Skill template

Different from the equipment template, you can use this template on PvE characters as well as PvP characters.

This template saves your skillbar and the attribute point allocation, not the equipment. For saving equipment, see the equipment template.

You can use this template to change quickly from one build to another.

Loading skill templates
After choosing the skills and attributes that you want to save for template, press this button:(above the attributes in skill window) and press this button: and choose name in the opened window.

To load template you choose instead of  and then choose the template you want to use.

Some builds on this site have the skill template in text form at the bottom of the build. To use this template, simply create a new text document named appropriately (.txt) in the appropriate folder and paste the encoded string into the document. Put no spaces before the string, and leave no spaces after the string. If you add a template this way while you have Guild Wars open, you must exit and rerun Guild Wars to be able to select the new template.

For Windows Vista, templates are saved to " \Documents\Guild Wars\Templates\Skills". For Windows XP, the templates are saved to "\Templates\Skills". For example, these might be "C:\Users\John\Documents\Guild Wars\Templates\Skills" for Vista or "c:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Templates\Skills" for XP.

Builds that have this option have this on their page:

Guild wars chat interface
Another good use for the template is that you can share it with others.

You can send your template by entering the templates folder that is inside the guildwars main folder, then entering the skills folder and giving the text file with the template name to friends.

To add someone's build you need to put his text file into the skills template folder, restart the GW client if it is running, and the template will be available for use.

Now when you press and hold Ctrl and click your skills to say your skills, instead you provide a link in the chat box with people can click and see your (or your Hero's) skills which also provides a template which you can save. For example, if you were to do do this instead of saying "My equipped skills are Dark Escape, Shadow Form...etc." It would instead say "My equipped skills are (your name)'s equipped skills." You can click the words "(name)'s equipped skills" to see his/her skills and save its template. This update was made on April 4, 2007

Tips

 * Give your templates meaningful names so that you can easily scan through them in-game.
 * If Guild Wars is running and you make changes to the text files that store the templates in the game directory itself, remember that these changes will only be reflected when you press the Refresh button.
 * You don't need to change your profession with a Profession Changer or with the drop down menu in Skills and Attributes panel before loading a template. If you have the necessary secondary profession unlocked, it will automatically change it.
 * An easy way to organize templates is to start their names with the letter(s) corresponding to their primary and secondary profession. For example, all the templates that use Assassin and Monk can start with "AMo" or "MoA."

Decyphering the code
The game itself is the standard software to encode and decode a template file. However, if you should ever want to decypher or create a template file manually, instructions for that can be found in the Skill Template format guide.