Guild Wars 2

Hi
I wanted to know which is the most useful race and god for a warrior?
I know each race has different god abilities but can anybody give me some insight into which race’s god ability would be the most useful for a warrior?

Im kinda leaning towards human or norn so can anybody give me some insight into which race and god ability would be best?

Thank You

Races and their racial elites really don’t make a huge difference to a Warrior, as you’ll typically want to use the standard elites: Signet of Rage and/or Battle Standard.

In that case, pick what you think looks best.

Ok but there are some god abilities which are more useful than others right?

LATVIAN.7853:

Ok but there are some god abilities which are more useful than others right?

They all are useless in general. Charr have the probably the one least overall useless skill in battle roar for shout warriors, and then thats pretty much it. Anybody else will use for great justice only, because it is just plain better.

The elites are complete garbage, because warriors are one of the classes that do have some really good elites on their own.

wintermute.4096:

LATVIAN.7853:

Ok but there are some god abilities which are more useful than others right?

They all are useless in general. .

The elites are complete garbage, because warriors are one of the classes that do have some really good elites on their own.

OI! take a step back here mate, im playing as a Charr AOE healing and support warrior, the warbanner can revive up to 4 downed people at once when used (as far as i know, havent fully tested, did it on a group event zerg ressed a few), now thats FAR from “complete garbage”!!! then it gives a 307 heal tick every half sec, if used in the right places, it can be epic!

which would be the best choice between human or nord?

Um warbanner isn’t a racial skill…

wtf is a nord? I just picked norn because i wanted to look viking. And I don’t like Thackeray.

and even if warbanner was a racial skill the cooldown is too long

ok, i was referring to battle standard for warrior lol, called it warbanner as i havent heard of any other banners besides ones that guilds can place down, i was in a rush to get a quick paragraph in to back-up evidence that elites are not completely useless.

LATVIAN.7853:

which would be the best choice between human or nord?

depends on what racial skills you want! both types have uses, i went for norn (cos i like character looks to suit classes, except on my norn necro, cos thats just hilarious!)

LATVIAN.7853:

which would be the best choice between human or nord?

Whatever appeals to you the most.

What appealed to me the most for the warrior class was Charr and Norn.

I went with a female charr.

Calling them ‘God abilities’ gives the impression that the abilities are impressive on their own.

They’re called ‘Racial abilities’ because they offer unique flavor of the race you chose but that’s really the only purpose they serve

humans or sylvari if racial skills r ur concern.

Hounds of Balth and Summon Fern wolves r some situationally useful elits if u need distractions.

Honestly, SoR and Battle Standard are what you’re likely to keep in your elite skill slot depending on if you’re grouped or not. None of the racials seem to be specifically designed with a Warrior in mind. Actually, while I haven’t rolled an alt of all the various races or professions, I don’t think any of them are superior to the point that there isn’t generally a proffesion elite that out shines the racials in any situation. Strictly just my subjective opinion though, arrived at by simply reading through them when I’m researching to roll a character.

Asura for the advantage in harder to spot animations and pain inverter.

Human for hounds/tree. The hounds hit like a truck (Fighting a guardian he hit me for 300 then his hound hit me for 1.5k…) and the tree gives you access to entangling roots, then pop out the transform and go to town.

The best race will always be asura. And racials don’t matter at all.

The size differential is really powerful. In this game you need to be able to react instantly to visual information/clues based on your opponent’s animation (and take the appropriate action like dodge/block). It is ALOT harder to see what skills an asuran are using at times, where as its REALLY REALLY obvious when a norn or char does some important-to-dodge skill.

The benefit to a norn/char though is they are huge which makes showing off your shiny gears easier heh….. but gameplay wise, they are the worst for pvp.

Ah yes, excellent points. As a general rule from a PvP stance in pretty much all MMOs the smallest race is strategically the best choice. For the reason of targeting, specifically by clicking on them (though it’s not as big a deal in this game as some others), but also for certain skills that could be dodged or otherwise nullified mainly (which is a bigger deal in this game than most others). The Warrior’s Rifle Adrenal ‘Kill Shot’ is a perfect example. The chances of noticing an Asura winding up for that one are potentially, considerably less than noticing a Norn go into the long animation for it. Definitely worth considering if you plan to do any PvP.

