Guild Wars 2

I’m rerolling my 80 Norn guardian for a smaller character model. I love everything about the class, but six months later the sluggish feeling Norn movements are still bugging me. Since I can’t pay gem for a race change, I’m making a new one.

So it’s either Human, Sylvari, or Asura. I’m ambivalent toward armor/aesthetics (all three races have really cool options), and primarily interested in what functional advantages each race may offer, especially in WvW/sPvP.

So, are there any functional advantages (or disadvantages) for each race?

Let me give one example of a disadvantage – initially there was a problem with GS Leap of Faith on Norns where it would completely miss if the target was at slightly lower elevation, which didn’t happen with Asura and Human (only two others I tested).

So any little details like that, much appreciated!

Asura is my favorite race, and I love the animations they have. I main an asuran guardian and it’s entertaining watching him ride his staff while empower ticks

I’ve noticed that too, funny.

between those races there little to no difference because our guardian skills are much more useful than any racial skills, its basically down to what races appearances and cultural armor you like best

I did the same thing as you, only my first was an asura guardian, I later regretted it because it is difficult to appreciate their armor aesthetic since they are so small on the screen. I suggest human or sylvari. I ended up re-rolling a human and I have been content

Sylvari ofcourse. Buy t3 hat, dye it shiny yellow and feel like a super sayan lvl3 :P

On a more serious note, sylvari has acces to a great dps elite (the one that spawns 5 turrets which can get you 25 bleed stacks on a single target) and a 7 second root utility, makes great for solo roaming in wvw and spvp/tpvp and they look the most awesome.

Personally, I think that silver/silverish-bluish Electromagnetic cultural armor that is the T3 Asura’s heavy cultural armor looks epic.

Arganthium.5638:

Personally, I think that silver/silverish-bluish Electromagnetic cultural armor that is the T3 Asura’s heavy cultural armor looks epic.

You mean like this?

Quarktastic.1027:

Arganthium.5638:

Personally, I think that silver/silverish-bluish Electromagnetic cultural armor that is the T3 Asura’s heavy cultural armor looks epic.

You mean like this?

Yup. c:

I’d say human\sylvari.
Having an asuran guardian meself (the smallest size as well), I find it hard sometimes to locate him on screen. Especially in a frantic situations with a lot of people on screen. It takes just a couple of norns\charr to completely hide you character.

Silvary imo.

Asura…they aren’t bad buuuuuuuuut….didn’t feel rigth with animations and such. Leveled 3 times a Asura char to 20-40 ish and then deleting it cause couldn’t stand their movings. Simply dropped the idea of making an Asura for now, ehe.
Humans are ok, but feels a bit boring. Human Guardian is prolly the most mainstream class/race combo in Gw2, also.
Silvary are interesting, looks cool, moves good (like humans actually) and i’ve seen very very few Silvary in heavy armor around, so you’re hardly find a carbon copy of yours.

Oh, depends a bit on gender tho. Female, definitely Silvary. Male, i’d go for Human, i’ve heard Silvary male armors have a lot of estetic glitches.

All imo and for a purely cosmetic pov.

One thing you may consider is taking your norn and using a total makeover kit. If you make the norn as small as possible they are just a little larger than a human, which helps a lot with the sluggish feeling.

If you are sure you want to re-roll then I use an asura and love it.

Thanks for the feedback everyone, much appreciated. I’ve decide to go Asura, primarily for two reasons:

1. I want to get a Commander Tome on my guardian, and since Commander Hunting is a thing, I want to be as hard to pick out and target as possible. My guys can see the blue tag easily, but hopefully I’ll get lost in the zerg from the enemy’s point of view. Of course, that doesn’t help vs people who just tab through looking for the Commander icon, but still better than my huge Norn.

2. After trying out an Asura I like how Hammer actually doesn’t feel terribly sluggikitten still feels a little slow on a Human.

3. The Asura T3 Tron armor is so cool it makes me actually care about armor skins. Never saw it in Abyss before.

kurtosis.9526:

Thanks for the feedback everyone, much appreciated. I’ve decide to go Asura, primarily for two reasons:

1. I want to get a Commander Tome on my guardian, and since Commander Hunting is a thing, I want to be as hard to pick out and target as possible. My guys can see the blue tag easily, but hopefully I’ll get lost in the zerg from the enemy’s point of view. Of course, that doesn’t help vs people who just tab through looking for the Commander icon, but still better than my huge Norn.

2. After trying out an Asura I like how Hammer actually doesn’t feel terribly sluggikitten still feels a little slow on a Human.

3. The Asura T3 Tron armor is so cool it makes me actually care about armor skins. Never saw it in Abyss before.

I personally hunt asura for that exact reason in zergs lol. But it is true, the larger you are the more likely you are to be targeted. And yeah, for some reason the larger classes do feel very slow with their animations, (My original char was a char warrior who I ended up dumping, just recently made a sylvari warrior and found it to be much more to my liking and feeling alot faster)

I love my Asura Guardian to death. Had him since they allowed the Asura to be used in beta, but knew I’d roll one once they announced the Guardian class and asura race. All that said, I do sometimes feel like the weapons are a bit to small, and armor a little bit less pleasing. I rolled a human Guardian, though, and deleted it as soon as he got to 80. It didn’t suck, but EVERYONE has a Human or Norn Guardian smh. The Asura Guardians aren’t that rare, but definitely awesome and unique.

What about Charr guardian? I have one and its pretty cool looking big shoulders. Only thing that looks a little weird is the helmet.

I’ve leveled a Charr to level 5, and love everything about them, except they have the same problem as my Norn – too sluggish-feeling, and too big.

They’re awesome, and their lore is my favorite of all the races (Asura a close second though), but movement mechanics are my primary concern at this point.

Bash.7291:

I personally hunt asura for that exact reason in zergs lol.

Are there a lot of Asura commanders?

I run a Sylvari guard, and couldn’t be happier with it. Reasonable size, I don’t feel the need to yell “RAWR LOOK AT MY GIANT SPIKY ARMOR” every time I see him, and jumping puzzles are a breeze.