Guild Wars 2

I liked the new account wallet system, that was a great addition to easily organize our items.
So I thought it would also be a great addition to implement a “build preset system” to the game.
It was already rumored on forums, but there’s no news about this system.
Personally, I use different gear / utilities / traits for my dungeon, general pve and wvw builds. It’s really hard to change between builds for me since I need to deposit all my unnecessary gear to bank then take my other gear from bank and set my traits/utilities manually again.

With this implementation we can switch between builds with just one button, I’ve added my ui concept as image attachment.
Features :

• Add/Edit/Save build presets with a custom name
• Traits, gear (armor, weapon, trinket etc.), and utility skills are saved to preset settings
• Items (gear) are contained in the build preset’s inventory gear slots, so it doesn’t waste slots in your inventory. If you switch to this build preset you start to use this build’s pre-saved character gear slots.
• If you delete a build preset, your items in this build preset goes to your normal inventory
• Switching between builds can be free or 1-2 silver per switch
• To prevent abuse in pk areas, you can only switch presets in cities, all pve zones, and main wvw bases, and for the pvp, heart of the mists.
• You may use the same item(for ex. weapon) for multiple presets

What are your thoughts ?

Since retraiting is used as a gold sink, if you had to pay a few silver for your little system there that would be great.

colesy.8490:

Since retraiting is used as a gold sink, if you had to pay a few silver for your little system there that would be great.

Yes, they may add a little fee for switching build presets like current retrain fees.

Been thinking about this for a while, really wish there was one, especially for switching from wvw to pve, I use vastly different builds for the two and it takes maybe 10mins to switch them out 0.o

This is very similar to the build system for GW1.

that would be a great system. please add this feature to the game ! it’s really annoying to set your traits and gear everytime you enter a dungeon or wvw.

Nice Idea, but using 1 weapon on different builds might be a problem, if gear from other builds stays in the build gear slots.
This would also give you “free” extra storage space that you usually would have to pay for (extra bags or bank slots), so Anet will lose out on potential gem sales.
Then again, we got the wallet for free as well, i expected it to be a gem store item.

However, I would pay gems to be able to use extra build tabs.

Wanze.8410:

Nice Idea, but using 1 weapon on different builds might be a problem, if gear from other builds stays in the build gear slots.
This would also give you “free” extra storage space that you usually would have to pay for (extra bags or bank slots), so Anet will lose out on potential gem sales.
Then again, we got the wallet for free as well, i expected it to be a gem store item.

However, I would pay gems to be able to use extra build tabs.

Yeah, they can sell additional build slots at gemstore, also 3.50-5 silver per build switch would be fair. The main point of this system is to make playing with multiple builds easier, and improve game experience of players just like the new wallet system.