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We absolutely want to make build templates. They could work similar to GW1, but there are more components to a build now. Using the old string-code method may prove to be unwieldy.

Things that must be in a template:
   

• Weapons

• Sigils

• Rune

• Amulet

• Skills

• Traits

What could be in a template:
   

• Skins

• Dyes

• Outfit

• Finisher

Things to consider:
   

• Sharing (chat links? codes? urls?)

• Viewing (seeing some else’s vs. seeing your own)

• Saving (notepad vs. local vs. account vs. web)

• Building (one spot in UI vs. multiple spots)

• Websites (third-party sites should work with in-game)

• APIs (Could expose an API to third-parties)

• PvP vs PvE vs WvW (each mode requires different configuration options)

How would you like to see any/all of these work?

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/p … tton/first

You are all recognizing the problem with PvP templates versus PvE templates:

PvP builds can be constructed regardless of what items you own. The templates can even save weapon type and give you a free level 1 item if you don’t have a weapon in your inventory already because PvP has normalized attributes.

PvE/WvW builds must include actual items. This mean sharing non-PvP builds becomes very complicated. Either you simply can’t do it, or templates save out exact items for reapplication AND save out item type/level/rarity/prefix/suffix/etc for sharing.

Another aspect you guys are hitting on is the need for template ‘chunks’. This means templates are not an all-or-nothing application, but can be pieced together from various parts. For instance, you could have an ‘appearance’ template that consists only of wardrobe skins, dyes, and a finisher that you can apply and save separately from a ‘functional’ template that may contain skills, traits, and amulet.

This is quite an intricate detail, but you may even want to leave individual skill/trait slot empty in a template you’re sharing like a wildcard.
Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/p … ton/page/2

Lots of good feedback here:
   

• Templates should be flexible on what they contain. Everyone wants something a little different from this feature.

• Template switching can be abused in WvW, between dungeon bosses, etc.

• Tiered release approach (I feel this feedback is because people want this feature RIGHT MEOW)

• UI suggestions are pretty diverse. There are a lot of ways it could be handled, and it touches a LOT of systems in the game.

• Fear of inspect / gear-checking by others.

• Using real items is more of a ‘load-out’ than a ‘template’. Possibly different systems.

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/p … ton/page/3