Guild Wars 2

As a newbie to GW2, I just had a question about traits.

After reading on-line about traits, checking a few wiki’s, I purchased a Trait Guide from my profession trainer, as the guide said it was available at level 11 and I’m level 12 at present. Great, I thought.

After consuming the guide nothing happened to the traits line before I had that facepalm moment while hovering over the Traits, saying it was unlocked at level 30… doh.

Is the Trait guide and my skill points wasted now or will it appear when I reach 30?

Interesting question. The traits acquired by doing the tasks before lvl 30 are open when you get there. I hope someone else has tried this and can tell how it works, but if not, please, report back when you know.

OK, thank you for your reply. Will get to 30 and report back.

I am pretty certain the trait will be waiting for you when you hit 30, as I seem to recall having unlocked one while leveling one of my alts about two weeks ago while not having the required level and being able to slot it as soon as I got there. So no waste

jackaljag.8637:

I am pretty certain the trait will be waiting for you when you hit 30, as I seem to recall having unlocked one while leveling one of my alts about two weeks ago while not having the required level and being able to slot it as soon as I got there. So no waste

Assuming this is true, there is still the matter of trait points. That is the number of traits that you can currently have activated at once. At 30 you get 1 ,which gets you a minor trait in any line. Trait points are capped at 14 so you cannot activate them all at once anyway (but you can switch them around at any time out of combat). Thus, you wont be able to use the trait you unlocked anyway. Also, you have to add trait points in order. So, if you bought a master trait which is position 4 in a particular trait line, then you will need 4 trait point to use it. Lastly, also remember that all traits can also be unlocked by completing some in game goal, usually killing something specific. So, while purchasing a trait is an expense of some amount, sometimes and for particular people its easier then completing the in game unlock.

I unlocked a trait from completed a eotm event. it asked if I wanted to view the trait, I said yes, and it said ‘NO! you can not use traits until level 30!"
it’ll be unlocked when you get to 30. it’s quite funny you were able to buy it before then. hopefully they will fix that as well as pretty much everything else they have changed about the New Player Experience. they recently changed a lot of things for level 1-30, and most of them have side-effects and bugs similar to this.