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I can’t speak for everyone, Pixel, but I won’t waste gold and time to reroll a character. I’ll just dislike my Warrior. I’m not deleting something nearly a year old just to make it look different, especially with birthdays rolling around soon. I would, however, pay good money to change the race on my character to make it look the way I want. It’s no different than what people faced for wanting to switch sex and appearance. ANet possibly lost revenue due to people being willing to completely remake the character, but I bet the vast majority just dealt with it until they offered them a much more reasonable option.
CrossedHorse, I enjoyed seeing my Charr run around at lower levels. It was cool. I didn’t really start feeling disconnected from him until I started putting exotics/ascended gear on him. Now he’s just slouched over and odd looking. Now that he’s in perfect-stat gear, I’m not exactly keen on restarting him.
I think the point that needs to be taken from this is that there are perfectly reasonable ways to allow players that want a race change to enjoy that. It will only affect their gameplay. If you start a Charr, you’ll only have access to the Charr storyline. That gives them no advantage. I would expect a race change to be pretty expensive, so I doubt it would be cost efficient to get a race change rather than make a new character for cultural armor achievements.
I can’t think of one reason why ANet would allow someone to completely remake their character’s look, body build, and even sex but not make some attempt at allowing a race change. It’s more revenue for them and happier times for us. Race changes hurt no one and only offer more options for players. I don’t see any downside.
I guess with ANet’s cute censoring, my Charr does look like a young cat. I guess that’s the problem lol.
Racial skills are not even worth mentioning. I can’t think of a single one (I have all races and all professions) that are more useful than class skills. I don’t particularly like the Charr story/culture any more than any of the others. I, however, have found nothing exciting about end-game Charr armor an aesthetics. When I put him in exotics, he just looks weird to me. I’d rather have a Human that I can look forward to putting cool gear on and think, “Now I look like a kitten.” I don’t get that with Charr.
Since there’s been quite a bit on this already, I’ll try to keep it brief.
First, it should be noted that a Race Change item is desired by many players. If you don’t have a desire to change your race, that’s okay. There are, however, many who created characters at launch and have only recently realized that the race just isn’t what they thought it would be.
Second, a Race Change item would generate more revenue for ANet since it would most likely be introduced through the gem store. If there’s a reasonable way to implement something desired by the players without hurting the vision of Guild Wars 2, ANet should be willing to design it.
Let’s get into what the Race Change item would do.
I propose that this item function exactly like the Makeover Kit. It changes your body physically, and that’s it. The Asura create tonics that allow people to LOOK like other things. Now they’ve managed to extend that technology to imitating other races. This Race Change doesn’t really change your race though. You just APPEAR as someone from another race.
Personal Story. Personal story must be fully completed before changing characters. This will A. insure players experience the game a great deal before switching races B. circumvent issues with race-specific personal story and a race change and C. provide a basis for immersion regarding how others will refer and react to you as your original race.
So when someone saves the world from Zhaitan, people tend to remember that person. You’re the hero of the world. Heroes in our world are remembered quite well. Martin Luther King Jr will always be remembered as a man that fought for civil rights. It’s also commonly known that he was an African American. The same would be true of someone who saved the world from utter annihilation. People will remember his or her race. Since the Race Change Kit is known to only change the appearance, people will recognize you by your name, associate you with your great deed of defeating Zhaitan, and may or may not refer to you by your original race. It keeps immersion intact while avoiding additional script writing due to the race change.
Now that personal story and immersion are moot points, what about cultural armor? I feel that cultural armor should be kept soulbound and disallowed from being equipped. This will keep people from wearing armor from a race they no longer look like. If you decide to change back to your original race, you can equip that amor again.
Won’t people exploit this to get achievement points more easily? As far as buying new cultural armor, you should be able to buy the cultural armor of your new race. Here’s why this isn’t game-breaking. The [Race] Specialty Armors achievement requires that you soulbind the cultural armor. Since cultural armors are soulbound on acquire, a level 1 character can get the achievement as well as a level 80. The only difference is that you’re required to make an additional character slot, something that costs gems to have. Since this kit would also cost gems, the effective cost and difficulty to get the achievements would be the same, if not being more costly for the race change route.
I hope ANet gives this some serious thought in light of what is already allowed in the game. Immersion is something each player should be in control of. I personally have a hard time enjoying my Charr Warrior because he looks goofy to me. I’m not knocking the design. I love playing the Warrior profession, but aesthetics are a large part of how I experience the game. It’s clear others feel the same way given the sales of the Makeover kit. It’s wholly unrealistic to have someone get a sex change, facial reconstruction, and complete body reformation, but it’s something you’ve implemented to save people the hassle of remaking a character just for the sake of aesthetics. I hope you see that this solution is something purely aesthetic. I actually love the Charr storyline and culture. I’m just not convinced I want to always look like one.
The question comes down to this: would you rather make people choose between progression and immersion or allow them to keep both at their discretion? In other words, let the player decide how he or she best enjoys the game.
(edited by Mar.5180)
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Hey Ollian!
From looking at your post The Goober Confederacy [GOOB] may be a good fit for you. We are a Yak’s Bend guild formed from the dregs of other guilds. Upset with the quality and dedication of guild members, and dismayed with the lack of leadership and willingness to help from guild leaders and officers, we have formed a guild in the hopes of bringing players together to learn new things and skills in the game we all love (and love to complain about.)
