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One of the defining features of Guild Wars 1 was how it allowed players to adapt their builds on the fly depending on their levels of success or failure in any part of the game. While this ability to adapt remains strong in PvP, it has been considerably weakened in the realm of PvE and WvW thanks to Training Manuals. The manner of restructuring one's personal build in GW1 was relatively simple (you could do it at the press of a button), but in GW2, you are either forced to cope with working around what traits you have locked in or carry around multiple copies of a training manual (something that could become expensive and unwieldy past level 60).
I propose that upon reaching level 80, a PvE player should be awarded a Personal Combat Training Manual in which they can save 2 entire trait set-ups that can be accessed at any time outside of combat. There are so many ways to play each profession! A book like this would allow players more leeway in how they can engage PvE and WvW without having to worry about maintaining a supply of Training Manuals. They could save two of the builds that they have practiced with and mastered over the course of PvE instead of having to constantly buy back and reallocate their traits. However, since there are only two spaces for trait builds, if the player wanted to try something new, he or she would have to buy another Training Manual. This still maintains a gold sink aspect to traits in PvE, but also allows accomplished players to maintain their sculpted personal combat identities without having to constantly spend money. Simply save a build, name it and know that the ways that you wield a blade, cast spells and aid your allies are safe in a book you earned by slaying thousands of beasties along the path to becoming a hero of Tyria.
And if 2 trait builds is too much, maybe just 1 would be fine too. It's all about preserving that one loyal build for easy access. Furthermore, there could maybe be a PvP version of this item that could store a maybe 5 or so trait set-ups.
