Guild Wars 2

I am trying to decide which technological field to pick for my Asura character to study (for her background story and/or in case I ever decide to RP).

Which fields can you list off the top of your heads?

The obvious ones are

• golemancy
• teleportation and portal technology

Neither of the two really fit her character.

Then there is, I guess,

• messing with gravity (floaty things)
• messign with energy and state of matter (force fields / Asura “glass”)
• messing with living matter (shrinking, morphing, etc.)

… which ones did I miss?

Hmmm, I’m very bad at making up terms for Role Play, due to English not being my mother tongue, but thinking of technologies seen in the current event:

• Holographic communication technologies
• Portable teleportation devices (not really an Asuran invention though I guess – and would just be a subfield of the above mentioned teleportation and portal technologies)

By the way – without the intention to insult you: “floaty things” sounds a lot like the babble of all those technologically and intellectually inferior races – just next to the terms “shinies”, “thingies”, etc.

Gravitational manipulation of high density objects is one of the greatest achievements of the Asuran race (apart from Waypoint and Portal Technologies and of course: Hello Kitty Golems) and should be treated as such! It enabled us to implement the most annoying jumping puzzles in all Tyria with all those “floaty” platforms getting on foreigners nerves. This also enabled us to further study the psychological aspects of mental breakdowns caused by continuous failure in JPs and compare the racial specifics of those. (This one Charr eating the other JP attendees of smaller stature was creepy though – but still interesting…)

What were we talking about?

stop “messing” with science…
You should really use the correct terminology to refer to the fields in question.

Excellent additions, Rayti

as for “messing with” stuff such as “floaty things”, I’m not speaking in character here; but if there is “correct terminology” I would love to use it… if I could find out what it is

(So far I’ve only tried the wiki, and this thread.)

As for my Asura’s background: she’s very clumsy, but doesn’t know it. Her master sends her on all sorts of errands throughout Tyria, mainly to get her out of the lab so she won’t bang up his stuff. I rerolled her a few times, she’s a 25 warrior now and I’m quite okay with that. She’s upbeat and happy and a people person. I would love for her to be smart in one field of Asura science at least (clumsy =/= dumb after all) but it shouldn’t be anything too… intricate. Maybe something engineery that requires a degree of physical strength.

One of the Asura story vignettes heavily implies that there’s work done in sonics too. (It’s also implied that the Asura have traded with the dredge before, since their sonic technology is superior to Asuran.)

There’s also work done in manipulation of energy states— the personal story includes a weather control device and there’s a progeny somewhere who talks about getting his head frozen in a block of ice.

Pretty much anything you can make up, they’d do it.

You could give her a talent in something intellectual, like portal logistics or magic theory…. things where she didn’t get a chance to shine in because nobody gives underlings jobs that’re so important/theoretical. Or have her take over a krewe of people who failed as badly as she does, only to find that she has a talent for managing people (people person, you said?) or designing experiments.

Oh, this is very helpful. Thank you a lot.

There’s plenty of stuff now for me to think about. Love the sonics idea the most right now.

Mmmh, this is going to be fun.

Dynamistician like Adgent Xinn. Probably college of dynamics

“I’m a dynamistician. I see the currents within you, and you’re not a messenger. Fight me. I wish to experience the ebb and flow of your energies – both the dark and the light.”