Guild Wars 2

Hi, recently I’ve been going through the frustration of trying to test new gear for my guardian. Currently the only real way to find out how well a gear set will do is to outright buy or craft it which for a full exotic set can be rather expensive. An idea that came to mind would be an arena style zone in say the guild halls or in the lions arch where you’re armor becomes a basic set that you can alter each individual pieces stats along with trinkets, back items and weapons. After that you can select a group of enemies to spawn in order to fully test the gear. Kinda like the arena event in the plains of ashford. There can even be a dueling element where players can invite other players to test their gear out against each other. Once you left this arena your gear of course would revert back to what you had equipped prior to entering. This would give a much needed tool that is currently only available through third party websites and even those don’t give an actual means to show how viable a build will be. any thoughts on this idea?

You’re pretty much describing Spvp. Though you don’t have stats on your armor/weapons besides the base defense.

False. In spvp you can only test one type of armor at a time. You can not mix and match.

I probably should have been a little more detailed. Yes pvp has a means to test gear but unlike pve and wvw your stats are confined to one amulet. In addition the amuelets available do not represent all the stats that can be found in pve and there are several amulets with stats that don’t exist in pve ie the barbarian. In addition the runes in the build editor for pvp don’t allow for mixing and matching. Also what npcs are present that do attack back are not varied enough to fully test whether a build would work in say certain dungeons or zones. My suggestion is merely to create an area similar to the heart of the mists but designed with pve/wvw gear in mind. The interface for it would probably look more like the hero panel allowing you to select a piece of armor and have a drop down menu like the legendary weapons where you can change the stats for it and the runes. same would go for your trinkets and weapons. another panel/tab would allow you to select a wave of monsters or a boss from various areas around tyria.
I hope that clarifies my thought process

I also edited the topic title to better reflect what i’m trying to say