Guild Wars 2

I have actually heard in-game chatter about this before, and people would share their wish quite passionately, so I think I’m far from alone when I say that I’d really love to see the Skritt as a playable race in a future expansion of Guild Wars 2, or—heck—dare I say, Guild Wars 3 whenever it is out.

Skritt are one of the most interesting, funny, “cool”, organized, and fast-paced races in the world of GW2; and these aspects or features of a race collectively make up a remarkably appealing “way of being” for a big group of players out there, I believe. “Yes, yes?” =)

I do really love the idea of playing as a Skritt for some reason. Only problem I see is that lorewise, I believe they get dumber when there are less of them around (or something to that effect). Kind of like a hive mind.

So if Anet keeps to their “canon” I’m not sure the idea of an individual Skritt hero would work too well. I spose they could always break their own rules though.

It would be fun to see the skritt as a playable race but…
1. Players would have to be able to control a pack of skritt not just one individual
2. I don’t think the devs should do it because there is no way they can come close to how I picture it in my imagination and anything they design would just be disappointing

Before Tengu?

Hells no.

IF they wanted to make playable skritt, they could introduce a smarter version of them living in an area we’ve not been able to access yet. They could then have traits that create special AoE buffs that only affect those that have the “Skritt” condition, to make buffs that boost them when they’re near each other.

Tengu should come first, but it would actually kind of make sense to bring Tengu and “advanced” skritt out together. They could be living in the same area, and doing this would allow the devs to bring out two races with less work than bringing them out separately would require.

Tengu and Kodan are first so… join the queue.

As fun as playing as Skritts sound, there are a lot of problems with that. As mentioned a few times above, they’re not the most intelligent creatures around, and will only have a decent intellect when there are quite a few of them gathered together. This makes individual heroes very unlikely.

The second is their culture. They aren’t heroes; they’re thieves. On almost all occasions wherein Skritts help the Pact in the personal story, they act as thieves, scouts, or other non-combat covert ops. They’re fun to watch and interact with, but they aren’t playable race material.

Edit: The closest races that could be made playable are probably the Tengu or Kodan, and maybe the Centaurs (from Elona, or if the Modniirs can make peace with the humans) due to their more established and unified presence.

Mesket.5728:

Tengu and Kodan are first so… join the queue.

Eh…Tengu at least.

@OP yeah, it would be semi-interesting. Tengu should come first though. They’re the only race that actually has any substantial back story.

fireflyry.7023:

Before Tengu?

Hells no.

Agreed. Tengu before all.

Personally, I’d love to play a centaur, but that’s probably not gonna happen. Tengu are the best and most likely candidate.

It just makes me think…..

I would settle for Kodan. I can bearly wait to see a race like them in action.

Upon looking into the Tengu and GW2, I can see why so many mention them in race discussions. Apparently, they were under consideration for a GW2 race, but didn’t quite make the cut.

I’m assuming from what I read that they would be the most logistically easy to add.

nopoet.2960:

It would be fun to see the skritt as a playable race but…
1. Players would have to be able to control a pack of skritt not just one individual
2. I don’t think the devs should do it because there is no way they can come close to how I picture it in my imagination and anything they design would just be disappointing

I’d love to play a group of Skritt as a player character.

In Allod’s Online, there was a playable race that almost always functioned in groups of three siblings. Some of the animations were very clever, with one of the trio wielding a main weapon, and another the off weapon. One would duck when another fired a spell over its head.

Their “/sit” animation, I think it was, was great. The three would sit down in a circle and pull out beer mugs and start quaffing.

Realistically, it’d be too much work for ArenaNet for the niche crowd that would enjoy playing them. It’s the kind of great idea someone has when the game is still in development, and does the work to make it happen. It’s not the kind of thing you do after launch with the accountants looking over your shoulder asking how it will help the bottom line.

As much as I love these little guys. I don’t see them as a player race. However if henchmen are ever added to the game I so want one.

Talyn.3295:

As much as I love these little guys. I don’t see them as a player race. However if henchmen are ever added to the game I so want one.

Oh yes. They’d do better as henchmen, I agree. And they’d be popular as them, too.

If we ever got something like GW1’s bonus mission pack, playing as a small group of skritt would be great. Or perhaps a fractal?

On Piken Square I Roleplay a Skritt sometimes, using a Skritt tonic made in the Mystic Forge.

Ingredients:

2 x Mystery Tonic + 1 x Tiny Claw + 1 Slab of Red Meat = 2 x Skritt Tonic.

