They start talking about Largos at about 23:00. They all agree that Largos will be playable, and they claim that Anet stated Mursaat will make a return in GW2.
Thanks for that link! I only listened to the Largos portion, they had some interesting observations and speculations. I’m happy to hear too that Mursaat still have a further role to play in the story!
Ur welcome, I didn’t play GW1 but I would love to see the Mursaat they sound awesome. I can’t wait to see what what the Largos bring. I do hope they look more like the concept art when they’re done with them.
The mursaat were god like and even had Saul D’Alessio to carry out the religion.. I dont think they will EVER be a playable race on top of them being..bad?
No one said anything about the Mursaat being playable, just returning to the game. The Largos are being into’d to us as a new race, Anet still has to really flush out their story and update the place holders before they add them as a new race. I do hope they will look more like the concept art as i said before. (I was not saying that about the Mursaat)
Gotcha I still choose the Tengu over the Largos but like i said i couldnt care less haha just wanted to throw in my statement about why i didn’t think the Largos would be the best choice.
It’s cool, most people also agree that Tengu will be playable aslo, most likely first. Altho I would pick the Largos over them
They start talking about Largos at about 23:00. They all agree that Largos will be playable, and they claim that Anet stated Mursaat will make a return in GW2.
Thanks for that link! I only listened to the Largos portion, they had some interesting observations and speculations. I’m happy to hear too that Mursaat still have a further role to play in the story!
Ur welcome, I didn’t play GW1 but I would love to see the Mursaat they sound awesome. I can’t wait to see what what the Largos bring. I do hope they look more like the concept art when they’re done with them.
The mursaat were god like and even had Saul D’Alessio to carry out the religion.. I dont think they will EVER be a playable race on top of them being..bad?
No one said anything about the Mursaat being playable, just returning to the game. The Largos are being into’d to us as a new race, Anet still has to really flush out their story and update the place holders before they add them as a new race. I do hope they will look more like the concept art as i said before. (I was not saying that about the Mursaat).
I think when we will know rather they will be playable will be when Anet overhauls the underwater zones, it’s not nearly ready for a fight with Bubbles.
Oh yeah… and although they didn’t make my most hated list, I HATE THE LARGOS. The Largos are what happen when you take everything 12-year-olds think is cool and put it in a blender.
Dark elves+aion wings+fairy butterflies+vampires+super-secret-assassin-people+chicks with big breasts=LARGOS
Finally someone who shares my sentiment on that topic!
Oh my god, I’m so glad I’m not the only one. It’s even worse because they’re like a cheap knockoff of Mass Effect’s Quarian race, they weren’t even trying to be subtle about it. I don’t like Quarians either, so to me, it’s a crappy ripoff of something I already dislike, with added “cool to 12 year olds” factor. The female you go on personal story missions with is a copy of Tali’Zorah nar Rayya with water wings.
Actually, checking the wiki, that Largos’ name is Sayeh al’Rajihd.
..Wow.
Hating an NPC bc of what race she is, OMG what a bunch of 12 year olds you are lol :P
When the race is badly written, designed even worse, and said design is a shoddy copy of a massively popular design aimed at the same demographic, then it’s a bit warranted for some people to dislike it. Also, I never said I hated her or her race but you lumped me in there, too. I dislike them.
It’s totally okay for people to vocally not like the things you like. I didn’t jump on the people in this very same thread who said they like Carys and Gwen, even though I strongly dislike them.
@Olaf Egon Wein, LOL! It’s perhaps the most exquisite race I’ve seen in any game to date. Just pathetic, how about some elucidation to validate you’re claims as to why they’re an aion knock off/massafail. Dark elves? Since it has pointy ears so it must be an elf…. Ha idiotic! Now if you think they’re wings you’re obviously suffering rather some severe brain damage, those are fins quite honestly I must say, what an utter laughable excuse for trolling I have ever seen.
They look, sound, act, and have the same accents as Quarians from Mass Effect, I’m fairly certain the two races even share a voice actress. I also said “water wings,” snidely, they are obviously designed after the wing-like fins of the manta ray/sting ray, but also look like butterfly wings. That are used in the water. Not being literal 100% of the time does not make one “brain damaged.” If it did, your own hyperbole would land you in the same boat. Someone disliking a race you clearly love is not trolling, it is a differing opinion. It is not a personal attack on you. I promise.
