Guild Wars 2

why cant we change our skills out of combat during a pvp match? whats the logic behind this?

would the game really suffer or take a turn for the worse if players had the ability to change their skills out of combat during a match?

or is this something that is just an unchallenged characteristic of mmos. ie. the way it must be?

setdog.1592:

why cant we change our skills out of combat during a pvp match? whats the logic behind this?

would the game really suffer or take a turn for the worse if players had the ability to change their skills out of combat during a match?

Yeah, it would. It would be a perpetual real-time build wars 2. If you want to do that, you have the option to play in the hot join servers.

Because when I’m in the middle of a match, I don’t want a teammate who is AFK changing their build. 2 minutes before the match is plenty of time if you want to change your build.

you have no idea what you are talking about son

If you’re too stupid to adapt your build during the 2 minutes warmup, no doubt you’ll be either to adapt it after.

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If you able to change your skills during a match then the game is not competitive. One way that could work better instead is adding one more utility skill slot so we can try new playstyles like never before + more fun.

also if we are at being competitive! disable class swapping inside ranked game as no real competitive games allow you to swap classes when you are inside the match and seeing your enemies. Especially its not competitive when you have 60% win rate and a guy in your team decide to swap to his 30% win rate proff. Thats not competitive. Or maybe only allow full 5 man teams to swap class as there are more chance they atleast can control multiclass not like most randoms at soloQ.

Definitly no. No build adaption during a match please.
And yes also no class swaping. After the map roll no changes should be possible at all.

It used to be like this in 2012(could even swap weapons). They changed it for a reason…

Acotje.5689:

It used to be like this in 2012(could even swap weapons). They changed it for a reason…

What was the reason?

setdog.1592:

Acotje.5689:

It used to be like this in 2012(could even swap weapons). They changed it for a reason…

What was the reason?

You should adept your build during the 2m you get before match starts, not 2s before you engage on someone. But tbf, the main issue was the weapon swap but still….