Guild Wars 2

+1 for this

Even I have to purchase the change race kit with gem and have to start my personal story all over again.

I would pay for this. Race change should be accomplished with personal story reset and cultural armor conversion. I’m not sure why anyone would be opposed to this since we already have gender change.

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1. - 2012/11/07 10:17:57 AM (2012/11/07 05:17:57 UTC-5)
   Hi there, Bacon.

I am afraid that the team does contemplate different possibilities and new features for the future but this one is not among those. So maybe it would make more sense to just try with a Charr and discover in the process the attractive of the Charr world .

Dam i jus found out that arenanet is against this

have a look at the reason

yeah i see most people play humans? it dosent means race chance cant be implemented. if some1created a charr exemple and he wants to be a human this
person will pay gems to buy it and arenanet will make money.

+1 race change!

OBS: i like char !!!

please add a race change…
just reset the story

i doubt they will ever add a race change, its messes up the personal story too much, they could add a faction/order change. that should be more doable.

They will never add a race change. As reasons previously stated. And once again as far as order goes, with the account wallet you can use an alternate character to become a member of that order and buy the gear to transmute it to the character you want it on.

a t s e.9614:

yeah i see most people play humans? it dosent means race chance cant be implemented. if some1created a charr exemple and he wants to be a human this
person will pay gems to buy it and arenanet will make money.

as you are aware Anet are against the idea, not for the reasons the policing members of this community would have us believe (thats merely their opinion) as Anet has never given the reason why. I personally say a much stronger reason is the fact that Human race population is far larger than all the other races, and allowing race change would probabaly only skew demographics even further towards the human race, and in a game with 5 races who wants one race being vastly predominant?

na i would switch my Human Warrior to norn warrion . Alot of people dont like being
human because its too simplistic. The reason i choosed human its because i tought the animation on norn are much more slower but its false , its the same thing.

The fact that they say no won’t stop this feature from being a popular one. I am in the same boat as many here. I have put a lot of money/gems into some characters and there is no way I will delete them to remake them, but at the same time I would love to have a different race for several of my classes. Even at $20 a pop I would probably change over 2-3 characters easily. I have the story mission done but would happily restart them if it meant changing race.

The more we bring it up the more likely they will add it in. It happens in ALL games with ALL companies – a popular enough feature will get added.

Just here to show my support.

yea it could because the answer ‘no’ from arenanet was several months ago back in
2012 so….

a t s e.9614:

yea it could because the answer ‘no’ from arenanet was several months ago back in
2012 so….

Opinions can change, especially year old ones.
This thread hasn’t had a “NO” from a mod, possibly showing that with more threads such as this with ideas and positive input on how this feature should be implemented, the closer we are to having it. People who come in providing the same old “they can’t/won’t” responses without providing a possible solution aren’t helping.

A counter argument to “they don’t want more people to play human, and less of the other races” would be that, the currently playing population is mostly human, more people who would buy a race change may change from human, rather than the minority of people playing other races who could change into human. Just a theory, of course.

i want a class changer

Well i think you are wrong about it i know tons of buds that want to switch their human warr to a bigger race and i have buds that want to be asurans because they have the colest animations. As the other person said we are playing a fantasy game humans are kinda meh.. i see humans everyday id rather be something else in a video game.

I feel Arena Net could do this fairly simply, they got kits to change the styles so why not Race.

-Personal Story could be re-set back to the first quest, have no rewards as a result.

-Previous cultural armor worth re-funded or changed to the race becoming.

Even if this cost 1600 Gems, I would do it.

Anet pls?

I would love to have the option of changing races.
I’ll buy gems for that!

I would also like a race change option. +1 to this.

They wont add it , just delete.your main and restart everything again
Thats what i did …

a t s e.9614:

They wont add it , just delete.your main and restart everything again
Thats what i did …

Sad! !

If i was to buy anything from the gem store it would be a race change. Just being able to change my horrible charr to a norn would make the game fun again. As a charr i feel as if there is no point playing since all armours are just stretched and lool horrible. As a result i am leveling a new alt gaurdian to 80 and making her my main..

Race change its VERY bad idea, because if it will be possible, GW2 will not make sense.

I don’t think a race change will ever happen. They would make more money by players buying a character slot than buying a race change item. As for the Orders I could see them letting u be a part of all of them once your storyline is finished or at the part where u can use all 3 asura gates in fort trinity.

I used to be against race change. Barring any technical difficulties like the personal story, which have suggestions to be worked around, it really doesn’t make sense not to.

The gender change has no lore explanation. The makeover kit has no lore explanation. So, there is no lore or RP reason not have an OOC race change mechanic.

Also, to clarify. A-net never said they won’t create the option or that they are against it. What they said was “We have no plans for it at this time”. So that could mean that they didn’t have anything against the idea. But it just wasn’t very high on their priority list.

That said, they probably do make money on the extra items that players buy for their alts. So we probably won’t see anything like this until they need a new way to generate money.

Silvercyclone.1462:

I don’t think a race change will ever happen. They would make more money by players buying a character slot than buying a race change item.

And lose many players…

And noooo!

