Guild Wars 2

So one of the features that has been requested since launch has been the ability to change ones race.

And the devs have explained in quite a lot of detail the issues they run into when trying to run such a process, and it sounds like the issues make a direct change unfeasible.

However, I had a thought, an idea that might be able to bypass those issues.
Admittedly I don’t know the underlying architecture so I don’t know if it will work, but it can’t hurt to throw this out there, and I couldn’t find a suggestion forum anywhere.

So I’d flipped through the other newest race change thread going on and it struck me, people wanting a race change are (mostly I think) wanting to keep things like soulbound gear and leveled crafting professions, and don’t really care about PS (as much).

(many simply suggested resetting the PS entirely, which is usually argued against with “but then people could redo it for rewards again” but it’s not really different from deleting the character and starting over anyway, but that’s neither here nor there, the devs explained doing this breaks the universe, so that’s not )

So I imagine a New Game+ or reincarnation feature.
It takes your character and re-rolls them as a “new” character but copies over certain things.

Now I don’t know how the data is stored, but I imagine things like:
*crafting profession level
*unique character ID (for soulbound stuff)
*Map completion/unlocked waypoints
*Possibly level, whether directly or by starting the new character at 1 and having it mail them an equivalent number of Tomes of Knowledge

This makes it a new character separated from it’s old PS info, allowing a fresh start, but would bring over the stuff people don’t want to lose.
Yes, people could “redo the PS for rewards again” but is it really much different than deleting and starting over?
Or are there any rewards from PS that are truly that amazing?

Like I said I’m not familiar with the code so I don’t know if this would work, and who knows maybe they already considered it, but I know it’s something a fair number of people are interested in and figured why not throw it out there and see what the devs think.

Reasonably priced I might even change my necromancer into a Sylvari

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Race-change-on-gem-store-black-lion-chest/page/2#post5254073

^—- this is on the FIRST page at the time of posting this

I was just about to post the same link.

Which was on the first page? That thread about race change I specifically mentioned flipping through? Or the post on page two that you linked (that wasn’t there when I started my post) suggesting that if it were possible it would have been done already?
Forgotten Legend’s speculation?

So you saw the other race change posts and rather then posting in one of them, you started a new thread about the same thing?

Instead of making an easily missed comment on another persons thread to hijack it I made a post for my suggestion, like I see people do every day.

You also didn’t answer my question.

The one I linked was, and has been on the first page for a few days (obviously as posts get more posts they move around a bit)

I’m just saying odds are high this will be merged with one of the other posts about this exact topic, suggestions for new ideas about a topic that is currently being discussed are best placed in the topic.

I actually like this suggestion, but I think you should have titled the topic differently to avoid this kind immediate response and potential merge into the very same topic you were hoping to avoid.

I mean if you really take the re-levelling (aka reincarnation, new game +, prestige… a rose by any other name) system to its full potential it can also cover profession changes.

Let’s face it most people interested in these sort of things probably have easy access to tomes (I know I already have my Revenant covered and then some for a long while), unless they want to change race/profession within their first 10-20 levels in the game, in which case it is not a huge loss to re-roll yet. So I don’t even think keeping levels would be that important personally but it would be a nice choice.