Guild Wars 2

Personally, my complaints are not based on the traits themselves, as a lot of the previous ones have been merged and new ones have been added, and I don’t mind having only 3 traits per tier either, if they are meaningful.
What I’m REALLY mad about is how they plan to cut out SO MANY options for character customization with the new system.

Example: if they would just reduce the number of traits to 3 per tier in the current system, the possible combinations for each specialization would be 105.
JUST by locking the tier of traits (can only choose 1 adept/1 master/1 grandmaster) the combinations fall down to 18 for each specialization.

From 105 to 18 options.
For each specialization.
And without counting all the choices that will get cut off by the new limit of 3 active specializations (down from the current 5).

Seems a pretty legit reason to complain to me.

I personally think it would be a good idea, considering how many possible combination will get lost by locking adept/master/grandmaster traits without allowing to select previous tier’s traits. Cutting traits to 3 x tier is not an issue, as most of them have been fused and/or improved, but the limitations of a locked tier system are just too much imo:

Locked Trait Tiers (what they announced) = 3 × 3 × 3 = 18 possible combinations for each trait line.

Unlocked Traits Tiers (like now) = 3 × 5 × 7 = 105 possible combinations for each trait line.

After the change of the runes in sPvP (forcing everyone to have only 1 set of runes) and the new Specializations System with only 3 active specialization (instead of the current system where a player can put points in all 5 specializations at the same time if desired) and what seems to be (so far) a locked adept/master/grandmaster trait system (forcing players to choose only 1 trait for each tier), I would like to ask ArenaNet what are their thoughts about build diversity and can’t help but wonder if we should expect more customization options to be taken away again in the future.