Guild Wars 2

No man, they can still be stone. If there’s no difference in physical performance between a Charr and an Asura, no reason why being made of stone can’t be statistically irrelevant, right? Perfect sort of thing to base the utility skills on.

And they don’t have to stop fighting Primordius either if Primordius were the reason they came back. Living Story event where Destroyers burst out of that sinkhole in Divinity’s Reach, and Dwarves show up after them to help you fight them. And King Jalis (who’s still around – he’s made of stone) says “Hey we heard you guys killed a dragon. Want to maybe tell us how that works? Been a spot of trouble for us these last two hundred and fifty years.” And then you get to go to the Southern Shiverpeaks and the Depths of Tyria. Super easy.

Banzie.5248:

If you want dwarves playable figure out the lore to reverse their stoning and their reasons to stop fighting primordius and his minions under ground for us to delay his full onslaught while not kitten ing off the entire player base :p

Why stop fighting? Wouldn’t the point of introducing them be to move on to the next dragon? Why not Primordius? An underground Dwarven city, new starting area, expanded underground zones a la GWEN, and a lot of new lore, plus a lot of backstory between games filled in by people who lived it without dying. Who would be kittened off?

Lonami.2987:

The problem with dwarves is that there’s far too many dialogues and scripts speaking about them being a mystery.

That, and, have a look at how big The Deldrimor Front is on the map. That’s a lot of content to create just for a starting area. I don’t think it’s something ANet would do with their current iterative (Living Story) model.

However, it would make a great story – you would likely be finding a way to unstone yourself in the initial instance; the personal story would be about getting over the xenophobia and getting along with the pact. There is a lot of potential there.

I think they would be “full-blown expansion” content though – you would have to have them and Primordus appearing at roughly the same time. ANet have said no expansions for a while, so…

What will happen: Tengu
- too convenient map positioning, attunement towards the world of tyria
- rich story and lore options aka the houses, culture, esthetics
- customizable
- not treated as a sub-race in the world aka. skritt, dredge, grawl, quaggan,..

What I want to happen (but will not): a version of risen (not one that became a risen, one that was “born as such”
- government: palawa joko
- start location: crystal desert, check the map, deserts are not available yet
- limitless options, ballzy design incoming