Guild Wars 2

Basically, learning the racial skills of another race- Wait, don’t walk out yet! Here’s the logic behind it:
-Arenanet demonstrates Tyria as an increasingly cosmopolitan world, you have humans and charr, breaking bread, asura teaching. Some cross cultural bleed is going to be inevitable, and this includes skills.

-A lot of the racial skills, especially charr, seem like things that can be learned, fabricated, or earned overtime.

-From a meta stand point, it might clear the way for racial skills to gain a buff, as now they are no longer racially restricted, but simply it determines what racial skills you start with, and thus, no race would be better in the long run with a certain profession

-From an RPers outlook, it opens up all kinds of interesting concepts. Maybe your charr tried to prove the racial skills are nothing more than psychosomatics but became a true believer in time? (Or maybe are right and want to rub it in that you don’t have to be a human to become an Avatar of Grenth) How about the norn trapper who observed the Charr for so long he figured out how to mimic much of their technique and technology? This doesn’t even go into personal refluffs (like an asura who hired out a bunch of mercenaries)

It could either be implemented similar to trait hunting (tied to various events) or have something similar to the old faction system in GW1 where you can talk to NPCs in certain regions and choose to represent a nation/faction you’re fighting for in a region and gain reputation with them as you slay enemies, fill renown hearts, and run events.

In the long run, I’m not terribly set on this, just an idea that popped into my head.

I already see what will happen from this :

to unlock your own racial skills in future you need to have 100% world completion and do all dungeon ways, or you can pay 500g and 2000 SPs

Please .. don’t ask for anything like traithunting in GW1 anymore … please please ..

Racial skills typically are pretty lackluster. I would appreciate the chance to gain some new skills, but new ones — not just more blah racial skills.

actually, there have been a few times I thought. “should’ve made this class on x race”.

Asura radiation field can be useful.
I’ve used the sylvari hound quite a bit.
Sylvari healing turret has it’s uses as well.

I think it’d be a great idea to take them off races, ..and I’m not againt a hunt option for them. Just allow both a WvW way and pve way.
And make them solo pve. preferably story quests, I think would be cool ^^

Fyrebrand.4859:

Racial skills typically are pretty lackluster. I would appreciate the chance to gain some new skills, but new ones — not just more blah racial skills.

Thing is, Anet currently holds back on racial skills because they’re race locked and fear someone might find one race/profession combo superior to others.

This way, it wouldn’t matter, if a racial skill is superior, the other race players can pick it up later.

This is all just a ploy so I can ultimately get my asura battlesuit to be as bad-A as it should be.

Beldin.5498:

I already see what will happen from this :

to unlock your own racial skills in future you need to have 100% world completion and do all dungeon ways, or you can pay 500g and 2000 SPs

Please .. don’t ask for anything like traithunting in GW1 anymore … please please ..

I have to agree with Beldin here. EAnet has given us absolutely no reason to trust they can handle changing skill/trait mechanics in a reasonable manner. Until their lead designer (or whoever approves of the things like the trait system) is replaced, then I’d rather they just get up and walk away and leave GW2 as it is before it gets even worse.