Guild Wars 2

Why do we have to leave the map to change builds? Why can’t we use that time to respec/rebuild right there with our team, according to what we see of the opposition’s comp?

I know it might sound like a horrible idea at first and that people would be “counter comping” their opponents, but…. that’s actually the point, and not necessarily a bad thing when you want to counter “cheesy” or “meta” or class stacking comps, is it? And after a while those brand of comps would likely disappear and a much wider variety of comps/builds would be generated because of it. Essentially the meta would be busted wide open – theoretically speaking.

At the very least just think of what you could do to help against Warriors or Necros or Thieves or whatever gives your build nightmares if you could slide 10 trait points around, or swap some runes, or sigils, or grab that bit of stability you know you’ll need now that you see 3 Warriors on the other team.

If you need to add structure or limitations to it then maybe only allow for re-speccing via those “build templates” you were supposed to give us ages ago. You could even re-introduce class locking again after the match starts, which wouldn’t be so intrusive to players because they can still adjust their favorite character’s build to something that won’t be rendered useless by the opposition they didn’t know they were going to face.

I can’t help but think that Balance will always be a major issue for GW2 PvP as long as build options/accessibility are so limited.

anyways, just a thought I had while I’m bored at work…

Why can’t you? Nothing is stopping you but yourself.

Unless you mean the final countdown right before the game starts.

Referring to the 1:30 before the final countdown.

It’s just cumbersome to leave the match, change your traits and build and load back in before the match starts, all while missing out on the pre game strat because you’re frantically change things before you get pulled into the match.

I feel that improving on this small but substantial limitation could improve the player experience in PvP immensely as well as alleviate a lot of the balance problems and issues with maps such as Skyhammer and Spirit watch where conventional setups aren’t ideal.

Build loader/switcher. Addings some “tabs” that loads automatically your spec* (applying runes on current armor/weapon or gear the armor/weapon set you have in your inventory). 3 or 4 tabs per char is enough.
It was possible to load builds in gw1 so why not something similar in gw2?
It clearly takes too long for change specs… and is really annoying.