Guild Wars 2

The Skritt could use more depth in appearance, culture, and lore. I would suggest that Anet makes some smart Skritt. Smart Skritt could be a result of Inquest experiments. These smart Skritt could rise to leadership positions within the Skritt.

A whole story line similar to “Flame and Frost” can be created around this idea. The Inquest are conducting experiments on Skritt to create a more intelligent slave race for them to fight the Asura. The the new smart Skritt are to independent and don’t want to be controlled. Some Skritt turn good while others turn to evil. Both good and evil smart Skritt then go for become the new skritt leaders.

But I don’t think Skritt should be playable. Just a more integrated part of the game and less of a joke race.

If anything the Inquest would want to eradicate the Skrit from the face of Tyria given the history between Asura and Skritt.

The Inquest would just be using the Skritt to make them turn on the Asura. The Inquest can still want to eradicate the skritt. But not until Inquest defeats their Asura counterparts.

Basically the Inquest will be trying to get their enemies fighting each other. But the end result will instead be a more interesting Skritt race.

I find the skritt have incredible depth (they are, in all honesty, the smartest race on the planet if enough of them get together…unlike the rest of us they have no IQ cap) that just is NOT utilized. Seriously, the skritt city should not be so easily flipped (go to the plant/asura lvl 15-25 zone). What is stopping them from coming up with amazing golems of their own make? Smaller skritt populations are grabbing asuran golem parts and rebuilding them…successfully! Why is this race such a joke? They should be far more seriously taken at times.

It is this issue I find. The Quagan are a total jock. They sound like children, fop around, are bassically small wales that would be better used for their fat to use as heating and lighting oils. The skritt on the other hand have true intelligence when they gather in any number (several skritt towns you find them speaking normal and devising strategies that even take into account when they would get dumber into account, carrying notes written in a language so that they will understand it when the higher intelligence leaves them due to fewer numbers, it’s really amazing).

The asura themselves have even been written to say they are terrified of the skritt. Not merely afraid of them, downright terrified of them because of how intelligent they can get. It isn’t like normal people, where you have one or two geniuses in every gathering of a thousand people. You gather a thousand skritt together and every single one of them becomes a genius. This part of the skritt truly needs looking at by ANet for future ideas.