Guild Wars 2

8/10 Nice armour, shame about a rather dull background.
Here’s my Ranger showing off!

Well Wrath or blood dyes seem to be good matches for blood legion red, and fluff works fairly well for the grey of the amour spikes.

When I first got to explore Sparkfly fen, I was expecting more of the epic dinosaur fights seen there in EotN. I was somewhat disappointed then that apart from a few raptors the entire area is deserted of large reptilian megafauna.
What happened to all the Angoradons, Ceratadons, Ferothrax and Tyrannus that used to live here? If they died out then how come none of them have become risen?
A risen Tyrannus boss would have been much more exciting than just another champion risen shark, which we see in several other maps.

I’m not so convinced Berserker gear is so OP as you seem to think. Having tried it I only really ended up with one character with Berserker armour. My engineer is a dual pistol condition/crit spammer and I find Rampager gear more effective for him. As for my warior, I find berserker accessories useful, but if I want to be able to survive boss battles in melee I need something more resiliant, I ended up opting for Knight’s Toughness, power, precision stats on my armour. Only my ranger uses Berserker gear, and even then not a full set.
Berserker gear does give you good attack power, but you can’t take any damage if you use it for everything. Especially if you play melee, you can’t expect to dodge everything, just the really big spike attacks. The rest of the time the limits of your endurance regeneration rate means you have to be able to absorb that punishment.

Someone should totally make a guild entirely of female Charr, you could call it “Charrlie’s Angels” (runs for cover and hides)

And what alternate means of air transport do the Charr posses? Somehow I think airships have the edge efficiency wise over Charr choppers for long range supply work. Helicopters after all have to burn fuel for every second of lift, the airship gets lift for free from it’s lift gas, and only needs fuel for propulsion. I think it’d be a boon for them as it’d be a lot faster, and freer from interdiction than pack dolyak/mamox trains.

Ascalon was home of charr long before humans came for landgrab like they always do.[/quote]

Yes, but as Rytlock says in Ascalon Catacoumbs, “the humans pushed us out and built Ascalon ontop of it.” This says Ascalon is the name for the human kingdom, the Charr would have their own name for the region.

if you want minimal armour, try the heavy pit fighter chest with helmet and shoulders hidden, apart from a simple leather cross harness they’ll be naked to the waist.

The only thing I’d like changed on battle roar is the line “Remember Ascalon!” which to me has never made much sense for a Charr to shout, especially when teamed up with humans, among others. Makes my charr sound like a total kitten when he says that with a human fighting beside him.

Durman Priory light armour hood is good for Charr too, it starts behind the horns and covers the neck.
For medium the Duelist head gear is probably my favorite, or the pirate hat if you want something a bit funnier.
Heavy helmets, it’s hard to beat the Vigil helmet. clean, doesn’t clip ears, teeth or horns and the roman look suits Charr quite well with their legion structured society.

They do refer to them as War wagons occasionally. And I’m sure in the tank story mission the Charr crews refer to the small 3 wheeler charr tanks as “Chuggers”

I always feel Charr are the only race that can hear a Quagan say “oOOo, nice teeth!” and not feel slightly creaped out by it.

“Of course the Charr love animals, we eat almost nothing else!” That’s what my Charr ranger says to anyone who questions his career choice.

One of the lines the Charr soldier toys marching around the black Citadel during wintersday was “Three E’s of battle: Endurance, Efficiency, Elegance.” Seems to suggest the Charr do care about appearance, as presumably a Charr would have provided the voice for the toys. It’s just not the number one thing they’re concerned about. Unlike say, the Norn!

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There’s low calibre, and there’s high calibre.

But there ain’t anything like charr caliber :P

As for the shot above, 9/10. Should be more funny charr pictures :P

Is this funny enough?
“Nnnng… Hurry up and take the shot, this clucker’s HEAVY!”

Hard to say really, how low level are we talking about? Heavy and medium heritage armour skins are good, if you played guild wars 1.
This site is good for checking up what armour for sale on the trade house will look like http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/index.html since for some stupid reason you can’t preview it before you buy it.

7/10 First name sounds a bit Ogre-ish to me, but the warband name’s a good solid blood legion name.
My warrior is likewise proud to march under the banner of Blood. Brax Redreaver. His name used to be Braxion in teh Ferah, but the last person who called him that now only has half a tail and one horn, so best to stick with “Brax”.

