Guild Wars 2

Having a bit of a difficult time deciding which Legion would my Charr Ranger belong to. I want to make him into a beastmaster type of Charr, and would fight with just axes. Does he belong to the Blood Legion then?

He goes wherever he wants. Because he’s Charr.

Does sound more like Blood to me, though. It’s sort of a personality decision.

A Charr’s legion isn’t decided by their abilities or profession. a Charr’s legion is decided by which Fahrar they go to. Fahrars are segregated into Legion, so whichever Fahrar the parents choose to enter them into will determine their Legion, then as they grow, the Fahrar will teach them differently. So if your Ranger was Blood, they’d be taught to be a front-line soldier with axes/swords, etc. However, if they were inserted into Ash, they would probably be trained to be a sniper with a longbow.

All Legions contain all Professions, those professions just work differently depending on how their legion operates.

What Argon said. Any profession can be any legion.

To add to what Argon said, the reason each Legion uses all professions is because each High Legion is it’s own separate nation. So as Argon said, which one you go to isn’t dependant on ability or profession. It isn’t even dependant on personality.

He sounds fitted either to Blood or Ash. What kind of fighting does he favor? Getting up in the thick of things and using axes to cleave skulls in, or stalking and ambushing his prey? Skull-cleaving brute=Blood Sneaky-stalky=Ash

They might be a bit of out of place in Iron Legion, but I could easily see them fitting into the Blood or Ash Legion as a forward scout/saboteur.

Iron legion can use scouts, especially in means of finding effective paths for the siege weapons/convoys to travel through.

Course, if the charr is themed as kinda a berserker who charges into the fray with duel axes alongside his pet/pets, he might fit into blood legion the best. But any legion is possible with a bit of creativity.

Rangers are mostly about being “back to nature”, using the natural environment and low-tech weapons though. Iron Legion mentality is mainly about using technology to solve your problems, which seems at odds with what being a Ranger is all about.

Lovely thing about GW2 is you can view the classes many ways.

Such as an Asura ranger being an animal behavior scientist or such. You don’t have to exactly fit the stereotype, why I said something like a convoy or siege weapon scout, somebody who can map out routes that would allow the groups the best speed without being trapped.

Zaxares.5419:

Rangers are mostly about being “back to nature”, using the natural environment and low-tech weapons though. Iron Legion mentality is mainly about using technology to solve your problems, which seems at odds with what being a Ranger is all about.

While Rangers at first glance have the whole “Tree-hugger” mentality, there are ideass you can use that doesn’t force you into using a “Nature” themed Ranger. My Ranger is Iron Legion. His backstory is that over the course of his life, he surpassed the limitation of traditional weapons, so how hes collaborating with Engineers and such to try and create more advanced bows that can fire longer distances, with more velocity, etc. Just think creatively and explore different reasons why Charr would enter into what legion for what reason.

and if creativity fails, shoehorn it.

That’s fair enough. Although, if his passion was about bows and weaponry, why not make him a Warrior instead? Why a Ranger, in particular?

Zaxares.5419:

That’s fair enough. Although, if his passion was about bows and weaponry, why not make him a Warrior instead? Why a Ranger, in particular?

Long story. ^w^

I wanted 1 character for each profession, all Charr, then to write backstory and lore around them. My Warrior was the 2nd of my characters, and my Ranger was the 8th, so by the time I got to him, I was running out of ways to link my characters together through their backstories. I did try to whole generic “nature” theme with him, but it didn’t interact well with any of my other characters, so when I came up with the idea to put him with my Engineer so they could research weapons and such together, it worked, and it felt innovative, and it linked him to my other characters, because my Engineer is the personal Quaestor(Technical term for a Charr Quartermaster) for my Warband, which is made up by 5 of my other characters.

In ironic contrast, my Warrior is actually a mage, who chose to ignore magic in favor of swordsmanship because he saw his father who was abused by other Charr for using magic. Again, making up characters. You can pull anything out and make it work somehow.

I get that a lot of players don’t make up backstory and such for their characters, but because this game is just so lore-driven and has such deep lore, I couldn’t resist, and the world is so vast, its possible to write characters without conflicting with other official lore. Its absolutely insane how detailed and diverse you can design characters in this game by linking and revolving it around existing lore.

Zaxares.5419:

Iron Legion mentality is mainly about using technology to solve your problems, which seems at odds with what being a Ranger is all about.

Artillery needs forward spotters to guide shots. There ya go.

My charr ranger is Ash legion, a Longbow sniper. When he gets asked about an industrialised charr being a ranger his response is “All charr love animals, in fact most of us eat little else!”