Guild Wars 2

This is just a random question but which of the these 3 races would you be if you could play them?

Tengu
Quaggan
Hylek?

None of those. I would be Skritt.

That would funny being a skritt, I would like to see what they look like with the armor on

Norn
Dredge (I’m serious. FOR THE MOLETARIAT)
Human

Okie, maybe Tengu and Quaggan… if the latter has berserk mode 100% of the time and former does Gangnam style when you type /dance in the chat.

None, I am not into furries.

Gangnam style dance would be good on gw2

those new robots as a race :|

tengu is the only one that makes sense. Seeing Quaggan running around would make this game as ridiculous as Tera

Benkaze.2146:

Gangnam style dance would be good on gw2

Jesus, we still talking about that fad, its not 2012 ben

I think the tengu will be a good race to play and the home city will be the dominion of the winds

Charak.9761:

Benkaze.2146:

Gangnam style dance would be good on gw2

Jesus, we still talking about that fad, its not 2012 ben

I haven’t heard people on gw 2 talk about but still it would be good

Nuka Cola.8520:

tengu is the only one that makes sense. Seeing Quaggan running around would make this game as ridiculous as Tera

Basically, this. The only Race that do any sense

Of those choices, I would pick Tengu as well… We already have way too many quaggan things in the world, and the Hyleks just don’t appeal to me except as NPCs.

I’ve been hoping for Tengu as a playable race since the first time I walked up to the Dominion of Winds.

Kalarchis.8635:

I’ve been hoping for Tengu as a playable race since the first time I walked up to the Dominion of Winds.

I hope they do make the tengu a playable race

Benkaze.2146:

This is just a random question but which of the these 3 races would you be if you could play them?

Tengu
Quaggan
Hylek?

Of those three, Tengu would be my choice.

Benkaze.2146:

This is just a random question but which of the these 3 races would you be if you could play them?

Tengu
Quaggan
Hylek?

Skritt.

But seriously, if I could pick exactly one out of those three and that’s that, I think I would play with Tengu character creation for a while and then roll a Hylek because they don’t get enough love.

Hylek. I have been wanting to play one since the game opened.

While I think Tengu is the only one that really works as a playable character, I don’t want to play as a Tengu. Yet another oversized animal character is not what I want, lol.

Cow

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Karka :U.

How could there be any other answer?

ProphetSword.5427:

None of those. I would be Skritt.

^This

Tengu. Hylek as second choice.

Of the choices you gave, Tengu.
Other favorites of mine would be Kodan or Largos – if underwater combat could be polished and fixed for some professions. I love their style.

ProphetSword.5427:

None of those. I would be Skritt.

I am in agreement here. Skritt for life! Heck I might even consider dropping my Human Engi Main (who has over 300 spare skill points) to make a new Skritt Engi main! O.O

Well if I had to choose between those 3, Tengu would be the most logical choice. But I personnaly prefere Kodans!

Infernia.9847:

Of the choices you gave, Tengu.
Other favorites of mine would be Kodan or Largos – if underwater combat could be polished and fixed for some professions. I love their style.

The kodan will be a cool race to play

Of those 3, tengu, definitively.

Tengu! Tengu! Tengu!

Quaggan lololol

Tengu for sure. I would probably delete and reroll half my toons if Tengu became playable.

It would be cool if they add a new race every time they add a new dragon.

Primorius = Tengu
Jormag = Kodan
Bubbles = Largos
Kralkatorik = Skritt
Mordremoth = not sure bout this one but maybe a new type of sylvari.

None of those- I could go for Largos though

I’d definetely go for a Quaggan IF this would be the 3 to pick from. However, I would love to see playable Ogres, Largo and Kodan.

None of those! I’d pick Kodan.

ProphetSword.5427:

None of those. I would be Skritt.

There is no way that Skritt could be made playable without totally breaking lore – they are a hive mind.

None of those.
Kodan for sure. Largo, but might not make sense above water. Ettin would totally rock the heavy armor classes but I don’t think they posess the intelligence to be a mesmer.

What about a reformed baddie? Like a Risen?

Tengu is my most wanted race, and the only one I’d choose to play (or think is likely to become playable) out of the ones you listed. Playing as one of the tribal races would seem odd to me.

Tengu would have been cool.

I’ll repeat a post I made long ago about the Canthan thread and other race threads:
Give.
Me.
My.
Tengu.

The only one of those three that makes sense as playable to me would be Tengu. I would be torn between Tengu and Kodan overall though. Tengu would probably be cooler and more fun to play since Kodan would be a partial clone of Norn….or at least FEEL like it.

I wonder if it would feel like playing as a Moa to play as a Tengu. xD

None of those, I want to be a Forgotten. They had the best Monks in the game.
…and the quickest path for casuals in Arah.

Bezayne.6459:

None, I am not into furries.

All of the original races of Tyria were 1 of 2 things:

• Anthro….morp…. whatever the hell, CRITTER PEOPLE.
• Giants with Totemistic or Beastial cultural affinities

Infact if you get a better look at the Giganticus Lupicus, it LOOKS like a combination between an Ogre, and a Jackal … which I think is literally what the name roughly translates to in broken Latin…

The Humans… and the Gods that brought them here, are actually the “Aliens” to this world. Go ahead and look it up in the Lore. It’s all there :p

I want Elonan Undead with Palawa Joko as their leader.

(Credit to PokketMowse: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/ROLL-SKRITT-YES)

Leaked image from the test server:

If I get stuck with only 3, I choose Quaggan.

Otherwise, I’d like to be a Centaur…

TENGU!
Weren’t they planned but didn’t get finished? so we might actually get them at some point.
Although they would likely have even worse armor issues than the Charr.

Quaggan gonna foo up your day

CrossedHorse.4261:

While I think Tengu is the only one that really works as a playable character, I don’t want to play as a Tengu. Yet another oversized animal character is not what I want, lol.

Well, we actually only have two animalistic races, if you think about it. Sylvari are plant-based, charr and asura are the only animalistic ones. Whereas we have two variations of human, which is simply small and large.

What would you propose besides these? Thinking about it myself, it’d be kinda neat if they found a way to throw in a bizarre elemental race somehow (the djinn would be perfect, now that I think about it).

Regarding the topic at hand, on a lore basis, I wouldn’t want to be tengu. They’re cool, but they’ve been too heavily altered to attend to their Canthan origins, and in thakittens older traditional Asian inspirations. In short, they went from fascinating looking bandits to heavily honor-bound warrior culture, which is fairly over done in fantasy settings. With that in mind, I’d be much more intrigued to explore the tribal hylek culture, because while they follow the backdrop of an over done zealous religious culture, it has enough quirks to it to make it a little more interesting to me. They’re not in power, their civilization is not incredibly advanced, but their alchemy, as a result of their immunity to many toxins, is.

What you get from that, is a standard issue religious zealot culture, but with the amusing side-element of heavy chemical abuse, in some parts to maybe even attempt to find some that let them come closer to their god(s? pretty sure most worship solely the sun). Their immunity of course makes that nigh impossible, but it’s fun to think about some of them trying all manner of crazy toxic plants to find some kind of high. Come to think of it, we actually don’t know (or at least, I don’t know), if they ever go into any depth on just how the toxins influence them. They don’t get sick, so do they get high? Hallucinate?

Seriously guys, think about that. Honor-bound stiff warrior culture? Or nutty religious zealot druggy culture?

Ooze. Thats the only species I want to see playable.