Character Build Presets (again)

ChopGateDon1

Saved build presets that we can use to quickly change all aspects of a characters setup including gear, skills, attributes and champion points needs to be a thing in this game especially for console players. I know PC players can work around this issue with addons and thats probs the reason this point doesn't gain more attention but on console it would improve the game soo much.

This feature would help people who regularly play both PvE and PvP content and make it quicker and easier to switch between, it would help people who play tanking and healing roles in PvE because outside of vet dungeons and trials these builds are often too specific to the role and perform poorly in solo PvE content and general questing/adventuring and it might also encourage more people to switch to tanking and healing roles in group content and alleviate the long queue times for dps's in group finders.

From my own experiences I 'had' a tanking and a healing character built for PvE however I found that it was largely pointless using these characters in any other content because both characters were slow to kill enemies solo without the support of other dps's and weren't built for PvP. Rather than messing around every time and swapping skills, gear and re-specing skills and attribute points (at the cost of gold) I ended up just changing them back over to dps builds instead.

In my opinion the best way to implement something like this would be with a housing furniture item and overland station similar to the transmute feature. This would stop people from being able to change mid way through a trial or dungeon and would require them to travel to a place to swap it. Something like a magic mirror or wardrobe in the guild house where you could save 2 or 3 different identities for your character would be perfect and because its really about making money in the end, throw some identity save slot tokens on the crown store so people can buy more slots similar to what they do with the outfit styles.

Apologies if you've read 100 similar posts to this one before but I cant understand how this isn't a feature in the game already. If people have other thoughts or dont agree with the idea here then I'd be happy to hear opinions or alternative solutions to this?

(I play on Xbox EU server - previously played on PC)

mairwen85

I second this. Addons like alhpa-gear and dressing room on PC show how easy this wold be to implement and how functional such a system would be. The only thing those addons can't do is swap mundus or attributes an morphs on demand because those require object interaction to do (alpha gear has an integration with CP profile addon "Champion Slots"--showing that even CP profiles are also possible and still keeps the 3k CP respect cost). I personally feel it expands the game for the better by providing at-a-press loadout swapping and makes it easier to multi-spec or adjust your build mid content. That's beneficial to players and group imho.

Elwendryll

I've been asking for something similar for ages. I want to be able to set a build, save it, set an other build (with different morphs, mundus, etc...), and then be able to swap between these 2 builds when I'm visiting my home. If you swap back to the previous one you go back to how the build was before you swapped, with the abilities you had slotted, the CPs, and mundus/gear/attributes.

It doesn't devalue the respec system, you still need to pay to change something like CPs, attributes or morphs. However, it enables people to play a tank or go into cyrodiil without having to respec everytime. It would just increase the diversity of the content people play, there would be more tanks, etc...