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Posted by: Mr Seven.1083

Mr Seven.1083

Wouldn’t it be interesting to have racial back items? It would go with the armor sets well enough to work with all armor types cosmetically. What does everyone else think about this?

Noblesse oblige.

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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305

FlamingFoxx.1305

Yes, +1
Dungeon back pieces would actually be pretty cool as well!
The game is pretty lacking in the back pieces department and a lot of the back pieces we can get are skins from living world releases.

I would love some Sylvari themed back pieces, at the moment the only thing that really works well is the Fervid Censer and Desert Rose.

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Posted by: Zackie.8923

Zackie.8923

yes please. maybe throw in racial mounts too.

for example

humans can griffon,
asura get a spaceship
charr get a mechanical rhino/hippo
sylvari get a treant
norn get all sorts of animals

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Posted by: ITheNormalPerson.9275

ITheNormalPerson.9275

I’m all for more race-based stuff. it makes the different races stand out more which I like

Druid main, 80 on all, Legendary ranked, Eternal and all that jazz (I go by Feyris in game)

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Posted by: Aidan Savage.2078

Aidan Savage.2078

yes please. maybe throw in racial mounts too.

for example

humans can griffon,
asura get a spaceship
charr get a mechanical rhino/hippo
sylvari get a treant
norn get all sorts of animals

Nonono Nonono Nonono Nonono Nonono, mount threads are a dead horse.

Racial backpieces are a decent idea, though ones like Fervid Censer already are technically Sylvari backpieces.

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Posted by: paragon.6543

paragon.6543

There’s so many back pieces though…from the living stories…
It’s a good idea though.

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Posted by: Azhure.1857

Azhure.1857

yes please. maybe throw in racial mounts too.

for example

humans can griffon,
asura get a spaceship
charr get a mechanical rhino/hippo
sylvari get a treant
norn get all sorts of animals

Nonono Nonono Nonono Nonono Nonono, mount threads are a dead horse.
Racial backpieces are a decent idea, though ones like Fervid Censer already are technically Sylvari backpieces.

Agreed. Wish people wouldn’t ruin a good idea by vomiting mounts into the mix.
+1 OP. I wouldn’t mind more racial gear. That would mean races outside of Human/Norn could get equal love. I’m all for that.

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Posted by: Azrael.4960

Azrael.4960

yes please. maybe throw in racial mounts too.

for example

humans can griffon,
asura get a spaceship
charr get a mechanical rhino/hippo
sylvari get a treant
norn get all sorts of animals

+1 on the nonononononononononononononononononono. People really need to stop bring in mounts into these topics.

Mounts related to an area, like how we can ride golems or the giant wurms in GW1, possibly, but mounts for general use, no.

Racial minipets, maybe.

Definitely yes on racial back items

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Posted by: Turgut.4397

Turgut.4397

Would be nice to see T1, 2, and 3 backpieces. Or even craftable ones. So far the only decent ones you can only get through events/LS/sPvP or you’ll have to pay an excruciating amount of gold to max one of your armor crafting skills to 500 to craft the Dwayna/Grenth back piece.

Also, what about capes? Possibly through the guild armorer to have an emblem on?

Still waiting for the things I love about GW1.

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Posted by: Lady Celtaine.3760

Lady Celtaine.3760

yes please. maybe throw in racial mounts too.

for example

humans can griffon,
asura get a spaceship
charr get a mechanical rhino/hippo
sylvari get a treant
norn get all sorts of animals

I actually like that we don’t have mounts in GW2, having mounts seems kinda… I dunno lazy I guess.

Slightly offtopic from the armour/back pieces but I’m gonna say it counts as racial/cultural related so here goes:

I would like to see horses as part of the background, it used to be the only llama I saw was the finisher, now in Dry Top they actually exist. I’ve heard npcs in Divinity mention ponies and even heard the centaur refered to as “ugly horses” for ages but when no horses exist, not even as ambient/friendly creatures how do these npcs even have anything to compare them against? As you run through Queensdale it would be nice to see a horse pulling a cart as part of a defend-as-they-travel dynamic event.

And in the Charr explorable areas I’d like to see a handful of seige devourers, because so far the only big devourer you regularly come accross (and that depends on if you keep choosing Blood legion) is the “Giant Devourer” in the bane. But it’s still not a proper seige devourer like in gw1 eotn, and the gw2 npc Drottot gives the impression it should be viable to still have the Seige ones. Perhaps these could be enemies to defeat as part of group events.

Other non-mount creatures I’d like to see in their respective environments are other Sylvan animals, in Sylvari areas.

The Norn areas seem to have enough fauna diversity as it is and the only thing I can think of for Asuran areas is maybe one or two Simians (another hark back to gw1, because unlike the Gargoyles it’s not explained whether they disapeard or seemed to go extinct) still clinging onto existance in the less easily accesible areas of the map.

