Guild Wars 2

Ok I know a lot of you play as asuran but this race has such a benefit over other classes because of its small stature and this game isnt supposed to give game changing racial bonuses. My eyesight is fine but half the time when asuran is using a block skill I cannot tell because they are so tiny and poorly telegraphed. I have cought tons of reflect projectiles cuz of this. Can you guys at ANET do something about this? perhaps make them 50% larger? they would still be smallest class. Another option which I think is pretty cool but I know you devs would never implement would be to scale DPS with size.

For example The largest norn would have a 1.1 damage multiplier while the smallest asuran would be something like .9 damage multiplier. This way when you build big characters you get some extra dmg too offeset the wvw aggro and ez read telegraphs and if you build tiny you get some reduced dmg because vice versa. I think this a really cool idea because a gigantic norn should be hitting way harder then the tiniest asuran in the first place. I feel ashamed when I see my friends rerolling the same class as Asuran just because they know the advantage it brings. Plz do something about this.

Many threads debated this in the past but nothing has been done, and likely nothing will be.

There’s one of these threads every frikken week.. for a year.
Seriously the most complained about thing NA

There have been lots of good suggestions but devs don’t actually care.

Why so much crying over this? So many games have smaller characters. Many people play this game for the asura height, not the meager benefits it provides. They will lose a lot of players including myself if they give in to your crying of such a minor issue. Fix real pvp issues, like condition spam.

Rufy.6093:

Why so much crying over this? So many games have smaller characters. Many people play this game for the asura height, not the meager benefits it provides. They will lose a lot of players including myself if they give in to your crying of such a minor issue. Fix real pvp issues, like condition spam.

…..my head… hurts.

This game’s only telegraphed is based on animations, that was Anet’s “design”.

It fails however when you have a race so small that the animations can’t be seen and thus gains a stupid advantage.

The whole game needs better telegraphing anyway, it’s ridiculous and they expected to make an esports with this?

If the benefits were so meager then all the pro teams wouldn’t be full asuras/1 human guard.

ANet really wants the game to be based on reading skill animations and not a skill timer bar like GW1. The thing is Asura do pretty much negate that, but it wouldn’t be a problem if there was a skill timer bar. If Anet doesn’t want to increase the size of Asura or have a player side option to make them appear as w/e race you want than we NEED that bar but having the size increase is preferable as well because the fact of the matter is many spells have the same animation or don’t look significantly different.

Fighting Asuran Warriors in particular can be very tricky because while I can read the animation of skills like Skull Crack on most other races but on Asura that’s not really possible. There’s also the issue of Esports, not exactly exciting to watch a bunch of tiny goblins running around. It doesn’t mean much to most players but if you want to get non-players to watch GW2 like they watch Star Craft and Mobas having all your cool effects being all but invisible isn’t good.

Or we could just get cast bars?

Derps.7421:

Or we could just get cast bars?

That would actually be pretty cool. Leave my poor Asura alone!

Scale their cleave to size.
Knockdown made more difficult with size.
Power from size.
Vitality/toughness from size.
Speed with size.

There are alot of ways you can make the playing field level without giving small size all its advantages and no disadvantage. Logically we should all play Asura because it is easily the race with the biggest advantages over the others. You would pick the smallest Asura possible because again it makes it even more difficult for others to see what your doing.

Logically though if you were going into a battle in melee…you would want 5 Norn or Charr because size matters in melee.

there should be option to view everyone scaled to same height

This. One simple change, client side only, scale all race to same height.

do not change this!

i already bought 9th char slot for pvp asura character. if they change it i want my gems back.

I want the option to view everyone (except yourself) as a human while in a match.

It would help eSports spectators too…. a common complaint is that they can’t follow what’s going on when it’s Asura vs. Asura.

Cast bars.

That is all.

Fix kitten asuras.

Knote.2904:

Rufy.6093:

Why so much crying over this? So many games have smaller characters. Many people play this game for the asura height, not the meager benefits it provides. They will lose a lot of players including myself if they give in to your crying of such a minor issue. Fix real pvp issues, like condition spam.

…..my head… hurts.

This game’s only telegraphed is based on animations, that was Anet’s “design”.

It fails however when you have a race so small that the animations can’t be seen and thus gains a stupid advantage.

The whole game needs better telegraphing anyway, it’s ridiculous and they expected to make an esports with this?

True true. Looks on minion master asura necromancer and spirit master asura ranger with stealt,absolutely untargetable. Why is this Esport game has no normal targeting system ala WoW Aion and many other game with this target system options

Target nearby enemy-this bind target all enemy NPC,pet,players etc

and

Target nearby enemy PLAYER!!-target only enemy player not NPC,pets etc.