Personally, I think female Charr do secretly like pretty things, I imagine a Male charr showing his affection for his chosen mate with the gift of a highly engraved/jeweled weapon he saw her longing for at the weaponsmith’s. She likes pretty, as long as it’s pretty and DEADLY

Remember, the other big limiting factor on Charr logistics is Charr are primarily carnivorous. It’s a lot harder to transport meat than grain based hard tack. Jerky helps, but it’s still going to be more bulky. The Charr are also not blessed by Geography, no easily navigable rivers, no coastline. Land transport has always been slower. Once the Charr get enough airships free from fighting dragons though, they could be set for a major expansion, since airships would be able to rapidly deliver supplies to armies far from the Charr centers of supply.

Don’t hoard so much, if I’m crafting stuff just to level I just salvage it again and recycle the mats, or sell it on the trade house in the case of rares that are actually worth something.
As for food, if it’s not something like Pizzas that can be used to make something else once I level up. I just sell it, or if no one wants it, I eat it. Eating food is an achievement goal after all.

Absolutely for this, I use this armour for my Charr Engineer as it’s perfect engineer style with all the pouches to keep all his gadgets in. I really want at least the hat to go with it, as medium armour is seriously lacking in GOOD headgear at present, in my opinion. (Only 2 I like are the pirate hat, and the Duelist hood). I also agree that an alternative look to trench coats would be nice, or at least model them better for Charr. Almost none of them have tail holes so on a char the tail just clips through them.

“More dazed soldiers staggering around in their Skivvies. Either we’re on the right track, or we missed the best party ever!” Rytlock Brimstone in Blood legion Charr storyline mission “Rage suppression”

My favorite NPC conversation is two female charr by the Imperial Smelter in Black Citadel, pity there’s not much reason to go there more often.
“You’re looking at him like he’s a slab of meat.”
“You got a problem with that?”
“Yeah, you’re blocking my view!”
:D

I actually use the Commando coat, shoulder, and pants on my engineer, I like how it looks with all the pockets and pouches to keep his gadgets in! sadly it does not seem to be possible to get the full set of commando armour (including a nice hat) outside of PvP gear :P I used tier 3 charr culture boots as I think the Iron claw covers and cleets suit an engineer, and the baggynes of the commando pants means I can wear them without them clipping, which happens on a lot of other leggings and those boots.

I was sat in Lion’s arch waiting for a guild dungeon run, and thought I’d make up some Charr style Philosophy. (please do not throw things at me)

Warrior : “Sorry, am I crushing your throat? Speak up, I can’t hear you!”

Ranger: “The Charr have always loved animals, we eat very little else.”

Guardian: “I just do these rituals, I don’t care why they work, ok.”

Engineer: “You can always find some way to blow something up, the real skill is in not being there when it happens.”

Thief: “Cat got your tongue? Why yes I do, and probably your lungs as well.”

Elementalist: “Worst part of this job is getting my fur to lie flat again after I use air magic.”

Mesmer: “You’ll go further in this life with a blade and a good spell, than with a blade alone.”

Necromancer: “Death is but a doorway, let me open it for you.”

Why are you assuming the Charr copied these quotes? Humans copy everything! Charr probably said these things first.

I’m a big fan of pan fighting, and would love to see a mace skin made that looks like a frying pan, and makes a good authentic CLANG sound when you smash someone in the face with it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5Roi27YHM
Ah, the fun we could have.

8/10, good authentic name, but engineer in ash legion? :P My iron legion engineer is Ferrous Blackclaw, named cos of the oil and black powder stains on his hands.

If you have hall of monuments from GW1, the heritage medium armour looks quite nice on Charr I think. Other than that I think the best choice for medium is Arah (hide the mask, that’s awful) the coat is great cos the dragon spine on the back actually runs down your tail. a suit with an armoured tail is epic!

Wrath seems to be a good match for the red, with Fluff on the spikes. Used that on my Charr warrior with T1 cultural

I think I’d agree that the Charr probably don’t care what you do off duty, as long as you don’t disrupt the city (as one guard in the black citadel tells a drunk “When it disrupts my city, your fun IS my problem!”) I like the idea of there being a Charr nip plant that makes them go all mellow and cub-like, I imagine casual use would be tollerated off duty, but any Charr becoming dependant would be ridiculed for their weakness in becoming a witless slave to a PLANT.

If you use the Citadel of flame armour, you can. You can certainly set your tail on fire wearing it!

Sylvari are definitely NOT immune to Zhaitan. They can’t become risen, but I’ve seen several areas where reviving downed sylvari npcs results in risen grubs exploding out of them Xenomorph style, which of course kills them instantly.

I’d like to see musical instuments added to the Gem store. they’d work like weapons but only with town clothes. you’d get a bunch of short riffs with each one, plus 1 short tune for skill 5.
They could be one themed to each race.
Asua Electomagical guitar
Charr war drum
Human violin, or maybe trumpet
Norn Lyre, or an alpine horn of some kind
Sylvari Harp or flute.

