lil muffin.1250 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Ok. so cantha is coming.I am one of those lame people who really love elves and fae.and the original sylvari concept was so appealing to me.adding new races is really hard to guild wars because it would require another layer of voice acting.BUT if they were just sub races of current ones we wouldnt need that.also i feel like there is some way to do this with the old version of druids in cantha.so this sylvari would still use the voice acting of the first but they would bring a new aesthetic to the game.and this could be expanded to other races as well.Furry taller asura who left the underground and evolved like savages with beards.charr that are softer and cuter and smallerhumans of utopia with maybe a mechanical twist.NORN who are constantly in the between stages of their chosen spirit of the wild.kinda like wow did with some of their allied races just being an expansion of the current ones.also add Largos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astyrah.4015 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 @lil muffin.1250 said:BUT if they were just sub races of current ones we wouldnt need that.not sure if i understand you but by "sub race" you mean something npc-only? like those mordrem-ised sylvari? these are pretty easy to implement if so. but if you want a playable race there's a lot of work even for a "sub race" so it will be unlikely (not saying impossible just a lot of work).@lil muffin.1250 said:also add Largosthey already exist right?EDIT: gave it another read, for a sub race, well, the devs can just increase the "option"-choices for races. like give humans a skin-type setting to get the@lil muffin.1250 said:humans of utopia with maybe a mechanical twist.or more body-types and faces for charr@lil muffin.1250 said:charr that are softer and cuter and smaller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GummyBearSummoner.7941 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 We know that there are other pale trees so I don’t see why not? I had thought we would get to meet malik again when HoT was released but sadly we didn’t. I hope we can expand on that story in the future. We need more lore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Kitsunee.4620 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Sub-Races are a fun idea I think. Easy work around to adding new races but not really. You get some of the hype in there which is the important bit.Could be:Sylvari ->Soundless Sylvari (More pale tones, perhaps some older looking hair styles, new racials)Charr ->Flame Legion Charr(New body types, new faces, new racials)Norn -> Not too many lore-based choices I can think of. Maybe something to do with spirit of the wild infused Norn.Humans->Canthan humans? Awoken undead? A lot of choices hereAsura -> Inquest Asuran? Not sure what would change physically here.The most important thing about new races is they add hype and a new starting point for players that want to join.If a new race is off the table completely I think this is a pretty good middle ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky.4861 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Sounds awful. Your proposed asura sub-race would be neanderthal humans, your charr would be plushies, cyborg humans i can get behind, your norn couldn't do anything as their bodies are in a constant state of mutating flux. On the plus side, i haven't come across this idea before and it could be worth exploring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bharr.2890 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 I think female Sylvari should have only came from the Pale tree and have a second set of Sylvari from Malyck's tree to be male to have come later. It is eight years to late for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mewcifer.5198 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 @lil muffin.1250 said:Ok. so cantha is coming.I am one of those lame people who really love elves and fae.and the original sylvari concept was so appealing to me.adding new races is really hard to guild wars because it would require another layer of voice acting.BUT if they were just sub races of current ones we wouldnt need that.also i feel like there is some way to do this with the old version of druids in cantha.so this sylvari would still use the voice acting of the first but they would bring a new aesthetic to the game.and this could be expanded to other races as well.Furry taller asura who left the underground and evolved like savages with beards.charr that are softer and cuter and smallerhumans of utopia with maybe a mechanical twist.NORN who are constantly in the between stages of their chosen spirit of the wild.kinda like wow did with some of their allied races just being an expansion of the current ones.also add Largosso you want gw2 to add generic elves and furries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asturias.1064 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Couldn't they introduce new races through new expansions? They could start at a higher level or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 @Asturias.1064 said:Couldn't they introduce new races through new expansions? They could start at a higher level or not.People would want to start them at level one and use them in current core Tyria maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanBB.4268 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Fixed that for ya:People would want to start them at level one and use them in current core Tyria maps, have all the available armors and weapons, unique dialog everywhere dialog occurs, unique racial skills, racial city, racial starter zone, cultural armor, and a chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anninke.7469 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 After thinking about this suggestion for a while I deciced I wouldn't want it to happen. And if the original concept should appear in the game, then please make it absolutely unrelated to sylvari we have now, because it looks more like mutated humans than sylvari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coso.9173 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 while i've never heard of subraces in GW2 it would be a nice easy way to add some more variety to already existing ones, since it's mostly smaller changes.maybe a bit harder to implement storywise since we havent heard of alternate humans/charr/nord/asura, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil muffin.1250 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 @Funky.4861 said:Sounds awful. Your proposed asura sub-race would be neanderthal humans, your charr would be plushies, cyborg humans i can get behind, your norn couldn't do anything as their bodies are in a constant state of mutating flux. On the plus side, i haven't come across this idea before and it could be worth exploring.what would be your idea for sub races in that case.Someone mentioned flame legion charr! now that would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil muffin.1250 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 @Mewcifer.5198 said:@lil muffin.1250 said:Ok. so cantha is coming.I am one of those lame people who really love elves and fae.and the original sylvari concept was so appealing to me.adding new races is really hard to guild wars because it would require another layer of voice acting.BUT if they were just sub races of current ones we wouldnt need that.also i feel like there is some way to do this with the old version of druids in cantha.so this sylvari would still use the voice acting of the first but they would bring a new aesthetic to the game.and this could be expanded to other races as well.Furry taller asura who left the underground and evolved like savages with beards.charr that are softer and cuter and smallerhumans of utopia with maybe a mechanical twist.NORN who are constantly in the between stages of their chosen spirit of the wild.kinda like wow did with some of their allied races just being an expansion of the current ones.also add Largosso you want gw2 to add generic elves and furries?well the sylvari they created orginally were more fairy inspired than elf. and fairies are rarely played in mmorpgs.Furries are a large popu.ation of people who enjoy playing cute animal like races. