Guild Wars 2

I never really got into GW1 so maybe I am just missing something here, but most of the Charr artwork I have seen seem to show Charr standing more upright and generally looking way more kitten than the current in-game models.

I realize Charr were not a playable race in GW1, but did they look like they do in GW2 – all hunched over? Maybe I am alone in this and Charr look the way they are supposed to?

Apparently the flame legion magic-users in gw1 stood up higher to be more imposing or something of the sort.

Most did stand upright but some didn’t in GW1. And then they made peace

Taken from the wiki “They stand on their hind legs and are taller than a human by half of an average human’s height, but do not have the massive bulk of the norn. They prefer a hunched pose when standing, but will on occasion stand tall and straight.”

Seems like being hunched in more natural for them is all. Standing upright is for being fancy I guess.

I thought another thread had cleared this b4?

When I use a rifle I stand more upright.

When I shoot lasers with my Greatsword I stand upright.

Flame Shamans use to stand on their hind legs to show superiority. Most modern charr won’t do that because it’d be emulating the Flame Legion.

Zacchary.6183:

When I shoot lasers with my Greatsword I stand upright.

this comment sounds like a joke but isn’t lol. I still laughed

Charrs stand straight when they salute, so I guess being hunched over is more comfortable, so they only stand straight when they need to be formal.

Ehecatl.9172:

FMost modern charr won’t do that because it’d be emulating the Flame Legion.

Who cares about the “most”, PC’s aren’t “most”. It looks pretty decent, especially for casters. It also takes care of a lot of clipping and stretching… which again, benefit casters the most.

Surbrus.6942:

Who cares about the “most”, PC’s aren’t “most”. It looks pretty decent, especially for casters. It also takes care of a lot of clipping and stretching… which again, benefit casters the most.

What pretty eyes you have.

Surbrus.6942:

Ehecatl.9172:

FMost modern charr won’t do that because it’d be emulating the Flame Legion.

Who cares about the “most”, PC’s aren’t “most”. It looks pretty decent, especially for casters. It also takes care of a lot of clipping and stretching… which again, benefit casters the most.

I’ll agree with this. Standing up straight makes Charr look a lot better.

I think they look better hunched over.

Agreed. Hunched over looks beastmode. Straight back looks “orc with fur”.

You are not alone on this one mate. I complain about Charr physics and armor all the time… You can check it out if you want https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/We-Charr-Demand-More-Love/first#post2779832

Charr have pretty strong shoulder muscles to run the way they do, I’ll say that much.

options are always good. I would never use it.

They shall stay Hunched over if u ask me… They only stratghten at certain cirkumstances/ for cretain reasons… Making them always walk like that looks 1: uncomfortable, 2: it adds to the the “cat head on human body-feeling”

Keep my charr as is!

Man I wish I could choose between standing upright and being hunched.

As an Elementalist standing upright would look so much better, especially with certain armor.

That first picture of a charr standing up, I just love the posture, it looks pretty natural too, but still bestial and badarse.

I concur with this. I honestly feel that the inclusion of the charr was backhanded at best — their technology permeates the world (no trains, really?), it looks like they had interns put together their armour, the incredible helicopter concept art idea only made it into one quest (which used an awful model that was nothing like said concept art), and the Black Citadel is a far cry from the original concept art.

Considering that SOE have tail flaps for all of their beast races in Everquest II, and they paid obvious care and attention to removing all the clipping issues, it gives me hope for Everquest: Next. And honestly, the upright posture of the kerra appeals to me more.

The only reason I was so into the charr was the promise of technology, but due to poor world design and a desire at ArenaNet to keep the game low-tech, just to appease those whose idea of fantasy is Tolkien and only Tolkien... well. I don’t know. I can see GW2 just dying off when Everquest: Next arrives. Or, well, at the very least the charr playerbase will.

They really need to give the charr some attention if they want to keep charr players around. They need to improve the armour, their home city, and the presence of charr technology within the world.

(Honestly. The charr don’t trust the asura one bit, yet they don’t have a backup infrastructure for deliveries? They don’t even have roads? Seriously?!)