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Dwarves as playable race

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July 19, 2010 at 12:45 am#4938
NightRaider	Do you think that in future compain's or expansions that the dwarves from Eye of the North will be playable and would you want to play one? What do you think their unique abilties would be?
July 19, 2010 at 5:23 am#4939
Redean	I doubt Dwarves will ever be playable of even seen very much. All the Dwarves went back underground after EotN I believe. However it is possible! If they were to be introduced my guess is they would have skills relating to the great dwarf and healing light skills. Maybe something that relates to the dwarves turning to stone in EotN.
July 24, 2010 at 1:16 am#4940
Silly	I can imagine an event in the future, causing the dwarfes from stone to magically destonify – is that a word? – and be creatures of flesh so they can aid the other races against an ever greater treath of some sort, you never know right?
July 24, 2010 at 2:43 am#4941
slith	Destonify – Hehehe yeah we know what you mean. Maybe the Asura invent some technology to turn the Dwarves into flesh, brainy magik creatures they are.
July 24, 2010 at 3:07 am#4942
Silly	slith said: Destonify – Hehehe yeah we know what you mean. Maybe the Asura invent some technology to turn the Dwarves into the ale drinking midgets they are.
July 24, 2010 at 9:17 am#4943
Redean	But the dwarves aren't even around anymore in GW2, they've all gone underground. Maybe some cataclysmic event forces them to the surface similar to the asura in EotN (although I would've though the rising of the dragons was cataclysmic)
July 26, 2010 at 11:46 am#4944
Aissa	I'm quite happy that dwarves are not playable since they are such a typical race to play in fantasy games.
October 4, 2010 at 3:50 pm#4945
Naur	If dwarves ever would come back, it would be nice to see them trasformed into something little different. They wen underground and something mystical in there happened and they all are different, evolved…
October 4, 2010 at 6:35 pm#4946
Redean	Have you plaed GW1 before? I assume not. In EotN the Dwarves (well majority of them, Ogden didn't) under went a transformation when they were rallied by the Great Dwarf (or something like that) and they all turned to stone but a quote from Ogden puts their transformation nicely, "Changed both in body and mind" as they seemed almost single minded and only thought about killing the Great Destroyer. So this transformation you are describing, sorry it already happened 250 years ago during Eye of the North
October 5, 2010 at 3:27 am#4947
Naur	Ah, ok. I tried GW but didn't play so much so not sure what really happened to them… I remembered wrong then.
October 5, 2010 at 12:07 pm#4948
XII	Aissa said: I'm quite happy that dwarves are not playable since they are such a typical race to play in fantasy games. As opposed to Humans or Norn? Humans appear in pretty much every fantasy game, and Norn are in quite a few (though not sure any of these others can turn into bears…). The problem (imho) with Dwarves is not that they're "typical" of the Fantasy genre, but that they're almost always stereotyped to the Tolkien version of a Dwarf (always male, hungry for battle, wielding axes etc etc). One of the things I like about the Warcraft series (but how true this is for WoW, I don't know) is that it changed the Dwarf racial profile from hotheaded warriors to a more tech-minded race who build engines, guns etc. Dwarves would be a fun addition to Guild Wars 2, but only if they brought something new- and I find that unlikely to be the case as the other races seem to have pretty much everything covered.
October 5, 2010 at 7:10 pm#4949
Dojab	XII said: I find that unlikely to be the case as the other races seem to have pretty much everything covered. No other race has space travel ;D
October 6, 2010 at 7:13 pm#4950
XII	Dojab said: XII said: I find that unlikely to be the case as the other races seem to have pretty much everything covered. No other race has space travel ;D But the Asura are much more technologically advanced, so they'd logically be the first to develop it. The dwarves might be able to stockpile some powder kegs (looks suspiciously at Blackpowder) and blow one of them into space, but I'm not sure that'd count…
October 6, 2010 at 8:30 pm#4951
Dojab	XII said: Dojab said: XII said: I find that unlikely to be the case as the other races seem to have pretty much everything covered. No other race has space travel ;D But the Asura are much more technologically advanced, so they'd logically be the first to develop it. The dwarves might be able to stockpile some powder kegs (looks suspiciously at Blackpowder) and blow one of them into space, but I'm not sure that'd count… I'd completely count orbiting Dwarve-aroids o.o (Dwarf-Roids? Dwaroids?) but gameplay would be the only issue o.-
October 7, 2010 at 6:08 pm#4952
Hinbane	Dojab said: No other race has space travel ;D Dwarves –> Draenei Hmm… I'm likin' it!