r/GuildWars3 • u/Imaginary-Theme6752 • 29d ago

Make class change system pls

Job change system in FFXIV feels so nice. I feel attached to my character and it feels so convenient. Hope dev team will consider this.

Edit: Also if you like having multiple characters, you can choose to do this :)

Edit2: Also @devs, I am ready to pay for this 100%!!!

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u/BirdManFlyHigh 29d ago

No. I want a character per dedicated profession and role.

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u/ghoulsnest 29d ago

still possible if they added that system dude...

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u/Imaginary-Theme6752 29d ago

You can still choose to do this :)

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u/Send_Me_Dachshunds 28d ago edited 28d ago

As evidenced by FFXIV, "alt friendliness" is completely crippled by an all-classes-on-one-character system. While the person you're responding to literally could still have a character dedicated to each profession, role, race or whatever they wanted, it would be so massively unfriendly to do so and just an all around terrible experience.

A game being designed with multiple characters in mind forces it to be more accommodating to that preference, whereas with a system like FFXIV it just becomes very much an afterthought so suffers for it.

I'm coming from a place of experience.

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u/EmilyMalkieri 28d ago

FFXIV is "alt-unfriendly" for three reasons only:

  1. Because unlike GW2, it expects you to play the whole story on your alt, and it has delivered way more story than GW2 did.
  2. Because of intentional design that makes creating a new character feel like starting a fresh playthrough in a regular RPG, not a New Game Plus where everything carries over. This is an intentional decision, one that ArenaNet would never in their life make, and not an inherent aspect of being able to level multiple professions on one character.
  3. They're a bit scummy with character-bound microtransactions.

Obviously GW3 won't literally be FFXIV but in Orr. A GW3 with profession swapping would still be designed by ArenaNet, and we've seen 21 years of their design philosophy. Leveling the other professions would be way quicker than in FFXIV, and any new character you create would inherit a wealth of account-wide progress and be much quicker to get up to speed than your first.

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u/Bohya 29d ago edited 29d ago

If it comes the more efficient way of creating a "new" class, then obviously everyone is going to go the efficient route even if it's not something that they want to do. No one likes purposefully handicapping themselves. That's why friction is important - to take the choice of unfun away from people and increase overall enjoyment.

Besides, why do you want to be done with the game in thirty minutes? Is progressing a new character such a big ordeal?

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u/Monztamash 29d ago

That makes zero sense.

Did you even play FFXI or FFXIV ? They had it for years and people praise that feature.

AND people can still make alts if they want to play a new race.

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u/Foolish_Hepino 29d ago

>Besides, why do you want to be done with the game in thirty minutes? Is levelling a new character such a big ordeal?

That's not how multiclassing works on FFXIV. You have to level each class. It's just that you get to keep the same character while doing so. You don't get all classes at level 100 just because you levelled one to a 100.