I just discovered this too and was really upset. I play four different builds on my main (pvp and pve, so not the same at all) and cannot use different versions of those skills. So what’s the point of scribing? I’ve enjoyed what they offer to the game but I don’t like that I will be wasting ink on changing skills to remake them every time I want to change or add to a scribe on a build.

Inks…that’s why. I like how the current system is in place.

Syiccal wrote: »

Doesn't the different version of the scribed skills save in the archive section at the alter??

it still costs ink to rescribe a skill, i think it costs 1 if you were going back to a skill you previously scribed

but a difference of 1 or 3 ink for a skill scribe is pretty negligible, and becomes a major issue when ink itself is annoyingly rare to obtain

yeah

Agree that it doesn't really make much sense.

From a gameplay perspective, a scribed skill is basically the same as a morphed regular skill. Having your different skill morphs save with your armory build, but not your scribed ones, is very counterintuitive. It's annoying to have to take the extra step every single time you do a different type of content, and if you do this multiple times a day the amount of ink you need becomes ludicrous. The argument that we need to be farming ink also doesn't make a lot of sense. Gear and enchants are created once and then available for as long as you want them, but that doesn't stop people from making new gear or different enchants. The huge amount of combinations we can make with scribing should be reason enough to want to farm ink, and I know I for one would be more willing to experiment and actually use ink if I could have different morphs of the same skill for my different builds. With the current system, I create 1 morph of the skill that I can use in one of my builds and never touch it again, because the only alternative is to respec it multiple times a day.

From a commercial perspective I don't really get it either. First of all, seeing how closely regular skills and scribed ones are related, you'd think that it would have cost less effort to design a system where the skills get saved with your builds than it would to design a system where this doesn't happen. Which could be a commercially viable move, keeping us busy while they're preparing the next bit of content, but this brings me to my second point: scribing could be a huge reason for people to buy extra armory slots. It could be a reason to revisit older content with newly created builds, try out different strategies, and simply have fun with the system. Releasing it as a never ending ink grind feels pretty uninspired in comparison, and after the negative feedback that came with the anniversary event grind this probably wasn't the smartest move.