Guild Wars 2

Which are the racial skills you find the most useful?

The Charr’s Hidden Pistol. Great spacemaker. And the engineer’s toolbelt skill for it is just as useful for a burst of damage.

I’ve been seeing a lot of people using the Sylvari racial skills to and my friends swear by the human elite, Hounds of Balthazar.

I like Asura Radiation Field.
And Sylvari Take Root.

My Guardian uses the Sylvari Fern Hound elite pretty often since I don’t get a lot of use out of Guardian elites in solo play.

I’ve also seen the Asuran Pain Inverter used to great effect in WvW.

Asura Radiation Field, definitely. Helps my Mesmer dish out conditions on a ton of enemies at once.

Norn Snow Leopard form on any class that does not have access to stealth in WvW. Pop stealth, and use the dash skill to run away.

I love the Sylvari Sumon Druid Spirit

Sylvari got many nice racial skills, but some need be fixed.
I love the racial skills i use many.

Bob.8456:

Norn Snow Leopard form on any class that does not have access to stealth in WvW. Pop stealth, and use the dash skill to run away.

I was under the impression that an elite skill would offer something better than the option to run away.

As a Norn with stealth I’d say crow form, because hey, who wouldn’t want to whatever it does.

Seriously, Norn elites are pretty much a failure, unless you want to be good in running away once every 4min.

Im curious, are elites effects by your stats? Ei does more power equal more damage on say the Charrzooka?

I have all humans, on classes that have good healing skills and condition removal.
Needless to say, racial skills are completely useless to me :/

Red Falcon.8257:

I have all humans, on classes that have good healing skills and condition removal.
Needless to say, racial skills are completely useless to me :/

I thought Hounds of Balthazar were popular. One of the best racials around in my opinion.

none, all are useless

I haven’t found a single instance where the racial skill equaled or surpassed a non-racial elite skill. And I have level 80’s of all the races. They might have a very situational use but aren’t strong enough for general use.

Charrzooka.

BOOM!

But oh… usefull… well. I actually never use Racial Skills. Mostly because of their huge cooldowns.

The Charr racial is absolutely devastating. The tool belt skill is a must for Berserker style engineers. Easy 6-8k damage

I play Norn primarily, and so, none of them.

My humans do “may Lyssa confound you” quite a bit, but they are leveling, and its not an elite.

Pain Inverter..