Guild Wars 2

The weapon swap in GW2 is really great and adds a lot of versatility. What if we implemented the same mechanic with utility skills?

It would only be useable out of combat, so it really wouldn’t change much of the mechanics. Right now, whenever we want to swap utility skills before a boss fight or to adapt to a certain enemy, it takes forever to go find the new skill and to do this for every single slot. With a utility skill swap, we would be able to swap skills on the fly to fit certain circumstances, using premade skillsets, and it would feel a lot more fluid.

Sounds decent. I would go a step further and even create different profiles or actual build tabs on the top with different gear and everything ready.

You could have all your weapons, armour, utilities and traits all saved as “Build 2” on the top of your equipment page and would be ready without the need to drop everything back and forth from your bank like a nut case re-organizing things over and over. You could even rename the build tab if you’d like. Simple 8 character limit names at least.

Heck even Anet could profit from this by allowing one extra build tab by adding expansion slots for up to four or five in the gem store at 400 gems each. That way I could have a zerker PvE build, PvP build, WvW build and whatever other custom one’s I want.

ZanchinFissure.7981:

Sounds decent. I would go a step further and even create different profiles or actual build tabs on the top with different gear and everything ready.

You could have all your weapons, armour, utilities and traits all saved as “Build 2” on the top of your equipment page and would be ready without the need to drop everything back and forth from your bank like a nut case re-organizing things over and over. You could even rename the build tab if you’d like. Simple 8 character limit names at least.

Heck even Anet could profit from this by allowing one extra build tab by adding expansion slots for up to four or five in the gem store at 400 gems each. That way I could have a zerker PvE build, PvP build, WvW build and whatever other custom one’s I want.

Don’t give any ideas to make gems to Anet. We had build templates in GW1 and they should have been included in GW2 from release.

narwhalsbend.7059:

ZanchinFissure.7981:

Sounds decent. I would go a step further and even create different profiles or actual build tabs on the top with different gear and everything ready.

You could have all your weapons, armour, utilities and traits all saved as “Build 2” on the top of your equipment page and would be ready without the need to drop everything back and forth from your bank like a nut case re-organizing things over and over. You could even rename the build tab if you’d like. Simple 8 character limit names at least.

Heck even Anet could profit from this by allowing one extra build tab by adding expansion slots for up to four or five in the gem store at 400 gems each. That way I could have a zerker PvE build, PvP build, WvW build and whatever other custom one’s I want.

Don’t give any ideas to make gems to Anet. We had build templates in GW1 and they should have been included in GW2 from release.

If I understand correctly, he is asking for entire tabs (which would also hold armor, weapons, trinkets, utilities and traits) which would save a bit on inventory space. I’d think 400 Gems might be a little cheap tbh. Maybe 4 tabs (5 builds) total at 500 Gems per tab or all 4 bundled for just 1600 Gems. They would be accountwide unlocks of course.I think this would be a fair price for the development cost it might take to implement properly, though I’m, admittedly, not a programmer.

This would be a very ‘alt friendly’ QoL change after some of the “kick to the nads” some of us have taken from the last couple feature patches. I have 12 Exo/Asc. geared 80s because, before everything became accountbound, I actually considered it easier to just level and gear a new toon for drastically different game modes. Imagine bouncing all over the game and having a completely different build one button-press away. I run a dungeon tour daily and have an 80 parked at each dungeon, with appropriate dungeon builds, and a few other parked at Jumping Puzzles for PvP/WvW specifically b/c the lack of build experimentation/leeway/versatility/freedom/etc that has become part of the “GW2 is NOT GW1” motto that so many sillies have embraced and 10 year veterans abhor.

I know it HAS to be different b/c it’s an MMO and not an instanced, semi-strategy game now. Is it so wrong to crave just a few of the epic/groundbreaking concept that made me a Guild Wars fan in the first place? I think not. I (I imagine thousands of other people as well) have an extra $20 sitting right here waiting for something other than “ohhh…neat…some new skins in the gemstore…whoot”.

Anet, make it happen already.

A button to quickswap to (at least a second ) set of preselected utility skills out of combat is a fantastic idea and as such would have very little chance of actually coming to fruition.

Royale.5863:

A button to quickswap to (at least a second ) set of preselected utility skills out of combat is a fantastic idea and as such would have very little chance of actually coming to fruition.

Sadly, as the days tick by, I realize that the ‘new’ Anet is completely adamant about them telling us what is good for us instead of them LISTENING to what we say is good for us AND them. The ‘White Knights’ that came here from other crappy MMOs will be here any second so I’ll cast Shadow Refuge now and disappear into the shadows. I’m positive my previous post has plenty of merit though. Anet, we beg of you, make like a Sylvari and respect your roots!

*BTW: Don’t use “utility slots” under the guise that it should be free. That’s weak and dishonest. Swapping utilities takes all of 5 seconds. We want full builds with the accompanied ‘space’.