Guild Wars 2

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many difficult
so complain
very concern
much size
not wow

On a serious note, many animations in this game still lack polishing, the asura animations in general are just the tip of the iceberg. How do you expect “skillful” play to happen when reacting to crucial abilties is often times rendered impossible due to a lack of diversity or visibility of animations or the lack of a casttime. This process shouldn’t take 1 year per class (or even longer, looking at necros). Now warrior gets some fixing, but arcing arrow in melee range for example will still be a massive pain to spot in time, considering it hits for ridiculuos high damage, while beeing a complete joke when fired to a target further away.

Yep we need cast bar over heads

yeah, we need cast time bars.

The first 2 characters I made when I started playing were a Charr warrior and a Norn guardian. It was fine until I became serious at WvW and PvP. Every other character since then has been the tiniest Asura possible because of the advantage they have over other races.

i made a post like this last week and they took it down.
they removed racial abilities from pvp because they didn’t want race to be a factor.

so how the hell does that work when one of the races is a midget with impossible to predict animation.
plus the fact that there is no way in hell you’re spotting that midget behind the wall of NPCs in pvp.

I find people who play asura and claim to be skilled just enjoy handicaps and are not really skillful. I am a proud charr with max height and am a serious wvwer.

I just finished an 80 Warrior Human.
I feel I made a mistake.

Connect physical size to physical strength.
Suddenly Asura are the weak molerats they are.

Then connect the Asura brains to do greater meteor showers or make Sylvari better rangers since they ARE nature?

Nope.

Creating threads to complain about it, just like before, probably won’t work.
I really think we need some way of proving the massive difference using numbers to make a point.
Because somehow…it isn’t obvious enough already.

If you can’t see animations on asura then either you are:

1. Really old
2. Partially blind
3. Play at some crazy high resolution

magic fly.2041:

Creating threads to complain about it, just like before, probably won’t work.
I really think we need some way of proving the massive difference using numbers to make a point.
Because somehow…it isn’t obvious enough already.

1. Body block, hiding behind bigger player models to freecast ANYTHING without being seen. Your enemy have no idea what are you doing right now.
2. Animations. In the game where we don’t get castbars because we are supposed to build our counterplay by reading enemy animations – you can legally cheat and make asura.
3. Target selection. Have fun with clicking between minions/pets/turrets/clones/NPC/large player models. Oh, you trying to tab target? Too bad, here’s your pets/minions/clones/…

Rednik.3809:

1. Body block, hiding behind bigger player models to freecast ANYTHING without being seen. Your enemy have no idea what are you doing right now.

Blame all the norn and charr players out there. It’s more difficult to hide as a sylvari or a human, bit it’s still quite possible to do with all the lumbering giants running around.

Rednik.3809:

2. Animations. In the game where we don’t get castbars because we are supposed to build our counterplay by reading enemy animations – you can legally cheat and make asura.

I cannot speak for other professions, since only my ele is an asura, but most of my heavy-hitting spells (e.g., churning earth and meteor storm) have visual cues beyond mere hand/body movements. They’re painfully obvious, in fact.

Rednik.3809:

3. Target selection. Have fun with clicking between minions/pets/turrets/clones/NPC/large player models. Oh, you trying to tab target? Too bad, here’s your pets/minions/clones/…

That problem is not specific to player race. I definitely wish targeting priority was smarter or at least configurable.

ATMAvatar.5749:

Blame all the norn and charr players out there. It’s more difficult to hide as a sylvari or a human, bit it’s still quite possible to do with all the lumbering giants running around.

Asura can hide behind ANYONE. Show me norn or charr hiding behind human or asura.

I cannot speak for other professions, since only my ele is an asura, but most of my heavy-hitting spells (e.g., churning earth and meteor storm) have visual cues beyond mere hand/body movements. They’re painfully obvious, in fact.

Smaller hands, smaller body, shorter movements overall. Somewhere in depths of sPvP forum still exist topic with more detailed briefing about various asuran animations and everybody was agreed about advantage.

ATMAvatar.5749:

That problem is not specific to player race. I definitely wish targeting priority was smarter or at least configurable.

It’s pretty specific to player race. It’s significantly harder to click on small model, especially in chaos of minions/pets/players/etc.

What would be a possible solution to this? Make all characters human in WvW ? Increase asura size in WvW? (Scary!) I’m genuinely interested as to how this could be fixed reasonably.

By the Gods, just let us turn Asuras (and any other races for that matter) into a generic model of another race. If being tiny doesn’t affect animation readability, than give us this option for the sake of customization. Let the Asura players enjoy being small and let us enjoy them being norns since size doesn’t matter.

Absolutely no one should be against this except for Anet because it will take too much effort.

Deifact.3095:

What would be a possible solution to this? Make all characters human in WvW ? Increase asura size in WvW? (Scary!) I’m genuinely interested as to how this could be fixed reasonably.

A menu option that allows me to select a default character model for all PCs.

in PvP, Blu has already taken the initiative and banned Asuras from the NA weekly tournaments. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/events/Mistpedia-Weekly-NA-Cup-Saturdays/first#post3723064

I applaud him for taking the initiative. I think the community needs to take the initiative and develop rulesets to work around the shortcomings in balance.

Deifact.3095:

What would be a possible solution to this? Make all characters human in WvW ? Increase asura size in WvW? (Scary!) I’m genuinely interested as to how this could be fixed reasonably.

Give them a flat size, just like they did in SAB

Deifact.3095:

What would be a possible solution to this? Make all characters human in WvW ? Increase asura size in WvW? (Scary!) I’m genuinely interested as to how this could be fixed reasonably.

Humans are lame. I want all characters to be Asura in WvW or decrease every one else to Asura size.