Guild Wars 2

Hey, I main a Sylvari and don’t really know anything about Charr.

That said, I’m looking to create an elementalist alt, and I really like the look of female Charrs.

So my question to you is, does elementalist ‘fit in’ with Charr as a race?

When in character creation one of the options is that your father was a sorcerer and thus treated with suspicion and distain but on the other hand, one of your war band is said to be an elementalist and is described as brave and loyal etc.

So my question to you is, what is Charr’s general attitude towards magic? And if it’s negative, what are some ways that I can explain my Charr’s tendency to use magic over guns?

I don’t know if I’ve explained this well, this is for like, roleplaying purposes.

Most of the charr we get to see so far are iron legion, they prefer their tech over their magic so it’s natural for them not to have much respect for it.
Furthermore the charr have had bad experiences with some more destructive elemental magic under leadership of the flame legion.
I’d say it definatly fits in their lore but especially fire magic has that negative association to the flame shamans and god worship.

Is what I think anyway, not really an expert

Sadly I’ve noticed the story and such doesn’t really touch on magic all that much, or is a bit contradicting. Dinky is a good example, one of his dialogues talks about being afraid of magic but he’s a friggin’ Guardian and as such uses magic on a regular basis.

Personally I think the Charr as a whole are intelligent and perceptive enough to know that magic itself wasn’t the real problem, it was the ones wielding it and turning it to sinister purpose. So I believe they are cautious of it, and rightfully so, but as a whole I don’t think they shun people for using it unless they use it with malevolent intentions.

The option is that your father was a shaman and therefor not trusted. Due to the fire legion shaman/titan debachle. magic itself is fine. One of the companion options is an elementalist and described as the most loyal friend.

In general, Charr might be more suspicious of magic. It’s less malleable and predictable than iron and steel. But once you’ve proven yourself to be a reliable soldier, no one is going to fault you for how you going about things. The same judgements would be applied to an the quality of an engineer or a warrior. And really, the bonds between ‘bandmates are so tight that they’ll have your back anyway.

Source: Female Charr Elementalist with a sorcerous sire

Magic is mainly distrusted by Charr because most magic users tend to belong to the Flame Legion, which was almost entirely made of magic wielders in the past (during the events of GW1). In a kind of catch-22 situation, the Flame Legion today tends to recruit from the ranks of other magic using Charr, who are occasionally enticed because other Charr regard them with suspicion and hostility since they may “end up joining the Flame Legion”.

Despite this, magic users do find roles in the other three Legions. The Ash Legion in particular seems to have a fair number of Necromancers, and regardless of which Legion you choose for your Charr character, you start out with an Elementalist in your warband.

if i would like to play a charr character hunter archer type would that be a problem because i like playing as a archer and charr is by farr (my opinion) the most awesome character so would it be oke btw i am new to guildwars 2 and did never play the first edition unfortunatley anyway waiting for someone’s respond and ty in advance greetz noelstrife

It’s okay to play a as Charr ranger. I was new to Gw2, but I spent ages poring over wiki (none of the spoilers, mind you) entries so I would know at least something about the game. The Charr have no qualms against either rangers or any of the magic classes for that matter. What server are you on? Because I see a lot of Charr rangers in the first part of the starting zone. No doubt you will too.