The problem here is that it is possible to screw up your character in a way that cannot be fixed short of starting a new character. With the recent changes to survivor, it seems like ANet is trying to move away from allowing that sort of situation. Now, there are only 2 situations I can think of in which you can permanently have a character stuck in an inconvenient situation. 1) You accidentally leave pre-searing. 2) You plan to stay in pre-searing and chose the wrong secondary. Problem #1 cannot be fixed because that would mean allowing characters to return to pre-searing, which would ruin the whole point of it. #2 on the other hand, has a relatively simple solution, so why not fix it? |
Since I no longer really felt the need to start saving quests for level 19, I began questing and soon ended up choosing a secondary profession. I almost immediately regretted my choice of secondary profession. This was further compounded when I found out that there is a new skill trainer that makes it possible to learn skills that were previously restricted to primary professions only in pre (e.g. Flare and Empathy), which would have affected my decision.
So, now, having made a poor decision, I am forced to choose between the following options: 1) Delete my 44-month old character and start over, 2) struggle on with a mediocre secondary profession, or 3) buy another character slot and start over.
Given the recent update to pre-searing, it seems reasonable to me that ANet could provide an alternative - a profession changer that becomes available once the player has reached a certain level (either level 10, as with the skills trainer, or perhaps level 15 if ANet feels 10 is too low).
The only possible downside that I could see to this is that some people, for whatever reason, might feel the need to reach that level and unlock all the secondaries before leaving pre. The solution to this would be that when a character leaves pre-searing, they become locked in their current secondary profession until the normal criteria for changing secondary professions have been met. This way, the change would only affect those who plan to stay in pre-searing. For those leaving, it would generally be easier to leave and then change their secondary than to try and level up to the point that they could do it in pre (since all you need to do is get to LA then go to GToB).
Any thoughts/comments?