New Guildhall NPC: Build Librarian

Just an idea for a purchase-able NPC for the guildhall where guild/alliance members could submit their character builds for easy sharing.

Ideally, could be sorted/filtered dynamically - ie, PvE, AB, Farming, etc, but that could also all be done with naming conventions. Also filterable by date and who submitted, for ease in pruning.

If you submit a build, you can remove it, otherwise only officers could remove builds.

Idea came about this weekend when I was AB'ing and was bored of the build I was running, was thinking it'd be nice to have a place in-game to go and find new builds.

Read, agreed and subsequently /signed

Not a bad idea.
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Plenty of "new" builds over on PvE Wiki.

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Builds are currently stored on your localized computer as a series of text files. Check it out in your GW folder or try playing on your characters on a friend's computer. Unfortunately, the way the build templete system is currently coded, the builds aren't "saved" on the server side, so there would be no way to impliment this system without massively recoding the system and putting a lot more server space for data storage.

Actually an NPC with all the old premade builds would be better, but /signed anyway

Wow, this is the first idea I've heard in a long time that's legitimately cool.

As far as feasibility, this wouldn't need to be anything more than one new table to store the build codes in their already-gigantic SQL 2k5 db, and some new sprocs or functions to handle the lookups whenever the NPC's 'inventory' is loaded into memory. Of course, there's probably a bit more to it in their system, but that's the basic idea.

However, since the difficulty of implementation is really up to Anet's team, there's no reason to /sign or /notsign solely based on that. If it's cool, I'd still say it's worthy of consideration.

In other words, /signed. Neat idea, thanks Beqxter.

im /signing too

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Nice to see that occasionally some new ideas crop up.

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This is a great idea. Sometimes I log in at a different computer and when I don't have my flash drive handy can't access my builds. Plus, its a way to share builds with guildies when you're not online. I'd like it to be affordable though. None of that 100k crap.

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Would add a greater element of unity in guilds, particularly if you can note down which member submitted a given build.

Also, couldn't Anet find a way to save the text as it shows up when we ping our skills? Not a computer genius by any means, but I thought I would throw that out there.

Also, this idea is great! I definitely think something like this would benefit guilds all over. But gotta watch out for the spies who would join a guild just to steal their builds (assuming they actually have some unique ones, obviously).

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I like the idea of any NPC in guild halls that carry content that members can share with each other. Maybe even a simple message system.

We have a guild forum for the members to post their builds and other stuff. Would be cool for a smaller guilds to have this feature as well. Overall a great idea.

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