Guild Wars 2

I have MULTIPLE 80’s of every class, but no Asura. Unfortunately, most of my toons are fat, over-sized Bookahs, but recently I’ve been shown the light, and now I want to join the Asura master race!

Problem is, which class? I could roll pretty much anything.

Preferably, I want to play something specializing in:
- Storyline and immersion
- World exploration
- Open world events and farming

If possible too, I would like a lore explanation why this is an immersive choice.

And which college and invention would be fitting as well?

Please help me out here, thanks!

Ps. My Asura will be female and go for a “cute” look.

Any of them will do…but man, my female asura Ele is beyond fun to watch. Those wild and wacky animations look so much more vibrant and bouncy with the asura. Asura + Lightning Hammer = awesome ^^

An asura necro, my god how much more cute can it get when they DS? This little tiny thing saying that she is death incarnate, I squee every time. And the asura gets lost in the middle of a walking army of minions.

Asura mesmer is adorable. If you like looking at one, you will love looking at 3 more copies. I am not sure how many others like the animation but I like way the asura uses the GS, it’s different from the other races.

An asura ranger, while racially odd, I find is so much fun to run around as. The pet is as big/if not bigger than you are. Sure, most asura don’t play with the animals, but I like to think of mine as a scientist studying the wildlife and making them do her bidding.

Asura fit right into being a thief, small of stature and most like to get themselves into trouble. The racial dagger idle animation is awesome!

Asura engi are the only ones that the hobo sacks really look cute with. Also, having one run around with a flamethrower burning ALL TEH THINGS is so much fun!

I don’t play the heavies but hey, knocking around bigger norn/charr with a hammer should be amusing too.

Glad to see you’ve joined the correct side, asura is master race

Urgh, I wanted really badly to run Asura Ranger, and even DELETED an 80 to do so… But I’ve just discovered that Greatsword and Longbow CLIPS! -.-

Is there a specific body form I should use, or do you just deal with it?

You just deal with it…clipping will always be an issue if you play something other than a human-like form. It’s pretty sad watching the tip of your GS sink into the floor but you get used to it…the animations and the general asura-ness make up for the clipping really.

Kain Francois.4328:

Urgh, I wanted really badly to run Asura Ranger, and even DELETED an 80 to do so… But I’ve just discovered that Greatsword and Longbow CLIPS! -.-

Is there a specific body form I should use, or do you just deal with it?

They don’t clip with the thinner body types. But it might float.

Anyways, I chose Ranger. I love the idea of being an ecologist studying the fauna of Metrica Province.

I just don’t know how you deal with the clipping…

@Aguri: I am using the thinnest body type, but GS and Longbow still clip with a majority of armor, including CoE and Heritage coats.

Based on this thread, I made a couple asura toons… Mesmer, Ranger, Engineer and Thief. Watching the Mesmer use the GS… is like a mini cannon, the Ranger moves around like a jumping bean, the Engineer always has something up her sleeve, and the Thief is hysterically funny when using the axe/dagger, sword/dagger combos. Glad I did it, they are fun to play.

Lore-wise, Asura’s make for fine engineers AND elementalists considering they are always about building things (College of Statics), experimentation of all kinds (College of Dynamics) and all that good stuff. Though considering that there are the Peacemakers and based on how the Inquest fight, you could say that they make fine guardians, warriors AND thieves (with their size being pretty handy when doing a bit of burglary).