to see them added to the daily, about as common as BL salvage kits. So like maybe once a month from doing dailies. But then, just paying the two gold seems about equal to doing a couple boss events really. I assume you wvw a lot? Would seem like a balance issue if infinite, forcing people to grind or pay for it to keep up.

Yeah I saw this as a serious greed issue myself. It’s one thing to add a respect token but to not have the option to have dual spec when the rest of the mmo games out there have it as a basic feature it’s just wrong on so many levels.

I don’t re-trait very often and I am highly unlikely to buy this in any case, but to make this a consumable is a poor decision in my opinion. If you could at least save some layouts with it …

Yeah, make it infinite and you give the players a freeticket to exploit the game.
I cant wait to read the first sentence with: “LFM only Instant Trait Reset item users”

tigirius.9014:

Yeah I saw this as a serious greed issue myself. It’s one thing to add a respect token but to not have the option to have dual spec when the rest of the mmo games out there have it as a basic feature it’s just wrong on so many levels.

not having duel spec was a design decision that has nothing to do with greed.

you can debate whether you think it makes for a better game or not, but claiming it’s based on “greed” is completely idiotic.

This new item is a flaming piece of crap. Nobody wants to spend that much to get a reset just to avoid spending 2 minutes to go to town. We wanted trait builds/loadouts that we could switch between, not this nonsense slap in the face.

Bad ANet, Bad!

There is more than one way to do something, and you do things differently based on different goals you might have.

The reset item is fine.

Black Teagan.9215:

Yeah, make it infinite and you give the players a freeticket to exploit the game.
I cant wait to read the first sentence with: “LFM only Instant Trait Reset item users”

lol, is this post for real? For starters, I don’t think you fully grasp what an exploit is. Second, there’s nothing stopping people from retraiting pretty much on the fly anyway beyond the WP cost.

Kilandros.2098:

Second, there’s nothing stopping people from retraiting pretty much on the fly anyway beyond the WP cost.

If you have to WP somewhere and then come back, it’s not “on the fly”.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

If you have to WP somewhere and then come back, it’s not “on the fly”.

Unless you consider thinking about the traits during the loading screen!

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Kilandros.2098:

Second, there’s nothing stopping people from retraiting pretty much on the fly anyway beyond the WP cost.

If you have to WP somewhere and then come back, it’s not “on the fly”.

Helpful post, thank you

I agree. a Permanent one for 800 gems and I’m buying it! Hell, I’d even buy a few for other characters.

I’m guessing there’s a fundamental divide in how this is perceived based on whether or not you play WvW.

what “on the fly respec” means to WvW is someone in a tower seeing opponents approach, waiting to see what they deploy and then respecing based on that. Having that ability is a fairly large change from having to WP back to the citadel, respecing, and then running back to the tower.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

I’m guessing there’s a fundamental divide in how this is perceived based on whether or not you play WvW.

what “on the fly respec” means to WvW is someone in a tower seeing opponents approach, waiting to see what they deploy and then respecing based on that. Having that ability is a fairly large change from having to WP back to the citadel, respecing, and then running back to the tower.

I should have specified PvE in title. Valid concern in WvW, though surely they could include a timer on skill change in WvW.

In PvE. Want to retrait? Pop into WvW. Retrait. Relog. No WP necessary.

You used to be able to use a 10s training manual to do exactly what this item does, for the price it should be permanent or make it like 5 gems.

How about this compromise?

A permanent item that unlocks one stored trait build on your character. Ever after, you can switch to that build as long as you aren’t in combat, but that build is locked in.

Players get more than one silly retrait out of it, gives the convenience of switching directly to a build already entered in, and gives ANet a continuing revenue source as people change up the builds they want and buy additional copies of the item for new stored builds.

“New—Instant Trait Reset

Ever been knee-deep in the bodies of your slain enemies and badly in need of a trait reset? We’ve got you covered! This single-use item can be used out of combat to instantly reset your trait point allocation.”

Doesn’t this go against what Anet said in blog post etc that they want us to have a sense of permanence? I can’t find all old blog post leading up to GW2 release that the devs talked about this.

Now anything for the all mighty Dollar as the saying goes!

Kilandros.2098:

Black Teagan.9215:

Yeah, make it infinite and you give the players a freeticket to exploit the game.
I cant wait to read the first sentence with: “LFM only Instant Trait Reset item users”

lol, is this post for real? For starters, I don’t think you fully grasp what an exploit is. Second, there’s nothing stopping people from retraiting pretty much on the fly anyway beyond the WP cost.

Yes it is.

And this would destroy the complete game and the thought behind the traitssystem, if everybody can change their Traits how they will, especially before you meet a boss or enter a part of the map, where enemies use special tactics/builds.

If they really sell an infinite version, then not for less than 8000gems.

So there are no trait/skill/inventory templates yet? Why are we still needing to completely remake builds from scratch?

Anet you monetized it in the wrong way.

Every character gets 2-3 templates and can buy more from the gem shop just like bank slots or character slots.

Resetting traits outside of towns is not what I would have wanted.