Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet,

The only thing that would make this absolutely brilliant game even more brilliant is if you make the Skritt a playable race during your next expansion. As a life long owner of fancy rats, I have long yearned to play a rat like race in an MMO. The voices / dialogue for Skritt are already hilarious. I would LOVE to play through their personal stories.

If you dig this idea, please post your suggestions for Skritt racial skills below:

Here are mine:

SLOT SKILLS:

“Scrap-lobber”
Toss bits of jagged metal in three fast ranged attacks that bounce between targets and apply vulnerability and poison.

“Strength in Numbers”
Call a swarm of rats to attack the target and everything in an AOE circle around the target. The swarm will follow the target if the target moves. Lasts 2 seconds. Applies confusion, poison, and weakness.

“Lab Rat”
Ooze conditions around you and leave a trail of slippery condition applying goo (poison, fire, chill, vulnerability) that randomly applies either a knockdown or sticky glue.

ELITE SKILLS:

“I Wants The Shiny!”
Use a Skritt made magnet to yank your foe’s weapon out of their hands into yours and hit them with it in a leaping or ranged attack. Temporarily removes main-hand weapon dam and skin from your foe, and gives it to you. Useful for three hits. On mobs with no weapon, it’s their main attack that’s stolen.

“Skritt! I’m hit!”
Fake your own death, giving the outside appearance to foes and mobs that you are completely dead. You can spring back to life at anytime (or when the effect runs out in 60 seconds) with regeneration and 3 stacks of might.

A skritt being the commander of the pact.

eh, still better than Trahearne.

A brave, noble Skritt shall rise to prominence and slay the dragons! Thus the ancient prophecy proclaims….

Cute, but impossible by lore.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Cute, but impossible by lore.

Pftt…. Lore… Skritt defy lore! Besides, according to Asura research data, Skritt’s intelligence increases when surrounded by other Skritt. Perhaps, deep in the heart of the Shiverpeak mountains, a massive nest of Skirtt have produced one highly intelligent Skritt who will rise above the yoke of Asura testing and control. Oh ye of little faith….

So, people want dumb rats. Who are lab rats of the asura, and are almost all thiefs. As a actuall race? the krait or the hylek would be better. As they play some importnant part in the lore. and have some intelligence to participate in a story -_-

Well Entropy, skritts are really hilarious but it will be less likely to be a playable race; because it is a lesser faction. I guess one faction that would come out as a playable race is the Tengu.

Jeraziah.3809:

So, people want dumb rats. Who are lab rats of the asura, and are almost all thiefs. As a actuall race? the krait or the hylek would be better. As they play some importnant part in the lore. and have some intelligence to participate in a story -_-

Dumb rats??? Humph… rats are actually the most intelligent of all rodents. Regardless, I do think if the Skritt were introduced as a playable race their lore would need to be expanded a bit. The reason I like the idea of Skritt is because I always gravitate towards playing verminous, filthy, monstrous characters that are dismissed by the other races as sinister, primitive, or hideous. Such as undead or goblins. There’s a built in narrative there, the unsuspecting underclass rises to greatness, etc. But it also solves another problem, especially if you give the playable Skritt a more menacing, ruthless vibe. Gw2 needs a bit more evil options in their character creation. I almost always play evil or sinister characters and although I LOVE this game beyond words, it’s very hard to create a villainous character. Every race is so wholesome and good. My Sylvari looks fairly demonic, but even charr are rather cuddly. I want a character with patchy fur, rotting flesh, long claws, and red eyes, who wheezes in the dark. Skritt can be that. Especially if the playable skritt are designed a bit more like the Skaven from Warhammer minature games (see attached). I’m thinking that a mass of cut-throat Skritt, a bit bigger and brighter than the other Skritt in the game, swarm up from deep within the Shiverpeak mountains. Or they’re water rat pirates from beyond the sea. Their tech can be really messy and thrown together. Always breaking apart. But still kind of steam punky. They’d be the punks of steam punk. Broken teeth. Missing eyes. Etc. Also, Krait would be absurd. Good luck slithering around everywhere, not to mention the no pants problem.

For shame, all of you. Can you not forget the brave Scritt soldier who joins the pact assault on the Temple of Balthazaar? Into the legions of Zhaitan and the corrupted flames of the Altar of Betrayal, a Scritt bravely goes. How can you call them test subjects of the Asura? Do you see see any Hylek or Krait trying to take that lofty peak? No. Only Humans, Asura, Charr, Sylvari, Norn and Skritt.

Aeros.2046:

For shame, all of you. Can you not forget the brave Scritt soldier who joins the pact assault on the Temple of Balthazaar? Into the legions of Zhaitan and the corrupted flames of the Altar of Betrayal, a Scritt bravely goes. How can you call them test subjects of the Asura? Do you see see any Hylek or Krait trying to take that lofty peak? No. Only Humans, Asura, Charr, Sylvari, Norn and Skritt.

Hear, hear!!! Well said!

Ok I love the skritt and see an easy solution. With asuran technology we have access to, both within GOLEMs and the wireless cameras found in lonars pass, I cannot see why we can’t have forms of wireless communication like radios. This would alleviate the intellect problem as skritt could remain in contact.

I have my doubts it will even happen, but I just love the suggestion. My favorite skill point is the Windmill King in Queensdale.

“…you ran from skritt!”

^ yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

i just cant say no to this, Skritt ftw! blind your foe with the shiny shinyness

No thanks…

I would much rather see Tengu… Kodan… Dwarves…. even centaurs as playable races before Skritt.

I don’t want Skritt as a playable race.
But I think we should be able to have Skritt companions that follow us around and fight with us… Would be so adorable.

Would love Skritt to be a playable race (I wanna be a Skritt Engineer that calls herself a Doctor and runs around hurling junk, erm, ELIXERS, at people), but it’s unlikely to ever happen given their unusual intelligence.