It wouldnt 'fit' with the concept of the game, but it does give more people freedom. Tell me, if you wanted to change from human to elf, would you drop your human that has for example has level 50 pet, hundreds of $$ worth in the itemshop bag and have almost if not all siege titles up to ironblood? I know of people, particularly a w/r at the moment that is tired of playing as human and really wants to go w/wd, but is not prepaired to drop everything for it..and he is on the verge of quiting.
Yeh, there is probably only a few that would want it, but it would still be nice to have the choice, at least at end-game.
^ Totally agree. Once you've put in some serious money on a character, the worst thing is to be told to just start over on a completely new toon, when you can't bring anything other than gear (with your own unbinders) over from your old character.
I know someone that got really tired of playing W/S after a while, since he couldn't match up to...well, any other class. He'd already put in several hundred dollars on this character, and was a casual player, so he didn't want to re-level a completely new one from scratch, and have to reinvest in a new house, new housekeepers, new pet, mounts, CS items, furniture, etc. He wasn't interested in W/R, and would have loved to go W/Wd, but he was a human. He eventually lost interest in the game.
Yeah, maybe it doesn't go with the "lore", but with how much is character-bound in this game, it really doesn't make sense to restrict someone in their race. The game is supposed to be all about flexibility of class combos...yet we can't try out new ones if we get bored with a certain one. I dropped my priest when I came back to the game, and made a druid, but I lost a
lot of things I'd spent real money and/or time on. It's not something people should have to do. I'm
still stuck doing mini-games on my priest, because I have around 40 puris left on her that I'm not just going to waste.
A race change item would be much more simple than, say, having to change each individual item to make it transferrable across characters on the same account. Gear can be exchanged easily. Everything else can't. And it's not like anyone's asking for a race change for free.