Guild Wars 2

Hey guys thinking of making a necro, but i can’t decide what race i want to be, i’m stuck between charr and asura.

Charr i want to be it for the looks, i really like how the charr looks in necromancer gear but i don’t like the size, cause since i play world vs world, i’m afraid i’m going to be targeted alot.

Asura: i really like the lore around it, the colleges and stuff, and being magic, and i like the size for world vs world.

What are your guy’s opinions? what should i go with? asura or charr.
Thanks

My first necro was Charr, and I really enjoyed the hulking look, big fangs, deep voice, and the hair style with the skulls on it.

However, after awhile at 80, I began to look around a bit at the skills and found that I liked the Asura racials (Pain Inverter, Radiation Field) much better. So, I began an Asura necro and am now in my 60s and I think this’ll be my main.

I also realized that I am more careful about kiting with my Asura, whereas I’d often tend to facetank with the Charr, and it’s just the psychological thing of the little character vs the large character.

Armor/weapon-wise, you won’t be able to see much on the Asura due to size, and on the Charr you get to see everything but ANet’s armor for the Charr is mostly just stretched human armor models which fit like crap. Clipping is an issue on both.

The Asura is a bit of a wimp: when he gets crippled, he whines and limps exaggeratedly, and when he is low on health he cries “why won’t anyone help me?” in an self-pitying voice. But its also a bit comical, too, so I find it ok.

Finally, when I dodge on the Asura I feel like Yoda bouncing around in full combat!

There can be only charr.

There is only charr the rest are just imitations.

The question you have to ask yourself is do you want to be the one stomping or the little guy getting stomped.

hidden pistol’s evasion actually adds very nicely to the necromancer’s skillset

Thanks for the comments, id love some more feedback

Charr (or Human and maybe even Norn if we go into spirit shamans being Necros), everything else is heresy that shall be purged by the emperors fury and the wrath of mankind!
Also FREAKING CHARRZOOKAH (you get burning condition via ulti).

My vote goes to the charr, since they’re the only race that holds the staff horizontally (which is pretty dang cool looking, imo)

I have an 80 asura necro but am thinking about leveling my char necro purely because my asura isnt (remotely) terrifying although I love him dearly. I use my char necro for pvp hot join to try out build combinations and love how he ‘feels’ to play. like he wants to destroythings rather than my asura wwho doesnt feel particularly monstrous.
my plan (if I go ahead with it) is to play my asura as a condition spec and char as a power spec.

Asura (especially asura female) has funnier minion summon/loss voiceovers (and funnier voiceovers in general, imo). Charr has boring ones. On the other hand, charr sounds awesome when you use deathshroud

Most light armor looks bad on charr, especially endgame stuff. However, asura are so small you can’t tell what they are wearing/using and all armors lose all the small details and stuff so it hardly matters.

Charr racials are better, but not by a huge amount. I like warcry, and charrzooka lets you add burning which is nice since necro has 0 sources of burning (though in a group someone else will probably bring the burn anyway)

Asura are a lot easier for jump puzzles, like a LOT easier, if you care about that.

Being small makes you targetted a lot less in PvP, people always click on the big guy first no matter what, and as an asura you can hide inside the mass of people a lot easier.

If you care about being unique, I believe charr necro is the rarest class/race combination in the game.

That’s about the only differences I can think of offhand. FWIW I have an 80 asura and charr and I think overall I like the charr a little better but they are both mostly equal.

I can say one thing for sure, the necro masks look better on charr than any other race.

yes fishergrip! my char is as black as he can be with the skull mask. looks awesome.

It’s very simple really. On the one hand, you have a hulking slavering beast better suited for lumbering around making loud noises, who clearly hasn’t the faintest idea about how to use the magic he’s tapped into properly.

Then, on the other hand, you have the asura – a most superb creature perfectly attuned to the magical forces at her deft fingertips. With such magnificent ears and such a large IQ, she’s probably thought of at least thirty-seven methods to deal with the problem at hand while that slavering imbecile of a cat is still trying to determine how his legs work. And now she’s darting into combat, flipping elegantly as she evades her opponents, blasting them into submission while they’re still trying to work out what hit them.

The choice is obvious. Be an asura.

^^ slightly biased view there maybe :-P

you should be a salesman btw epic description of the little fellas.

I have 3 lvl 80 asura toons so I am enjoying playing a bigger race now, I do love my asura thief and necro more than my warrior though. asura warrior was a bad choice!

Oh, I’m not biased at all. It’s the truth. You’ll all realise it eventually. :P

I’ve only got 5 asura characters so far… Necromancer and Elementalist are my favourites.

Charr only. It’s a lie that they look bad in light armors. Their cultural ones are very unique, and let you look more like a necro than pink mesmer with fancy mask. Also, take a look on charr in Death Shroud. Now take a look at asura. Little black rat, huh? Never play an asura. I target them over any other race in pvp. No matter what, ratslaying is the most relaxing thing for my Charr conditionmancer

Off topic…. I prefer Norn for WvW . The cooldown is long, but the 1600 unit Dash followed by Prowl (stealth) is a life saver when running into the zerg when roaming.

From purely a non-sPvP race skills point of view:

Asura for any condition based build. Pain Inverter gives access to Confusion and a decent amount and helps fill that missing utility slot you’d otherwise take epidemic with.

Charr for any power/ direct damage based build. Battle Roar gives access to Fury which otherwise would only be obtainable by blowing your Deathshroud Fury (and leaving you wide open with no buffer for 10 seconds) or using Runes of the Rage (as i do)

Bas.7406:

There can be only charr.

There is only charr the rest are just imitations.

The question you have to ask yourself is do you want to be the one stomping or the little guy getting stomped.

He pretty much got it right. There is only Charr. Do it.

My male charr is still a newbie but he still looks badazz nonetheless. Charr necro…no other option hehe.