Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone. I hope you will help me. I have a hard time deciding on whom I want as my elementalist.
All I know is that I do not want a human or a norn for my elementalist. There are too many humans in this game and while norns are… Just no. I played a human mesmer for a year and I switched to my beautiful male sylvari, because I did not want to die of boredom with my human. I also like to feel a little bit more unique by nature. The only thing that could keep me with a human is if Countess Anise’s armor became available. I would wear it until the end of time. xD I simply prefer more elegant ladies like Anise or Lana del Rey and that’s hard to accomplish in this game. It leaves a charr, an asura and another sylvari then, though the con for a sylvari is that I already have one and he’s special to me. So here are my questions:
Which from these three would you choose? And if you have chosen one of the three, who and why?
I’m not here for you to tell me what race should I choose, because that’s my choice, but if you’ll answer these questions, it might help me decide on my own.

I would go for a story with the asura’s, have done it myself and it is a wonderfull story mode. They have such an interesting way of life and look upon the world. You can make them look really cool even though they are really small. You can move mountains as an elementalist while being the smallest race to play in Tyria!

Have been in the same spot as you are in, started a guardian a while back like you are starting your elementalist now. And that was an Asura, the smallest little guy, yet sturdy as a rock and able to go head to head with the greatest enemy! Felt amazing haha.

I’d make fiery-themed charr ^^ with fire tail like charmander

Which from these three would you choose? Asura or Charr
And if you have chosen one of the three, who and why? I have both an Asuran and a Charr Ele. Charr because I thought it would be fun to run around as a squishy mage whilst most Charr’s I see are hulking Warriors or Guardians. Asura because I think Asura are awesome.

I haven’t been through asura story line yet, so that’s definitely a lure, but having a charr as an elemental mage seems appealing as well. I shall wait for more responses, if there’ll be some.

Make one of each! Yay!

But seriously I enjoy making new characters, I keep a slot open just to delete and remake characters for fun

I have two ele…a human and an Asura. The human is a little, well more generic I suppose but the outfits…oh those light armors can be so pretty!

If I had to choose, I’d go with the Asura again. Their storylines are awesome (the Don The Behind Hat bit makes me laugh everytime) and the phrases they say when switching elements don’t make me crazy listening to them over and over again. Not to mention the animations on their spell castings are seriously amazing to watch…they are just all over the place. I love the female voice acting as I have always made female Asuras. The only thing that’s a tiny bit lacking are the armors…but that’s easy to overlook really.

Make a sylvari or human ele, they are best. charr spellcasters are just disgusting, charr necro especially have rly creepy animations. Imo charr are meant for guardian/warrior, human on other hand is a race that looks good in any class

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Make a sylvari or human ele, they are best. charr spellcasters are just disgusting, charr necro especially have rly creepy animations. Imo charr are meant for guardian/warrior, human on other hand is a race that looks good in any class

Humans are the most boring race for me and look way too plastic. That’s more disgusting than a charr spellcaster if you ask me. :P I want to stand out from the human epidemic a little as well. The only thing that could make me consider a human is if the armor of Countess Anise was released, but I don’t see that coming, so I consider other races a lot more. The worst thing about humans is that it’s almost impossible to look different. No matter how you’ll edit his/her face, you’ll still have clones all over the game unless you’ll make a total monster. That’s depressing.

The irony of being a plant using drake breath to barberque drakes is delicious.

I’d go with asura or sylvari if you don’t want human or norn. Asuras are seriously cute, and they look great as eles. They also have great light armour options, whereas the charr light armour doesn’t work for me at all. I like the asura personal stories, better than the sylvari ones … I don’t like either starting zone for asura or sylvari though (not that that’s a problem, but it bugs me that I don’t want to play my race’s starting zone).

If I HAD to make a choice between asura or sylvari, I’d probably pick asura. This all comes down to the fact that that phrase the sylvari keep shouting out … “this rose has thorns, and here they are!” annoys me to the point where I have to grind my teeth every time I hear it, lol. the other reason I’d pick asura is because I have a lot of human characters, and their light armour is the same as sylvari’s (aside from cultural, of course) so I like to have something different to look at with the asura.

Asura racial is pretty nice if you want to apply conditions the class doesn’t have :p

Okay guys. I think I’ll go with the asura. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts.