Guild Wars 2

So, what advantages we can get in “competitive pvp mode” by choosing right race?
1. Body block, hiding behind bigger player models to freecast ANYTHING without being seen. Your enemy have no idea what are you doing right now.
2. Animations. In the game where we don’t get castbars because we are supposed to build our counterplay by reading enemy animations – you can legally cheat and make asura.
3. Target selection. Have fun with clicking between minions/pets/turrets/clones/NPC/large player models. Oh, you trying to tab target? Too bad, here’s your pets/minions/clones/…

WHY we still have such legal exploits in pvp, 1.5+ years after release?

cuz devs love asura heh

wtb option to view everyone as human

Spoiler: there’s no competition in gw2

Cynz.9437:

wtb option to view everyone as human

Already been suggested since closed beta…..so don’t get your hopes up anytime soon…

it will be implemented “soon” or “when its ready” (around 2 years after the asian market release…)

Yep asura’s are much harder to read their animations. But for some odd reason, when I fight a mesmer, Charr’s seem to be the most difficult to tell apart from illusions, especially when their toon name is “Illusionary” something.

For pvp, when I am learning a new class, I usually start of as an Asura to give myself a little bit more room for error. And then once I feel comfortable, I may switch to another race if I feel like Asura isn’t thematically what I want that class to be like. Like, I started off learning mesmer on Asura, then switched to Charr once I got the hang of it. Same thing with Warrior, started Asura, then went Norn….

I don’t think it would be a terrible idea to give players the options to standardize models in pvp, be it human or sylvari, maybe even norn.

Is this why I have so much trouble on my Norn thief?

I like that they do this for SAB but cbf doing it for pvp

While asuras might have an advantage i wish i could race change my asuras to sylvari/human >_<. So much better camera(especially when using nade/ground targeters) and armor looks better on them in general.

I don’t wanna lose my expensive dyes/hard earned pve levels n gear(leveling to me is a huge chore)