Our focus is dungeon runs (We do nightly FotM, 20’s and/or 30’s, as well as CoF farming and other dungeon runs) and fun times. We find running dungeons as a catalyst for the fun times. To encourage group participation and to strengthen the group bond we do require TS to be used for guild runs and also just welcome guildies to hang out in TS when not doing group activities. We even have some members who log into TS to chat while doing household chores or playing other games.
At this time we do not do WvWvW or do guild organized PvP. We also are not set up to do guild missions at this time. Eventually we would like to have a presence in WvWvW and PvP as well as have weekly guild missions but for the time being we recommend to our guild members that they join another guild as well for those activities. This is one of the main reasons we ask for a 95% rep and not 100%.
We also are more than willing to do specialized training runs for members who wish to learn how to play a new class, learn to play what is considered more efficiently, as well as to learn new/less familiar dungeons/paths. Our goal is to give you a sense of community as well as help you grow as a player.
If this sounds like a good fit for you please fill out our application form on our website and one of our leaders/officers will contact you in game. The application is just a formality, we do not intend to turn anyone away within reason. We all make mistakes. We are all Goobers. Join us.
http://goob.enjin.com
Leaders: Shion Takagi, Mar Lifebreather
Officers: Nugget of teh Doomz, Khalen Arcana, Kaito The Wise, Teabean
Hey Coppola,
From looking at your post The Goober Confederacy [GOOB] may be a good fit for you. We are a Yak’s Bend guild formed from the dregs of other guilds. Upset with the quality and dedication of guild members, and dismayed with the lack of leadership and willingness to help from guild leaders and officers, we have formed a guild in the hopes of bringing players together to learn new things and skills in the game we all love (and love to complain about.)
Our focus is dungeon runs (We do nightly FotM, 20’s and/or 30’s, as well as CoF farming and other dungeon runs) and fun times. We find running dungeons as a catalyst for the fun times. To encourage group participation and to strengthen the group bond we do require TS to be used for guild runs and also just welcome guildies to hang out in TS when not doing group activities. We even have some members who log into TS to chat while doing household chores or playing other games.
At this time we do not do WvWvW or do guild organized PvP. We also are not set up to do guild missions at this time. Eventually we would like to have a presence in WvWvW and PvP as well as have weekly guild missions but for the time being we recommend to our guild members that they join another guild as well for those activities. This is one of the main reasons we ask for a 95% rep and not 100%.
We also are more than willing to do specialized training runs for members who wish to learn how to play a new class, learn to play what is considered more efficiently, as well as to learn new/less familiar dungeons/paths. Our goal is to give you a sense of community as well as help you grow as a player.
If this sounds like a good fit for you please fill out our application form on our website and one of our leaders/officers will contact you in game. The application is just a formality, we do not intend to turn anyone away within reason. We all make mistakes. We are all Goobers. Join us.
http://goob.enjin.com
Leaders: Shion Takagi, Mar Lifebreather
Officers: Nugget of teh Doomz, Khalen Arcana, Kaito The Wise, Teabean
Escape from LA [EfLA] is looking to recruit some fun players to do dungeons, fractals, guild bounties, and some PvP with. We are laid back and mostly casual but are currently looking to add variety to our ranks in hopes of establishing more competence in dungeon speed runs, higher fractal runs (30+), and successful PvP all the while maintaining our atmosphere of friendliness and respect. Casual or hardcore, we are interested in active, respectful players that like to laugh and play Guild Wars 2.
If you are interested in joining EfLA, please visit http://efla.enjin.com/ and click our recruitment box on the left to apply or you may also join by messaging any of the following guild leadership in-game:
Mar.5180
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Running the same content for gold is part of the core essence of what an MMORPG is. It’s what a great number of us enjoy. We get that you’re trying your hardest to make GW2 something special, but if you want to trade your “serious” players for a bunch of daily-loving casual players, you’re doing a great job of it.
After all, those who can farm the gold have no reason to buy gems, right? If this is really the issue (which I’d bet my last dollar it is), just make the game pay-to-play. I’d rather get a good game that is honest about it’s business model than to have my gaming experience repeatedly crapped on so you can squeeze more money out of me.
Don’t be Blizzard.
I was having the same issue as OP. I just Ran as Admin and got it to work just fine. Hope this helps.
We should use GW1 as an example. The Underworld was an elite mission many players formed coordinated groups to quickly run past most of the mobs and complete objectives in order to finish the dungeon for fairly predictable drops (with the occasional “jackpot” expensive item). However, most of the mobs they ran past had a chance to drop the same loot (ectos) that the end chest did. If you wanted to farm UW by grinding all the mobs, you could. If you wanted to do speed runs for more calculated results (and rightfully better in the long run), you could do that. It took more coordination and required far more risk and skill to complete.
As players, we need to remember that it’s fun to enjoy doing the same thing different ways. While it was fun doing UWSC til the cows came home, it was fun to slow clear it with a balanced team from time to time. The slower option needs to at least be in the same ball park in terms of rewards.
Sorry for double-post, but I wanted to add that I was able to do this about a week ago with a friend, so I’m not sure when it broke between then and now. I’ve been trying for the last two days with no luck.
Same for me. Maguuma server.
I’m on Maguuma server, and I can confirm. I can only do the Bridge and Quaggan event, but the lieutenants and overlord DEs do not start.