Guild Wars 2

Will there ever be an asuran main character in your storyline that isn’t just a deus ex machina golemancer with no real discernable in-game class or fighting capabilities of his/her own? Or a relevant male asura for that matter?
While I understand golemancy is the most standoffish thing about an asura, it feels as though we were beating a horse that’s long gone and the setting provides so many cool ideas one could pull off for the role, it seems odd to ignore them all. The same could be said about male asura always being secluded to the background or council. I understand female asura being “cute” makes them easier for the public to swallow, but male asura can have such interesting designs is a long shot shame they are the only unrepresented race/gender choice availble, specially with so many good voice actors for it.

As for my more focused second question.
Will mesmers stop being female human noblewomen any time soon?
I mean. I understand too that it’s the “fitting trend” for the character class.
But Kasmeer was already an overkill for the trope with Anise and Queen Jennah being around, it’s funny that the mesmer helping Caudecus is also a female human noblewoman.

Breaking these molds would be a nice thing to see eventually.

Macha from the novels is a female asuran Mesmer. And she rocked!
But I agree, there seems to be a lack of variety in certain areas of the official character casting.

We may get some new elite specs with the new xpac that may come out in about a year or so, I do think that there should be a male asura npc with the new engi elite spec, there haven’t been any main engi npc’s that are on the good side…only scarlet, and she was on the wrong side. The rumor about the new engi elite spec the Golemancer would be awesome, a male asura golemancer would be very cool to have as part of the team, although I do think staff would be cooler then what the rumors say.

Zojja is an elementalist. In lore (specifically the Edge of Destiny novel) she’s a golemancer and in-game she sometimes has Mr Sparkles with her but when she’s in combat she uses normal ele skills.

There’s also Agent Zrii who is a thief, Tonn and Ceera who are a Pact demolitionist (probably an engineer) and a medic respectively, Warmaster Efut who is either a warrior or guardian (and actually mocks other characters reliance on technology during the Battle of Claw Island), Elli who is a ‘holomancer’ (she creates holograms that can fight), and probably many more I’m forgetting.

In fact the only golemancer I can think of who plays a major role in the story is Taimi. And since she’s a child (16 as of the latest Living Story release) and can’t walk properly I think it’s understandable she doesn’t fight directly.

Well, if we are actually in-depth about the usage of asura, Zojja being an elementalist is never relevant. (At all. Ever.)
While before the latest cast the character classes generally got ignored as a whole, it’s still kind of a shame that for asura it sticks like that even though Kasmeer, Rytlock and Marjory’s utility as a particular role continues to be brought up.
One could argue Taimi’s role is nigh the same to an engineer’s anyways, but much like Snaff and Zojja, they really are there simply to “speak asuran” and have a golem. Yes, Snaff and Zojja were a mesmer and an elementalist respectively – but that was majorly irrelevant altogether.

As for characters such as Zrii or Elli, they really aren’t part of the main cast at all nor do they actually have any plot relevance anymore. (Or really ever did, as they were just passing NPCs that happened to have screen time, and in those times character classes were still not a thing really used in the writting at all, and mostly ignored altogether.)
Leaving only really Zojja and Taimi to be the go-to characters to speak of, which amount to simply a golemancer technobabbler and a more tolerable, younger version of her.

With the clear variety displayed in passing NPCs with no main spotline to speak of, kind of a shame those that do get most of the screen time happen to be just plain ol’ archetypes previously used even in GW1.

your pleas are wasted on closed ears and minds…. they clearly want sylvari to be the main thing for every kitten thing in this game that is story related. Its like the old management Cliché…. Manager hires employee(the sylvari), employee turns out to be a dud. Manager doesn’t want to look like a failure, so doesn’t fire the employee even though everyone around can see this needs to happen. So to not admit the failure and be thought bad of, the manager doubles down on the employee and makes him a lead worker…things get worse, other employees start looking for other jobs… company stagnates under closed minded leadership… the end.