Guild Wars 2

In the Elonian expansion (you know its happening) I would very much like to see Centaurs as a playable race. I Know this has be talked out of the ears on the forum, but I want to put in my thoughts on the matter.

Lore: With the return of Palawa Joko and the rise of the dragons, the peoples of Elona are subjugated by their tyrannical undead lord. This has caused once warring races to put aside their differences and work towards a common goal. Some Centaurs are now working for the Order of Whispers, with their unique skills and abilities, as well as Joko’s own conceptions of them allow them to do things that some of the human members can not.

As an existing race that we know about, have fought with, and have allied with, we know a bit about them.

The mechanics of the race would be simple. A larger equipment pack maybe shown on the sides like a satchel on horses and maybe an armor both on the human and horse parts (as shown below for armor style). They would fight with weapon and kick with hooves like real horses. Some skill examples:

Ventari’s Faith: (skill) Heal self for 15-30 health and remove 1 condition. 5e, 1/2s casting, 15s cooldown

Veldtruner Charge: (stance)player moves 15-25% faster for 10 seconds. 10e, instant, 20s cooldown.

Trample: (skill) target touched foe and adjacent foes are knocked down. 5e, 2s casting, 30s cooldown.

Nomad’s Stance: (stance) you have +5-20 armor against elemental damage for 10s. 10e, instant, 20s

Their armor would be fairly standard looking, while being a little tight on them. Possible increased cost for armor from size. ( Some armor ideas in the pictures below; all pictures were found off the web and belong to the original owner) Slightly arrogant towards other races, but loyal to the Order of Whispers and for those who don’t wanna play as a Centaur then you don’t have to, there are other races to choose from. Some people want to play as a Centaur. It something different that people want to try out, and no other game that i know of will let you be as a centaur, that I know of.

xXIMidnightIXx.9375:

In the Elonian expansion (you know its happening)

Source please?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m craving for an expansion. But ArenaNet has made no mention of an expansion.

“So right now we’re not really looking at expansions as an option,” -lead content designer Mike Zadorojny

Source

And I’m sure you can find many more sources where it is stated that Arenanet has currently no plans to create an expansion. Only that it is a possibility in the future.

First let me say, that no where is it certain we get an expansion to Elona, not to mention an expansion at all. I would absolutely love an expansion, desire an expansion and really hope they will make one at some point.
So knowing that we cannot know anything about what might happen in the future I will comment on the idea.

So I find centaurs very, very unlikely as playable… fitting all the armor to centaurs as well as the other races. Remember that all races can use the same armor (aside from cultural) and if charr were/is a problem… I don’t even want to think about centaurs.
Underwater combat could become…. very…. akward… with centaurs. Yes I know horses can swim, but I am yet to see a horse dive, so that would be another huge challenge to make just remotely believeable and not turn everyone off centaurs.
I think the idea of making a new race part of any of the orders per default is a terrible idea, any new race should have the same option to choose which order to follow… Whispers, Priory or Vigil.

Now even though I am going to call it very, very, very unlikely to see centaurs as playable, and that Anet should be very careful with it as it would be a huuuuuuge challenge to get right. BUT! Get it right and I would simply love to play a centaur, I would (maybe) make one with that almost marbled grey coat

I would however like tengu more and find the infinitely more likely to actually happen.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

xXIMidnightIXx.9375:

In the Elonian expansion (you know its happening)

Source please?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m craving for an expansion. But ArenaNet has made no mention of an expansion.

“So right now we’re not really looking at expansions as an option,” -lead content designer Mike Zadorojny

Source

And I’m sure you can find many more sources where it is stated that Arenanet has currently no plans to create an expansion. Only that it is a possibility in the future.

Anet said that they wanted to get the core fundamentals down before they work on any expansions, they already have the funding for it, they just wanted to make sure that the core was running smoothly, as said in an interview earlier last year.

Also in this article, it talked about the expansions, but for now like I said they want the core game runing.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/05/guild-wars-2s-zadorojny-clarifies-that-cantha-and-elona-are-sti/

Would much rather them to keep building on the content we have now, fix professions and balance issues, and make WvW more dynamic than add more zones to be deserted in a few months after an expansion drops.

All the bronys out there would have a hissy fit.

“Underwater combat could become…. very…. awkward… with centaurs. Yes I know horses can swim, but I am yet to see a horse dive, so that would be another huge challenge to make just remotely believable and not turn everyone off centaurs. "

I’m sure they can manage it, I mean they got a golem like race (asura) that look more like bunny rabbits wielding weapons twice the size of their body and big Cat like race swimming, I’m more than positive that they can work something out.

xXIMidnightIXx.9375:

“Underwater combat could become…. very…. awkward… with centaurs. Yes I know horses can swim, but I am yet to see a horse dive, so that would be another huge challenge to make just remotely believable and not turn everyone off centaurs. "

I’m sure they can manage it, I mean they got a golem like race (asura) that look more like bunny rabbits wielding weapons twice the size of their body and big Cat like race swimming, I’m more than positive that they can work something out.

Charr and asura are still sorta more humanoid. 1 body, 2 arms, 2 legs. Then cats may actually dive too, tigers do anyway (tigers are among the few felines that actually enjoy water) so it is not all that unrealistic. Asura are really unlike anything in rl… you can say rabbit like or such, but they are not really, but still it is a more or less humanoid form.
Centaurs are more complex… 2 bodies in one (full horse body 0 humanoid torso), 3 limbs 2 arms and 4 legs. The arching of 2 backs combined. It works for running on land, may even work to surface swimming, but underwater? That would be a huge challenge for anyone, even you must see that.
They are at the risk of being very very akward while in underwater combat.
But as I mentioned before I would actually like playing a centaur if they could make it work, just unlikely.