Guild Wars 2

Let’s be honest. There are a lot of players who play GW2 soley to acquire shinies. Well, why not just let play the way they want as the race that thinks like they do. Skritt.

Skritt are already one of the more interesting races to interact with, and like the other playable races, there are good and bad groups within them. It’d be easy-peasy to get them a home city, a newbie area, and even one of those unfinished gates in Lion’s Arch to link up.

As for the racial abilities, this is where Skritt could be really fun. Take the shouts they already have, and that sorta hidden ability network-mind ability they have, and build those into full blow racial abilities.

Shinies! (1 point) – Shout. (10 second duration. 90 second cooldown. Radius 600) Gives a 10% magic find boon for 10 seconds. The long cooldown is specifically meant to limit to this to higher difficulty fights rather than every fight. Does not stack.

Skritt! I’m hit! (3 points) – Shout. (4 second duration. 35 second cooldown. Radius 600) Grants protection to nearby allies. This is basically a weaker version of the guardian’s “Hold the line.”

More come, ya? (6 points) – Shout. (20 second duration. 60 second cooldown) Summons a skritt that attacks nearby foes for 20 seconds. This is the thief’s Ambush but with a much longer cooldown.

You smell funny (10 points) – Shout. (90 second cooldown. Radius 600) Removes all conditions from nearby allies.

Signet of Higher Intelligence and Neural Yagis (30 points. Active Duration 30 seconds. Cooldown 180 seconds. Radius 600) Signet. (Passive: Get 5 points in all primary attributes -Power. Precision. Toughness. Vitality- for each Skritt in range. Active: Get 10 points in all primary attributes for 30 seconds) My thought on the balance was that most attribute signets give 90 points max, but this is a 30 point signet so it should usually be better. That usually is groups with a 5-man max which means usually works out to 100 points of attributes. The active doubles that but puts it on a fairly long cooldown. Oh, and yes, WvW would be hysterical if a world could field an army of Skritt

(if you want to ruin the fun, cap the bonus at say 10 skritt. I’d prefer the anarchy of a skritt army, but if it got out of hand, it could screw up WvW)

I would make a skritt thief right away. I’ve been wanting to have a skritt character since the first time I saw and heard them.

only problem is that there need to be many skritt together in order for them be smart so one skritt adventuring doesn’t really work .

^ But if there millions of skritt adventurer then they would be smart, Skritt everywhere!

Also, the skritt do have a king, who seems to be working on that whole intelligence thing. That, combined with the chaos magic from the Thaumanova Reactor, could lead to smart skritt.

Alternate explanation: One of the Asura gates being constructed/calibrated manages to accidentally connect to a parallel universe where Skritt are smart, with an enclave being established in Tyria for the purpose of trade before the gate collapses, leaving the smart skritt stranded. Or there’s a rat man empire down beneath the surface.

I would love to be a skritt, but they seem more like an iconic mascot-type race.

I only really see the Kodan, Largos, and Tengu becoming playable races.

I saw one suggestion about the Skritt being a playable race that was awesome – you would control three skritt. They would move in a mob, so as to keep the skritt mob mentality.

Not sure how that would work in the personal story, but it would be fun!

Bloody Zac.8960:

I saw one suggestion about the Skritt being a playable race that was awesome – you would control three skritt. They would move in a mob, so as to keep the skritt mob mentality.

Not sure how that would work in the personal story, but it would be fun!

That’s actually kinda cool. Just adjust the signet to account for the always 3, and it could definitely work.

‘Course, the follow then is I want a bit of flexibility in picking what kinds of skritt I have in my minimob. Cuz I’d want a ranged skritt hiding behind two tank skritt (tank skritt…rofl). That’s likely be a problem balance wise, so it’d prolly just be three ranger skritt or three warrior skritt and I’d still be really happy with them.

I’ve been crossing my fingers for Skritt as a playable race next in line for development since I began playing! I am all on board with this.

Maybe when we get to fight Primordus(the dragon that drove out the asura and skritt) it will take place in a underground world and the skritt racial capitol could be down there.

YES YESYES!! GOOO SKAVEN!! :P

Bloody Zac.8960:

I saw one suggestion about the Skritt being a playable race that was awesome – you would control three skritt. They would move in a mob, so as to keep the skritt mob mentality.

Not sure how that would work in the personal story, but it would be fun!

That would be really awesome. It would be kind of weird to figure out how armor would work though, having to buy three separate outfits would be annoying at 80

Bloody Zac.8960:

you would control three skritt. They would move in a mob, so as to keep the skritt mob mentality.

Not sure how that would work in the personal story, but it would be fun!

Now THERE is a good idea.

A multi-unit character would be so cool. The story could involve 3 characters instead of one. Anet would need to put in a lot more depth and choices, but it would be so worth it.

would love to play as skritt too, however it may be fitting i dont think a mf racial would be a good idea no matter how long of a cd, WAY too many ppl would be playing them just for that 10% extra mf i bet