Hi! I am not sure if this is a cool idea, or how many people would be interested, but I was thinking about it earlier and it couldn’t hurt to suggest. ^^;
It seems like the Necromancer minions are largely inspired by the human Necromancer’s minions in the original Guild Wars, which is cool and appropriate, but personally it kind of turns me off playing the class as other races besides human – because all of the minions you raise are very human-oriented (human bones/parts). I thought it could be really cool if each race had its own skin for the minions.
For example, each race would summon all the same minions, but like…
Sylvari: Their minions would look more like they’re made out of leaves and thorns, with sap instead of blood
Asura: Their minions would look more techno-organic, like the human minions but with golem pieces.
Norn: Maybe their minions would look more like their four animal totems
Charr: Bestial, animal-like versions
This could even work with Mesmer phantasms, like instead of exploding in butterflies, the Sylvari clones could explode in leaves, or the Asura ones like holograms, or Charr ones could explode like heat haze hallucinations. Maybe Norn ones could pop in a burst of snow, that sort of thing.
This is a very minor thing, I suppose, and may be more trouble than it is worth. But it would certainly make it feel cooler to run a non-human Necromancer and encourage more use of the other races.