Guild Wars 2

In my opinion i think it would be cool to be able to change your profession. But give it a strict way of changing it.

What do i mean strict?

Make lights only be able to change to a different light. If a real mage wanted to learn more about a different spell they’d pick up a spellbook and learn it.

Make mediums only be able to change to mediums. Lets say the thief is tired of his thieving ways, and the engineer ran out of money to pay off his machines and the loan sharks are after him (escalated quickly huh?) maybe they want to give up their ways and learn more about nature and animals.

And make heavys only be able to change to a different heavy. As a guardian myself i love the healing and helping my team but asside from being a team player i dont feel much of a fighter, more of a mage healer. Asside from that alot of people are more accepting to warriors in dungeons than guardians only thing people would want a guardian really is fractals.

Sure you could make a new character but what if you wanted to keep the name of your character? Maybe you have a legendary on that character but you always wondered what that sword/staff etc could be like on another profession since its soulbound.

Just a thought what do you think?

No. There gets to be a point where you just have to accept the decision you made. Lately I"m seeing name changes, race changes, now profession changes.

Pick one, play it. Don’t like it, pick another, play it. But getting to just “trade off” because you changed your mind is not a good compromise. You’re character name just can’t be that important to warrant a profession change because you don’t want to reroll.

Getting to trade around the one legendary weapon you made is wrong as well. You only have to craft one, then profession change to get the profession it matches.

Maybe I’m looking at this the wrong way, but I see zero benefits to profession changes in any way, shape or form.

Race change, no. Profession change, no. Change can sometimes be good, it can also sometimes be horrible.

You’re basically proposing an entire overhaul of the class system.
It’s simply not going to happen in this game; not only it isn’t happening because it would require major re-cording but also because Anet is terribly scared of giving us more than a limited and very controlled customization option for classes in order to preserve balance.
Plus they make money out of char slots so that’s even more out of discussion.