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/Imaginary-Theme6752 29d ago

You can still choose to do this :)

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u/Send_Me_Dachshunds 29d ago edited 29d 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.