Crystal Paladin.3871 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Elves And I also noticed a wallpaper that says "commando" Is this some kind of teaser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zera.9435 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) Those aren't elves. Those are the outdated and since replaced concepts for Sylvari. The commando was a joke profession announced on April Fools some time before GW2 release. Edited February 28 by Zera.9435 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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QueenKeriti.5176 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 3 minutes ago, Crystal Paladin.3871 said: Elves And I also noticed a wallpaper that says "commando" Is this some kind of teaser? The "Commando" class reveal was an April Fool's prank. The Commandos do make an appearance in Jahai, though, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Paladin.3871 Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 7 minutes ago, TheQuickFox.3826 said: Wow.... This is something... Nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 13 minutes ago, QueenKeriti.5176 said: The "Commando" class reveal was an April Fool's prank. The Commandos do make an appearance in Jahai, though, lol. An apparently one of the SotO maps too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KindredPhoenyx.8976 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 OG sylvari were elves with leaf hair but they updated them since then. Which thank the Pale Tree we got what we did instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 5 hours ago, QueenKeriti.5176 said: The Commandos do make an appearance in Jahai, though, lol. In quite a few more locations, actually, including SotO maps. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 The Commandos are still one of the best April Fools jokes they've done, and the one time I genuinely fell off my chair laughing. I read the announcement about a Commando preview mission in GW1 and went to Embark Beach to see how many people were confused looking for the helicopter, then discovered there actually was a helicopter, and a commando, and a real mission to do, although of course it wasn't a preview of a GW2 profession. The background is that every time they reveleaed a GW2 profession, including the very first one and all the ones that were just updated versions of GW1 professions they had people raging about how obviously over-powered they were and how they'd dominate the entire game and no one would ever play anything else. I think partially because the preview clips always ended with the enemies dying, and some people thought it was accurately showing a real battle instead of just showing off how the skills worked, so they thought you'd actually be able to one-shot multiple enemies with every skill. (I suspect a lot of them were using fake versions of enemies with 1 hit point.) So then they announced the Commando profession, which actually would be stupidly over-powered. And yeah, sylvari started off looking a lot more like humans, or elves. There's a really interesting blog by Kristen Perry about re-designing them from scratch because all the existing fantasy concepts basically fell into two camps - 'human/elf wearing leaf themed clothes and/or body paint' and 'bipedal tree monster' whereas they wanted something genuinely in the middle, unmistakably a plant but looking human. You can still make a sylvari with long, pointed ears like an elf (although not as extreme as some versions of elves), you can even make one that sort-of looks almost human by picking a brown or beige skin colour and the least leafy face and hair options, although for me that always falls more into the uncanny valley than making them look more plant-like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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