Guild Wars 2

So this is a topic I’ve held close to my heart for a very long time. The ability to wreck Zhaitan with a quaggan weilding a greatsword as bodies of risen drop around me while I rise from the ashes of Arah.

“But quaggans aren’t a vicious race! They don’t like conflict!” You see here, heartless person who doesn’t understand the awesomness of quaggans, Shashoo and Baroosh have already proven themselves in the Heart of Maguuma! It wouldn’t be impossible for another quaggan to do the same!

“But ArenaNet might not have the resources to make quaggan characters! We’ll need a new capital, leveling maps, and new voice actors to voice the new missions! How will we do that?!” Well, many players are already wanting a new race, such as Koda or Tengu, but i would argue for Quaggans! Why? Because quaggans are cooler than them. The Tengu are secluded, the Koda are dying off, but the quaggans! They are amazingness!

“But if quaggans are added, new content updates what be available. Resources will have to be put towards quaggans, and not new maps or a compelling story. New dungeons may not be added, and the gameplay will be stake and boring!” Shut up. Quaggans.

So now that I have thoroughly gone through every argument with logic and reasoning, the question remains. Why don’t we have quaggan playable characters? Surely, there can be NOTHING wrong with such an addition?

The day I see a Quaggan wearing something like this is the day I start drinking heavily, because only alcohol can remove the memory and kill the pain.

Pass.

No.

/thead

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quaggan_Tonic_

Although there are many who think it’d be Bad Ice to play as a Quaggan, it is important to remember there’ll be even more people Enraged and Unashamed to leave GW2 in a mass Evacuation. ANet knows this, and to be Forewarned is Forearmed against having to fight their own real-life Battle of Claw Island to retain their players.

My advice is to simply enjoy the fishy soup of Quaggan-related quests, without trying to make them the main course. This brings out the best flavor in the GW2 meal. (Meatoberfest-inspired wisdom from me to you).

~EW

My only question is would playable Quaggin chars still get to use the quaggin backpacks or would they get their own special version where they can choose any other playable race instead?

Oh and – Skritt not Quaggins! :P

I would love to see more playable races, and yeah, Quaggan is at the top of my list in that regard.

Would rather see Skritt as playable.

I’d like to recommend that the OP buy an Endless Mystery Quaggan Tonic, or just an Endless Quaggan Tonic of the color quaggan they prefer to play as, and carry a large assortment of consumable weapons.

This might sound like a silly workaround, and it totally is, but some guildies and I have had countless hours of fun playing as warrior quaggans (or warrior kitties with Endless Cat Tonics) roaming the Tyrian countryside, fighting world bosses or completing events or just generally wreaking silly havoc while armed with a plethora of different oddities.

It can be highly entertaining to have a group of tiny kittens running through and completing a map while equipped with charrzookas or bandit bombs or, heck, planks. Sure, the damage those things do is significantly less than you’d be capable of doing with your actual class build, but it’s still possible to complete a lot of content with a small group of 3 or 4 guildies using consumable weapons while in tonic form… and realistically, most quaggan aren’t that tough anyway, so it makes reasonable sense in terms of lore.

One downside, however, is that a lot of content is unable to be played in this manner, as many tonics and consumables don’t work within instances. So no killing Zhaitan in Arah story as quaggans, unfortunately.