When I heard about racial skills and how they would not give an advantage to particular races, I was quite pleased – however now racials feel either underpowered or outright useless, usually with very long cooldowns.
Why not make racial skills useful (appropriate power/cooldown) but give all races the same skills but reskin the animations. Hounds of bathazar (human), Wolves of the pale Tree (Sylvari), Combat golems (Asura), Wolf spirit ..Wolves (Norn), and I dunno a pair of mini tanks or something for the charr :P
This would make using the racial skills feel useful and also highlight and complement the race you are playing.
The only problem I would see is balancing these skills with different proffessions, so maybe different proffessions get one racial skill each instead?
It would be some work I’d imagine, making new animations etc. so maybe this is an idea for future skill expansions.