Guild Wars 2

Hey all. When I first started playing I did little research into character creation regarding race. I was led to believe that race didn’t affect skills. Having played and researched I find that to be wrong. I would love to be able to purchase a race change.

They’ve stated that they have no plans to allow you to change your race (or your class, or your order, for that matter…)

For what it’s worth, the racial skills are, in general, nothing to write home about – the profession’s own skills are usually quite superior.

If there’s something you’ve just got to have, then your only practical option is to make a new character of the race you really want.

Everyone on this forum for some odd reason is inherently against such a thing. They believe that all players who level and 80 character and invest months into it should just delete and restart and “its OK”. Idk why-they just do.

Now-As it stands, I actually am against a "Race Change’ without any restrictions or repercussions. I am against a change that lets you just change in the middle of your story-that would be wrong.

I actually would rather propose a Reincarnation Stone. That pretty little stone can be used to revert you back to level 1, with optional race and gender change(and possibly proffesion). Your name remains the same-and all your armor and weapons, and crafting experience remain though.

There are limits and restrictions to this stone.
First you must complete the story mode-Completely and be level 80~It’s only fair, since you started the character, you gotta finish it.
Second off-If there were a “Profession” change, You lose all your skill points. And everything resets to zero. Wether you change profession or not(if the option is there) you have to restart at zero. If the option is not that and you have to retain your old profession, then you should keep everything(Except racial skills which would be unlearned).
Third, This reincarnation gem has a set limit. You can only reincarnate once-and then you must wait say 30 days before you can do such a thing again. This helps to keep the traffic of such requests down on Anet’s servers.
Fourth-You have to restart your story from ground zero(including that you go to the Starter Instance for your race). In essence your restarting your game.

The benefits of this are that you retain your name! Your soul bound armor and weapons are still bound to your name. Thus They can be used by your reincarnated self~when you meet the requirements. Ie if you change your race-You will never be able to use your cultural armor again. That’s simply a price. But if you worked for karma armor, or a very rare weapon like Imerlydeen- Then you can still utilize it.

I would say that pleases all-sides, and is a worthwhile investment. Anet has a lot of money to be made here, and theres no forseeable issue this could cuase to the game or the world(No “Im a norn playing the human storyline I dont have a voice what gives”). This is balanced, agreeable, and it lets people expirment who dont want to have lose EVERYTHING they put into there characters.

IE-You found an abyss dye on your level 80 human warrior-and after a few months got bored of the human’s speech and you’ve done the entire story for him. People would scream “RESTART” but idk about you-but abyss dye is so expensive, I could never lose it. I still technical restart, but i keep things like dyes and armors to my name. Which I also have to retain.

I’ve grown attached to my Human ele(and I’ve put so much work into her i feel weighted to have to play her). Yet-I also wanted to go through the story from a diffrent perspective.

I know people will say “Make a new one”-But then you lose everything your old character stood for. And that’s crappy.