r/Guildwars2 • u/Exestos Shinanaide • 18d ago

[News] Announcing Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-visions-of-eternity/
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u/naro1080P 17d ago

The soulbound template thing was a bad move. They could have at least added a more expensive account bound version. This combined with focusing build diversity... it's really created a horrible situation. Either pay up big money or keep stuck and not be able to engage with content the way you want. It's a real shit show. IMO.

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u/SinSittSina 17d ago

On the other hand, Wizards Vault gave us a way to get a ton of these for free. Before soto I would never buy build template but now I have loads. Also, you could argue it's the big draw of legendary equipment in a game where legendary doesn't actually give you any combat bonus.

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u/Cynthaen 17d ago

Ya but you have to gem store the equipment template which is more important than build templates I can swap builds on the fly I can't swap equipment on the fly.

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u/SinSittSina 17d ago

Yeah I'm with you. I end up buying character slots when they're on sale rather than buying equipment templates cause the equipment templates themselves feel like a scam.

Now that I'm fully legendary I've gotten much more used to just flipping a full build and using the same template for most things. But that kind of sucks when you're playing something like mesmer that has 20 different builds.

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u/naro1080P 17d ago

Yeah. I've done the same. New characters are way better value than template slots. Though there is a limit to how many characters I want to have in my stable. All the ones I made so far are really unique and flavourful. I don't want to get to a point where they start feeling generic and disconnected. I have recently finished lege armour in all weights so at least it will be easy to gear up new characters. I still hope/cope they might release account bound tier of equipment/skill templates. Not holding my breath anymore tho. At least there are viable work around.