Guild Wars 2

As a long time GW1 and GW2 player I wanted the feedback of the community on my suggestion. Though it may have already been brought up elsewhere in the forums, I wanted to suggest the implementation of a way to save character builds and armor/weapon sets. I know that this was extremely useful and convenient in GW1, so I thought I would bring it up.

Saying that Guild Wars 2 is “a lot different” than GW1 is an understatement, and I know that the ability to do this may cause some issues or may even sound cheap. However, a lot of recent updates to the game have been centered around the idea of convenience to players (new daily system, for example).

I figure that many players will simply assume that this would be cheap and say that you should always just be prepared for what you are going to do before you go and do it, however, I would say that much of the player base has multiple builds in there heads and multiple gear sets in their inventory anyways. Full armor/accessories/weapons for even 1 separate build take up a ton of space in your inventory, and even though you can change your build on the fly now, a way to actually save the builds for quick changes in between bosses/events/etc. might be pretty useful.

I do, however, believe that if this was ever implemented, it should hold the player to be able to save only 1 separate build and 1 separate set of gear (in a place outside of taking up bag space, without having to head to the bank).

Anyways, what do you all think? Is this asking too much/babying the players? Or do you think that this is a good suggestion? Also feel free to post your own variations to this suggestion and whatever else you have to say.

I would love to be able to at least save my traits. Of course being able to save my armor/weapons would be really cool, I could live with just traits. Right now I take screen shots of my setup.

Not only is it a good suggestion, it and variations of it have been made many times. The most recent dev commentary on it (I don’t recall if in interviews or on these forums) is that they agree it would be nice but it is not part of what they’re working on for HoT.

I think this topic has been brought up time and time again. Do I want it, yes. Is it a very popular “suggestion” in the forums, absolutely. Are they working on it, no. Colin specifically said he thinks it would be cool, but it is not something that currently has any resources devoted into developing. That was a statement in an interview during PAX East.