Guild Wars 2

Hi All!

I just returned to the game after a while, and I see PvP has changed a bit. I found the patch notes stating the changes in gear, but we don’t all fight at level 80 anymore? I am the same level as the PvE world. I can’t find any info on this.

Can anyone direct me to the notes for when this change occurred, or shed a little light on it?

Thanks in advance!

I’m just heading to bed, so won’t be looking up notes, but here’s a quick explanation of what things are like now:

- we are all still effectively l80 exotic gear in PvP
- your appearance and weapon skills are dictated by your equipped PvE/WvW gear, but you don’t gain any stats/runes/sigils from those
- you create your PvP build using the "PvP build" button at the top of your screen
-- this button is always visible in Heart of the Mists, and it’ll appear if you hover over the team scores in hotjoin. You can map this window to a hotkey through the options menu.
- as I said, your skins and weapon types are the same as in PvE/WvW - the build menu then lets you choose sigils, a runeset, an amulet and all your traits for PvP
- your skill selection (heal/utilities/elite) is still saved seperately between PvP and WvW/PvE
- there are a few new skills and traits that you need to unlock (with gold or skillpoints or PvE challenges) before you can equip them in PvP. There are a couple of runesets and amulet stat combinations that you can only unlock by paying gold, I think. All the pre-Dec10th skills, traits and PvP-available gear is still unlocked for everyone.

- you don’t have a PvP locker full of skins any more - you have an account-based wardrobe that you can customise your appearance from (available in the hero window). Most appearance changes cost one transmutation charge per item (though dyeing is always free). All your PvP skins, and any new skins you unlock (by soulbinding, accountbinding, salvaging or mystic-forging an item with a new skin) will appear in your wardrobe.

Um. That’s probably about it for necessary make-your-build info. We recently got reward tracks to work on (actually useful rewards for playing PvP, wow!) but you don’t need to know about them to look good and win fights ^__^

Three biggest changes:

1. Glory no longer exists. Now instead you pick a “reward track” and everything you do for rank xp fills up that track, giving you, well, rewards that are now applicable to both PvE and PvP (reasons why in #2 and #3). These include Tomes of Knowlege that grant character levels, so that’s probably why your PvE level is showing up, even though you are still level 80 for PvP.
2. The new Wardrobe feature means that all the gear skins you have are permanently unlocked for all characters across all modes. This includes any skins you had in your PvP bank, though you may need to play a match and/or enter HoTM with a character that had a custom PvP armor set before they all unlock. Because of this, instead of separate looks for PvP and PvE, you now wear your PvE armor set in PvP, and the stats/sigils/runes you use are picked in the PvP build window, which you should be able to open with a button at the top of the screen.
3. Finally, traits are now unlocked separately from trait tiers, either by completing tasks in PvE or Wuv, or purchasing them from profession traders. You can still use the original 60 traits for your profession in PvP (and as long as that character got to at least 20 before the patch that did this IIRC, in PvE as well) without unlocking them, but the five newest traits, as well as any new traits that don’t replace an old traits released after this still have to be unlocked.

Thanks all!

I had noticed that my character only had 14 trait points in PvP, but I didn’t notice the extent of the changes. It looks like they totally restructured the traits after a look at the talent calculator. Thanks again!

Edit: wrong topic