Guild Wars 2

What is with all the hype about the Tengu, personally I find them to look rubbish in GW2, they don’t even move their beaks properly during the cut scenes. I would guess its because A-Net admitted they were going to use them as a playable race then decided against it. That leaves me to ask the community two questions.

Why do you think A-Net went against making the Tengu playable?

Should they be?

Now before I get people just mentioning how much they love the Tengu, I’m not looking for that, so please don’t bring it here.

As for me, I think A-Net chose not to make them in the end because they thought they would serve better as NPC’s and I suspect they simply started running out of time.

As for my second question, I think they are better as NPC’s, because….well…. I can’t see what they would bring as a playable race, other then a beak that barely moves during cut scenes. However I would love to see their city opened up so we can learn more about them that wasn’t mentioned in GW1 or in GW2 lore.

I rather they add Stone Dwarfs and Orcs than Tengu. they ugly

As far as I’m aware if you want Orcs and Dwarfs, better go to WoW, plus if you meant Ogres, as far as I can see they are a bit too tall to be playable because they couldn’t do even the simplest of jumping puzzles without getting stuck. :P

The Dwarfs, well there was a very long thread about them, but I can’t find it now.

The dwarves all got stoned so I doubt they’ll be playable. Last time I checked all but a one of the known dwarves(allied) are still flesh, any survivors are either stone dwarves or different clans hiding out who knows where. So quick summary of the dwarves, Stone Summit were almost completely wiped out, one known fleshy dwarf, most stone forever fighting the destroyers(much like the ghost of Ascalon hating the Charr), and with the tiny possiblity of hidden clans for extensions or whatever.

Tengu. Sure whatever, they might be added, I heard it was they just needed the game to ship so they cut out the Tengu, they already had the major races in. Rubbish? Well sure, but charr look horrendus in a majority of the armor, their unique body features all clip(fangs, tail, ears, and horns), norns are just humans scaled up in size, a majority of the female norn, human, and sylvari bodies designs are complete barbie doll shapes, all boobs and butt, their hands are sooooo tiny, and Asura are so small that we get occaisonal complaints of their size giving an inherent advantage over other races. Maybe the Tengu story was even more terrible than the human, norn, and sylvari. Maybe they just ran out of time and money….

Should they be? I’d say yes, maybe, they have a lot of potential for the future. Maybe we will take back their land in Cantha? Ive heard people say each dragon is anti-x race, maybe one of them oppose the Tengu. I could go on, but Im done ranting for today….

About that topic that is. Don’t bring anything to the table? Look at the norn, what did they bring? Beer and whiskey, and their drunken bodies too. Basically all they do is go kamikaze/hey lets go be drunken heros and end up killing our friends as we get possessed. As I already stated, they have potential for being one of the dragons main oppenents and the whole Cantha speculation.

Knighthonor.4061:

I rather they add Stone Dwarfs and Orcs than Tengu. they ugly

The Dwarves are to few in number and lack any sort of thoughts aside from killing the Destroyers. Orcs don’t exist in Tyria, so no

Lord Aargadon.4135:

The dwarves all got stoned so I doubt they’ll be playable. Last time I checked all but a one of the known dwarves(allied) are still flesh, any survivors are either stone dwarves or different clans hiding out who knows where. So quick summary of the dwarves, Stone Summit were almost completely wiped out, one known fleshy dwarf, most stone forever fighting the destroyers(much like the ghost of Ascalon hating the Charr), and with the tiny possiblity of hidden clans for extensions or whatever.

Tengu. Sure whatever, they might be added, I heard it was they just needed the game to ship so they cut out the Tengu, they already had the major races in. Rubbish? Well sure, but charr look horrendus in a majority of the armor, their unique body features all clip(fangs, tail, ears, and horns), norns are just humans scaled up in size, a majority of the female norn, human, and sylvari bodies designs are complete barbie doll shapes, all boobs and butt, their hands are sooooo tiny, and Asura are so small that we get occaisonal complaints of their size giving an inherent advantage over other races. Maybe the Tengu story was even more terrible than the human, norn, and sylvari. Maybe they just ran out of time and money….

Should they be? I’d say yes, maybe, they have a lot of potential for the future. Maybe we will take back their land in Cantha? Ive heard people say each dragon is anti-x race, maybe one of them oppose the Tengu. I could go on, but Im done ranting for today….

About that topic that is. Don’t bring anything to the table? Look at the norn, what did they bring? Beer and whiskey, and their drunken bodies too. Basically all they do is go kamikaze/hey lets go be drunken heros and end up killing our friends as we get possessed. As I already stated, they have potential for being one of the dragons main oppenents and the whole Cantha speculation.

So the Norn are just very large Dwarfs then? As Dwarfs are well known for being boozy drunkards who like to run head long in to hundreds of enemy troops with nothing more then a beard, an axe and a tankard of beer.

Uhm because they’re awesome? In GW1 there was more than 1 type of Tengu, so I doubt the ones we have seen are what all of them look like, and it’s the lore behind their race that makes me want to play one.

Besides, if they were to make them a playable race, I’m 100% sure Anet would do up their animations and appearance.

EDIT: Had to replace bad kitten with awesome lmao

Haha, well when you say it like that, it just sounds silly. Last time I checked humanoids are humanoids, very similar body structure and such n’ such. Dwarves were well known for architecture, weapons, age, and of course, their fondness of ale. Norn were well known for being independant, stubborn, also fond of alcohol, and the crazy amount of strength that the Great Spirits gave individuals from time to time.

Tengu are pretty much a mystery. Similar to the dwarves and Order of Secrets, they possess knoledge of the dragons, but I can’t think of anything else outstanding that hasn’t already been mentioned.

The only race other than human and sylvari I’d want to play would be the forgotten, but they are often forgotten so oh well. As for the tengu can’t say much for them as they didn’t really participate much in the gw factions story. The majority of my interaction with them I spent murdering them for feathers. I’d love to see what they do with them in the future just not interested as a playable race. I also prefer the old look.

No NPC races besides kodan (which just use the norn rigging) have their mouths properly animated. If they were to make either of these classes playable then there would be a lot of work before they could make them so. Relax.

I think the Tengu should remain npc’s. They are just too weird looking.

There is a noted player bias towards normal, human-looking characters in mmo’s. The Charr, for example, are already the lowest played race in this game; why add another race that only interests a minority of players?

The Tengu have a very strong connection with Cantha, so I would think that if they did decide to have a new race with the release of a Cantha expansion pack that the Tengu would come with it.

I personally thought the redesign on the Tengu from GW1 to GW2 was great. The poor animation for dialogue is something that is consistent for all races that aren’t the primary races. Obviously if the Tengu were made playable, that would change.