Guild Wars 2

In additions who’d like to see more Utlity racial skills for PvE?

Racial skills seemed like a neat idea, but they are all underpowered in the name of balance.

Racials are a catch 22. On one hand they provide flavor for your character but on the other hand they lock certain races in their own respective classes in order to fulfill the “meta”. A-net solved this by making the racials generally less useful than the class elites but it also means that less useful skills are less used.

The only way around any of that is to give each race the exact same racial skills while re-skinning them to have the flavor of each race that uses them. But that means doing 5 times (for 5 races) the amount of work for one skill that has no greater chance of being used in any one build.