This also means that you can use a single piece of equipment in multiple templates. However, off hand weapons, runes, or anything else that cannot go in your main hand slot will not appear unless you select your off hand. All of these can either replace this slot or enhance it. For example, if you select your main hand weapon you will see other main hand weapons, two-handed weapons, sigils, and infusions to the left. To manage your equipment you can left click on a specific piece and it will show to the left every item in your inventory or in another template that can be used in that slot. When in your equipment template, gear will no longer appear in your inventory, so it can be useful to look around other templates if a piece appears to be missing. For PvP where gear does not affect your build, but an amulet and runes/sigils decide your build independently, you will need to go to the PvP panel inside your equipment template to change those. Outside the game the build link is not very useful, but it can be shared on websites and other players can copy paste that back into the game which will have functionality in Guild Wars 2 allowing you to inspect and copy those traits/utilities.Įquipment Templates include your armor, weapons, and trinkets. Copying the build link will put a line of text in your computer’s clipboard memory and you can repaste this text in and out of Guild Wars 2 using Ctrl + V. Right click the number at the top of your templates to, among other options, be able to copy paste the build link in text. Your weapon skills are tied to which weapons you use which are part of your equipment templates, so using both is important. Trait templates include all of your specialization traits and your utility skills.
Because of this you should not think of the build template system as a library of builds but rather as a tool for convenience.
Tinkering with a template cannot be done without permanently changing the template, unless you put it in storage first. You can swap between these out of combat in PvE and WvW but can only swap them before a match begins in rated PvP. This also means that you are always within the bounds of the template system and whether you choose to use them or not you are interacting with that system, so learning how they work will benefit you greatly. Build templates have three main parts to them and whenever you enter any of the three main game modes of Guild Wars 2: PvE, WvW, or PvP, the game will automatically swap to the template you were in the last time you were in this game mode.