Guild Wars 2

Reading the previews on the upcoming patch, i was struck by the seemingly overcomplicated system they had to implement to get pve characters into pvp.

I was wondering, do pvp players even care about persistent characters?

Personally i would much rather just log in to pvp (without a character) and then just select a saved template for my class/attributes/gear, and off i go. (or create/modify a build in the usual way)

Cosmetics like appearance and armor skins can be applied from saved templates and the wardrobe.

This also means pvp skill unlocks are account wide since they don’t apply to any particular characters.

I think this is a much simpler and more elegant system than trying to juggle two versions of each character. Just have a blank slate pvp slot you can use for anything instantly.

As someone who often creates different characters to try out classes in pvp, I’d much rather have something like this (rather than having to go through the tutorial every time :/ )

It’s not about PvP-only players wanting persistent characters. It’s about everybody else.

They can just save their pve character as a template and reproduce it in their pvp slot.