Guild Wars 2

Maybe take a look at each races unique armor sets and see which ones you like the best. I made my necromancer a Norn because I love their armor sets the most.

As for the speed of Norns, yeah of course everyone runs at the same basic speed but they might seem slower because they have longer legs so they appear to move slower. You can always make them shorter tho, you can get down to almost regular human height if you pick the smallest Norn height.

Personally I don’t find them generic and boring. I thought I would love the Asura but I really didn’t like their start zone or story or anything really. I didn’t like being that short once I started playing too, so I restarted.

There is a little less hand holding in GW2 than other MMOs, since a lot of the content is dynamic they can’t point you to it all the time since it’s not there all the time. What I tend to do it go for the vistas, points of interest and renown hearts and then along the way you will get caught up in the events that are happening around you. You can hunt for the jump puzzles too, gathering and crafting if you feel like it, and there are the WvWvW and PvP mini games. Everything gives you XP!

Don’t forget that you can go to all of the low level areas and still get XP since you will get de-leveled automatically. So you can go to the other races start zones and collect all the skill points etc. from there. You should be ready for your next story mission in no time.

Does anyone know if it is possible to play with a friend who is playing the game in a different language?
I use English and am in Canada so I play on a NA server. My friend would be more comfortable playing in French. Will it be possible for us to play together on the same (NA) server with different language settings so that we can both read and understand everything?
Just to make it a little more difficult, he is using a mac. I know there is a mac version of the client so I assume it would be exactly the same as windows?