Guild Wars 2

This seems to be the most requested QoL feature by the community on /r/guildwars2. It has most likely been discussed before, but I thought to repost it here in the official forums for the devs to see how much the community wants this addition and how nice a change it would be for people.

With the release of HoT and the introduction of Elite Specs we’ll all soon have new ways to play our existing classes (or professions- whatever.) This is awesome as it opens up completely new builds, however a this opens up the new problem of having to potentially manage multiple sets of items for each character. For example lets say our group needs a Druid instead of a LB/GS ranger for a raid. This would require switching all of my armor,weapons,trinkets individually to play this new role. This is a chore and discourages playing multiple roles with a single character. This is problem exists even today in Pve/Wvw as ideally you’ll want to run different builds for fractals/roaming/zerging, however it is a laborious process to go through switching out all your gear and traits

It has always been in Anets philosophy not to needlessly inconvenience players and I feel that by including a Build tab in the hero menu they could make playing multiple builds far more enjoyable and convenient. (For those about to point out the build tab already exists rename that to Skills) Builds would allow you to save and name a certain a number of preset builds which you could easily switch between. When selected these Builds would switch your traits, equipment and slot skills to whatever you have selected when the snap shot or save was taken. This would allow players to quickly switch between various play styles for whatever situation they may encounter and get the most out of their characters and equipment.

For people worrying about quick build swapping in WvW/Raids weapons and traits can already be swapped in WvW quite quickly while out of combat so this really doesnt change anything. As some users suggested you could even limit the Quick Swapping Build feature to your keep or put a longer OOC timer on it. For raids the devs are said to have implemented some type of build locking there so again a non-issue.

This seems to be the most requested QoL feature by the community on /r/guildwars2. It has most likely been discussed before, but I thought to repost it here in the official forums for the devs to see how much the community wants this addition and how nice a change it would be for people.

Link the the reddit thread :
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3mhmb6/anet_with_the_introduction_of_elite_specs_can_we/