Guild Wars 2

I quickly went through the new patch and skipped over a lot of stuff, so it wasn’t until one of WP’s newest videos that I knew about the transformation tonic. Throughout the video, he was playing as a Kodan a lot of the time. It took me longer than I’m proud of, but eventually I realised it’s actually quite a huge thing – you retain your transformation during combat and all the skill animations are adjusted and displaying properly. IMO this is a first step Anet is taking towards implementing a new playable race – the Kodan.

It’s no secret that HoT was poorly received when it first came out. A lot of people called the expansion rushed, lacking content and were overall dissatisfied. Eventually Anet went ahead and fixed a lot of problems, making the expansion much more enjoyable, but I think they learned a lesson and want to make the next one better. It’s also not a secret that a lot of people want a new playable race. Of course that would require an extreme amount of work – redesigning all the armor skins, lots of voice acting, animating and coming up with personal story (assuming they will want the new race to function in the same way as the 5 existing ones). I believe that even though it will be very difficult, it’s not impossible.

The current living story is leading up to a big fight with 2 dragons and their minions. Primordus and Jormag. Undoubtedly the Kodan are gonna play a very important role in the fight against Jormag, there’s a lot of undiscovered area in the north of the map allowing for many new potential zones and it seems like the ideal time to drop them in game as a playable race. We’ve seen much more of them in the latest patch and I think there is more to come. Anet are starting to build up their culture, making us more familiar with their ways, possibly in preparation for the next expansion.

Because of all these reasons, I think the LS will end right before the fight with Jormag, which is where the expansion will pick up and introduce Kodan as a playable race.
What do you think? Does anyone else believe there is at least a slight possibility that new playable race will come in some upcoming expansion? Please feel free to update me on any other facts I might have missed out – as I said I kinda rushed through the last update and I might have overlooked some things.

I was thinking this pretty much sealed the deal there will be no added playable races, especially not the kodan.

I think that if we will get a new playable race, it will probably be in an expansion.
I’m one of those that really hopes they will add a new one with the upcoming expansion, and after seeing the leaks I’m quite sure it can’t be the Kodan …
Maybe Tengu but we’ll see..
I was really happy about the tonic though, I’m always running around as a Kidan in the last days XD , but I have to agree with Fluffball, that is most likely a statement to say that kodan will not be playable.
I really hope they will not do it for the Tengu after all the teasing when they were in production…

Pretty much zero chance of playable Kodan. They are an interesting race, but there is no logic or versatility in them that makes them viable for a playable race the way gw2 is set up.

As for a new race, I will be surprised if tbey add one. They have stated it is a lot work recording the VA for what they have. That is a lot of extra scheduling and lines to be fitted in each episode for every new race.

The more we see these tonics, the less likely a new race becomes. They clearly are meant to fill that gap.

I really don’t know. With Anet everything is possible (For good and bad equally…)

I really hope, if they add a new playable race, it is not the Kodan. They are basically what Norn are, only with unhealthy doses of new age aquarian hippie pseudo mystic babble, and a bear head. They are incredibly boring and don’t add anything new.

They are barely better than largos, but, seriously, even a new ooze playable race would be more interesting.

Animations are based on skeletons, so anything with a humanoid skeleton is already set. It’s why they could do the Kodan and why they can’t do something like a Quaggan. Tengu is the most likely at this point.

Adding another race would be very expensive, though it could be greatly reduced by sharing features of an existing race, mainly the voice. For the personal story, I doubt they’d have one, at least not a full one. They’d probably start at 80 and have a single chapter introduction, then would jump straight into the shared story of the expansion.

From my perspective, the only non-playable race so far that has any real chance would be the tengu, since they apparently were going to be a playable race in the beginning, along with having their own space for a starting area and such.

Any other race ideas so far lack enough to do anything with in this regard….and even in the case of the tengu, it would be an expensive endeavor.

The Kodan is skin for your character that you can actually fight in!!
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endless_Kodan_Tonic

It is similar to the Infinite Watchknight Tonic

I love this idea and I would love to hope they are coming out with a new race having so many classes is making me bored and I wouldn’t mind making a second char with the same class as one of my other ones but I just don’t wanna choose any of the 5 races i tried out, having just 5 races in a game like this is ridiculous, because i really love this game and done allot of its content and now i am starting to get bored, so yeah i would love a new race whether its tengu, or kodan or whatever i just wanna try out something new.