Guild Wars 2

Doon.2364:

Do any of you find the female sylvari attractive? I think they look kind of weird. The male sylvari has a few looks that is pretty cool but I haven’t met a female sylvari that makes me look twice. The Asuras are the opposite where the female Asuras are adorable but the male Asuras are ugly. I like the Sylvari race concept but wish they have better looks though.

My male Asura is super cute. Seriously. You CAN make them look adorable if you try.

Going to go with a purple Sylvari Mesmer with a mushroom cap for a head. Not sure of whether I’ll make a male or female yet.

Purplish mushroom person who gives people hallucinations? Yeah.

“Psilo” was already taken, although “Piwsla” is not and I could probably live with “Psilow”, “Psiloe”, or something similar.

Wondering if anyone has any other ideas, though.

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Mortolk Vale — 9 for Mortolk, 6 for Vale, I’ll round up and give it an overall 8. Mortolk seems like an especially good name for a Charr Necromancer. Charr naming conventions make “Vale” seem like half of a surname, and the name “Vale” itself sounds more like half of a stereotypical elven or halfling name rather than a Charr name.

Coeurl Deathclaw, Charr thief and member of the Ash Legion. Coeurl is my main, and I like to say he created himself. I had no intention of playing a Charr, but I got curious about whether or not you could make one to look like a black panther and created him just to see what he would look like.

Then I started playing him and found him to be so much fun that he overtook my previous main, a Sylvari necromancer.

Coeurl’s fur is solid black with no pattern. He has lambent green eyes, which are about the only part of him that is visible when he is hiding in the shadows. He stands a bit shorter than most Charr, but he makes up for his lack of size with a combination of agility, precision, and tenacious ferocity. He used to run with a pistol/pistol and dagger/dagger set but has grown to favor a pistol in his main hand and a dagger in his off hand.

The name “Coeurl” comes from “Black Destroyer”, an old short story by sci-fi author A. E. van Vogt. In that story, Coeurl was a black-furred, predatory alien that looked like a large panther with tentacles sprouting from its shoulders. If you are wondering, yes, that story is the origin of the Dungeons and Dragons monster the Displacer Beast. The first line of the story is “On and on Coeurl prowled!”

Of course “Deathclaw” comes from the Fallout series of video games. With their talons and hunched posture, Charr look a little like Deathclaws to begin with, and I gave Coeurl the black, forward-pointing horns that looked the most like Deathclaw horns.

I’m torn. My friends and I are about to start a regular weekly session of GW2 with new characters. Most of us are inexperienced with the game. I am partly experienced, having played a few toons PvE (my level 47 Charr thief is my highest level toon).

I was originally going to go with an Asura engineer, getting into an Elixir Gun build as we are always going to be playing together in group (mostly PvE).

However, I have since learned that no one is opting to play a Charr! I had another idea for a Charr engineer with rifle/flamethrower, and have been kicking around the idea of going with this. We already have an Asura necromancer.

I know race means little in this game but I do like to keep a little variety in the party. As of now we have two Norn, two Asura, and two Sylvari. If I switch my Asura to a Charr, that will increase diversity a bit. Plus, Charr with a flamethrower.

OTOH, I already have a Charr and do not have any Asura toons ATM.

Any suggestions? Is Elixir Gun flat out better than Flamethrower for what we will be doing? Anything else I should consider?

For the record, other than me, the toons involved will be:

Norn Ranger
Norn Elementalist
Sylvari Thief
Sylvari Mesmer
Aura Necro

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