Guild Wars 2

I even made a list of pros and cons for each! And I still can’t decide. Please keep in mind the pros and cons are my personal opinion and may not reflect your superior opinion.

ASURA
Pros: Amusing storyline/voice/animations, better at jumping puzzles, least common race on my server, easier to identify with (I’m looking to get into RP and I am more of an Asura than a Charr personality-wise)
Cons: Too small to make out much detail on gear, warrior is kind of a weird fit with the race

CHARR
Pros: Epic storyline/voice/animations, equipment a lot more visible than on an Asura, awesome four-legged run
Cons: Armor models are sometimes stretched out in weird ways to fit the Charr body, awkward camera for jumping puzzles, a lot more common on my server than Asura (Charr warriors are very common), the brashness/warmongering nature of the Charr rubs me the wrong way a bit

After all that and I still can’t decide. I like the Asura personality/lore/story better but part of being a heavy armor class is showing off awesome metal armor and huge weapons, so the Charr would seem to be the race for me, but then I hate how a lot of their armor is stretched to fit in weird ways and I can’t relate to their brusque personalities, so then I’m back to Asura, but then I get some tiny little shoulder pads with a single thin needle sticking out of them, so I check to see what they look like on a Charr, and it turns out the needle is actually supposed to be five bloody spikes, and aaaaarrgggghhhhh.

If anyone has any advice, please share it with me. If I still can’t decide, I’ll just flip a coin or something and live with the regrets I’ll know I’ll have regardless of which I settle on.

Well being Charr I can tell you my character looks like a bad * with t3 culteral and juggernaut. However as a hardcore WvWer I can tell you sometimes I wish I were an Asura just because being a smaller target really does help a bit with how many people target you. I’m a big ol charr with a juggernaut… I tend to be one of the primary targets.

However I do have other Asuran toons and I can honestly say I lack any interest in gear cosmetics which is sad because that’s a big thing in GW2. My warrior looks awesome and is fun to play as a charr, my engineer is fun to play, but meh not interesting really to look at.

I’m an owner of both a Charr and Asura warrior. I like the Asura because I can RP him as more of a macho-Asura but still studious and smart. I like the Charr because, well, I dunno…he’s smexy? But so is the Asura, so yeah…

I made my decisions solely on the fact that a Charr looks stupidly goofy swinging around a Greatsword while an Asura looks awesome jumping, spinning and flipping (Hammer) using a Greatsword. Alternatively, the Asura looks dainty spinning around using Axes but the Charr looks bad-kitten when he buckles down for his whirlwinds of death.

I make them both expose their abs for the amusement of whomever they team with :P

Asura’s Pain Inverter could be potentially useful.

But beware! For some reason 1 hand sword’s burst and off hand axe’s 5 skill are bugged on Asuras. Half the hits don’t actually land.

Beardmonger.4692:

Asura’s Pain Inverter could be potentially useful.

But beware! For some reason 1 hand sword’s burst and off hand axe’s 5 skill are bugged on Asuras. Half the hits don’t actually land.

Wow, really? I kind of found it odd that he swung the blade constantly but didn’t actually see any numbers from the hits…just whiffing. I thought that’s just how it worked because I’d still get the bleed/immobilize.

But yes, in PvE, a condition Warrior is quite possible with Sword + Longbow. If you’re not scrounging for utilities, Pain Inverter (30sec), Radiation Field (60sec/15sec duration), Longbow burst and Sword burst cover your Confuse, Poison, Burning and Bleeding conditions for max potential.

Regardless, Radiation Field is a great utility as it can provide decent defense with its constant reapplication of Weakness (combined with Hammer) will make you and your team pretty tanky.

The Charr utilities….I can’t say I use them much. But that leaves you room for other good utilities instead.

Charr. Their t3 heavy is just beastly.

Charr/Human culturals are kitten and fit for a warrior/fighter. Only “tryhard pvpers” play Asuras.