Guild Wars 2

While most of the time the racial skills are not optimal and often not even useful in a dungeon, every now and then one can be used for great effect. Quite sure everyone was happy having or being a norn in the thaumanova fractal to just bearform charge the hot room.

Because they are supposed to be “weak”, as not to give one race an advantage over the others and thereby forcing players to play that race, a lot of people dont even consider these skills. But are there other situations where they are helpfull?
I know of only two other situations:

• Sylvari in Thaumanova fractal Grasping Vines to root the slime before it gets to its spot
• Asura in Uncategorized fractal Summon D-Series Golem as a zero elementalist earth ele substitute at Old Tom

Anyone else got more?

edit:
Some nice ideas in here, let’s make a list:

Asura

• Summon Power Suit unmanned as a wall for projectiles (i.e. soak up Old Toms poison spin)
• Summon D-Series Golem to tank (can also soak projectiles but the Power Suit is better)
• Technobabble (Ranger) with Moment of Clarity trait it’s a 6s daze (zero Ele “Deep Freeze”)

Charr

• Hidden Pistol (Necro) an extra dodge for the poor class

Human

• Avatar of Melandru – Binding Roots long lasting immobilize (usefull ie. in grawl and thaumanova fractal)
• Avatar of Grenth unblockable chill (usefull ie at grawl fractal endboss)
• Hounds of Balthazar as a damage spike (ie CoF1 gate)
• Prayer to Dwayna (Necro/Mesmer) burst heal

Sylvari

• Grasping Vines source of immobilize

Norn

• Become the Bear – Charge to get through the heat room in Thaumanova Fractal
• Become the Snow Leopard stealth to help skip

Bear form for heat room

Technobabble

Seed turrets cuz they pretty.
Antitoxin spray for my immersion.

Grasping vines from the Sylvari is the only one I use:
- on Grawl map: during the middle fight, where you have to kill the grawls before they push the humans down. It’s not really needed if you have enough dps in the group, but I like having it as a safety in case of a mess
- on Dredge map: during the end fight, to block the boss under the lava (if you don’t have someone else already doing the immobilize)
- on Thaumanova as you said already

Apart from those situations, I never use other sylvari skills.

Human racial tree form # 5 serves the same purpose as grasping roots, it functions like a pre-nerfed ranger entangle. Really effective in pug arah p1 where damage is decent but no one thinks to BYO-immob. Char hidden pistol + necro is a classic, and technobabble + ranger as was mentioned above. prayer to dwayna is nice for classes that lack an unconditional burst heal like necro or mes. The unblockable chill of grenth form also has its uses.

Unblockable chill from avatar of grenth for grawl shaman and whatnot.
Pretty decent immobilize from grasping vines and avatar of melandru.
Technobabble for instant cast daze. The elite golems to tank stuff for you.
Snow leopard gives decent stealth should you ever need that for some reason.

Painbow.6059:

Bear form for heat room

Technobabble

Where do you use technobabble?

Asura ranger with technobabble can do a 6 second daze if combined with Moment of Clarity trait. Easy alternative to ice bow 5.

Ah. My fault, I always associate you and Painbow with engineers.

Sometimes use hounds of balthazar at cofp1 gate to speed up the killing.