This was a lovely little derail, but can we avoid the ad hominem attacks and overblown reactions to someone not liking a fictional race in a video game before this thread gets shut down?
Well i see you failed to understand you made the comment about this targeting 12 year old kids. I acted like a 12 year old kid and called you 12 back. I don’t care about what you think about them.
You really aren’t going to sell me on Centaurs that’s something I have to see to believe. If the can make it work somehow oh well I wouldn’t care, but i don’t think they will do it.
They start talking about Largos at about 23:00. They all agree that Largos will be playable, and they claim that Anet stated Mursaat will make a return in GW2.
Thanks for that link! I only listened to the Largos portion, they had some interesting observations and speculations. I’m happy to hear too that Mursaat still have a further role to play in the story!
Ur welcome, I didn’t play GW1 but I would love to see the Mursaat they sound awesome. I can’t wait to see what what the Largos bring. I do hope they look more like the concept art when they’re done with them.
Also how is a centaur going to use the broom mount from the gym store? How are the going to wear the quaggan backpack? All playable races have to be able to use these things. Is a person who rolls a centaur just going to forgo some of the stuff in the gym store? And why would Anet make a playable race who cant use some of the stuff in the gym store?
I have, it works with 2 legs not with 4. I don’t believe they will be playable. I believe the game was made with no plans to make them playable. But i guess we’ll see, but i have never seen anything with 4 legs in an MMO be playable for the reasons that i said and maybe others you can go on wishing. put it this way I will believe it when Anet comes out and says they’re making centaurs playable (if they ever do) that’s when i will believe it. They name them NPCs in GW1 thats not exactly playable.
Yeah, they would have to make all new animations just for the centaur, while everyone else would use the same ones. How does a centaur do a warrior spinning attack? I just don’t see it working, and the animation prob is the biggest reason 4 legs don’t make it to being playable in many MMOs. There are a lot of skills that would not fit with 4 legs.
Centaurs have been shown as major characters since Prophecies, playable since Nightfall. The entire Sylvari race was created by a centaur. They didn’t like humans too much in Prophecies, but neither did Charr or Tengu.
Veldrunner and Maguuma Centaurs are perfect candidates for playable races to be added when either Elona or the Maguuma Jungle are added respectively. As for conflict with the current Modniir lead Centaurs that are enemies, it would make just as much sense as the huge number of Human, Norn, Charr, Asura, and Sylvari I kill every day as it is.
The playable races, including heroes and henchmen in GW1 were, in chronological order:
Human, Tengu, Wallow, Centaur, Dwarf, Asura, Char, Norn.
Wallows are animals. Dwarves have been purposely avoided. Human, Dwarf, Asura, and Norn exist. Tengu and Centaur are next.
I would like to see a centaur try to swim, it would be good for a laugh, But no I don’t believe centaurs will be playable. How would they swim? how would armor fit on them. I can’t see a centaur do any of those. They don’t even have armor on the feet, legs or back side meaning Anet has not taken the time to do any of that. They are very unlikely to be playable.
Tengu and Centaur are logical, as they’re the only humanoids from GW1 that haven’t been made races, and haven’t been specifically avoided.
Tengu I agree with, they have been covered. centaurs I have not heard a logical reason for and I don’t see one here. Perhaps the reason they were not made playable is bc they are a semi-enemy race to humans. Unless that changes they wont be playable.
They start talking about Largos at about 23:00. They all agree that Largos will be playable, and they claim that Anet stated Mursaat will make a return in GW2.
Oh yeah… and although they didn’t make my most hated list, I HATE THE LARGOS. The Largos are what happen when you take everything 12-year-olds think is cool and put it in a blender.
Dark elves+aion wings+fairy butterflies+vampires+super-secret-assassin-people+chicks with big breasts=LARGOS
Finally someone who shares my sentiment on that topic!
Oh my god, I’m so glad I’m not the only one. It’s even worse because they’re like a cheap knockoff of Mass Effect’s Quarian race, they weren’t even trying to be subtle about it. I don’t like Quarians either, so to me, it’s a crappy ripoff of something I already dislike, with added “cool to 12 year olds” factor. The female you go on personal story missions with is a copy of Tali’Zorah nar Rayya with water wings.
Actually, checking the wiki, that Largos’ name is Sayeh al’Rajihd.
