Guild Wars 2

I’ve got a Ranger Asura. I put a lot of effort into him, I enjoyed him a lot.
My issue is the size.
It didn’t bother me during my leveling because the main point was leveling, not how you look. Once I hit 80, however, how you look becomes a large portion of the game. I went and got lots of cool armor, I thought I looked neat, when I opened my character menu. Then I would look in-game and realize I’m nothing. You could hardly see me. I could have the best looking armor in game, and nobody would know.

How do you guys get past this?
Do you have a medium armor Asura that looks decent?

I “get past it” by not caring whether or not other people can see my armor. It looks nice when I look at him in my Hero screen. That’s all that matters to me.

I ‘get past it’ because my Asuras are ADORABLE!!!!

I dont care if others can see it or not, what matters is that I can see it and I think it looks good. (smallest possible asura)

I don’t have any issues with this at all, because whenever I see an Asura I go “b’aaawwww! o 3o” automaticly anyway, regardless of looks. And I do notice what they wear, but that is probably because my main is a smallest possible size Asura and I tend to pay attention to other Asuras.

We’re actually not that small. Asura heads are bigger than human heads. So our helms get more play. Plus, another way to look at it is that because we are smaller, armor details look better. The bigger you blow up a polygon texture, the worse it looks. The smaller, the detail really comes alive. Plus as a ranger you got a big weapon, the bow. The only real size issue I had was with pistols. They look like pop guns in our hands! Other than that, we rock.

Plus, being small is a HUGE advantage in WvW. I love getting over looked in a zerg. You can do a ton of damage that way.

Asura Ranger is great – just zoom in if you feel like admiring yourself, which is absolutely understandable – just do it.

For the following to work I would advise on the longbow, but maybe others can share tacticts with inferior weapons.

If you are solo don’t worry, just start the fight at a distance, send your pet in – now have a good look at yourself while you press available buttons, perhaps 1-3, use 4 if your front view really becomes obstructed by some large mob.

If you are in a group that’s even better, use 5 directly around yourself, you are the most important person to protect in any case. Press 1-4 if you feel like it. Most important, let the others know via say how inferior they are and that they should really kill those mobs faster.

Now the real problem is the character select screen. It is absolutely unacceptable that I’m not even able to see my knees. Perhaps I should delete all other characters, but really Anet has to move the character up – to the center. Center is the keyword. Other races can stay firmly on the bottom (charr should be made smaller because through their sheer size they seem centralized, which is misleading).

Last but not least don’t forget it is our superior intellect that is truly beautiful.

Optionally we could discuss an extra camera that shows us separately instead of the map. Replace the map with an image of me, yes, I like the sound of that. Separately zoomable and movable of course. Plus a pet cam for rangers, I want to see my pet looking up to me. Or directly into my eyes depending on the pet.

Excelsior!

Rouven.7409:

Now the real problem is the character select screen. It is absolutely unacceptable that I’m not even able to see my knees. Perhaps I should delete all other characters, but really Anet has to move the character up – to the center. Center is the keyword.

Hear hear! I HATE that I can’t see my beautiful feets. Also, I think currently equipped weapons should be visible on your toon in the loading screen for all races.