New playable race?

[Gralna]

Imo, current Yugiri is a place holder, since she's obviously just a reskinned miqo'te and we'll get the "real" Yugiri in 2.5.... or SE is going to be lazy about it and the new race will be a reskinned Miqo'te.

[kidvideo]

the new race will be a reskinned Miqo'te.

Introducing... the Mithra!

[Laerune]

or SE is going to be lazy about it and the new race will be a reskinned Miqo'te.

I hope this will not happen, but past mmorpgs have gone that route before.

Has Yoshi-P said that Yugiri's race will be the playable one? I reckon with a expansion we will be introduced to other new races, so it could be that the playable one will not be shown untill after 2.5.

[Gralna]

Has Yoshi-P said that Yugiri's race will be the playable one? I reckon with a expansion we will be introduced to other new races, so it could be that the playable one will not be shown untill after 2.5.

He let it "slip" at fanfest, that Yugiri's race will be the new playable race.

[Teslo]

I hope this will not happen, but past mmorpgs have gone that route before.

Has Yoshi-P said that Yugiri's race will be the playable one? I reckon with a expansion we will be introduced to other new races, so it could be that the playable one will not be shown untill after 2.5.

There was a cosplay contest at the Las Vegas show and one person entered as Yugiri. People kept asking "What's under the hood!?" and while on stage the PR guy there (Forgot his name ._.; ) said, "Yoshi, stop yelling 'New race!'". I'm sure there's a video of it somewhere.

Yeah, Yugiri is a member of the new player race. lol

Personally I'm hoping for something original and not one of the races from any of the Tactics games. I'll be pretty disappointed if it ends up being a Tactics race (Viera included).

[Ultimatecalibur]

Well part of the 2.4 story had the implication that Shiva was the mother of half-dragons.

[Felis]

Well part of the 2.4 story had the implication that Shiva was the mother of half-dragons.

She sleeped with a dragon (and became the first heretic because of this), but there was no info that she got pregnant from a dragon.

[Ultimatecalibur]

She sleeped with a dragon (and became the first heretic because of this), but there was no info that she got pregnant from a dragon.

Which is why I said implication. By sleeping with dragons there is this implication that she might have gotten pregnant. Combine that with Yugiri's scaled tail and what could be horns and you have a fairly decent argument for a race of half-dragons descended from Shiva.

[ChazNatlo]

Well part of the 2.4 story had the implication that Shiva was the mother of half-dragons.

Great, so not only is she a powerful entity of ice, but she's a Targaryen as well. Thank goodness that SE nixed elemental weaknesses, else BLMs wouldn't have Ice OR Fire.

[Sapphic]

Imo, current Yugiri is a place holder, since she's obviously just a reskinned miqo'te and we'll get the "real" Yugiri in 2.5.... or SE is going to be lazy about it and the new race will be a reskinned Miqo'te.

Well if they made a whole new body style for teh new race then they would have redo ALL the gear assets in the game to fit that new model.

So, you are probably right, With how much work would be involved in redoing every single item I don't see it as lazy, but time efficient to reuse another existing models body. Otherwise would more than likely take till 4.0 to release it,