Guild Wars 2

As I couldnt find any forum post on players expectations as to races, i’ve created my own. Please keep an open mind that this is just my personal wish of future races, also! Feel free to place yours, do give a description though ;3

1. Quaggan: Right, cute fish people that could make for perfect warriors and rangers. I dont think i’ll have to explain this enough! These guys are beast.

2. Hylek: Who doesnt want cool toad people in the game, they would make a good race for a maguuma expansion, also, hey! Your a giant toad! I’d call mine Kermit.

3. Skritt: YES I WANNA! Oooooh… shiny.

4. Kodan: Altough, to me, this is not too much of a must,I’d still like to see them as a playable race, but, then again. Its not a must.

Please let me know what you think!

I would love skritt as a player race. Ogres would be another I’d like to see.

SneakyErvin.3056:

I would love skritt as a player race. Ogres would be another I’d like to see.

Ogres would be kind of cool, seeing as Norn can get up to ogre size anyway, it wouldnt be that odd. But I cant envision some classes for ogre. Ogre Thief?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/ROLL-SKRITT-YES

Yes!

Tengu would be the next race.

You listed the exact 4 i’d love to play. However, I am almost positive Tengu are the most likely. They have their Dominion of the Winds currently blocked to players, and they have their 4 houses for personal story variations.

Tengu- http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Tengu

Margonites-http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:%22Margonite%22_concept_art_1.jpg

Largos-http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Largos

Im not a fan of the avian race, but as I have an 80 of each race, i’d probarbly play them nonetheless. As to Tengu being the next playable race, they said the same of Furbolg and Goblin back in the WoW pre burning crusade days ((Bad comparrison maybe)).. instead of that we got Draenei and Blood Elves. I think Arena-net will surprise us with the next race, so far, they have done that with patches!

Kodan are a bit too similar to the Norn. And, since they’re polar bears, there would be no variety between players in terms of appearances. I think that leaves them out of the running. I’m betting on the Tengu being the next playable race. I absolutely love their design, so it would be brilliant if this turns out to be true.

I would love to play as a Tengu, and i think that would be the next playable race.

Quaggan/Kodan are popular. I honestly can’t see them not making Quaggan a race eventually as people love them.

Kodan are probably thematically too much like Norns for them to actually make them a playable race. If anything, I could see adding a polarbear addition to the racial elites and making them have a MUCH longer duration (minutes).

You did miss Tengu which are probably the second most popular after Quaggan. I’m personally hoping for Tengu, though I could live with Quaggan.

There are the Largos as well.

I don’t think any of the races featured in the Orders’ personal story missions will ever be featured as a playable race. So you might be disappointed when quaggan, hylek, and skritt aren’t added to the game.

As to the question posed in your thread title, I believe tengu will be the next playable race added to the game.

As to what I want, I’d personally like to play a hylek necromancer with skull face paint and tribal-looking armor or a hylek mesmer donning the most colorful stereotypically-wizard looking armor in the game.

Rakuren Kenshou.7689:

Quaggan/Kodan are popular. I honestly can’t see them not making Quaggan a race eventually as people love them.

Quaggan is more of a mascot, so I doubt they will be playable, but Quaggan wearing Quaggan backpack……. faint…….. Yes please!

phandaria.4891:

Rakuren Kenshou.7689:

Quaggan/Kodan are popular. I honestly can’t see them not making Quaggan a race eventually as people love them.

Quaggan is more of a mascot, so I doubt they will be playable, but Quaggan wearing Quaggan backpack……. faint…….. Yes please!

That almost sounds wrong…

I guess I imagine it like it’s a stuffed real Quaggan, but I suppose it’s not. But what if it was?

Humanskin backpack…

Creepy. Although a Quaggan Necromancer with one would be pretty spiffy. I agree though that they do seem like more of a mascot.

I think I remember there being a post at some point that none of the ‘tribal’ races were going to be made playable (Ogre, Grawl, Hylek, Skritt, Quaggan) as much as I’d love to have EQ Froglock flashbacks with the Hylek.

I think the most likely new races will be Kodan, Largos, and Tengu. Since they’re somewhat rare and stick to their own areas outside of the current game map, it’d be easier to just tack on one of their zones to the current map without causing too much fuss.

Tengu seems to be the most likely, followed closely by Kodan. Largos is probably just a rumor, though it would be a fun race to play, I think.

I believe in the Art of Guild Wars 2 book they talk about the Tengu being one of the forerunners of the original playable races. I know there’s concept art that exists showing tengu designs that incorperate a lot of different type of birds.

I’m sure they’ll be one of the next playable races.

There’s a heart quest in Mt. Maelstrom that transforms you into a risen to fight the krait. Every since then I’ve wanted to make a risen. Please don’t flame for being like the undead in WoW, I just think it would be cool.

The problem with an Risen race is this: what race would be risen? Probably a Human. But then it’s not really a new race. The Margonites are far more likely than Risen in that regard. Seeing as how in the GW2 wiki, Margonites, Largos, and Tengu all have a region specific to them on the map, it seems much more likely that upon those races unveiling, that portion of the map would become playable too.

I know this is off topic but I wanna see some Elves.

The next playable race will be totally random. Upon creating a character there will be a dice roll which will determine what race your character is. Then every 10 levels the dice are rolled again and your character’s race changes dependent on the outcome of that roll.

Of course for a small fortune in gems you will be able to buy “race boxes” which will have 3 random races in it and which will limit the number of possibilities to 3 races every 10 levels that your character will change to.

;)

I want

- Two headed Ogres just because I love dumb brutish characters .

-Skritt because they’re cute .

- Centaurs , because they were once allies to humans .

- Kodan , they look awesome .

I’m rooting for Tengu, I always wanted to play a tengu in GW1.

Tengu and Largos.

I’m going with tengu or a race that hasnt been introduced yet. Margonites make no sense if you played gw1 you would know that…