Guild Wars 2

I’m in the process of rerolling all of my characters to choose races I like for them all. My Engineer started as a human female, then went to Charr female, but I’m not digging the Charr female animation (specifically, the weird way she throws her shield and fires the pistol).

Anyone play an Engineer whose animations really stand out as awesome? Cool looking armor is a bonus, but only if I can bear the animations. Right now I’m looking at human male as my next choice. I like how Asura run, jump, and dodge, but I don’t know if their small size would make me happy when I start to look cooler and cooler, but can’t notice it.

I absolutely love my female Sylvari. I started out as a male Charr and liked everything but the armor. Around 60 I couldn’t take it so I switched to female Sylvari. I don’t know that their animations really stand out, but (as someone who frequently gets annoyed at bad animations), I have not been disappointed at all.

All that said, I also like being one of the few Sylvari Engineers, let alone female… so don’t tell anyone ;)

I would say go for armor looks, as animations really don’t do much.

If you want to look mean, choose Charr. Their armor isn’t the snazziest – many say it’s downright ugly – but their attitude with everything is awesome. You can roar, call in artillery strikes, and also can pull out the Charzooka. They’re practically made for engineer players with their abilities.

Quotes from Charr that I remember

Might – “I feel . . . .STRONG!”
Retaliation – “Go ahead, hit me!”

Humans seem comical, and there’s only one quote I remember from them

Fury – “Urge to kill rising!”

I like the Norn Male Engineer just because their Rifle model is the biggest in the game, which just screams “Carry a big stick.” In this case, a big boom stick.

Asura aren’t bad if you are kiting a lot with the engineer. The dodge animations etc for the Asura and the pistol/shield for them look pretty awesome. Yes their size means you can’t exactly show off your cool armor, but for me – I don’t mind that to be honest. I prefer not to be noticed in WvW.

Female Human Engi here, I was going to go Asura for the fact they probably have the best personality/animations going, however I already have an Asuran Guard (Which is kitten right awesome) but I couldn’t get over the fact that you can’t see the armour, which is dire to me as I like to look good when I die. Plus my Dyes look sexier on the female, Celestial ftw!

I like my Female Engi though, the armour looks nice and the animations aren’t that bad either, however if I hear “I can out run a Centaur!” or “Pain for Pain!” (Which sounds like “Paper Plates” or “Paper Plane”) anymore I may have the urge to kill someone.

I play an Asura Engi (Lv. 80) and love everything about them. The armor I have definitely looks great on him, plus the animations and whatnot are fun. Getting thrown back by Overcharged as an Asura never gets old!

Also, no other race can say they do a flip spin-in-mid-air to dodge.

I agree with the poster Aristo, though. Norns get huge guns (See: Vigil Rifle). It’s quite ridiculous and awesome-looking.

love the asura animations with engi skills. also the armor looks surprisingly cool
http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j352/psych52143/gw502-1.jpg
and when i use battering ram she goes POW RIGHT IN THE CRANIUM its very win

Asura for sure.

For animation Asura for sure!

Animations and comical value: Asura hands down.

Weapon size and the human armor look and feel: Norn

Lore / character personality / a little weapon and armor look: Charr

Nothing above matches what you want:

Silvari: Small body structure, good animation, decent armor, decent customization.
or
Human: the safe choice. Good in armor, most picked class, decent animations.

Downsides of the races:

Norn: slow movement animations (bigger = slower, smaller body models are bearable)

Asura: armor and weapons are not shown as well. Big differences don’t showcase well when pistols or chest pieces are barely shown.

Human: Semi effeminate, annoying phrases (male), most rolled class (opinion which may not even matter t most players).

Sylvari: maybe not the most believable engineer (lore-wise), demeanor and feel of the race inside this class doesn’t fit well (opinion), more stylish than intimidating in the armor choices (objective).

Charr: slow movement on larger body styles extremely slow feeling (see norn), least played race for this class (opinion), boots and pants are virtually all the same or unseen in many armor setups (if that matters).

I ended up with Charr after 47 levels in PVE and 12 ranks in pvp as Asura. Everyone will have a different opinion and preference though.

Don’t choose a Male Human. I made a Human Ranger and I’m fed up of hearing:
“My leg!” – Crippled
“So …. cold…” – Chilled
“…..STRONG!” – Might
“Urge to kill rising!” – Fury
“I achieve things… I’m an achiever!” – Achievement unlocked.

Their dance is cool though. Choose Sylvari. Their end game armours look bad-donkey. (donkey substituted for the ‘A’ word that is censored on these forums)

I ended up going with a Charr male. The female’s animations didn’t sit for me, but I ended up creating a sylvari, human male, and charr male and getting them all to level 3 (so I could see shield toss) and the Charr wasn’t bad. He throws and shoots in a very similar way to female Charrs, but it seemed more fluid and less clunky.

I’d love to make an Asura something, but I just can’t get over the size. I’ve been bouncing around an Elementalist to make as a crafting alt and for the monthly achievement, so maybe that could be my Asura.

I’m playing a human female engineer, and i wish i could swap my rifle animations with the ones of my human male warrior.
My engineer shots everything from the hip, which looks completely ridiculous; even more so because a lot of the higher level rifles have a sniper rifle look.

The human male warrior though is actually aiming properly, which makes sense with a potentially 1200 range weapon.
Maybe we get a shotgun in a future addon and the often asked about sniper kit, but right now the rifle on a human engineer looks stupid.