Money race change > money slot.

i would definitely pay for a race change, i play char female engy and the hobo packs are even more hideous on them than they are all the other races, not only do they float (elixir gun)above the character but because of the char slouch the pack is sitting on the back of her head!
either fix the kitten packs or give us something, anything to change our race, jeebus i would buy potions to not look at my headpack anymore.
And no, ghost tonics don’t cut it because i cant use siege with those on.

why lore has anything to do with it is beyond me, why would anyone who cares about lore even notice? are you that much into your roleplaying you cant turn a blind eye to this? what about all the gender hopping? apparently swapping bewbs for balls and vice versa is well within explainable lore…

Seera.5916:

I’m a no for race change. That’s just too unrealistic for me. Prefer an elite on another race? Make a character with the race that has that elite!

So remodeling your face and gender makes perfect sense for you? LOL.

I love endgame way too much to level up an alt character. There is absolutely nothing fun about it. Armors prior to level 80 look so bad it’s ridiculous.

HOW ABOUT you get the option to change race at level 80, but you have to replay the entire living story without rewards? I would pay that prize, easily.

EDIT:
My main is a male guardian (VIGIL), when I got to about level 60 I noticed some female whisperer warrior npcs and I fell inlove with them. If they would allow us to change I would go for Whisperer, and make a sex change. C’mon Anet, I will throw hundreds of bucks at you if you make order changes possible!!! Also, I think a lot of human players would change FROM human rather than people changing TO human.

Lol i like the hilarious threads about charr players being unhappy they
Might.add a race change just for the people that choseed charr
To be for once fair with them lmao . But for the most part its
True a charr is not intimitading its hilarious!

+9000 for CHANGE!!!!!!

a t s e.9614:

Lol i like the hilarious threads about charr players being unhappy they
Might.add a race change just for the people that choseed charr
To be for once fair with them lmao . But for the most part its
True a charr is not intimitading its hilarious!

i like the char character generally, decent combat/idle anims, nice voice acting etc but some things nip my head:
the hoverhead-hobo-packs and the running on all fours all look stupid to me.
I figured if i stayed in kits it wouldn’t bother me but when the kit sits so high on her back it looks kittened.

Just give us combat tonics! no need for permanent change. No worry about personal story. Combat tonics like the watchknight will be quite nice!

Imagine fighting as a fire elemental!

a t s e.9614:

You dont need any lore for this . There is no lore for sex change or apprence chance..
They can implement it pretty easely i just dont know wheres the problem maybe its not a priority

To be honest it is not about the lore, it’s about the coding.
Sex change is mostly aesthetics, so it’s a lot easier to do. A race change, involves a lot more things like racials skills, cultural armors, and personal story, which coding wise, probably create more problems.

How about

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Alternative-to-race-change/first#post2770499

yeah they should release one! it sucks for the people like me that farmed up fractal levels,skins,wvw… and many more things…. i dont want to level up another guy and do the same thing it will probably make me want to quit the game. im pretty sure most people would quit to if they just had to keep on leveling the race that they want and spend many more months to farm there statuses…. i think arenanet should release it and just reset the persons story…… like it just sucks LOL… im a sylvari and i hate the way my face looks ive spent lots of money and doing resets…. and my guy still looks like crap >.> SO PLEASE BRING SOME TYPE OF RACE CHANGE!!!!!!!! PLEASE <3 make it like 5k gems WHATEVER ILL STILL BUY IT….. LOVE YOU!

Race change – changes your race, changes your cultural armor to your new race (if you have the armor ofc..) , resets your personal story and lets you pick the special questions again! + ArenaNet wins alot of money and makes tons of players happy
Lets force them to finally do it !

I would love to see a race changer i would pay ANYTHING for it… i finally want to turn my mesmer into a sylvari T_T Anet plz..

What I want is account-wide dyes…. Off-topic guy

No seriously…. It takes approximatley 2 weeks of casual gameplay to throw a character from 1 to 80. It shouldn’t be a problem to just make a new character.
- I must say I wish equipment was accountbound and not soulbound though.

+ 1
Would love to change my Sylvari warrior into a Norn.

+ 1

i think many ppl would invest money to buy gems if race change was available, including myself

+1

Totall make-over kit is cool, but it isn’t totall because race change isnt possible! I understand Class change isnt possible, and it isnt needed. Because change class gives too many skill changes etc. But Race change would be cool, just those racial skills that will change and the racial armors.. I think, if they will create something like Race+Sex change kit, and sell it via gems store, for let’s say, 800 gems. It will be a big success. I’m sure!

please make race change( wanted to change my human war to norn

I understand the issues with things like the personal story of the race. But that could be solved with a trade.

I basically have my ele and mesmer mixed up. If I could trade them, it would be perfect. I think an asura would fit on my ele perfectly.
The whole reason I don’t like leveling a whole new character is because of all the soulbound crap… especially ascended things.

If race change is never going to happen, at least offer us a tool to undo soulbound items to put them on a different character. I’m sure people would love that.
That would also make the choice of leveling a new character worth it instead of starting all over.

I will support this too.

I don’t mind paying 800-1200 gems.

I want to change my warrior to norn female as I love the T3 heavy armour.

Personally i just see this whole talk of ‘race change’ as being way too big a headache for coding. your personal storyline for one is explicitly tied to what race you are as well as your home instance, npc interactions, armor you have currently, etc.

basically you’d need to rewrite the game to achieve this. so no.

+1

or just make it so i can send all my gear to a new toon.

+1 yes for change race.

btw any update?

+1 No doubt it’s coming, its to much money to pass up, and not to mention the satisfaction it would generate.

I have 2 character ready for change, I havent played on them for months!

+1 race change!

They could just make something like reincarnation and make you play personal story all over again. Still beats having to create a char do personal story unlock map and reaquire everything all over again.

+1 for race change!