..Wow.
Hating an NPC bc of what race she is, OMG what a bunch of 12 year olds you are lol :P
Personally, I detest the largos with a passion. The Largos are what you get when you take all the things 12-year-olds think are cool, and throw them in a blender. Basically…
Dark elves+aion wings+fairy butterflies+super-secret-assassin-people+big breasts=LARGOS.
All the overdone, childish fantasy traits have been thrown into the largos design. While the other races have aspects of overdone fantasy traits, they also have aspects which are unique. Nothing the largos have feels truly unique—it’s like going to the “Fantasy Game Yard Sale” and picking bits of used ideas.
I am over twice the age of 12 (as someone else said) But this is ur opinion and it’s fine I don’t care if you don’t like them. But it’s good that you did’t try to use this as a reason to not make them playable like some other people on here.
I don’t think they will make fractals acct bound. They want people to log in and do it with all of their toons. If they can burn through it in a month on 1 and have it apply to all of their toons, there would be twice as many people saying they have nothing to do.
I also think Laurels a meant to be a long term goal, they don’t want people to burn through their content in 2 weeks. If we got one for each event we would have everything they offer in a matter of about a month, some even 2 weeks.
Also if it was a weekly we would be doing about daily X7 if you didn’t log in that whole week you would be spending hours on it trying to get it done and people would still complain that it’s too hard or too long and they don’t have enough time to get it done. So let’s just keep it the way it is.
Some people can’t get laurels everyday, and there is no need to. (I missed a few days my self). People with other things they have to get done have to accept that it will take us longer to get what we want done. I have 15 Laurels so I missed 8 days, But I see no need to fix it and i just accept i have other things to do. I dont agree with a weekly, bc Anet needs people to long into their game everyday.
There is already an Asian looking face, and you could also make them black. So i don’t think other humans will be another race when all they need to do is add it on to the Humans we already have. There is one story line that lets you pick 1 one the four Human kingdoms when you’re asked where did you’re family come from “If you pick that you lost you’re sister” So it’s very unlikely that we will see more Humans.
People will always complain on every update but they will get over it or gasp…. quit. Guilds will have to split up into teams and take down bosses in 4-5 zones at the same time. But small guilds can get non guild members to help so if they work for it they can do it. I really don’t see the problem people will just have to spend time getting their guild ready to do it.
I can’t remember which forum I saw it on, but someone posted a picture of a winged creature similar to a Largos whose wings folded into a cloak-like covering when they weren’t using them. That would be cool, or perhaps they could fold into a cape.
I agree, I want to see more Largos! I can’t wait to watch their story unfold as the game progresses.
I don’t know what to do with the wings maybe picking a house will decide how their wings fold (or don’t fold) It could be like a bat or a bird or a butterfly?
Clearly Djinn are based on Islamic Jinn which are unseen and in different dimensions. Yes it does say that Djinn can act unseen and take different forms “In a sense, djinn really can act unseen—many are shapeshifters, capable of assuming a human form when interacting with human beings and other species.”
“The release of the titans, and later the Shining Blade’s victory in the War in Kryta, resulted in the deaths of most of the mursaat, although at least one, Lazarus the Dire, is known to have lived through these events.” So one is know to have lived past these events.
“They have not been seen for centuries, and it is thought they are now extinct – though they are said to re-appear whenever they are thought gone for good.” That little last hint gives room for Anet to bring them back or to connect with something else.
It would be interesting if the Largos did have something to do with the Mursaat. How would that play out with Sylvari. The Sylvari were able to be born bc of the events caused by the Mursaat.
Largos are and the Mursaat were masters at being unseen? if that is so I think there may be some Mursaat that might have hid and able to flee far away, perhaps to the northern seas? I will have to read up on the Mursaat now, I didn’t play GW1 too much.
Thanks for that link! If Largos were added as a playable race and they actually are related to or evolved Mursaat, that might add some interesting tensions between the Largos and the Sylvari. Mursaat killed Ronan’s family, didn’t they?
Yes, it’s cuz of this that the great tree was planted.
It all depends on what time you log on, if it’s in the dead of the night you wont find many people if it’s at 7 pm there will be a lot. TC is the place to be I agree.
This sums up why I think the Largos might be playable.
