Guild Wars 2

I am new to the game and want to make an engineer. But i dont know which race to choose. I was thinking of picking Asura or Charr and maybe even human. Please let me know which you would recommend and why. Thanks

I have 3 engis. Human male, human female, and asuran female. I would say that i like my asuran one best because of the animation for dropping bombs and throwing nades. Some of the asuran racial utility apply confusion which synergizes well with some of the engi skills, although there are some better choices to chose over them in my opition. Also, the animations for pistol/shield are probably the coolest on asurans. Oh and the racial gear looks amazing. My second favorite is my human female. Human females hold their pistol and shield oddly in my opinion. however, they hold their rifles better than asurans (imo), which is why my human female is my static shock zerker engi. Human females are also pretty friken hot :P . My third engi, the human male, is really cool and the animations are all cool but the rifle ones(imo). An upside to human male is that some of the armor looks better on them than my other engis. for example, the magitech set. If your thinking about which race makes more sense as far as lore and such, id say asuran because of how smart they are :P charr would also makes sense because charr’s are kinda like industrial weapon smiths. As for norn, i honestly really dislike norns. For anyclass. This is all just my opinion, hope it helped .

If you want to play PvP, its mainly an aesthetic problem, since you cant use racial skills in PvP

If you want to play PvE/WvW, the only thing to consider above aesthetics is the racial skills, but those skills are rarely compareable to the actual profession skills. Engineers still have utility belt skill versions of those common racials though, so thats a plus.

Some of the Charr racials fit well with the engineer theme. In fact the overall design of the engineer is mostly based on charr technology too. You could say that charr fits the engineer the best. But they still look kinda meh (but thats just a personal opinion)

Asura have some good racials too. The tech is still based on charr design though, so they can look really outdated compared to usual asura tech. The kit hobo-sacks are much smaller on their backs though, so thats definetly a plus compared to charr or human.

Human racial skills are kinda meh, and the utility belt versions are nothing to be amazed about either. But humans have the best access to visually appealing armor (not stretched or shrunk like most armor looks on charr or asura). Unfortunately this benefit is ruined as soon as you equip a kit and the hobo-sack clips through half of your characters head. Design-wise human tech is somewhere between charr and asura tech, so its less of an eye-sore when they run around with technology of that level or design.

Thats pretty much all comparison. Racials and looks. I would say go with whatever race appeals to you more, and there is no pressure on choosing the right race for the right profession. GW2 is intentionally not the game where race-profession configuration matters.

I got a charr and a norn engineer, which you should think about maybe making too. Charrs racial weapons seem to fit in with the engineer such as charrzooka, hidden pistol and that aoe bombarment but non except maybe charrzooka are very useful. On norns side you get some pretty powerful racial elites, some are viable and just as good as normal elites. Plus you get a skill called eat owl eggs!! How awesome is that!

asuras are the best imo because their backpacks are cute and not oversized and awkward like on every other race.

Charr. Simply becourse they look absolutely kitten as engineers

Kitten? Whaha funny system. I said they look really cool in a sensored word i gues :P

Charr or Asura. If you pick anything else they tend to lack the punch and/or epicness on the engineer.

Asuran engineers get all the ladies. Nuff said.

Asura. Actually, no matter the profession, the answer is always asura.

Their hobosacks aren’t obnoxiously huge, they have the funniest quips, and they look way better in armor than a charr.

And, as Switch said…all the ladies.

I am an asura fan myself because I love their animations and voice lines.

Hobosacks looks good on them and I am using the default starter engie backpack for each stat combo. I like them that much.

Don’t go Asura tho if you want to run around with big shiny legendaries. Asura engineers are probably the worst race/profession combo to have legendaries for as they are tiny and as an engineer you are using kits pretty often.

Asura is the master race.

I have both a charr and asura engineer, and I like my asura engi much much more. Don’t have to deal with tail clipping and gigantic hobosacks.

my engi is a small norn female… lemme tell ya, its the best for predator. the gun is huge without the toon being overly big. ive seen myself as charr and asura thanks to fractals, and have a watchwork tonic for a human model.. and while the looks for all of those models are canned… well the animations are correct and i wouldnt make an asura, id have to think about a charr, and human is pleasant enough. a buddy of mine has quip on his asuran engi, and its fairly decent apart from being invisible… but if you wanna rifle, go big or go home and pick charr or norn. little rifles give you aids.

Asura master race.

Looks like I’m all alone over here with my sylvari Engineer… ah well. Vine Shield ftw.

Asura =‘s smaller tells, best animations (imo), harder to pick out of a crowd.
Human Female =’s if you dress her like a strumpet they might mistake you for a thief.

Pick race you like, except for Charr, Norn, Human and Sylvari

LLaG.9218:

Pick race you like, except for Charr, Norn, Human and Sylvari

Brilliant and well said.

Thanks for all the great feedback! I picked the asura at last and it feels like i made the right decision. Thanks again