I havent leveled a human enough to really see how powerful the Human ‘Hounds of Balthazar’ (or whatever it’s called) is. I have to say though that the hounds hitting for around the range of 1.5k seems ridiculously high if correct and FAR beyond the potential damage of other similar racials offered by the other races. If 1.5k IS typical though? Without a doubt go with a Human despite the size advantage. Really though, at least as far as WvW PvP is concerned, Humans are still plenty petit enough to wind up a Kill Shot un-noticed easily from inside a zerg, or even a smaller regular sized group if they stick tight and there’s a couple Charr or Norn.

Considering all that, I’d definitely go Human for the 1.5k attacks from the racial. If that number is just an extreme “once-in-a-blue-moon” kind of unusually high damaging proc, and the average is more in keeping with the general damage of other racials of the kind then I’d say go with Asura easily. If PvP isn’t any consideration for you though? Just go with whatever looks the coolest to you when all decked out in exotic armor.

Norn have stealth from snow leopard.
Humans have hounds for extra damage and another ability for aoe root.

Charr’s look pretty nice with with Legendary Greatsword because they have more of a swing motion for the visual effects.

Mayam.8976:

Considering all that, I’d definitely go Human for the 1.5k attacks from the racial. If that number is just an extreme “once-in-a-blue-moon” kind of unusually high damaging proc, and the average is more in keeping with the general damage of other racials of the kind then I’d say go with Asura easily. If PvP isn’t any consideration for you though? Just go with whatever looks the coolest to you when all decked out in exotic armor.

I’m a Norn myself but from what the humans in my guild have told me, it’s not ALL the attacks from the hounds that hit hard but the leap attack that they do, I do regularly get hit for 1k+ by it though.

Neandramathal.9536:

Mayam.8976:

Considering all that, I’d definitely go Human for the 1.5k attacks from the racial. If that number is just an extreme “once-in-a-blue-moon” kind of unusually high damaging proc, and the average is more in keeping with the general damage of other racials of the kind then I’d say go with Asura easily. If PvP isn’t any consideration for you though? Just go with whatever looks the coolest to you when all decked out in exotic armor.

I’m a Norn myself but from what the humans in my guild have told me, it’s not ALL the attacks from the hounds that hit hard but the leap attack that they do, I do regularly get hit for 1k+ by it though.

Oh wow! I’m just getting ready to roll an alt Guardian and was kind of torn which race to go with. That being the case for Humans I’d say my mind just got made up heh!

It’s the leap that does the huge damage, just took one a minute ago with 1 dog hitting 1.2k and the other hitting 1.7k. I’m running 3k armor atm so it’s not cause I’m glass cannon :P

I don’t know what the hounds cooldown on the leap is, and it seems to be only that attack that REALLY hits but it’s nasty nonetheless.

The charr battle roar is an inferior version of FGJ. Not worth slotting

Go with what you like the look of IMO. In the end each class has an elite that is better than the Racial Elites.

Mesmer – Moa/Time Warp
Ranger – Rampage as One
Necro – Lich/Plague
Thief – Thieves Guild/Dagger Storm
Warrior – Signet of Rage/Battle Standard

Also in sPvP Racial skills are disabled; so when picking a class just don’t worry about race, play what you enjoy since there really is no best choice.

As others have said, pick your race based on style, not elites. None of the racial elites are as good as the warrior elites. The one possible exception is the Norn “Becoming the Leopard,” as there are (rare) occasions when access to a bit of stealth can help.

If you’re serious about PvP, consider the shortest possible Asura. Small races always have advantages in being harder to see.

Asura have the best non-elite utilities for most classes imo. Pain Inverter is great if you’re not something like a Mesmer, who has plenty of confusion anyway and the Radiation Field is a combo field I think, Warriors don’t have that many of these. In WvW you can use the racials and I usually run with Pain Inverter on my Ranger and sometimes on my Engineer ( my Warrior is Charr ), most opponents will not notice the confusion condition and kill themselves

When it comes to the elites, the Warrior class ones are substantially better than the Asura golems though, other than maybe for style.

Spifnar.4712:

The charr battle roar is an inferior version of FGJ. Not worth slotting

It’s great when you stack it up with signet of rage, FGJ and signet of might. It serves its purpose just fine.