Guild Wars 2

Racial skills got thrown under the boss a long time ago, which is a shame. It’s a fun idea having your race play into how you play. With the new elite spec system coming, it’s bringing it a whole slue of new utilities. So that got me wondering…

Should there be a racial elite trait line? (PvE only)

For example: If you are human and when you created your character, you selected that you wanted to run away and join the circus, you’ll get the elite traitline “Circus Dreamer” as well as utilities to go with it.

Taking it a step further you could unlock other racial elite traitlines by doing certain tasks or simply buying it from a merchant. That way players don’t feel screwed when they played for 30+ hours and decide they wanted to try a different racial traitline. This is also why it needs to be elite, can’t have a Charr devoted to Ash, Iron and Blood legion all at once.

Heck, this elite traitline could be accessible at the slow, early part of the game. Making every level at early game feel significantly progressable on your characters gameplay until you reach the unlock of core traitlines.

With a lot of people either coming back to the game or starting fresh with HoT’s, I think it would be pretty neat for players feel like their starting choice really mattered.

What do you guys think of this? Something you want, need or couldn’t care about?

No. This was suggested before and shot down as well. The REASON racial elites are at best, just under what a class elite gives, is because anet does NOT want people required to run a specific race to be effective at a specific class. Asura engineer? No thanks, I’d rather that choice be aesthetic instead of required. Norn warrior? Same thing. Sylvari ranger?

Also, just a tip, when asking people their opinion, dont prompt them with something that does everything except ask if it’s something they dont want Those that dont want something can have more than just an emotional attachment to why they said no.

Basandra Skye.4031:

No. This was suggested before and shot down as well. The REASON racial elites are at best, just under what a class elite gives, is because anet does NOT want people required to run a specific race to be effective at a specific class. Asura engineer? No thanks, I’d rather that choice be aesthetic instead of required. Norn warrior? Same thing. Sylvari ranger?

Also, just a tip, when asking people their opinion, dont prompt them with something that does everything except ask if it’s something they dont want Those that dont want something can have more than just an emotional attachment to why they said no.

I can understand racial elites being an issue, some races flat out having certain better utilities for builds compared to others.
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However traits is a different story.

It’s molding your character. At the very start of the game you are deciding what kind of player you want to be, not just in the character design but from the personal story choices as well.

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Having each major trait branch be broken into damage, control and support, the original concept of GW2 trinity mantra, easing in players into their future role. The racial traitlines will enforce the fact it’s your story and the traitlines doesn’t even have to be good but rather a guide to level 80 if you are given a traitline early on, easily replaced once you can fully max 3 traitlines.