I have been thinking that perhaps I don’t know for sure that it could be possible to allow race changes in the gem store without hurting peoples story lines. What would happen is you would pick your race and customize your character the way you want them to look. You would also be able to pick some but not all of the basic story options for your race.
However, there would be certain choices you could not make like as you go through and pick the kind of story options if your character already is say more Aggressive or Charming or Dignified that option would be picked for you and grayed out to keep it the same as what you currently have.
The other thing that they would need to do is not allow you to be able to race change until a minimum level has been reached say 30ish because that’s when you choose which order to join.
Part of the racial change requirement would be that you would be stuck in an overflow type server that only allows you to do your story quests kind of like how they have the introduction quest area. You would however be able to have a friend click their icon just like you do now to join someone in overflow and they would be able to help you with those quests. Once you finish the last quest just before you would would join your order you would instead appear in your Races Main City or say Lions Arch.
The other thing I would like to see is a way to get a Character customization option in the gemstore. That way you can go through all the options of being able to choose how your race looks to include if you are Male or Female still. But not change any of the story options and such.
I hope that the developers of this game take a look at this and really think on it I believe it to be possible but then I have never coded so I don’t know for sure how sound my idea is. Also this is just a race change you would not be able to change your profession.
I thank anyone who took the time to read this and hopefully this post will get positive feedback and give the developers something good to add to the game in the future for their players who put a lot of investment and time into a character.