Guild Wars 2

Oddly enough, I seem to be very concerned about how my characters height is when I play it. It takes me what seems to be forever to find the right height for the character I’m playing. I don’t want to be too tall, or too short. I tend to play human a lot, and I was wondering what are peoples opinions on the perfect heights for the classes, or races that you play.

All my characters are the shortest they can be. I’m short irl so I like playing short characters too. Honestly not sure why since sometimes I wish I was taller in certain situations

If you make humans max short they look very creepy and little in game (scary hobbit like gremlins). Obviously on your screen they look fine but on everyone else’s they do not!

Some people claim max short has a pvp benefit, it does in some games, it doesn’t matter really here at all. Max Height norn mesmer is the only time i notice this being an advantage. If you did want to go for unoticable you’d be asuran anyways which work fine as small sized.

For human:
put the box one tick under the top line of the slider so there is just a small space between the top of the slider and the slider box. This would be a tallish human max it for males if you want to appear tall but put it to those exact specifications for females.

For sylvari:
same as human but possibly a little small but no further then half way down.

For Norn:
Females all the way down so you are roughly in proportion to other races and not monstrous unless that’s what you are going for. For males do w/e

For Char:
anything goes

Asuran:
small is kind of better the big one’s look creepy sometimes. Max small is ok.

Chapter II: The “Norn Ratio”
When it comes to height there is something I call the “Norn Ratio” of the humanesque races the norns can be so much larger it really can look bad and ridiculous if a max small human is next to a max size norn. So I try to scale my heights so they look fairly in balanced together.

A short norn female is a little shorter than a tall human male.

Big female norn big kitten makes me happy

I always seem to make a tall race as tall as possible and a short race as short as possible. Having said that, I’ve made a couple of my norn shorties. It weirds me out a bit when I have them standing next other, taller norn. I’m tall in rl so I’m used to seeing over everyone else’s head so I’m glad my short norn are still able to see in a crowd!

If 10 is the tallest a character can be, and 1 the shortest, I generally aim for 7 or 8, taller than the medium, but shorter than the tallest by a couple of notches.

Zyphent.2967:

If 10 is the tallest a character can be, and 1 the shortest, I generally aim for 7 or 8, taller than the medium, but shorter than the tallest by a couple of notches.

agree to this. I am surprised though, for all the hassle people complain about too tall toons in JPs, running around in my rather middle height norn, i see a LOT of other norns taller than my toon