Guild Wars 2

I might have failed at the search but figured I would ask anyways.

I’m just returning to the game after having stopped right before the battle of lion’s arch, am rerolling, starting fresh.

I realize trait ‘tiers’ are opened now at 30,60, and 80 respectively, no big deal.

However I swing by a trainer just because I noticed the book over their head and see trait books. This is where it gets a little confusing and maybe I’m just not wrapping my head around this at 3 in the morning.

So not only do I have to wait for level 30 to even unlock the adept tier traits, but then I have to buy or travel the world for objective quests the actual skills themselves to be able to put points in each line? (no big deal except the capturing wvw objectives which I don’t get, would probably be faster depending on the server to just buy it).

Am I missing something? Or did this just get completely confusing because I’m back at like day one. In the long run I suppose it won’t be that bad however to unlock ALL OF THEM (probably not feasible right away on a new character) it would require a crapton of skill points and gold, though If I am wrapping my brain around this right you would just cherry pick the skill books out of each line that you’re going to use and worry about buying the rest later.

This seems very counter-intuitive to how it used to be for fresh characters to experiment on builds with.

I’m not dead sure what your question is. The only one I saw was, am I missing something? The answer seems to be no. New chars do events or pay for traits.

References:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trait_guide
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2014-04-15

Perhaps I should have clarified, though thank you for the wiki, that definitely helps and I’ve poured over the release page. I guess my question was do you have to pay gold and skill points or defeat champs/wvw all over the world in order to get your traits, which you answered that you do.

I’m just baffled why they went this route when you’re already waiting until level 30 to unlock the tier in the first place. The cost of them or the thought of finding groups for these champs and mini dungeons in low level zones just seems a little off balanced but I could be wrong. Gold and skill points will add up over time, we’ll see where we’re at come level 30 because I’m assuming buying the skill books to unlock them early doesn’t matter because you can’t use them until you unlock the tier at 30 just like unlocking the tier at 30 does nothing if you don’t buy/unlock the traits.

There is a big thread about the new traits in the Discussion forum. Perhaps you might read it. Here is the link.

Apparently I missed that, Thanks Astral.

You basically have a choice to go out into the world and earn traits as rewards for playing, or spend some gold to unlock them from the trainer. It’s sort of like skills from GW1. It’s less convenient, but I think it enriches the game. It makes going out there and doing things more meaningful.

One of the things that people have been asking in relation to traits/skills (usually new ones) is that you should be able to get them by playing the game, rather than buying them with a currency.

ANet gave you that choice. The reason the costs for the traits are big is because you now get free resets. That and putting a high cost serves as a motivator to go to the alternative. Because let’s be honest, if you could buy all traits for 1 silver a piece, no one would give two hoots about the fact that you can go do stuff around the world to earn them instead.