Guild Wars 2

I remember once reading that human, charr, and norn have unique, different ways of how their guns work. Similar in quality/era or something, but three different styles. However, I can’t remember the source or find anything about it ingame right now.

Also, I’m seeking confirmation, in the lore, GW2 doesn’t have rapid fire rifles, but instead more like early guns in that way of “Load a single shot, fire it, reload.”?

I think the charr have the most advanced guns. Humans are more towards flintlock.
I can’t see Norn with Gun technology, if any they just get human/charr guns.
The different third gun tech would be asuran magitech kind of gun

charr guns have the most punch to their shot (as bulky charr can handle bigger recoil)

human guns are slowest firing due to the nature of flintlock. but to compensate they train more with accuracy (though if they are, is up for debate. charr’s bulk making the gun stable might help more)

asura have magic guns. they different =/ (instead of punching through armor, they pretty much melt the armor, or dissinigrate it. basically more chemical and less brute force)

just my guess

Enrif.7359:

I think the charr have the most advanced guns. Humans are more towards flintlock.
I can’t see Norn with Gun technology, if any they just get human/charr guns.
The different third gun tech would be asuran magitech kind of gun

The source I remember but cannot find was talking about guns, asura wasn’t included.

I think the term was Arquebus, which is one of the shiverpeak weapon set rifles.

Sylvari actually have guns in-lore too—they launch seeds instead of bullets! Presumably the first few sylvari to witness guns went back and developed the Sylvari seed launcher rifles and pistols from native plants.

I’m not sure what is said about Humans, Charr and Norn having different firearm mechanics, however just looking at the guns in game reveals there is more or less three main varieties of guns in Tyria. There’s the true to life mechanical firearms, magical guns, and the odd ones that seem to be a hybrid of mechanical and magical.

The vast majority of guns are muzzle-loading firearms with true to life firing mechanisms (flintlocks, matchlocks, wheel-locks, etc.). There are several that use rather advanced looking revolver mechanisms and are the rare example of a breech-loading gun in Tyria. However I don’t think there’s any evidence of cartridge based ammunition so these revolver chambers are likely manually loaded with powder, wadding and bullets like other guns.

The magical guns are those ones with no mechanical barrel and are generally asuran in origin. They’re basically a self contained spell casting device that’s designed to be used like a comparable firearm.

The one’s I’m calling “hybrids” have mechanical barrels but no visible firing mechanism (hammer, flintlock, etc.) and/or have heavy magical affects on them and likely use a magical method to ignite a standard gunpowder charge.

These are just my observations on the guns in game so take it with a grain of salt I suppose.

Early on when discussing engineers, they said all technology in Tyria was infused with magic. They said engineering technology would be different among the different races. Charr would be more mechanical and have bulkier metal parts, Sylvari would integrate living plant parts into their gadgets and Asura would have more magitech style gadgets powered by crystals.

I don’t know what the Adamant Guard (Charr) rifle is supposed to be. It has 2 gears. Maybe a weird kind of above the chamber wheellock? But is also appears to have a flintlock that will be blocked by one of the gears. The Seraph (human) rifle appears to be a flintlock or arquebus. The Wolfborn rifle… I cannot even see a firing mechanism.

Norn do use guns. There is a Norn right outside of the Great Lodge who says he collects guns instead of axes.

From memory, the distinction that was made was that the charr mass-produce their firearms, while humans and norn hand-produce theirs. All three are powered by mechanical means, however. Asura and sylvari weapons are a little more… exotic.

Functionally, I think the distinction between human, norn, and charr firearms is mostly aesthetic. Humans, unsurprisingly enough, produce the firearms that look closest to historical European designs. Norn stuff is a bit heftier (unsurprisingly enough), more primitive in aesthetic if not in the internal mechanism, and decorated by straps, feathers, and the like. For the charr cultural weapons: Flame weapons are probably at least semi-magical in nature and touch off the powder with the internal flame. The Adamant and Steam sets, I suspect, have all those gears ultimately leading to an internal mechanism… possibly flintlock, wheel-lock, or since the charr are supposed to be the most advanced from a purely technical perspective, they may even have discovered percussion caps.

Aesthetically they firearms are a mess. Everything from the arquebus to revolvers. It don’t think we should take the technology seriously at all.