Templates Preview Guild Chat -- We want your questions!

[Mikaq.7102]

First of all thanks for the templates. It is great that we get them finally in the game and don't have to resolve using 3rd party tool.

So in news it is stating that each character will get total of 3 build templates and 3 equipment templates and account gets 3 build storage spaces plus extra 3 free slots for limited time after release. Have you considered maybe giving additional build and equipment slots for free to players who owns core and both expansions?

After all 3 slots isn't much if you have both expansions as every class have it's core specs, and 2 elite specs. 1 from Heart of Thorns and 1 from Path of Fire. So those are taking all 3 slots immediately if you want to use different specs.

[ButcherofMalakir.4067]

1) how much for 1 template2) do you buy extra template for character or account3) can 1 nonlegendary piece of gear be in mire then 1 template?

[Incognito.3529]

Unless its very expensive, I am perfectly fine with it.

[paddystar.2879]

Will the build template slots be characterwide or accountwide? To be honest one reason i never bought any permanent harvesting tools is because i love playing different classes and not just main one character.I really hope that you will be able to buy template slots to unlock on each character.

[Iris Aquae.8315]

My biggest concern with this new system is whether we're gonna only get a maximum of 6 template slots. Some of my characters need more than 6 templates, including equipment. Beyond that, I hope we can name them too.

[Aeon.4583]

''The system we developed reflects this, giving you access to two separate types of templates: Build Templates and Equipment Templates. Because these are separate from each other, you can create multiple Build Templates that work with a single Equipment Template—and vice versa. At release, each template tab will have its own key bind, allowing you to quickly change to the template that best suits your moment-to-moment gameplay.''

That means switching Equipment and Build(traits) will require seperate hotkeys?If so, it will take alot of hotkeys...

[Andy.5981]

@"Zephyra.4709" said:Okay all jokes aside I do actually have a legit question(s) regarding the following statement:

"Swapping can be done whenever you’re out of combat, with limitations in competitive modes."

How long is the limitation, are presets instant and are there any further restrictions involved?

• Example 1: WvW scenario. I'm on most annoying addition to WvW a Warclaw and see an enemy in pursuit. Am I still able to switch builds while on a mount or do I have to dismount first?

• Example 2: WvW scenario. Will using all utility slots for buffs etc retain the universal CD (including any boons/buffs involved) when switching over to a build with different utilities slotted? I can see this maybe being abused by pre-buffing with unique skills/traits/weapons (e.g; Zealot's Flame) then switching immediately to something that benefits from it.

• Example 3: WvW scenario. You get pre-buffed by a venomshare thief with many venoms to use. If that thief switches to a build with no venoms, do you still retain the ability to use the venoms he pre-buffed you with or does it all disappear?

Well it took 5 pages before someone came up with what I think are probably the most valid QUESTIONS (as per the thread title) here.

Can I also add, with the ability to "send builds to friends to help them prepare for a raid—or to your enemies to boast of your superior build", are there any mechanisms in place to stop persons griefing other players on opposing WvW or PvP teams, by spamming builds to their chat window? I appreciate you can block players, but that is after the event rather than before.

[TheMaskedGamer.5708]

If you purchased a new equipment tab or build tab, are these account- wide addtions? (Ex. bought a 4th equipment tab that all my characters now have access to.) Or are these additions character bound like Bag expansion? I want to know what items affect characters only or if they work across the account.

[Ban Sidhe.9637]

How will the gear template system impact moving ascended and legendary gear between characters?Can a piece of gear be in the templates of 2 different characters at once and automatically swap between them when I simply log in to the other character?

If it's not automated between characters, will having to swap to the right template (and remember which one you need), take the gear that you need out of the gear template to move it to a shared inventory slot or the bank, not make the whole process harder, since part of your gear is no longer in your (shared) inventory?

[Vareal.7694]

Considering we have 3 specialisations, (core + 2 elite,) per character do you truly feel that 2 equipment slots is enough? 4 Should be the minimum for a feature that many hoped for at launch. 2 per character with 2 templates as core with 1 of each additional per expac. This would allow for a gear set and build per specialisation and a new equip and build template should be included with future elite spec's as well.

[Blanche Neige.7241]

@"Sweal.4659" said:Feel free to ban me, i will keep using arc build templates until they won't work anymore. And a lot of people will as well, feel free to ban tens of thousands of players from your game that actually keep your game alive.

Can we have a source for those numbers? Or you made it up?

[keeganrockssocks.7136]

@Game of Bones.8975 said:

@GloomxWar.8793 said:Why do you force players to pay for something that they already got for free with a third party program?I think making players pay for this is one of the worst things Anet could do.

No one is forcing you to use this update. It's there because many people were asking about it for years.

How are you getting thumbs up for this absurd comment. We’ve had this feature now for a long time - not because of Anet but because of a thirdparty. Now it’s being taken away and a price tag has been added. This means thay we are 100% being forced to pay for something we had.

You are in denial.

[Emmalouise.1763]

@Vanessa.1906 said:Can you make it so that we could post a code from our build templates and share it to other people, so they can easily get our build just by pasting the code?

That way much more would use template who usually don't look up builds and bother with proper builds for the specific content they do.

