station cash race changeFollow

Not surprised at all, except it took them this long to do it.

I find it ironic that what amounts to a roleplaying choice was so late on the agenda when highspeed mounts, great clickies and goofy illusions happened ages ago.

I predict a surge of initial use of this feature as old alts are "fixed" (alot of characters will become agnostic). I would be intrested to see statistics on actual changes people pay to have done.

Any predictions?

You can only change your race and deity to one of the race/deity combinations allowed for your class. You keep all of your faction settings except for the race/religion adjustments. You lose Tinkering if you switch from a Gnome to another race. There doesn't appear to be a way to choose your heritage if you become a Drakkin.

Although AAs and gear inflation have made racial differences less important over the years, for certain classes race/religion can still be significant. For example, Inny-worshiping Shamans/Clerics get a snare necklace, Ogres can't be stunned from the front (Shamans love it) and lizards have higher innate AC (tanks love it).

Lol, Snail. Troll Ranger was my first toon in EQ2, just to test it out. Their Power (mana / end in EQ1 terms) bit, but hit really hard due to their Strength, and as I discovered later with my Wood Elf Rng, Power regen is no problem at higher levels.

I should make Yther a Dark Elf, like she's supposed to be :D

And who doesn't love a Troll, especially this time of year? :)

Yther Ore.

SoE is just afraid halfling beastlords with there fire beetle pets would overrun Norrath.

Funny that SoE long held they party line that race and religion changes were too difficult due to the coding that was involved. I guess it is true that for the right amount of money you can do anything.

To summarize everything from SoE on this from theie message boards:

1. Only valid race and class combinations will work. For example, if you are a Barbarian Shaman, then the races that you will have available are Ogre, Vah Shir, Iksar, Troll, or Frog.

1a. Religion is similar that it has to be a valid option for the new race class combination. For example, a Tunare, High Elf cleric that changes to a dark elf cleric has to select Innurook (as it is the only option for DE clerics).

2. If you go from a race with an ability to a new race without that ability, you will lose the ability. For example, if you are a gnome with maxed out tinkering and you change to a wood elf, you will lose all of that tinkering ability. One of the devs said that your tinkering skill is set to zero in this example.

2a. If you then revert back to a gnome, there has not been any mention of your tinkering skill returning to the pre-cahnge value.

2b. The same thing applies to racial tradeskills (smithing), spells, breath weapons, etc.

3. Any racial armor that you are wearing will not be valid once you change. You will have to replace that armor.

4. All of the faction levels will be modified based on your new race and religion modifiers. You old race/religion modifiers will be removed from the equation and the new modifiers will be inserted and the new faction levels will be calculated. I don't think an "ally" level can swing all the way to "ready to attack", but I bet some "indifferent" could swing that way.

Only 3 people in our guild changed race/sex and 5 changed name - with the new potions available.

It was a flash in the pan as far as I am concerned....

just out of curiosity: Will it be two changes (i.e. 2 x 2500 station cash) if someone changes race AND sex, or can both be done with one of these potions?

edit: spelling

Edited, Feb 25th 2010 3:03am by Gonzoman