The biggest race available is Ogre, who are very barbaric. If you are referring more to the class of Barbarian rather than a race, the answer is somewhere between "not before well after launch" and " probably not". We already have 2 classes who are not yet guaranteed to be in until after launch but are strongly promised to be available eventually. Neither is a barbarian. Sorry.
You are probably referring to the Everquest Barbarian race.
Adding a race in a rpg is a whole lot of work, it's not just creating 3D models et voilà !
It is also writing to incorporate them into the Lore of the universe, their interaction with other races, their culture, their religion(s), etc..
On a gameplay point of view, balancing their stats, creating their racial passive abilities, selecting the classes they'll be allowed to pick, etc...
On a content point of view, making their character designs, armor designs, buildings designs, starting city and starting levelling zones, etc...
In short, it's a lot of work, it might be too much work just to create... Bigger Humans. Because that's what Barbarians are. They're just bigger humans, in the end.
Now the question is, is character creation going to have options for height and muscle body type ?
I hope so.
If the answer is yes, then you'll be able to create a human that feels like a Barbarian, and you can always role-play the character as a Barbarian.
I'm glad there are more of us, :-)
Brad told me that there would be Barbarians in one the first expansions of the game after launch, but with him no longer with the team, I'm not sure if they are still going to go with that part of his vision or not.
We're just going to have to wait and see.
But it would sad if there were none. A large race for the good side is simply needed...
Artax said:Good answer ! but yes i was refering to the Barbarian Race. bigger human with different hairstyle and beard , lore like those we could play in Halas.
thanks for those good explanation ! :)
To be honest, I dont think this NEEDs to be its own race. It would be pretty badass though if they made it a "subrace" of humans with slightly altered racial abilities.
I can agree a subrace of humans, but not with different racial abilities. They should be much larger in stature and have a different culture. In EQ, Humans are actually a decendent of the Barbarians.
Now, Barbs can be a subrace of humans in Pantheon that were seperated and adapted to a harsher climent, causing them to grow to near Ogre size, but just having differnt racials would not be satisfiying in the least for me. And I honestly don't think that's what Brad had in mind when he told me that there would be Barbarians in Pantheon.
Jizomeo said: I can agree a subrace of humans, but not with different racial abilities. They should be much larger in stature and have a different culture.hmm.. "dark humans"...
Archai are the "character model" equivalent of the EQ Barbarian if that is what you are asking (Athletic build, bigger than humans but not fat like Ogers...). Skar are the combined equivalent of a Troll or Iksar (kind of scaly, tribal, visciously evil, similar size to archai, ugly etc.)
@Jizomeo - if you saw the character model comparisons side by side you would be able to see the Achai to Barbarian "model" comparison. It is pretty identical to EQ... a taller, muscualr human with markings on their muscular bodies. I'm not talking about lore at all (since the original post was only asking about "big guys"). The image was on the original race/class web page that has been taken down.
Sorry, I need a barbarian race. Archai is not a substitute.
I want the culture, northern snow covered country side and Viking Huts.
Heart goes out to gnome players who got hairless alien in its place. :P
Edit
Went back and read Archai race description, yeah i see the similarities now
Still want my barbarians later.