Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if anyone has heard/read, if any future expansions might have dwarves as a playable race?

No. Until the Lore states otherwise, dwarves are basically extinct as far as race goes.

I’d love to see the return of the Dwarves!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarf

The dwarves as a race have sacrificed themselves to fight the minions of Primordus to delay its return. They’ve been transformed physically into living stone and become mentally linked. I hope that a side effect of us killing Primordus will be freeing the dwarves from their bond and their return to the world (as playable characters).

It’s unlikely even then. The transformation the dwarves underwent wasnt some temporary “trinket” sort of magic, this was a World-Class type of magic. As in “unless you invent time-travel magic and rewind time for them” permanent.

Races: What about Dwarves as a playable race?
”Well they would have to be stone dwarves, since as far as we know all dwarves were turned into stone!….As far as we know, there are so few of them left alive in the world of Tyria after the battle against the minions of Primordus, there wouldn’t be enough to make a playable race. Poor Ogden is likely very lonely, make sure to visit him and give him a hug! That doesn’t rule them out from being a possibility many many years down the road, but there are a lot of races we’d like to pursue first.” ~Colin Johanson

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Many-Questions-so-Dev/3475412

Pifil.5193:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarf

The dwarves as a race have sacrificed themselves to fight the minions of Primordus to delay its return. They’ve been transformed physically into living stone and become mentally linked. I hope that a side effect of us killing Primordus will be freeing the dwarves from their bond and their return to the world (as playable characters).

I didn’t know about that, it would be a cool lead in for an expansion.

Pifil.5193:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarf

The dwarves as a race have sacrificed themselves to fight the minions of Primordus to delay its return. They’ve been transformed physically into living stone and become mentally linked. I hope that a side effect of us killing Primordus will be freeing the dwarves from their bond and their return to the world (as playable characters).

That just screams out ‘living story’

Aidan Savage.2078:

It’s unlikely even then. The transformation the dwarves underwent wasnt some temporary “trinket” sort of magic, this was a World-Class type of magic. As in “unless you invent time-travel magic and rewind time for them” permanent.

Bah, happens in Dr. Who and Superhero comics every week :P But in earnest, I think dwarf history should stay as it is, that was some epic event and shouldn´t be retconned or “fixed” just to have a new playable race.

They still exist but they are all underground with exception to Ogden who remains on the surfice to keep everyone informed of what’s going on

But no they wont ever become playable as a race unless the Lore permits it which right now is unlikely

Belzebu.3912:

Poor Ogden is likely very lonely, make sure to visit him and give him a hug!

:_(

Reverence.6915:

Pifil.5193:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarf

The dwarves as a race have sacrificed themselves to fight the minions of Primordus to delay its return. They’ve been transformed physically into living stone and become mentally linked. I hope that a side effect of us killing Primordus will be freeing the dwarves from their bond and their return to the world (as playable characters).

That just screams out ‘living story’

Oh, heck yeah!

The epic year-long Living Story toward that would ultimately lead to the return of the Dwarves. It would be as much an emotional upper of an LS ending as the destruction of Lion’s Arch was an emotional downer of an LS ending.

Aidan Savage.2078:

and shouldn´t be retconned or “fixed” just to have a new playable race.

Definitely not retconned. What happened before definitely happened and shouldn’t be changed.

But there should somehow be some in-story, in-lore way to eventually reverse the effects of their stone (not stoned, which actually means something else entirely ) state. It shouldn’t be easy and it should take about a full Living Story cycle, which would make the final payoff that much more epic and enjoyable.

Well I know I for one would delete a few of my characters (all Asura) and start over just to play dwarves.

Singh.8206:

Well I know I for one would delete a few of my characters (all Asura) and start over just to play dwarves.

Dwarf would be awesome, but I would prefer tengu first… Honestly love avian races.

Vystirch.3418:

Dwarf would be awesome, but I would prefer tengu first… Honestly love avian races.

Same here
they use the same frame as Charr too so it would not take too long to make them most probably

plus we need more beast races

Torvic.8256:

Reverence.6915:

Pifil.5193:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarf

The dwarves as a race have sacrificed themselves to fight the minions of Primordus to delay its return. They’ve been transformed physically into living stone and become mentally linked. I hope that a side effect of us killing Primordus will be freeing the dwarves from their bond and their return to the world (as playable characters).

