Sideboard

I heard the radio show and I wanted to make a comment and share an idea.

Im a skill swapping advocate from way back. I left the idea because of the strong opposition from original design loyalist but the show brought it back up so I'll put out my old idea again and see if the waters changed. This is how it could work...


Sideboard

These are a number of pre selected skills not on your skill bar that you can access during a match.


An example:
You get 4 skills on your sideboard.
You go to your guildlord and he takes 10 morale from you for one skill swap.
Elites can not go on the sideboard, you can not switch attributes, you can not sideboard rez sig.

Ive got a few running ideas that goes with this one for countering VoD.
I'll find them later, im to lazy for now.

No... Kill this thread.

You have 8 skills outside and 8 ONLY.

ah come on.
this is the suggestion box, let the people respond.

No, this would completely change the mechanics of the game. not to mention morale is super easy to get in some missions like inthe shiverpeaks where you kill the guys on cat's and you get 2%.

It might be good to have some kind of skill swap mechanism for PVP only when it comes to a stalemate situation... like 10 minutes going by and nobody dying. That's the kind of time when it might be necessary to change skills... but of course it would be extremely limited.

I think a sideboard would be a really cool idea for a new kind of pvp - best 2 out of 3. Between each match you could swap out skills from your sideboard, or possibly have a backup of two more builds (for a total of 3) that you could switch between matches.

Otherwise, I don't see that working all that well. It would completely mess up the mechanics of the game already solidified.

Yep, just like Magic: the Gathering.

Your sideboard is built to work around the most powerful decks and you can switch between games 2 and 3 to work around that deck. And vice versa with them.

I think this is a great idea if used for PvP only.

I meant to suggest this idea for gvg only.

Yeah, I know it would change a lot and I still brought it up.
Why? Because its just an idea.

Could an idea like this add a deeper dynamic to our matchs, or; no it could not?
And work the idea around as you will. I just came up with an example.