Guild Wars 2

I had a weird dream as I laid in bed this morning, sick with an awful cold.

In that dream if the player waits on the character selection screen for long enough the background will begin to transition.
Still, yet moving, cutouts in the typical guild wars 2 style would play with a single scene or clip representing each part of the character’s path in their story or from other great achievements that might be logged by the system. Each one would feature the character currently selected in those situations, and of course would cancel when the player switched characters they were viewing or logged in.

I feel this would contribute to the artistic feel of the game, and also to the idea that YOU are the hero.

Does anyone else think this would be neat?

A pulsing or bright animating graphic for the mouse (as an option) would be useful. I’ve lost my mouse cursor many times as it is not that different from the background color a lot of the time

I haven’t seen this anywhere on the forums, so correct me if this has been noted before.

I would like the ability to switch which skills I have on my bar even when the skill in the slot I want to change is on cooldown. I ’m not asking for the cooldown to be removed, of course, and only while not in combat.

For example:
I am an engineer that mostly runs an elixer build, but sometimes I like to play around with the turrets. The problem is I am generally waiting for the really long cooldown of the turrets to finish before I can switch back to the skills I normally use. Often I find myself in combat before I can switch and then stuck with the turrets I no longer want to use.
Is there some way we could keep the cooldown but change which skill is in that slot without causing any problems? Like if I was to use the turret then when done with it and before the next fight pick something else for that slot while the cooldown continues so that I will have the right spell in there when I need it later.

side note: how are the words “and” & “thus” when put together filtered?

Well, we can already link gear. What I’d think would be nice is to be able to link all of it at once. Sort of like linking yourself. No one can see unless you want them to, and it would be an easy way to quickly share your outfit. Even if it was just the skin and didn’t show the stats I think this would be nice.