Best Of

One time for beta and pre-level 20 is great, I think. I definitely was hasty and ended up regretting my decision but by that point I had already established my character enough I wasn't going to reroll, so this is great.

Where are you getting that it's a transhumanist setting? Nowhere in the lore does it mention total body reconstruction. The Bushraki are the closest to "total modification" and they're still Borg-levels of alteration. Nanites and clones exist, yes, but it's easy to print a photocopy of DNA compared to 3d printing a brand new body with entirely original gene sequences.

The moment you make something about your character changeable at whim is the moment it becomes meaningless. It made sense in other IRE games because of the mechanical implications. Without those implications, all it does is serve to break immersion if someone is flip-flopping between races on-demand.

That said, I think the one-off is a good answer for those that were a little too hasty, or those that didn't have as deep an understanding of the lore.

I can see the rationalization for lowering our pvp damage, but Scoundrels are incredibly squishy as is.  Lowering our pve damage on top of that feels a bit much.