core race of PoF
There’s been no mention of any special content for Humans, but we haven’t heard everything from the Devs, yet.
I don’t think you have to change characters. You can always run through the story again with a Human later, if you so desire.
There is, of course, the Human-only new faces and hairstyles, should you wish to create an Elonan.
Good luck.
Honestly, the Human race has always been the “core” race. It’s the one all outfits / armor / designs are made for, then get adapted to the other races.
Which is why they usually work 100% ok on Norn, nearly 100% ok on Sylvari, and if you’re Asura or Charr you keep asking for a gem store race change item.
The strength of heart to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
If I recall correctly they mentioned there would be no differences in dialogue for the different races. I think they said so during the announcement, or WT said it during the after-show.
So yes, you can expect your Sylvari to stand out with no Sylvari NPCs around, but the Human NPCs won’t act surprised to see a Sylvari for the first time.
That is a bit of a shame though, I always loved it when you had race-specific dialogue. I mean think of how different one of the last HoT missions was between Sylvari / non-Sylvari.
The strength of heart to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
It would be pretty strange for Elonians to not be surprised by Sylvari, Charr or Asura. Norn can be mistaken for huge humans. But I’d still expect some comments like “Those people from the north are huge. I wonder if it’s because of the food.”
If I recall correctly they mentioned there would be no differences in dialogue for the different races. I think they said so during the announcement, or WT said it during the after-show.
That’s a huge letdown. A few exceptions aside, most of what came after the initial culture-focused chapter of the personal story is an excercise of “why even bother having multiple playable races”. It really disconnects player characters from their roots and is one sign that the writers don’t seem to care much about them. The NPCs don’t get stripped of all “cultural markers” (just look at Kasmeer’s latest breakdown over a very human-specific issue as one example of many), so why do we? Even a few lines here and there would go a long way, nevermind something like a charr PC finally hearing from their warband again.
in term of HoT’s villians, it’s sylvari. so PoF should be humans since the 6 gods are what humans worship, the rest of the race don’t really care do they?