Since the Skritt tonics only last 15 minutes, I limit the time I RP with my ‘Skritt’ (His name is Skrittbags and he is a lost former experiment of the Asura).

Personally, I don’t think having Skritt as a full-time playable race is necessary, but I would love the Skritt tonic to last longer than 15 minutes. About 1 hour should be long enough, considering the rarity of the ingredients needed.

:)

Chameleon Dude.1564:

If we ever got something like GW1’s bonus mission pack, playing as a small group of skritt would be great. Or perhaps a fractal?

penelopehannibal.8947:

On Piken Square I Roleplay a Skritt sometimes, using a Skritt tonic made in the Mystic Forge.

Ingredients:

2 x Mystery Tonic + 1 x Tiny Claw + 1 Slab of Red Meat = 2 x Skritt Tonic.

Since the Skritt tonics only last 15 minutes, I limit the time I RP with my ‘Skritt’ (His name is Skrittbags and he is a lost former experiment of the Asura).

Personally, I don’t think having Skritt as a full-time playable race is necessary, but I would love the Skritt tonic to last longer than 15 minutes. About 1 hour should be long enough, considering the rarity of the ingredients needed.

:)

I can support both of these ideas.

I really have no idea what the big deal with Tengu is! I don’t find Tengu half as interesting as Skritt are. Backstory? Who the heck cares about a back story among the player base? A minority. The majority of players care more about effects, animations, voiced comments, and so on; and in these departments, Skritt win hands down. Tengu is also one of the races that have incompatible voices with how they look, just like Asuras; both have voices that should belong to much bigger and bulkier races. I love Asura voice acting; comments like “Help…I don’t have long!” and “Why won’t anyone help me?” and “Accelerating!”; but their tone have absolutely nothing to do with the looks of the Asuras. On the other hand, Skritts were perfectly done; their voices match their looks and sizes, and their movements match their personalities; they’re a race ripe for being controlled by players.

As for the intelligence issue, it is a lot, lot easier to resolve, within the lore, than anyone can imagine; quick examples without group brainstorming or deep thinking include portable communication devices made by Asura and carried by all Skritts that come from the specific Skritt town where the players would start, which allow those specific Skritt to remotely communicate with each other as a silent, passive thing; or a result from an Asura experiment; and so on.

skritt as race? Make it happen a-net.. (picture shows my reason)

http://www.tabletophell.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/skaven.jpg

Rok.2963:

I have actually heard in-game chatter about this before, and people would share their wish quite passionately, so I think I’m far from alone when I say that I’d really love to see the Skritt as a playable race in a future expansion of Guild Wars 2, or—heck—dare I say, Guild Wars 3 whenever it is out.

Skritt are one of the most interesting, funny, “cool”, organized, and fast-paced races in the world of GW2; and these aspects or features of a race collectively make up a remarkably appealing “way of being” for a big group of players out there, I believe. “Yes, yes?” =)

I love these little guys! For me, these guys trump Asura any day! They’re cute, they’re charming, and they’re smart, instinctive little buggers.

The racial sympathy storylines involving the Skritt has won me over. We need these guys as a new race. If that happens, we should get a small group of 5 skritt instead of one character. We should be able to use the Hero flag system from GW1, so we can command individual skritt to different areas on the map.

Basaltface.2786:

skritt as race? Make it happen a-net.. (picture shows my reason)

http://www.tabletophell.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/skaven.jpg

Yes! Rats of NIMH, UNITE!!

I want a Skritt Engie now!

will never happen…
We have been told already several times, that the inferior races won’t become playable races, because their only role and purpose in this game is beng part in the personal story and besides of thatm they also provide not all the requirements that need to be fulfilled first to become a playable race.

A Skritt alone is dumb like a flea, they look all the same, theres no “main town” location for them that is known in the game, like for example for the Tengu.

Best Thing ANet should do is simple increasing the time of Skritt Tonics to 1h or unlimited even better, adding a permanent skritt tonic into the game, which could be maybe mystic forged through using xxx normal skritt tonics, some crystals, stones of the philosopher and ectos

Orpheal.8263:

will never happen…
We have been told already several times, that the inferior races won’t become playable races, because their only role and purpose in this game is beng part in the personal story and besides of thatm they also provide not all the requirements that need to be fulfilled first to become a playable race.

A Skritt alone is dumb like a flea, they look all the same, theres no “main town” location for them that is known in the game, like for example for the Tengu.