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil muffin.1250 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 @anninke.7469 said:After thinking about this suggestion for a while I deciced I wouldn't want it to happen. And if the original concept should appear in the game, then please make it absolutely unrelated to sylvari we have now, because it looks more like mutated humans than sylvari.Well. The Druids of cantha were originally people and transformed themselves into what they were in factions.It could be a cool story seeing them become uncorrupted and turn to a softer variation of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 @lil muffin.1250 said:Furries are a large popu.ation of people who enjoy playing cute animal like races.IMO, this is what helps GW2 stand out from the rest of the genre: the decisions to not be like every other MMORPG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil muffin.1250 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 @kharmin.7683 said:@lil muffin.1250 said:Furries are a large popu.ation of people who enjoy playing cute animal like races.IMO, this is what helps GW2 stand out from the rest of the genre: the decisions to not be like every other MMORPG.who cares.. what you think the game needs more players.and actually one of the critics this games gets often is it has ugly races. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astyrah.4015 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 @lil muffin.1250 said:@kharmin.7683 said:@lil muffin.1250 said:Furries are a large popu.ation of people who enjoy playing cute animal like races.IMO, this is what helps GW2 stand out from the rest of the genre: the decisions to not be like every other MMORPG.who cares.. what you think the game needs more players.and actually one of the critics this games gets often is it has ugly races.tbh GW2's races are fine, they aren't ugly they're unique. my only real complaint is how asura and female humans have long necks (well this is mostly for asura just a lil bit for f human)i came from Final Fantasy 14 before i played Guild Wars 2, and while i miss having Miqo'te and Lalafell around and while they're really really nice to look at, they're pretty much just "human + something" like, "human + horns n scales" for Au Ra. even the newly added Hrothgar is prety much just a feline faced bulky male human (kinda like if you put a charr face on human/norn male) that isn't bad ofcourse and it makes it easier to add a new race and rigging armour sets is easy but it's sorta lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 @lil muffin.1250 said:@kharmin.7683 said:@lil muffin.1250 said:Furries are a large popu.ation of people who enjoy playing cute animal like races.IMO, this is what helps GW2 stand out from the rest of the genre: the decisions to not be like every other MMORPG.who cares.. what you think the game needs more players.and actually one of the critics this games gets often is it has ugly races.Who cares? I care. I thought that this forum was for discussion. I stated my opinion and you answer with "who cares?"Maybe in your circles the critique mentions ugly races. I do not find them to be so. Where is the data to support your claim that this is a criticism that occurs "often"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anninke.7469 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 @lil muffin.1250 said:@"anninke.7469" said:After thinking about this suggestion for a while I deciced I wouldn't want it to happen. And if the original concept should appear in the game, then please make it absolutely unrelated to sylvari we have now, because it looks more like mutated humans than sylvari.Well. The Druids of cantha were originally people and transformed themselves into what they were in factions.It could be a cool story seeing them become uncorrupted and turn to a softer variation of that.Sylvari are not corrupted humans (or anything else). They are plant spawns of an already purified dragon (plant) minion. Nothing to "uncorrupt" there.Also - I do like elves and fairy-folks of all kinds. But I strongly dislike the idea of turning the sylvari into one because I like the twiggies even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleena.3406 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 i would rather have cantha wardens customization for the Sylvari's we already have !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasya neko.1985 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 @anninke.7469 said:After thinking about this suggestion for a while I deciced I wouldn't want it to happen. And if the original concept should appear in the game, then please make it absolutely unrelated to sylvari we have now, because it looks more like mutated humans than sylvari.sylvari are already plant humans, this will only allow ppl to make a sylvari with a smooth skin, something i really want since beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goettel.4389 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 If you like salads, I'm all for getting you your favorite ones. We green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil muffin.1250 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 @anninke.7469 said:@lil muffin.1250 said:@anninke.7469 said:After thinking about this suggestion for a while I deciced I wouldn't want it to happen. And if the original concept should appear in the game, then please make it absolutely unrelated to sylvari we have now, because it looks more like mutated humans than sylvari.Well. The Druids of cantha were originally people and transformed themselves into what they were in factions.It could be a cool story seeing them become uncorrupted and turn to a softer variation of that.Sylvari are not corrupted humans (or anything else). They are plant spawns of an already purified dragon (plant) minion. Nothing to "uncorrupt" there.Also - I do like elves and fairy-folks of all kinds. But I strongly dislike the idea of turning the sylvari into one because I like the twiggies even more.I wasnt referring to the sylvari.I was referring to the wardens in cantha. i accidentally typed druids.I'm not making up lore for them.. just providing a (bad) possible reason for the cute race they originally where to be in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil muffin.1250 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 @Funky.4861 said:Sounds awful. Your proposed asura sub-race would be neanderthal humans, your charr would be plushies, cyborg humans i can get behind, your norn couldn't do anything as their bodies are in a constant state of mutating flux. On the plus side, i haven't come across this idea before and it could be worth exploring.idk. i think norn with raven talons and feathers could be awesome.or norn with built in fur like bears.or sharp teeth and leaopard hide built into them.not constantly in flux but taking on some of the elements of their chosen spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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