Guild Wars 2

I’ve decided for my character I’m going to make them either the tallest possible Norn size, or the smallest possible Asura size.

I like the idea of Norn more, but I know/have heard that there’s some issues.
(Jumping puzzles and stuff)

If I was to make a Norn with the tallest possible height, what problems am I going to have?

or should I just go Asura?

Opinions and Facts are welcome
Thanks!

Potential camera problems in jumping puzzles and other tighter spaces. Since my “giant” is a guardian I take a “leap of faith” every once in a while.

Perceived “slowness” while running, some people really don’t like that.

I “fix” the size issue with my norn while running Jumping Puzzles using tonics.
In the end it is a matter of getting used, I finished 100% of JPs with my norn w/o tonics.

I guess I’m one of the fewer people that don’t really have problems in JPs or other areas as a norn. But I have also mained a max height one since launch, so I think I’m just more used to it. I actually just finished an asura main and had a really hard time with jumping because I wasn’t used to being so small!

I’d say just go with what you really want to do. Unless you are crazy about the jumping puzzles, the rest won’t really even affect you. And even with the JPs, they can all still be done on a max height norn.

Norn’s height was actually nerfed at one point because of that “slowness” factor…issue is that getting to be that size, to be moving at a proportionally proper speed for the structure of the body the norn would have to be moving at almost 150% the normal movement speed of any other race… before when norns were (correctly i believe) taller than Charr, the size vs movement would have suggested that a real live version would be “jogging” at a full 200% the speed (or at least, because of balancing in all ways, to keep the actual distance traveled vs the movement of the body in synch, the norns body motions were slowed by about half, and currently are about 3/4 of what they really look like they should be when just running) so the slowness is all perception..i still remember the first time i made an asura, i thought i was zipping along at light speed until some norn with a passive 25% movement buff left my zippy little butt in the dust moving all slow and stuff :P

Agreed with the jumping puzzles and areas with low cielings and/or lots of hanging weirdness (final boss’s room in honor of the waves, path 1), it’s just something you will have to try and see if you can get used to it… going from norn to human/sylvari on jumping puzzles caused many, many falls to my death, and then the asura actually can jump onto things when jumping beside them looks like they really can’t :/