Guild Wars 2

This is somewhat of a poll. Just imagine that Guild Wars 2 created five new, playable, malignant monster races in the next expansion, in which they dwell in an entirely new continent, warring with Tyria. What five “monster” races would you wish to see?

My five are…

Ettin (Large, massive and dumb)
Centaur (Just imagine playing a four-legged centaur… so awesome)
Troll (Guild wars two makes them look sick)
Undead (Who wouldn’t want to play a disgusting, mindless, vile creature? ;P)
Flesh Reaver (Fear me!)

Grawl Mesmer!
/15char

MakeitNeil.4561:

This is somewhat of a poll. Just imagine that Guild Wars 2 created five new, malignant monster races in the next expansion, in which they dwell in an entirely new continent, warring with Tyria. What five “monster” races would you wish to see?

My five are…

Ettin (Large, massive and dumb)
Centaur (Just imagine playing a four-legged centaur… so awesome)
Troll (Guild wars two makes them look sick)
Undead (Who wouldn’t want to play a disgusting, mindless, vile creature? ;P)
Flesh Reaver (Fear me!)

I’m not understanding this: there are currently Ettins, Centaurs, Trolls, and undead. So, how can they be 5 new monster races?

Saldonus Darkholme.5680:

MakeitNeil.4561:

This is somewhat of a poll. Just imagine that Guild Wars 2 created five new, malignant monster races in the next expansion, in which they dwell in an entirely new continent, warring with Tyria. What five “monster” races would you wish to see?

My five are…

Ettin (Large, massive and dumb)
Centaur (Just imagine playing a four-legged centaur… so awesome)
Troll (Guild wars two makes them look sick)
Undead (Who wouldn’t want to play a disgusting, mindless, vile creature? ;P)
Flesh Reaver (Fear me!)

I’m not understanding this: there are currently Ettins, Centaurs, Trolls, and undead. So, how can they be 5 new monster races?

I’m guessing the OP means playable races, not races that are currently in-game already.

as playables, not just as monsters, I’d say:
1. Ettin (yay for that!)
2. Krait (aquadic and SO EVIL)
3. Hylek (poison and flame skills)
4. Orrian Rebel (risen free of Zaitan’s command.)
5. Growl (tribe powers FTW! Growl rangers + warriors <3)

i want to be an harpy, a skritt, a centaur, a wraith, a krait

Centaurs, I admit it’s probably not going to happen, but it would be awesome to be the first game with centaurs. And from a mechanical perspective most of the gripes people have are invalid.

• Too large for JPs – Most centaurs are not actually the size of a real horse, and the average actually takes up the same amount of floor space as a full size norn or charr, some even less
• Horses can’t swim – This is just blatantly false, horses can swim better than people. I honestly don’t know how so many could not know this.
• Horses can’t jump vertically – Also false, they do not naturally but they are anatomically capable and can be trained.

Other than that
- Ogres
- Dredge
- Krait
- Ascalon Ghosts
- Jotun

TENGU (I have wanted to play a tengu from the GW1 beta weekends…)
Kodan
Skritt
Hylek
Quaggan (because I have a perverse desire to see heavy armor on a fat quaggan body)

Conncept.7638:

Centaurs, I admit it’s probably not going to happen, but it would be awesome to be the first game with centaurs. And from a mechanical perspective most of the gripes people have are invalid.

• Too large for JPs – Most centaurs are not actually the size of a real horse, and the average actually takes up the same amount of floor space as a full size norn or charr, some even less
• Horses can’t swim – This is just blatantly false, horses can swim better than people. I honestly don’t know how so many could not know this.
• Horses can’t jump vertically – Also false, they do not naturally but they are anatomically capable and can be trained.

A HUGE problem against centaur is their hitbox size. For balancing purposes, all races have the same sized hitbox. Centaur as a playable race means the hitbox on all races would be not only taller, but also significantly longer. This creates a problem for combat, obviously, but also for standing on/falling off ledges.

My wants

-Skritt because of cuteness

-Ogres , Trolls , and Jotuns just because I love big huge dumb races .

-Centaur ; FOR NARNIA !

Ugh, not centaurs. I have to look at horses backsides at work so I wouldn’t want to spend hours looking at one in the game. Plus, they would have to put them all in pants just for the sake of modesty. All the male centaur mobs seem to be geldings, I haven’t checked the female ones too closely…

I can’t think of five but tengu look interesting, might have a fair bit of customising.
Largos as well.

Giganticus lupicus

darkace.8925:

Conncept.7638:

Centaurs, I admit it’s probably not going to happen, but it would be awesome to be the first game with centaurs. And from a mechanical perspective most of the gripes people have are invalid.

• Too large for JPs – Most centaurs are not actually the size of a real horse, and the average actually takes up the same amount of floor space as a full size norn or charr, some even less
• Horses can’t swim – This is just blatantly false, horses can swim better than people. I honestly don’t know how so many could not know this.
• Horses can’t jump vertically – Also false, they do not naturally but they are anatomically capable and can be trained.