Back to proper topic now… and yes I would like to see racial back pieces as well. Maybe another quiver as a skin because lots of folk seem to have a hard time getting a quiver.
Backpacks made out of culture relevant materials would be good too, Sack cloth for humans, animal skins for Charr, a wicker one for Sylvari, One with bones and hunting trophies hanging off of it for Norn, and one that looks like a gizmo box for Asura.

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Posted by: Harper.4173

Harper.4173

Humans get a cape. They have to!

If here they fall they shall live on when ever you cry “For Ascalon!”

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Posted by: Mesket.5728

Mesket.5728

I want to have a dead inquest azura hanging and smelling from my Norn back (?)

Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.

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Posted by: Vexander.9850

Vexander.9850

Would love this to be honest.

Humans: Capes
Asura: Jetpacks
Charr: Tail-Guards
Sylvari: Leaf-Veils
Norn: Fur Cloaks

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Posted by: Farzo.8410

Farzo.8410

First they need to fix the bug Human shield users got.

If I have a backpack set on visible and I pull out my shield, the back item gets unsheathed too and slides from my arm to my back, it looks really ugly, and I can’t believe how long this has been in the game.

This is a really old video I made last year, and this bug is still the same.

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Posted by: HardRider.2980

HardRider.2980

Toxic Spore Skin :P

We are heroes. This is what we do!

RIP City of Heroes

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Posted by: Eli The Yahoo.9782

Eli The Yahoo.9782

+1
I like this idea, just like you have cultural armor.

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Posted by: CrashTestAuto.9108

CrashTestAuto.9108

Yeah, this has been suggested a lot, and is a good way to get in capes without the Charr clipping issue. My suggestion has always been to have five different backpieces that can all display a guild logo:

Human: Capes.
Sylvari: Leaf cape.
Asura: Glowing hologram.
Charr: Back armour.
Norn: Fur cloak.

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Posted by: Frostroses.4196

Frostroses.4196

+1 to racial back pieces, and even more back piece skin(which i believe is coming anyway via living story drop). No to mount.

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Posted by: ThFH.6048

ThFH.6048

+1 I like the idea end level content which is all about cosmetics should intergrate the backpieces in the mix.

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Posted by: Ryuujin.8236

Ryuujin.8236

yes please. maybe throw in racial mounts too.

for example

humans can griffon,
asura get a spaceship
charr get a mechanical rhino/hippo
sylvari get a treant
norn get all sorts of animals

All of which can combine to create a giant mecha if you get all 5 races in the same party.

The Ashwalker – Ranger
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Posted by: Xandrian.8304

Xandrian.8304

Tbh, i would love it if we got an awesome backpiece for completion of the personal story, something that looks like their blue glowy technology :>

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Posted by: Lady Celtaine.3760

Lady Celtaine.3760

yes please. maybe throw in racial mounts too.

for example

humans can griffon,
asura get a spaceship
charr get a mechanical rhino/hippo
sylvari get a treant
norn get all sorts of animals

I actually like that we don’t have mounts in GW2, having mounts seems kinda… I dunno lazy I guess.

Slightly offtopic from the armour/back pieces but I’m gonna say it counts as racial/cultural related so here goes:

I would like to see horses as part of the background, it used to be the only llama I saw was the finisher, now in Dry Top they actually exist. I’ve heard npcs in Divinity mention ponies and even heard the centaur refered to as “ugly horses” for ages but when no horses exist, not even as ambient/friendly creatures how do these npcs even have anything to compare them against? As you run through Queensdale it would be nice to see a horse pulling a cart as part of a defend-as-they-travel dynamic event.

And in the Charr explorable areas I’d like to see a handful of seige devourers, because so far the only big devourer you regularly come accross (and that depends on if you keep choosing Blood legion) is the “Giant Devourer” in the bane. But it’s still not a proper seige devourer like in gw1 eotn, and the gw2 npc Drottot gives the impression it should be viable to still have the Seige ones. Perhaps these could be enemies to defeat as part of group events.

Other non-mount creatures I’d like to see in their respective environments are other Sylvan animals, in Sylvari areas.

The Norn areas seem to have enough fauna diversity as it is and the only thing I can think of for Asuran areas is maybe one or two Simians (another hark back to gw1, because unlike the Gargoyles it’s not explained whether they disapeard or seemed to go extinct) still clinging onto existance in the less easily accesible areas of the map.

Back to proper topic now… and yes I would like to see racial back pieces as well. Maybe another quiver as a skin because lots of folk seem to have a hard time getting a quiver.
Backpacks made out of culture relevant materials would be good too, Sack cloth for humans, animal skins for Charr, a wicker one for Sylvari, One with bones and hunting trophies hanging off of it for Norn, and one that looks like a gizmo box for Asura.

Sorry for bump, but just for a bit of clarity I finally got a scrn cap relating to this.
Here it is…

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