I’m hoping the “Circus Charricus” steam car racing arena becomes the Charr answer to Keg Brawl. I really want a steam powered deathrace minigame!

Well in order:
1. Cantha (specifically would love to see the imperial city with the new graphics, that place was epic the FIRST time round!)
2. Playable Tengu race.
3. New weapons: (Crossbows, that’s top of the list for me, I like the things. Oh and a 2 handed axe weapon family would be nice as well.)
4. New pets: I’m a ranger and more pets to choose from is always fun, not sure what you’d use, but some form of ranged underwater pet would be useful I think.
5. New food: I like cooking, new food and ingredients would be fun. Hopefully including fish, the lack of any way to cook fish kind if irritates me atm.
6. New gear. I expect I’ll probably be somewhat kitted out in epic stuff by the time the next campaign comes out, hence why it’s last on my list. But there is always room for another suit of armour somewhere! LOL

I’ve never had more than about 8k by level 40. I don’t spend a huge amount of Karma, but I will sometimes buy things like crafting recepies, or acessory items. Oh and keeping up to level on your rebreather is another Karma drain since there does not seem to be another way to get them. (seriously, make the things craftable Arenanet, PLEASE.)

I’ll fight some underwater bosses, IF I seen anyone else there. What I won’t do is any underwater boss in a CAVE. I mean who’s bright idea was this to put a creature designed to down people frequently in a place where you can’t reach the surface? I find that even with a group of players very few bother to revive players when underwater, so a cave based boss is just a good way to loose gear.

Must say I think the jump puzzles are just plain badly designed. if you’re going to cram them into small confined places, at least we need some way to lock the camera so we don’t end up jumping blind cos the camera won’t stay in any remotely useful angle to show you what you’re trying to land on.

Well obviously the best fitting armour for Charr is the Charr racial kit. The Generic armours need work though, especially the ones with long coats as these almost never have any kind of tail hole for their Charr versions. If you’re a medium armour user the Arah dungeon medium set is very nice, as long as you hide/transmute that frikking awful mask. The fact that the coat not only has a tail hole but actually an armoured tail protector that extends out about 30cm along the top of the tail and moves in sync with it is a very nice detail. Now can we have some more of that on the rest of the armours please?

This is so Broken, reported in no less then FOUR times, now. I’ve tried it over a dozen times, and nothing suggested here has helped. I seriously can’t believe they actually took the time to fix difficulty issues on this mission according to patch notes while IGNORING the fact that the mission’s basic mechanics are completely screwed up. This is not an ignorable fault like a stuck event, this is a main storyline quest that WILL NOT COMPLETE.

Bathos the Bow. Bathos from the Greak for “depth” is a term and is used to describe any kind of performance meant to evoke strong emotion rendered farsical by poor or over acting. Given how the Charr emote , this seems entirely appropriate for a Character name (this also sometimes applies to me, hence this being my username) the Bow, simple, he’s a ranger that spends about 80% of the time using a longbow.
Brax Redreaver is named for a dragon in a very old rpg I once owned who was called “Deftclaw Redreaver” Always thought it was a good name, and it fitted nicely with my warrior being blood legion.

Yeah it is a bit annoying given how we were told about your choices in the human story permenantly altering your home instance, that nothing I’ve done in my Charr storyline seems to have had any visable effects. My engineer’s father was the repentant shaman. And I helped him get a pardon, I’d have liked to see him actually living in my home instance somewhere, but never seen him on that character.

Maybe it’s the use of evil flame legion magic that turns your fur pink?

Not really, I just pretend I’m the Six Million Dollar Charr!

I wouldn’t call the biggest build option for Charr fat, not for male Charr anyway. That build also has the biggest muscles. the large build is more like a heavyweight wrestler, used that for my warrior, my ranger’s a little lankier as you’d expect, though kept him broad shouldered since he’s pulling a bow for a living, and that’s quite a workout.

I noticed this, I REPORTED this. what’s really strange was they used to be the right way round in the beta weekends :P oh, and how come there’s no hand prints when we’re running all fours in the snow?

My two main characters (I play them roughly equally) are Brax Redreaver (blood legion warrior) and Bathos the Bow (Ash legion ranger).

Anyone else here suspect Tybalt Leftpaw may infact be Dinky’s dad?

Of all the starter cities, Black citadel is my favorite by far. I am a big fan of the steampunk, so I’d actually like to live in a city like that for real! I’m really hoping the reference to the Circus Charricus still being “closed to the public at the moment” means it’s going to be a minigam ala Kegbrawl some day, steam wagon races would be amazing!