Guild Wars 2

I don’t know whether or where this has been suggested before, and if so I apologize in advance for a repeat post.

Can ArenaNet put a “ReRace kit” in trading post for a gem fee? It could be a rather simple thing to do (at least in my head) and could generate a ton of revenue for the company.

I have some characters that I regret having one race and not the other, mostly for simple reasons like cultural gear/weapons/skills or general appearance.

Is there any plan on implementing something like this in the near future?? Sell a kit for the gem cost of say ~$15 and I guarantee thousands of kits would be sold. I know this would change personal storyline, but you could just reset the storyline to the first step and restart it with say no rewards, or simply make it keep the storyline of the original race.

A second question if this never comes to the TP.

If I put all my gear/weapons/legendary/soulbound stuff in storage and delete my character, do the items become unsoulbound since the character is nomore? This would allow someone to level a new race and switch the hard earned gear to the other new toon and soulbind to them.

A response from a Dev would be great.

Thank you

This has been suggested many times already, and personally, I don’t agree with race change. I and many others feel that if you didn’t realize you didn’t like the race you’re playing by the time you’re level 15 or so then that’s your fault. Adding such a feature in would effectively destroy the alt concept, which would cause starter zones to be almost empty.

As for your second question, no that’s not how it works. The only way currently to bring armor/weapons to an account bound state is by using the “transmute to white gear” method, and this is only useful for getting the skin.

It has been suggested before and I think the response was that it couldn’t be done due to the personal story part of your character identity. No doubt it would require a lot of developer resources to go back and change ‘hooks’ and isn’t financially viable at the moment. If they could make revenue off of it somehow and work out that the time to code and unhook racial story code would still be a good business decision and make them money I’m sure they would put a team on it eventually.

This is one of the reasons I really don’t like these personal story type things in modern MMOs. Linear solo experiences are becoming more and more prevalent in recent years and I don’t think it is good for the genre. If I want story I’ll play a single player RPG where the whole development has gone into the story and lore, not some half-baked MMO version. MMOs used to be about making your own story, not living someone elses script.

Jrunyon.3012:

This has been suggested many times already, and personally, I don’t agree with race change. I and many others feel that if you didn’t realize you didn’t like the race you’re playing by the time you’re level 15 or so then that’s your fault. Adding such a feature in would effectively destroy the alt concept, which would cause starter zones to be almost empty.

As for your second question, no that’s not how it works. The only way currently to bring armor/weapons to an account bound state is by using the “transmute to white gear” method, and this is only useful for getting the skin.

You completely missed my rationale behind wanting to change race. So you can sit there and tell me, that by lvl 15, you knew all of your endgame cultural skin options and how some of the race skills work and may be more viable then others? If I have decided that I want to change a race purely for cultural skins or for a different set of race skills at lvl 80 and pay for it, why not?

And I think you are not understanding what I mean. I want to change my race NOT my profession, I will continue to play my ranger with multiple sets of gear and legendary, but I WOULD pay $$$$ for a race change is all I am saying.

Elthurien.8356:

It has been suggested before and I think the response was that it couldn’t be done due to the personal story part of your character identity. No doubt it would require a lot of developer resources to go back and change ‘hooks’ and isn’t financially viable at the moment. If they could make revenue off of it somehow and work out that the time to code and unhook racial story code would still be a good business decision and make them money I’m sure they would put a team on it eventually.

This is one of the reasons I really don’t like these personal story type things in modern MMOs. Linear solo experiences are becoming more and more prevalent in recent years and I don’t think it is good for the genre. If I want story I’ll play a single player RPG where the whole development has gone into the story and lore, not some half-baked MMO version. MMOs used to be about making your own story, not living someone elses script.

I do understand the whole time of devs vs $$ if this was a hard fix. That’s why I also stated,

“why not offer it only to lvl 80 character that have finished their storylines and only give them the benefits of the new race appearance/skills/cultural items and NOT change the storyline one bit.”???

Pretty sure they already said no and/or its really not their concern to do so. Theres a Search feature at the top right, look up race change and you’ll see the same arguments over and over.

Btw, if cultural skins means cultural armors and weapons, ypu can preview them at any time, any level.

xCrusadentx.2784:

Pretty sure they already said no and/or its really not their concern to do so. Theres a Search feature at the top right, look up race change and you’ll see the same arguments over and over.

Btw, if cultural skins means cultural armors and weapons, ypu can preview them at any time, any level.

I understand all the points made in this thread, but the point is, they WOULD create an easy additional source of revenue in doing so. Who knows, maybe they have it up their sleeve for later when they needs the additional funds.

And in regards to the cultural skins, I made my main and have stuck with it since Beta, not many people would think to look at and consider all cultural skins ahead of time. Well anyways, thanks for the replies and I’ll just continue playing my character “as is”.