Guild Wars 2

Hello guys, m wondering seeing the kit to change hairstyle physiology and psychology of the character, even if they had never done the kit to change race?thank you in advance for your comments.

You cannot change a character’s race or class.

Because it would change your personal story.

It can happen, imo very well should. Story is only a very small portion of the game, makes lil to no impact, & for some no impact.

Some players like to say no in the forums just to be heard they said no…more options the better in a mmo. Asura are a tricky lil race, Im sure they could come up w/something.

We may have to wait for the game to mature more though before this option comes to the table.

Why is it so difficult for players on the pro side of this argument realize that MMO devs do not want characters level to max and then switch class or race? They want you to level up a new character from scratch because that leads to buying more stuff plus keep as many of the various level zones having players in them.

Gender doesn’t affect skills in this game, race does. Gender doesn’t affect the personal story in this game, race does. From the POV of the devs, the choice of race shows the events of the world in a different perspective.

I’m surprised I haven’t seen “can I change the order I belong to” threads cause that’s the only thing else I can think of where a player makes and irrevocable choice. And that’s just so unfair that you have to live with that choice.

Behellagh.1468:

Why is it so difficult for players on the pro side of this argument realize that MMO devs do not want characters level to max and then switch class or race? They want you to level up a new character from scratch because that leads to buying more stuff plus keep as many of the various level zones having players in them.

Gender doesn’t affect skills in this game, race does. Gender doesn’t affect the personal story in this game, race does. From the POV of the devs, the choice of race shows the events of the world in a different perspective.

I’m surprised I haven’t seen “can I change the order I belong to” threads cause that’s the only thing else I can think of where a player makes and irrevocable choice. And that’s just so unfair that you have to live with that choice.

Who says the devs as a whole don’t want race change added? Things change in mmo’s. One glaring issue I noticed early in was how easy leveling was, three of my characters were leveled to max w/crafting after level 20. My other I leveled at release when zones were still packed.

Can’t force players to level if they have exhausted the limit of toons they want to play. If devs are so worried about filling low level zones they probably should not have handed out those +20 level scrolls out.

At a certain point in a mmo lifetime character slots on the playerbase will be full, the player base itself will have enough characters, or the game will cap itself on character per account (may already be not sure).

Either way it has worked for other successful mmo’s (maybe not first year), how do we know it’s not more of a gain financially for NCsoft to entertain the idea of someone paying for a race changes multiple times on one account for multiple characters for X amount of years?

As far as our race only abilities, not a big deal. If the devs at WoW can introduce this in a decade old game pretty sure Anet can handle it.

Story should play very little in the decision imo.

I’m happy with my choice of races, but I don’t see why this option should not be available for other players if it’s a financial gain to Anet.

Name another MMO where you can alter profession or race once you leveled your character to max?

I’m not saying it’s technically not doable, just that it’s not favorable to the business model of MMOs.

Since we are editing on top of each other.

The level 20 scroll still leaves you 60 levels to level through. Plus it’s a reward for having a character for a year in the game. Plus it encourages you to roll another character, which would be moot if you can simply switch.

Behellagh.1468:

Name another MMO where you can alter profession or race once you leveled your character to max?

I’m not saying it’s technically not doable, just that it’s not favorable to the business model of MMOs.

Hey I’m %100 with you on not allowing profession change, and I don’t know of a mmo that allows that.

But cosmetic race change SWTOR and WoW are the first ones that come to mind.

Race isn’t cosmetic if it changes story elements. Yes it’s a minor amount of story but it’s not just cosmetic.

Behellagh.1468:

Race isn’t cosmetic if it changes story elements. Yes it’s a minor amount of story but it’s not just cosmetic.

You could make it so when you race change it wipes your personal story…

Also, SWG allowed prof changing at max lv, and then WoW and SWTOR allow race change.

I’d support race change, if you lose your personal story, all levels, all soul bound equipment, and all skills and skillpoints.

WoW allows race changes? Since when, after they ripped off Dreamworks? Next WoW expansion, training dragons. :p

As for a reset of your Personal Story. Well you pick the order to join via the Personal Story which unlock Order exclusive armor which you could be wearing (or just the skin of it) when you choose to change race. So lets strip you of that while we are resetting your story, eating the cost and possibly transmutation stones you used in the process.

Then’s their your personal instance where you keep your unlocked/gem bought nodes and hopefully someday you residence. Got to move everything to your new race’s city. Should reset your cultural armor bought count since you aren’t that culture anymore. You don’t keep those armors or skins anymore either. There are probably a few more aspects that tie back into race in this game.

See, it’s a tad more complicated than you thought.

Behellagh.1468:

WoW allows race changes? Since when, after they ripped off Dreamworks? Next WoW expansion, training dragons. :p

As for a reset of your Personal Story. Well you pick the order to join via the Personal Story which unlock Order exclusive armor which you could be wearing (or just the skin of it) when you choose to change race. So lets strip you of that while we are resetting your story, eating the cost and possibly transmutation stones you used in the process.

Then’s their your personal instance where you keep your unlocked/gem bought nodes and hopefully someday you residence. Got to move everything to your new race’s city. Should reset your cultural armor bought count since you aren’t that culture anymore. You don’t keep those armors or skins anymore either. There are probably a few more aspects that tie back into race in this game.

See, it’s a tad more complicated than you thought.

Order exclusive armor/weapons already can be worn by another character of a different order, w/transmutation stones. Cultural armor is race specific, possible to transmute it account bound and give to an alt of same race, never checked.

You can also harvest your nodes in any home instance of any race, you don’t need to be in party w/anyone either.

Behellagh.1468:

Name another MMO where you can alter profession or race once you leveled your character to max?

I’m not saying it’s technically not doable, just that it’s not favorable to the business model of MMOs.

DDO (dungeons & dragons online) does it. You get to max level, you spend money or time getting exotic ingredients to make it possible for yourself to ascend. On ascension you get to choose your race and gender and start from the beginning again. You get a few improvements for ascending – a couple extra points to spend at creation and a few new skills. You also get an xp penalty so it takes you longer to get to max level again. But if you do you can ascend again…repeat…

DDO allows you to buy an improvement for your account/characters so you can start a few levels up (equivalent to about level 10 or 20 in GW2) which some people take.

It’s been awhile since I ascended so I’m hazy on the benefits and penalties but in general you are slightly better off with ascending.