I know this subject has been talked about a lot so I wanted to say the addition or a new heavy armor type class would be nice since there are three medium, three light, and two heavy classes.
As for new playable races Tengu I think would be the best choice since a lot of other races are listed as sub-standard intellect like the skritt.
As far as Classes go, I’d love to see the Dervish make a return – they were kitten.
For race, my #1 would probably be Koden, but it’s unlikely given how much effort would have to be put into customizing armor appearances on them. Tengu are probably the most likely.
Tengu are the only race in the game who could be easily made player characters. Other races are possible, but there are major obstacles in place for all of them from a design perspective. In particular, I do not believe we will ever see PCs of the races you currently go out to assist in the Order Missions (sorry, Scritt and Quaggan fans. My own dreams of Scrittch Hedberg and The Quaggfather remain unfulfilled alongside yours).
Also, we will absolutely not see Dervishes, unless they are human-only, in which case, we would have to have a new exclusive class for EVERY race. That many new classes would present such a balancing nightmare that I feel confident it will never happen.
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Tengu are the only race in the game who could be easily made player characters. Other races are possible, but there are major obstacles in place for all of them from a design perspective. In particular, I do not believe we will ever see PCs of the races you currently go out to assist in the Order Missions (sorry, Scritt and Quaggan fans. My own dreams of Scrittch Hedberg and The Quaggfather remain unfulfilled alongside yours).
Also, we will absolutely not see Dervishes, unless they are human-only, in which case, we would have to have a new exclusive class for EVERY race. That many new classes would present such a balancing nightmare that I feel confident it will never happen.
Omg. That would be such a cool idea though, if every race had its own exclusive class..and it could be something special to tie in with the culture and history of that race, y’know? I mean I understand it’s not anything that’s gonna happen, but that would be really cool lol.
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If cantha returned in an expansion, I cant imagine assassins making a comeback since it too similar to thieves and engineers are the spiritual successors to ritualist. Though I would like to see a samurai class that comes from cantha, who can be fill in the third heavy armored class.
I definitely think Tengu will be the next race although I’d love to play an Ogre.
Heavy armour profession is the current missing link
Of the heavy armour professions the missing theme is Air and darkness orientated;
The missing conditions are confusion, torment, poison and with the exception of one guardian trait, chill.
The missing combo fields are darkness, smoke, poison, ethereal, ice & lightning.
With the above information/process of elimination I fully expect the next race to be Tengu and the next profession to be an Air-Themed Heavy Armour profession with the above features to match the Tengu (Avian/Air theme).
I’m not sure ritualist as we know them could make a return. They’ve rather chopped up and sold off the components that made rits what they were to other classes.
The idea of static turrets and support dispensers got handed to the engineers.
Weapon spells got an overhaul and given to the elementalists
Generating then sacrificing minions to proc secondary effects represents the mesmer’s core class mechanic now.
Which kind’ve just leaves the channeling stuff where your attack skills interplay with your minions (ie. the attack behaviour changes depending on proximity to a spirit). Of course they could bring them back by giving them a completely new core mechanic, but would people be happy about that?
The Tengu were purged from Cantha in the Winds of Change. All Tengu now exist in Tyria alone, more specifically secluded in the Dominion of Winds.
Actually, we don’t know if they were totally purged or not. And we don’t know if they have gone back since then, either. They mostly just keep quiet about that type of thing
Tengu and Kodan would need some serious work if they were put into the game as playable characters. Both fit their roles perfectly as NPCs but the Kodan models/textures are bland (look at their small, expressionless faces) and both of these races have animations that are nothing special. Not to mention both these races seem like it would take a lot of work to make respectable/believable female counterparts.
Im not partial to birds in any shape or form but I’m not opposed to them as a new race, same with Kodan, that is if we see them improved to be on par with the already playable races.
