Guild Wars 2

The following is just something I’ve had rolling around in my head for a while.
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Issue 1: Making an alternate-character is the only way to really get insight into the other races. Some players are reluctant to do that for one reason or another and are missing out.
(Example: “The Asura look like gremlins! I don’t want to play as a gremlin!”)

Issue 2: Some players like a certain race, but really like a certain racial skill of a different race. They are forced to choose between races.

• Corollary Issue: Racial skills are meant to be separate as an RPG feature; many other players will be upset if racial skills were simply unlocked for all other races.

Idea: Embracing a different culture – Like what that guy did in Avatar

The game’s personal story already leads a player to seeing technology creating from the combined effort of multiple races. Sciences fusing together to form something greater. (Although, it’s probably mostly Asura tech lol)

Additionally, there are many NPCs in-game which speak about how they’ve experienced other cultures or want to get to know the other species better.
“I want to get to know them. They’re very educated.” (A Charr talking about the Asura near the dungeon vendors)

So, why not allow our own characters to embrace other races?

Final Concept: A Cultural Storyline – “A New Home”

A storyline completely independent from the existing Personal Story involving less saving-the-world, and more exploring/enjoying the world of other races!

Details

• Would be unlocked as an optional event after completing the Personal Story
• Entire host of new story instances revolving around the city of another race, and the adjacent zones, giving new or deeper insight into the races.
• Like the personal story, there will be choices that result in experiencing of different events and the forming of a unique experience.
• Like the personal story, cannot be repeated. (Choose wisely! [Ideally, the different NPCs would give cutscenes that give a taste of what each of the other 4 races are like])
• Completing the storyline will have the people make you an honorary member of their race, unlocking their racial skills to you.

Note: This is obviously something for an expansion of the game. New achievements, additional voice-acting, new art for the completions and cutscenes; the kind of the stuff that deserves high-quality work.

I personally like this idea of allowing players to gain insight into other races without having to create an alt, more so because that additional-insight can encourage more players to make alts so they can experience the other races storylines first-hand.

I also crave the Charrzooka on my Asura. “Megalomaniac achievement, GET!”

Thanks for reading.
I am open to criticism and suggestions! Unhelpful negative comments will be ignored~

P.S.

Oh, and my main is an Asura. Cool down, it was just an example.

I agree this would be an interesting new thing. Even though I like the idea with racial skills I don’t know if they’d work very good(balancing & stuff & other reasons), but hey it might be possible & would be awesome.