Did you not read the news post?

[ludwig.7463]

Can you add some sort of fashion templates for the legendary armor ? To have different skins or outfits for each template would be awesome.

[Avelorelle.8619]

Items you add to Equipment Templates will no longer take up space in your character’s inventory...I don't exactly get how it works... Are the items just stored in equipment tab itself? If I'm using one template with, for example, sword/sword, and I want to manually equip shield, but it's in another equipment tab, do I need to go to the tab it is stored in, remove it, and then equip in another tab? What will happen to the template that contained that shield, it will be saved with no-shield?

And thank you a lot for all the work, I imagine it was quite a challenge to get stat-swapping items to work with this system... So far it looks nice, can't wait to test it in game.

[LordMorgul.9845]

@Baldrick.8967 said:

@"Tiale.2430" said:PvP equipment works much differently than PvE and WvW equipment, so it will require its own template system. Because this presents different technological challenges, we chose not to delay the release of the completed Build and Equipment Templates. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think of the bulk of the feature, and your detailed feedback will be very helpful to us

as we continue developing PvP Equipment Templates.

Jesus, I was excited until I read this!=/

..until you compared it to alliances and realised that has been 18 months and counting. Don't hold your breath.

they just need to make pvp build worth like if u go lev 20 and goes in pvp u got brutally wiped also becouse u don't have armor ascendent make armor and equip wort this "freedom" in pvp is just non-sense also they have more rewards than other modes is just idiot way to do

[rabenpriester.7129]

Question:

How did you come to the conclusion that 2 build templates and 6 skill templates are enough and capped it at that? Why cap at all?

[Sister Saxifrage.7361]

In addition to costing less than extra bag slots, extra build/gear slots need to be cheaper than extra character slots, because each character slot comes with 3 free build slots and 2 free gear slots.

[SandScorpion.1029]

Q: Does buying an extra slot unlock an extra slot for all characters?Q: How much gems are they going to cost?

[Teratus.2859]

@paddystar.2879 said:Will the build template slots be characterwide or accountwide? To be honest one reason i never bought any permanent harvesting tools is because i love playing different classes and not just main one character.I really hope that you will be able to buy template slots to unlock on each character.

It says in the link provided.

Every Character will gain 3 build template slots for traits etc (which will be autofilled with your current PvE, WvW and PvP builds) and 2 equipment slots.You can use any of those template slots for any game mode at your own freedom, they won't be limited to PvE, PvP or WvW like they are currently.

Your account gets access to 3 build storage slots which you can store any of your builds on to copy onto any character of the same class, and for a limited time after the update you will be able to get another 3 storage slots for free!

All 3 of these, Build templates, equipments slots and storage slots will be capacity upgradable via account upgrades on the gemstore.

Personally though i'll be perfectly content with the default 3 build templates and 2 equipment slots per character as i'm almost exclusively a PvE player and I rarely ever change builds anyway.The Storage templates however I will probably buy a few of providing they are fairly priced at around 400 gems or something, if they're 800 or more i'm not wasting my money on them and will make do with saving transferring and deleting builds in the 6 free ones i'll have from day 1

[rabenpriester.7129]

@Teratus.2859 said:Personally though i'll be perfectly content with the default 3 build templates and 2 equipment slots per character as i'm almost exclusively a PvE player and I rarely ever change builds anyway.

Yeah but just because you don't need it doesn't mean nobody needs it. When I played the game actively, I had about 20 chrono builds. Probably more.

As it stands this feels like a QoL for people who don't need the QoL because they don't use it anyways. And at that point where you'd start to need it, it fails you.

[Teratus.2859]

@rabenpriester.7129 said:

@Teratus.2859 said:Personally though i'll be perfectly content with the default 3 build templates and 2 equipment slots per character as i'm almost exclusively a PvE player and I rarely ever change builds anyway.

Yeah but just because you don't need it doesn't mean nobody needs it. When I played the game actively, I had about 20 chrono builds. Probably more.

As it stands this feels like a QoL for people who don't need the QoL because they don't use it anyways. And at that point where you'd start to need it, it fails you.

I know, that's why I said personally.

I have a lot of builds myself I just spred them out over many alt characters as my builds tend to play into certain styles and mechanics which demand their own character.Changing builds was always more annoying than it's worth for me so I just made new characters instead.

You could very well say that I have already invested my money into build templates because of that.When this update drops i'll technically have 40 equipment slots and 60 template slots from the start since I have 20 characters so bying more would be a waste, specially if they are only character bound like bag slots are which I expect they will be.The account storage will be account bound though so that's far more appealing depending on the price.

[SnakeWildlife.5623]

Why are we getting only 2 Equipment templates per character to start like the 3 build templates? 100% of builds uses different equipment load outs.

[mtpelion.4562]

I think this was a pretty good blend of features, limitations, and monetization.

[Dzjudz.9142]

@SnakeWildlife.5623 said:Why are we getting only 3 Equipment templates per character to start like the 3 build templates? 100% of builds uses different equipment load outs.

We're not. We're only getting 2 equipment templates. Never mind people who use 10+ equipment loadouts with their legendary gear.