Guild Wars 2

I really want to play Guild Wars 2 as a Centaur

Most probably, playable Centaur would form a Ventari pride, like Ehrgren Whitemane (no hatred of human or norn, or other races for that matter). This Ventari pride Centaur would immediately be very much so in accord with the Sylvari, as the Ventari Tablet was placed at the Pale Tree and this particular Centaur’s views are highly esteemed by the Sylvari.
Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ventari

It would be even more fun, but less probable, to play as the Modniir pride that sent the Harathi and the Tamini prides on the warpath against the humans of Kryta.

I realize this will probably never happen. I made similar suggestions in WoW for the Centaur to be made a playable race. I find Ventari to be very much so similar to WoW’s Centaur Pariah.
Source: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=13717/centaur-pariah
Unlike WoW, I just hope GW2 develop the Centaur story more, perhaps culminating in a playable pride/tribe/clan

I also realize that the Centaur model is not a humanoid model and that will make armors, animations, and such difficult, clippy, or buggy for all professions.

Still, I can’t help but entertain the idea )))

How to roll as centuar?

Fast sprint/dodge maneuvre instead of roll

Horses can’t move all that well backwards….

… they don’t need to, they buck … buck hard

Zhed was a Centaur hero in GW1 as Pyre was a Charr, Vekk was an Asura and Jora was a Norn. So, why not.

There is no lore to make a centuar expansion around. Possible expansions are: Primordus with dwarves, a Cantha (Continent) expansion with the Tengu, Kralkatorrik (No race really linked to him I don’t think), with the branded as the main enemy, and Jormag with the Kodan as the playable race. There are a few other dragons I believe, but that is all I can think of right now. Look at the GW2 wiki to learn more about the dragons and see what expansions may come around.

Nooooooo centaurs. Tengue FTW!

Anybody who thinks that horses (and therefore centaur) have any type of difficulties with dodging/swimming/walking backwards/other acrobatics hasn’t seen many horses in action, they can power through agile movements that would surprise most people.

The only problem I see is with jumping puzzles, they are scaled to human size, norns already have problems with them and they are just tall, I can’t imagine how difficult a race would be that is both tall and lengthy.