Guild Wars 2

Edited
At first I devised racial specific bonuses, but in hindsight it’s actually a stupid concept. Each race is should have diversity, but not like that, not with number bonuses. There’s no point in looking at each race and then deciding on one because of its bonuses, meanwhile you hate everything about that race.

Instead I think it would be better to come up with some new extras that defines the races some more, but in better ways.

Firstly I think races should have more armor sets. The cultural armors are quite nice, but there should be more options and more ways to acquire them than spending gold. Perhaps skill point costs, or exchanging race specific dungeon tokens, or even through racial standing.

What about a racial achievement section? As you accomplish race specific actions, you increase your race’s standing. Or even by playing in your race’s areas you’ll add to your standing. This rank will then unlock more armors and weapons pieces, and I think racial exotics and ascended inspired items would be great. The ascended gear can even come with race specific bonuses.

Why not create crafting recipes unique to each race. You can sell the created items on the TP, of course, but each race will have access to their own set of recipes that will be very in tune with their culture.

What do you think, how would you like to see each race stand out a bit more? Would you like to see it done in a different way than I suggested?

While I don’t particularly mind, so long as the bonuses are really small…I believe Anet specifically set the races up to be exactly the same so that there was no pressure put on someone as to what race they would want to play.

If you give one race a bonus to gathering, for instance, then people would feel pressured to play that character whenever they are out harvesting.

So all the teleporting farming bots will be sylvari, all the ranger bots will be norn and we’ll have to log over to our asuras to open bags…

Seriously though, I see where you are coming from, but I really think races should not have any numerical advantages over one another, however small they might be. They do have different skins and everything and thats ok as it is.

Different races shouldn’t have any specific boons that make one race better than the other. Like the above poster said, players will be forced to roll certain races with specific professions.

Keep it the way it is. Just add more diverse cultural armor.

You’re all right, of course. What you’ve said made perfect sense, so I re-evaluated my whole concept, and hopefully it’s more in line with the spirit of GW and offer more aesthetic options, rather than ruining gameplay.

How about we leave it just as it is so people can pick a race based purely on what they want to look like?

More race specific armor for looks only? Sure. Fill up vendors with tier 4, 5, 6, 7 and 900 cultural armors. Anything else? Lets leave that to other games.