Guild Wars 2

Hey members of the Legions!

I currently have a Sylvari Thief and I want to make a Guardian as my Heavy Profession and an Elementalist as my Light Profession, covering all armor classes and order quests with it. However, I am struggling to find fitting races for these professions.

I could go Charr on the Elementalist, and I really would like to, making him all Flame Legion and stuff sure could be fun.
However I fear that light armor just looks bad on Charr, and some weapons wouldn’t look good on them (Dagger and Staff!!! look awesome though), like future additions of swords or greatswords for this class or the existing scepter.

Alternatively I could go Charr Guardian, because you have a few more options on the heavy side.

I really hope you cat-people can help me out join you folks!

It is harder to find good looking armor for Light-wearing charr, but it isn’t impossible. I have two light armored charr, both of whom I think look pretty decent. Pictures below.

At any rate, my suggestion is, if it’s male, pick one of the slender body types. Females are easier to find nice-looking light armor for, as it sits better on their bodies. For bigger, more muscular males, light armor can conceal their muscles and make them look fat. Of course, if you want a chubby mage, go for it XD
My advise would be the exact opposite for heavy armor wearers. Sometimes, heavy armor can make a thin charr look thin to the point of being cartoonish—so average to hefty bodies do better with heavy.

EDIT: Added a heavy armor charr at the bottom

Hmm, yeah it’s generally just very difficult to find good looking light armor. I don’t know if I want to pidgeonhole myself into one or two sets, let alone the rage I will have if I don’t like my Charr Elementalist later on. My counter argument would be that heavy armor also has a few problems and that I really would like the Flame Legion role playing aspect of the Elementalist.

Here you have my “Flame Legion” ele:

Playing as a charr your options for armor will be extremely limited, even of weapons (floating staff). Anet fixed some clipping issues but the human style armor looks horrible anyway with or without clipping.
Another thing to be aware of is that guardians also use fire a lot, especially with a torch (although the fire is blue) so you can make him into somewhat a flame legion heavy (fire themed gear is abundant)

The thing is, even though the armor is limited, those that do look good look awesome
And I really can’t think of any other race to go for Ele, Guardian has quite a few interesting alternatives. I hope that maybe they’ll slowly fix the armor sets, but I can’t predict that.