That just screams out ‘living story’

Oh, heck yeah!

The epic year-long Living Story toward that would ultimately lead to the return of the Dwarves. It would be as much an emotional upper of an LS ending as the destruction of Lion’s Arch was an emotional downer of an LS ending.

Well next LS is about Mordremoth, which I hope is a lot more fleshed out than Scarlet, so maybe dwarves in 2016? Lol

Torvic.8256:

Aidan Savage.2078:

and shouldn´t be retconned or “fixed” just to have a new playable race.

Definitely not retconned. What happened before definitely happened and shouldn’t be changed.

But there should somehow be some in-story, in-lore way to eventually reverse the effects of their stone (not stoned, which actually means something else entirely ) state. It shouldn’t be easy and it should take about a full Living Story cycle, which would make the final payoff that much more epic and enjoyable.

Aftermath

A stone dwarf joins human allies in a battle against Zhaitan.
The fight between the dwarves and the Destroyers consumed the dwarven race. Few lived to return to the surface and tell the tale of their victory—and those who did had been irrevocably altered. No longer made of flesh and bone, no blood pumped through their veins. Instead, they found their bodies composed entirely of stone surrounding nothing but cold, hard earth.

No longer interested in maintaining their solidarity as a race, these last dwarves scattered across Tyria, finding battles to fight in the deep caverns or making new homes in far-flung hills, ever-watching the borders where caverns emerge into the surface world. Those few individuals who can rightfully claim to have met a dwarf in their lifetime are rare, and all speak of the strange, driven passion that consumes these few survivors.

There arent enough dwarves left in existence for them to even bother making an LS about them. Nor, as someone quoted earlier, are there enough dwarves in existence to make them feasible as a playable race. Plus there’s some basic anatomy that needs to be answered: how would dwarves made of stone even reproduce?

Torvic.8256:

Reverence.6915:

Pifil.5193:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarf

The dwarves as a race have sacrificed themselves to fight the minions of Primordus to delay its return. They’ve been transformed physically into living stone and become mentally linked. I hope that a side effect of us killing Primordus will be freeing the dwarves from their bond and their return to the world (as playable characters).

That just screams out ‘living story’

Oh, heck yeah!

The epic year-long Living Story toward that would ultimately lead to the return of the Dwarves. It would be as much an emotional upper of an LS ending as the destruction of Lion’s Arch was an emotional downer of an LS ending.

You do realize that in order to have a year pass with the Living Story would require 14 years of our time.

This last Living Story season which took us a year only spanned 26 days in the game hence why defenses weren’t shored up in time for Scarlett’s attack.

MMOs with elves and dwarves are so 2004.

Playing through the extinction of the Dwarves in Guild Wars was one of the highlights of the storyline in that game for me. Nothing in GW2’s storyline has come close yet.

The dwarfs may have made a poor choice. The reason the dragons went dorment in the first place was that after the magic of the races was sealed within the bloodstone they were literally starving to death. Jormag was getting around that by eating magical artifacts but there is only so much of that to go around.

With scarlet messing with the ley lines (the thing sustaining the dragons in their dorment state) they are not going to have much choice but to arise or starve with the exception of Primordious who is getting magical dwarf food deliveries on a daily basis.

Reverence.6915:

Torvic.8256:

Reverence.6915:

Pifil.5193:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarf

The dwarves as a race have sacrificed themselves to fight the minions of Primordus to delay its return. They’ve been transformed physically into living stone and become mentally linked. I hope that a side effect of us killing Primordus will be freeing the dwarves from their bond and their return to the world (as playable characters).

That just screams out ’living story’

Oh, _heck_ yeah!

The epic year-long Living Story toward that would ultimately lead to the return of the Dwarves. It would be as much an emotional upper of an LS ending as the destruction of Lion’s Arch was an emotional downer of an LS ending.

Well next LS is about Mordremoth, which I hope is a lot more fleshed out than Scarlet, so maybe dwarves in 2016? Lol

Well one can only hope they do . "fingers crossed" lol
Heck, I’d settle for height challenged Norn.

Small race is already occupied by Asura.

Bearded drinking race is already occupied by Norn.

Not much left for Dwarves to occupy.

obviously there is nothing interesting happening in deldrimor
obviously