Guild Wars 2

I know it is late but I would greatly love to have playable skritt race.

Hahahahahahahaha

I know it’s unlikely, but I hope it happens either in a future expansion or GW3.

I’d love nothing more than to play as a skritt.

I think if there’s ever gonna be a new playable race, Tengu is the most likely.

They had models ready for player use, as well as a starting city, and a few other bits and pieces of story for them. They didn’t make the final cut but the resources are still there.

Considering how Skritt brains work, that’s not going to happen. Unless you are surrounded by other Skritt, you would be about as smart as a wooden post.

Tyrannical.9348:

I think if there’s ever gonna be a new playable race, Tengu is the most likely.

They had models ready for player use, as well as a starting city, and a few other bits and pieces of story for them. They didn’t make the final cut but the resources are still there.

Nty for tengu.

We’re not getting a new race in this expansion.

However, Skritt should totally be the next race when we do get one. (In my totally selfish, Skritt-centric opinion.)

Ralanost.8913:

Considering how Skritt brains work, that’s not going to happen. Unless you are surrounded by other Skritt, you would be about as smart as a wooden post.

Sure it can work- you just have to get a little creative.

For example, Asura are constantly doing horrible experiments on the Skritt. What if a PC Skritt is an accidental byproduct of one of these experiments?

First, we have to look at the details of the lore: Skritt are intended to be a mammalian hive mind, sort of like naked mole rats cranked up to 11. Instead of the usual magic hive mind in fantasy universes, or the chemical signals in real-world insectoid hives, Skritt “nodes” connect via ultra-rapid chittering vocalizations that are virtually impossible for the other races to hear or understand.

So now to a PC… What if a particular Skritt was inadvertently (let’s face it, do Asura other than Zojja or Taimi ever do anything worthwhile on purpose?) imbued with a long-distance connection to one of the big hives? They could become an avatar of the hive, able to go out into the world and interact with a lot of the hive’s intelligence behind them, despite appearing to be a single character physically. All of that could be easily (and adorably) introduced in the race-specific portion of a Skritt personal story.

It really isn’t any more far-fetched than the Sylvari backstory, past, present, or future.

Scoobaniec.9561:

Tyrannical.9348:

I think if there’s ever gonna be a new playable race, Tengu is the most likely.

They had models ready for player use, as well as a starting city, and a few other bits and pieces of story for them. They didn’t make the final cut but the resources are still there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82GnSj2OToU

Nty for tengu.

God dang it I love you and I hate your for this post… I hove you… late you… err…

ALL HAIL THE SKRITT KING!

Maybe start with a skritt in the LS party? A legendary skritt adventurer who will later inspire others.