Guild Wars 2

To say one example, when you are used to Ranger greatsword, you use skill 3 to jump (leap), after hundreds of hours doing that, you make a Warrior and decide to use sword, that have the jump in skill 2. You get the idea? … and the annoyance?

Why I can not just move the skills position like in GW1? come on! I BET it is already in the game because you (ArenaNet) used GW1 as base for GW2, but for some reason you blocked skill positions.

I have 8 characters (1 per profession), so you can understand this is a serious issue for me, I don’t want to relearn everything when I change professions.

To say that GW1 skill system is similar to GW2 shows that you know very little about the skill system of either game.

Gnat.9405:

To say that GW1 skill system is similar to GW2 shows that you know very little about the skill system of either game.

Who said that? I better don’t tell you how much I played GW1.

I just want to MOVE the icon from 2 to 3, etc., the position. The 5 skills will still be the same 5 skills.

The reason why they have disabled alot of the UI configuration like which is common in alot of MMO’s is that they want every one to have the same system, so no on can gain an “unfair” advantage. While moving skills around may seem like a simple thing, you can keybind them how you want and achieve the same results. Also with the rare exception of like maybe 2-3 skills they are placed in order of cooldown, shortest being #1 with longest being #5

Taegos.4132:

… an “unfair” advantage … you can keybind them how you want and achieve the same results.

Contradicting.

There’s no way to get any difference if you move the skills, you already can with the utility ones, what’s the difference if your skill is in 7, 8 or 9 position? absolutely nothing, same apply to all weapon skills, if I move skill 1 to 2 (and 2 to 1) no one even notice it, the only difference is how comfortable I am.

Keybinding for this is a bad idea, and confusing, specially if you change professions all the time as I do (a new keybind would be needed every time)

Its not a contradiction. They simply want everyone’s skills to be in the same place. They talked about that a while back when people asked about mods. They didn’t want to allow people to mess with the UI elements.

And the utility slots have to flex. You have more skills then slots so that’s a poor comparison to argue with

ArenaNet will do this soon or later, I just want they do it right now. This game is not DOTA, is a MMORPG.

NeHoMaR.9812:

ArenaNet will do this soon or later, I just want they do it right now. This game is not DOTA, is a MMORPG.

I don’t understand why you would bring up dota just because you want something to happen right now. No comparison.

Also, no garuntee that they will ever allow players to reconfigure the ui.

Well, I hope ArenaNet read my post, because people commenting here don’t look too much interested in my suggestion, even when I am completely sure they would love this implemented (if they use multiple profession all the time). No valid reason for the skills not being movable of position.

If the reason is PvP/eSport (because I don’t see why PvE needs this) I can tell I play a lot PvP/WvW, and if an enemy Warrior has skill 1 on slot 2, I don’t really care at all, believe me, I don’t see what’s the reasoning in this.