A HUGE problem against centaur is their hitbox size. For balancing purposes, all races have the same sized hitbox. Centaur as a playable race means the hitbox on all races would be not only taller, but also significantly longer. This creates a problem for combat, obviously, but also for standing on/falling off ledges.

I don’t see how giving them the same hitbox as everyone else is a problem, it will definitely make for some awkward pathing visuals but little worse than asuras, who can stand three feet over any ledge or get hit by projectiles flying a full body length over their head. So long as people know that the back half isn’t part of the hit box just like they know the previous about asuras, there shouldn’t be any problems.

In Guild Wars 1 you could get a Veldrunner Centaur as a hero, and they always looked different to me, like a meld between man and gazelle, and always seemed a bit smaller to me than the northern centaurs. I would like to see them in game as a playable race, along with the Elona area and our good old friend Palawa Joko.

1. Skritt (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/ROLL-SKRITT-YES/first#post2117242)
2. Hylek (yes please)
3. Quaggan
4. Dredge
5. Tengu

The first three are the most important for new playable races.

Largos! I would almost consider rerolling half my characters if they were a playable race.

I’d totally play a centaur too.

Sepreh.5924:

Giganticus lupicus

this^^

and also the colossus from cliffside fractal of course!

and why not giants like Kol ….

just imagine a monster like that with the ability to dodge xD
invincible!

Skritt
Dwarves
Imp
Steam Creature
Harpy

Skritt <———- This pl0x, yes?
Krait <———— Thissss too, pleasssssse?
Tengu
Ooze <———- Also pl0x?
Golem

1. Wallow
2. Moa
3. Devourer
4. Kirin
5. Skritt

I’m still waving around that $100 bill for the first AAA MMO that lets me play as a centaur. Would love for GW2 to be the one.

Playable? I’d say Tengu, Kodan, Largos are probably the best. Maybe Ogres and Centaurs could be “possible”, but i wouldn’t like them that much.

Quaggan.

Absolutely.

And then be angry about gw2lfg posts : lf3m NO QUAGGANS.

Skritt, only to see stats drop when there are fewer around.

Nike.2631:

I’m still waving around that $100 bill for the first AAA MMO that lets me play as a centaur. Would love for GW2 to be the one.

go to GW1 buy endless Zhed tonic
e voilà

you can play as centaur all the time xD

We need a ‘playable evil’ FACTION for why? WTB WoW clone? WTB C&C factions clone? If you want to play the antagonist, there are plenty of other games which allow you do that.

[I realize Horde isn’t evil, but in the given example, technically neither are any of the aforementioned races]

This is not WoW OP.

Crazy, but I want to be Jade Maw with Agony “condition”…. ;-)

Tower Guard.5263:

This is not WoW OP.

Actually it is…didn’t you know?

MakeitNeil.4561:

This is somewhat of a poll. Just imagine that Guild Wars 2 created five new, playable, malignant monster races in the next expansion

You know, this is an incredibly bad idea.

In the original Guild Wars, the game was ruined because ArenaNet added too many new professions and too many new skills per chapter. They decided to add skills and armors for all professions in each chapter, which effectively led to a (very dumb) system in which content demanded more content: chapter 2 had skills and armors for 8 professions, chapter 3 had skills and (very few) armors for 10 professions, chapter 4 would have skills and armors for 12 professions, and so on.

Now, in Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet risks doing the same thing. If they added a lot of races to the next expansion/chapter/whatever, what would happen? They would have to add A LOT more of voice acting to the game (infinitely more if they did the very dumb move of making the new races compatile with the current PvE campaign, so they would have to record almost all the currently spoken lines at least twice more), they would have to add more racial skills, they would have to add more cultural armors that would be useable by a smaller percentage of characters, and so on.

This is the kind of thing ArenaNet should not listen players about. The great majority of players simply doesn’t stop to think beyond “more is guud!!!!1111!!!shifoneoneone!!11”.

I’d love to be a centaur too…with the wing skins there are, we could be GW2 version of a Pegasus. Awesome!

They more or less abandoned armor sets because they were too much work,
do you really think they will then ever bring a new race where they have to
rework all existing armor sets for ? Not to talk about races that would have
even more clipping problems than Charr ..

Just try to imagine how pants and shoes on centaurs would look .. or Hylek.

1. Mursaat
2. Forgotten
3. Jotan
4. Gigantus Lupicus
5. Dwarves

Because all 5 already know how to defeat the dragons.

Or all the other Dragon minions since we can already play Mordremoth’s minions. ????

Musing about it because it’s never going to happen:

1. Tengu (Best shot of getting added)
2. Skritt (I remember a mock character creation screen someone did. Adorbs~)
3. Kodan (Would be interesting from a lore perspective)
4. Ogre (Through story, some of them are allies)
5. Krait (Because everyone would hate me ;_; )

Tenguuuuuuuuu!! They’re the only one with a chance of getting added because their armor models are pretty much done already.

Tengu plis, I want to be a birb.

Kodan would be nice but they are literally norns males with (more) fur

• Skritt (with a “You ran from skritt” racial taunt skill)
• Quaggan
• Centaur
• Kodan
• Dredge