I read a comment that the Largos might be Anet’s way to highlight the underwater zones. To me that would make sense going off of a quote “We didn’t want the undersea zones to feel like a secondary experience compared to the land zones, so you’ll experience the full—ahem—depth of Guild Wars 2 content underwater.” -Jonathan Sharp.
The Largos, while we don’t know a lot about them yet, seem to be like they would have the best chance to be an underwater race should Anet add one. The other underwater races (Quaggen and Krait) have problems that would make it difficult making them a playable race.
The Largos while we know they take pride in killing , don’t randomly kill (that have been seen). They look for skilled challenges and are bound by “Great Houses” and the “Concordat of the Tethyos Houses”. Largos also have strong values of debt and have been seen to go out of their way to protect those whom they owe a debt to. While they remain to be unknown (Like the Asura before they were pushed out of their homes) the Largos may need to ally with the other races and would seemingly be in debt to the other races when Bubbles is able to be defeated(being they were pushed out of their homes (guessing by Bubbles).
The only real question now would be can they live on land with out being near the water? I can compare the Humans being able to breath underwater not having to worry about breathing. I suspect that if Largos were to be playable it would be within reasonable assumption for game play reasons they would be just fine with some minor adjustments. The models we see now all 9 of them seem to be place holders and do not look as polished as they could be, meaning if they are to do anything else with them they would need to put some more work on them anyway.
The tengu should be in the next expansion! Make it happen Anet
Tengu most likely will be first. Anet was going to make them playable at launch, but for some reason didn’t. But I’m holding hope for the top underwater race being Largos and if Tengu and Largos are both made playable at the same time it would work off of each other very well. One being well known from GW1 and lore, the other being new and underwater.
I read a comment that the Largos might be Anet’s way to highlight the underwater zones. To me that would make sense going off of a quote “We didn’t want the undersea zones to feel like a secondary experience compared to the land zones, so you’ll experience the full—ahem—depth of Guild Wars 2 content underwater.” -Jonathan Sharp.
The Largos, while we don’t know a lot about them yet, seem to be like they would have the best chance to be an underwater race should Anet add one. The other underwater races (Quaggen and Krait) have problems that would make it difficult making them a playable race.
The Largos while we know they take pride in killing , don’t randomly kill (that have been seen). They look for skilled challenges and are bound by “Great Houses” and the “Concordat of the Tethyos Houses”. Largos also have strong values of debt and have been seen to go out of their way to protect those whom they owe a debt to. While they remain to be unknown (Like the Asura before they were pushed out of their homes) the Largos may need to ally with the other races and would seemingly be in debt to the other races when Bubbles is able to be defeated(being they were pushed out of their homes (guessing by Bubbles).
The only real question now would be can they live on land with out being near the water? I can compare the Humans being able to breath underwater not having to worry about breathing. I suspect that if Largos were to be playable it would be within reasonable assumption for game play reasons they would be just fine with some minor adjustments. The models we see now all 9 of them seem to be place holders and do not look as polished as they could be, meaning if they are to do anything else with them they would need to put some more work on them anyway.
I think Largos, Tungu and Kodan are the most likely and the front runners.
Yes, it happen to me calling out events. I don’t know if I could get out 5-8 messages in 4-8 seconds or anyone. When calling out events most of the time you would be there a few minutes before going on. and calling out another one. I think it was about a 15 minute span that I called out events in. So it seems as if the window is a little to high, I agree.
I read a comment that the Largos might be Anet’s way to highlight the underwater zones. To me that would make sense going off of a quote “We didn’t want the undersea zones to feel like a secondary experience compared to the land zones, so you’ll experience the full—ahem—depth of Guild Wars 2 content underwater.” -Jonathan Sharp.
The Largos, while we don’t know a lot about them yet, seem to be like they would have the best chance to be an underwater race should Anet add one. The other underwater races (Quaggen and Krait) have problems that would make it difficult making them a playable race.
The Largos while we know they take pride in killing , don’t randomly kill (that have been seen). They look for skilled challenges and are bound by “Great Houses” and the “Concordat of the Tethyos Houses”. Largos also have strong values of debt and have been seen to go out of their way to protect those whom they owe a debt to. While they remain to be unknown (Like the Asura before they were pushed out of their homes) the Largos may need to ally with the other races and would seemingly be in debt to the other races when Bubbles is able to be defeated(being they were pushed out of their homes (guessing by Bubbles).
