Guild Wars 2

A lot of people have been asking for A-net to grandfather in the traits they have already unlocked on their characters so that they don’t have to go around and re-unlock them by doing hero challenges after the new trait system is implemented.

I support such a change, but I would also, for new accounts after the changes, like to see such hero challenges and trait unlocks be account wide. Although I disagree with forcing people to go out and do open world stuff and challenges just to get the traits they need to make their characters viable, I can see how it can be fun……the first time. Anything after that is just a pointless and boring grind that you have already done several times before, but are forced to do over and over again just to make your alts work.
Take the living story for example, how many people do the entire personal and living story on every single character? Probably an extreme minority. Most of us do it on one character, and call it good.
So why not allow us to do the same for traits? Let us do the challenges once on one character, and then that trait position is unlocked on every character we make from then on.

they won’t do it. if u had even 1 character w/ 100% map completion, then all your chars get all their traits unlocked. it just won’t happen.

better chance to convince them w/ the grandfather traits already learned for that char. because for those who have thousands of skill points from pvp, and have fully traited chars for multi classes, its understandable you’d be mad at suddenly having crippled chars.

granted in pvp everything remains unlocked, so theres the counter… do pve to play your chars in pve

Personally I really would not want this.

If your character is level 80, it’ll have enough HP and more for at least 1 viable build. Unless you want to have all traits and skills unlocked on a character, you won’t have to do a single Hero Challenge. Also, you don’t have to do all the Hero Challenges in the world to reach the HP cap, you’ll only need to do a few. If they make the Challenges account unlocks, they’ll be getting rid of an easy way to obtain the new Mystic Forge currency. (Which I assume will be awarded if you choose to complete Hero Challenges after you reach HP cap.)