Can you shapeshift in guild wars

Plus in reality it might be less work, who knows perhaps. Plus it could be a good throw-back to dervish who in of itself could shapeshift; A havroun who is a norn-ish class would be fun.

Plus shapeshifting and being one with the spirits of the wild can be taught to anyone so the class wouldn't break too much lore. Frankly it would be interesting as it would be another stance changer but could be a medium armor stance dancer a mechanic not on medium armor, ranger doesn't count. So rev-light mechanics where you leap in and out of beast form to do different functions could be cool; Especially with a combat engine like guild wars 2.

Oh sure, make it a medium armor class, now you have a horde of ppl that main light and heavy armor classes, and have legy and ascened armor for those, but not for medium, demanding a class aswell, or atleast be pissed af.

Medium armor gear would be alot more valuable, because you can now use it on 4 different classes instead of 3. It would make waaay too much work to design a complete new class, with 2 especs, new animations, etc.

I always wonder why people always want shapeshifting things when we all know by experience that it's going to be cluncky as hell just like the racial transformations.

For everything else there is already the tonics, soulbeast and the awful racial transformations. I mean I wonder why people ask for weeaboo trash, but they do. Too much work? Tell me how mounts aren't too much work, models, animations, skills, balancing them in the open world.

Balance is already a joke, PvP and WvW is in shambles and no one bats an eye anymore because we know it won't get any better. So just give us new stuff and stop trying to balance a game when clearly they don't know how; It's fine balancing issues happen in every mmo-rpg.

The rule of cool is what A-net seems to love going with, this follows the rule of cool Now I will say Id prefer a new race over a class because this could be an elite spec. Svanir you become The nornbear, Shiro for example makes you get covered in jade.

There you go a shapeshifter with cosmetic oof; Done deal and it works for the lore and makes sense with everything intact. They butchered the norn and they are literally trash compared to how they were in Guild wars 1, meanwhile humans, Sylvary, charr ect all have cool stuff while we get to sit in the corner.

Are you seriously comparing creating a new class and creating mounts? Oh boi I see, there is nothing left to say. No What Im saying is that they said it would never happen; And yet here they are? Cosmetics are all guild wars 2 is about at end game, new races are litterally all about that as are classes.

You want this game to succeed hope they decide to do something big next expansion or watch how little it manages to rake in, im one of a very vocal majority who aren't impressed by mounts or specs for selling points anymore. I mean mounts come out left and right in living world; And there is not much ground to cover outside of underwater mounts. So using them for an expansion seller a second time around? Those elite specs might be nice but using them as a selling point on their own, or even without masteries or something else?

Content is content, just because you dislike the idea and are opposed on all sides to it doesn't mean its a bad one for monetization and sales.

New classes bring in money and new players just as new races do; And they are alot easier to sell than say mounts which are in every game and are nothing special. That is what most everyone said when I was trying to hype them up to my friends who don't play. What the OP describes is actually pretty much what I expected Revenant to be like when I first heard a description of it - although obviously not with a wolf form. I expected that they would literally transform into Jalis, Shiro, etc.

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User Info: coconutarmy1. Norns in general can shapeshift. Necromancers can turn into a black blob.. Not sure if this helps. Official Emperor of this board. Bow before me, peasants. User Info: NCPwn. Just don't change into a cub, i'd be afraid of what you would do to yourself.

Defiant foes will have their defiant bar reduced instead. Lich Form. Assume the form of a lich for a brief time, improving your precision and vitality. Gain life force when this skill ends. Entering this form removes other spectral effects. Become the Bear. Become the Raven. Become the Snow Leopard. Become the Wolf. I just want to be important to my group and a threat to enemies while not simply dpsing. Posted by: Ojyh. Why would the Druid transform into animals?

Druids in GW are more about plants and nature spirits. It might be possible but Druid doesnt always mean transformation. Posted by: Diovid.

I fixed that. Your point still stands though, druids in guild wars lore are druids in guild wars lore, nothing else. Although, to be fair, so little is known about the druids that anything goes really. Posted by: Invictus. This is exactly what I want too. Wishful thinking, maybe in the video that everybody thinks was a Druid and his pet, perhaps it was two Druids one in humanoid form, the other in a beast form.

Posted by: Algreg. Also, druids in GW lore are not known for animal and elemental transformation. Lord knows where people get this idea — last time I checked, there was no Wizards of the Coast logo on the GW2 box. Druids of old GW transformed into spirits. Posted by: BrunoBRS. Posted by: tigirius. I would love to see them do this but I also wonder exactly what they can do for all classes to give us all a faster option for non-combat travel without teleportation.

I disagree. Posted by: Kentaine. And real-life druids did not change into plants, animals, or spirits. They were ordinary human beings bound by the same natural laws as everything else has been since the dawn of our universe. Posted by: Trise. Posted by: Xenon. It happens when the brand name of a product becomes the colloquial term for a particular type of product. Kleenex is a brand name of tissue paper. I have a more pragmatic concern for this topic that will probably throw a major wrench in the works… How would a shapeshifter class fit into the design of GW2 mechanically?

We already have engineers who can swap kits around to change their skills and dramatically alter their combat behavior on the fly. We already have elementalists swapping attunements which change their skills to provide a wide array of different rolls and abilities. How does a shapeshifter distinguish themselves from this? Forget for a moment your superficial wishes of becoming a furry creature.

Think about this mechanically. What is the point of it in the context of GW2?