Guild Wars 2

This is something that has bugged me for ages. The fact that high level pvp/wvw/anykind of pvp situation relies on a player looking at the other player and analysing his/her animations to see when to interupt means that the BIGGER the character, the easier it is to see, the smaller the character the harder it is to see! Now this is coming from a guy who has learned every class and played them all extensively in sPvP (250+ games on each of them) just to learn what every weapon skill, trait, and utility in the game does – and it does me wonders when im versing anyone who is actually tall enough for me to see whats going on.

Asurans are tiny, their animations are abysmally un-suggestive and unnecessarily (i hope?) hard to spot and interupt

The argument has already been dissected at length.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/asura/Asuras-have-advantages-in-PvP

lazy people are lazy.

unskilled people are unskilled.

Asura are Asura, and we are your masters.

Just get used to it.

nakoda.4213:

lazy people are lazy.

unskilled people are unskilled.

Asura are Asura, and we are your masters.

Just get used to it.

QFT.

There is nothing over-powered about it. Asura are simply superior to all other races.

Katlyntje.7962:

There is nothing over-powered about it. Asura are simply superior to all other races.

Sometimes I wonder if the inferior races can even grasp this concept.

As an Asura, I agree. However, I just came back from a game where I, and another Mesmer, both ran Male Norn while only making the Height to the tallest, the body size the fattest/biggest and the head size big/wide. We then ran around with the guild name “Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm” and the character names Illl Il Il Il Il Il Il and Illl Ill Ill Ill Il.

It was fun because he ran shatter and I ran clone with condition damage, and you’d just see clones dying while we rarely got hit.

Esplen.3940:

As an Asura, I agree. However, I just came back from a game where I, and another Mesmer, both ran Male Norn while only making the Height to the tallest, the body size the fattest/biggest and the head size big/wide. We then ran around with the guild name “Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm” and the character names Illl Il Il Il Il Il Il and Illl Ill Ill Ill Il.

It was fun because he ran shatter and I ran clone with condition damage, and you’d just see clones dying while we rarely got hit.

There’s a vid on Youtube of an all-asura team doing that too. I wonder which is more of a PITA to fight against.

And of course, the master race comes up with these master strats.

On a more serious note, plenty of skilled players do well on other races. For just one example, Supcutie the mesmer of Team Sleepy [ZZZ] that won one of the first post-spectator mode tournaments recently seems to do fine on Human. Pretty sure there are more.

And if you have a big enough monitor with good enough resolution, as I think most serious PvP’ers do, Asura aren’t small enough to effectively obscure their movements enough for any kind of real advantage.

That’s why you run Norn with the biggest possible size. It doesn’t matter about the animations anymore, you’re blocking the screen and with similar names/looks, it’s hard to tell the real one[s] apart. Especially because I was running clone and the other guy was running phant.

Esplen.3940:

That’s why you run Norn with the biggest possible size. It doesn’t matter about the animations anymore, you’re blocking the screen and with similar names/looks, it’s hard to tell the real one[s] apart. Especially because I was running clone and the other guy was running phant.

This is actually the only aspect where I feel one race truly does have an advantage.

A single norn mesmer with all clones out can really make targetting difficult. Add in a couple more, all dressed the same, and it looks like there is a freaking army. Cant target a darn thing other than clones.

Do I think it should be changed? No, absolutely not. Kind of brings quirks to the different races. If you havent noticed, Asura also have different animations that to me, almost make it easier to see when they are doing something. Many of the animations have the asura, literally, float up into mid air and twirl around with all kinds of particle effects.