Race Changes
I’d get behind this. That seems like a competitive price stood against the other options and their pricepoints they already sell.
One is only the smartest person in the room if they are alone.
It has been requested and discussed many times. I would say “ad nauseum” but then I’d be letting my own bias in … however, it’s right up there with mounts, capes, and dueling in terms of repeated “new” suggestions.
Many point out that changing race would bring up a lot of knotty issues with the Personal Story which is race-specific for the first 20 levels. Also what happens to cultural armor in use?
Race changes
1) I am afraid that the team does contemplate different possibilities and new features for the future but this one is not among those. Source
2) There are a lot of far-reaching consequences of allowing one character to play through every race’s personal story or equip any cultural armor/weapons. For now, we feel that it would take away from the experience of Guild Wars 2 for the majority of players. Source
3) Thanks for asking. To change the race in the Gem store will not be an option in Guild Wars 2. Source
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as far as the the cultural issue it would have to be lvl 80 for you to race change. and for the armor that should be something that shouldnt be visable after you race change so say i have human cultural armor on and switch to sylvari. My armor would go to the factory state as far as the skins.
I’m sure this is something has been brought up before, but i would love to change my thief from human to Sylvari!
800gems in the store relog pick the toon you want to change and go through the customizing process again.
Anyone else agree?
I know plenty of players that would use this service including myself, and few that would come back if the possibility was there. Every mmo I have read about or played has seen great success in this service, I hope Anet can find a way, for the community and another source of revenue.
As for cultural armor, we got the Wardrobe feature now anyhow, it’s all race account bound. Story? race is just another form of a skin anyhow, they could delete my story to my character or keep it, idc.
As for a two year old post, a lot has been done/said and not done since then (ascended anyone). Maybe Anet will update us on their current feelings on this matter at some point in time again.
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I suspect there is one big problem with race changes. The personal story may be hard set into the hero panel because of the way character creation is set up.
In other MMOs, if there are more than one story line, does it start with character creation or with talking to an NPC afterwards to begin it? It it starts after creation, then it’s modular like a quest is and like a quest can be deleted before finishing or finished and deleted. Guild Wars 2 may not have the tools to remove and change the personal story line then there is a good chance, imo, of causing large numbers of bugs when you have a char with one race’s story and another races appearance, since the race and story are tied together.
In one of the sources from my previous post, a Dev said in response to someone asking if they could switch from Asura to another race, “There is currently no Asuran technology that can rewrite the very makeup of a being’s DNA code.” Which I take as a joking way of saying, ANet does not have the tools to do what he is asking.
I agree though. It would be nice to have a definitive statement saying why.
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