Guild Wars 2

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

Aidan Savage.2078:

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

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.

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

+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

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?

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

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.

Humans get a cape. They have to!

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

Would love this to be honest.

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

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.

Toxic Spore Skin :P

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 :>

Lady Celtaine.3760:

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

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…