The only real question now would be can they live on land with out being near the water? I can compare the Humans being able to breath underwater not having to worry about breathing. I suspect that if Largos were to be playable it would be within reasonable assumption for game play reasons they would be just fine with some minor adjustments. The models we see now all 9 of them seem to place holders and do not look polished as they could be, meaning if they are to do anything else with them they would need to put some more work on them anyway.
This is a good thread to read up on the Largos. Some of has been gone over on this thread, but it give some interesting ideas. Such as Lyssa being a Largos or just resembling one and a Largos- Mursaats connection.
I agree, but if the are going to give cool effects like that they need to be Legendary. What sets a Legendary apart from an Exotic is the effect it brings with it. I guess there could be some lesser effects for Exotic and better effects for Legendary dye.
While I doubt that the underwater system was designed because of the largos race, it very likely could be the other way around – they might have been an effort by ArenaNet to highlight that part of the game after the initial five races didn’t focus on it.
Yes, I agree this very well could be the case. I also think their honor system would help if the allied races were to help them defeat bubbles. The Largos would owe the allies and the Largos hold repayment of a debt in the highest regard. This may be in place to help their story drift into an alliance with the other races.
It would be hard to imagine Krait while we are actively fighting them in DEs, would be allies with the other races. The Largos from what we’ve seen is one that we fight against(He may be a rogue) and a few that we ally with for the moment (One asking to test our skills for a point). The Krait we have seen alot of and it does seem like they’ve become a semi-enemy race to the allied races. The Largos we have seen we have had to ally with a few of them for different reasons, alot like how the races who are allied had to ally together to fight the Dragons (Humans and Charr notably). “These intelligent creatures (Krait) are vicious and xenophobic, attacking and enslaving all other species on sight” GW2 Wiki. That would need to change. It would also be easier for Largos to fit into humanoid armor, not so easy for the Krait. It would have to be reworked alot to make that happen.
Humans should not be able to breath underwater, but that was taken care of for game play reasons. A popular race underwater might draw more people into baring it. Anet has also said they wanted to make underwater as viable as fighting on land. Adding Largos would really open that up, such as new weapons for underwater and new skills. “We didn’t want the undersea zones to feel like a secondary experience compared to the land zones, so you’ll experience the full—ahem—depth of Guild Wars 2 content underwater.” -Jonathan Sharp. I really doubt after all of this work they put in to the underwater zones that they would not do anything else with it. If they truly want it to not feel secondary adding a race and at least a city would sum it up greatly. Out of the Quaggan and the Largos, I think the Largos have the best chance.
I do agree that the Largos need some work. I love the idea of them, but like someone else said, I’m not particularly impressed with their textures. I’d want more options for customization, too. By that I mean it would be boring if all Largos had white hair and blue luminescence on their wings as all current in-game Largos seem to have. These are all things that can be improved however. All in all, Largos get my +1!
I’m sure the models we see now are just place holders, I would not expect them to be polished up when only about 5 or 6 in the world so far. They have that dark persona like when the unseen hunter comes around with the fog around the water. So they have a dark feeling and if Anet wanted a race like that to be playable Largos would fit that role the best. I can’t think of any other race that gives that feeling. For me it would be welcome to have a range of feeling when i think of the races of GW2, I would deff. roll a few.
A lot of the time I have a few piece of gear 5-10 lvls under my lvl. I try to keep up piece by piece, so if I was wearing under powered gear and I had to go back to that bc they went back to a zone for lvl 30s I would like that. If u went back to a starting zone u would have basic gear and be weaker rather then have ur exotics and be stronger. I think most people like to feel a little bit stronger when they go back to a zone. They already put a system in place that in case u do go back to a low lvl zone you will get drops ur own lvl. So an 80 going back to a lvl 5 zone would get lvl 80 drops, not lvl 4-5 drops.
I agree, Largos as playable race! I’d definitely buy an extra character slot for that!
Add sexy Russian accent and an underwater city and it would be pure awesomeness
I would like the Largos I think they maybe a playable race. We have heard and seen very little about them, but i did see a few of them with different fins and swap weapons, are those clues to what they might be able to use as a playable race? I also think Largos might be the main enemy of the Kodan if the Kodan are a playable race. The Largos main cites are in the northern seas off the shores of Kodan’s cites? I don’t know if that would work, but i guess we shall find out later on.