Best Thing ANet should do is simple increasing the time of Skritt Tonics to 1h or unlimited even better, adding a permanent skritt tonic into the game, which could be maybe mystic forged through using xxx normal skritt tonics, some crystals, stones of the philosopher and ectos

Well technically skritt DO got a hometown.. its in fact rather big, even got a king. Called skrittsburgh…might wanna check it out sometime. As for the sillyness…yea.. a single skritt is as bright as a broken lightbulb, no question bout that. As for role.. that technically could be written in.. but i got no hopes about a new race anyways.. not even the tengu. If they would add the tengu they would most likely suffer the same fate like the charr do (cause they are pretty close bodyshape, stance and model wise, not talking bout design, just technical aspects)…horrible armor quality and a “zero kittens given” attitude if it comes to gem store armor related items, so not many people would play them. Whats the point in having a pretty looking bird dude that gets covered by an armor with bad textures, stretching and zero consideration about their physics?… I dont really see a point, rather leave em fully away..it dissapoints less people at the long run.

I want Tengu, Skritt and Krait/Naga as playable races.

nopoet.2960:

It would be fun to see the skritt as a playable race but…
1. Players would have to be able to control a pack of skritt not just one individual
2. I don’t think the devs should do it because there is no way they can come close to how I picture it in my imagination and anything they design would just be disappointing

Yes at least 12 Skritts, each bears 1 skill. Else your Skritt character wouldnt even be able to count 1+1.

Basaltface.2786:

Well technically skritt DO got a hometown.. its in fact rather big, even got a king. Called skrittsburgh…might wanna check it out sometime. As for the sillyness…yea.. a single skritt is as bright as a broken lightbulb, no question bout that. As for role.. that technically could be written in.. but i got no hopes about a new race anyways.. not even the tengu. If they would add the tengu they would most likely suffer the same fate like the charr do (cause they are pretty close bodyshape, stance and model wise, not talking bout design, just technical aspects)…horrible armor quality and a “zero kittens given” attitude if it comes to gem store armor related items, so not many people would play them. Whats the point in having a pretty looking bird dude that gets covered by an armor with bad textures, stretching and zero consideration about their physics?… I dont really see a point, rather leave em fully away..it dissapoints less people at the long run.

Right, it’s certainly not an impossibility that they could make the lore fit for the race.

I’m not sure it’d be quite the same origin story anyway for any potential new races with an expansion. Shoehorning a hypothetical new race into the old Zhaitan story chain would feel awkward and outdated, imo.

Maybe some sort of unholy Skrit and Asura hybrid which was a result of a mad asura and is maybe like Deadpool in that he has two personalities. The more shinies he is near the more Skrit like he behaves. The Asura of course hate the very existence of this new hybrid race and the Skrit are suspicious of their dominant Asuran side.

I would love to see Skritt as a playable race, but not before Tengu.

I know many feel the same, Tengu is the fan favorite for the next playable race.

I’d roll a skritt. And I’d pay gems for the privilege. Just sayin’…

there was a fan made Skritt character creation page here

i wouldn’t mind seeing arena net implement another race, but something like skritt.. it would be highly interesting to see them playable but with limited abilities.. i don’t see them becoming a more capable race anytime soon.. and no i don’t mean potions

I think Skritt are coming as playable.
They are likely to add skills that will reflect the lore.

also Anet LOVES to kitten with us.
we all know that tengu are being added
but Anet will literally be like,
“oh you want tengu? NOPE! lul, Lul SERPRIEZ BAT BEEPLS!

i cant wait for a skritt thief
hes gonna be like a little bat beepl

just imagine skritt elite where you summon a ton of skritt

kitten shoulda saved skritt necro

Tengu, Centaur, Kodan, Naga, Skritt, bring them all..and race change!

Skritt would be great, but nothing would compare to the awesomeness of a Quaggan thief.
Boo-hoo backstab!

Gravox the Terrible.2157:

Skritt would be great, but nothing would compare to the awesomeness of a Quaggan thief.
Boo-hoo backstab!

Quaggan’s are so dumb they would end up stabbing themselves.

There are at least 10 races I could name that are better playable characters than Skritt. Just to name a couple; Tengu and Kodan. Skritt are definitely a step down on community standards. It’s almost akin to asking for more RNG.

So no, just no.

But, Skritt are adorable!

And with Rytlock gone, Destiny’s Edge needs a new member. We can call him “Skrittlock”!