Guild Wars 2

Everything I’ve heard so far about the upcoming expansion made me even more excited about it and I am really looking forward to lay my hands on it.

But when I read that you would reduce the number of potential traits and trait choices down to 1 out of 3 per rank/stage I couldn’t believe what I read.
Separating traits from attributes is a great idea, but limiting players choices concerning variation as much, it will likely kill the game for me.

Guild Wars is one of the few (and perhaps the best) online games that makes trait testing, trying out new builds and ending up on a somewhat competitive level without using the META builds possible.

By reducing the number of traits and trait choices you will stop seeing anything that is NOT meta in PvP, WvW and PvE.
As by the great choices of traits that you currently offer I can make my character more unique than I could if you reduced the number of traits per rank/stage.

Even if somehow those traits should become available via other skills, you will still see ALOT less variation of builds than you currently have and no one will be able to try and step out of the META, because of the few choices remaining.

Here’s the link to the interview I am referring to.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/news/guild-wars-2/guild-wars-2-heart-thorns-specializations-and-jon-peters-qa

Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.