Playable Races in Guild Wars 2...

my guess is that there will be slight differences in physical stats between the races but the real difference will be the race specific skills. it's been stated that the norn's ability to transform into a bear is an aquired skill so what would the other races have?

god, i hope the charr have a searing version of meteor storm.

PS you've only seen the minipet maybe the characters look a little better

Male Charr Warrior \o/ I wonder if all charr speak english and the humans snarl like the charrs do in gw1 :P

I'll be making one of each...

Human Warrior
Charr Shaman
Asura Ranger
Norn "Druid"? (if they have such a Profession...)
Sylvari Mesmer

(assuming all Profession stay the same...

if not, I'm sure I won't have any trouble finding something to play!)

There are numerous humanoid, more or less intelligent NPC races in the known world of Tyria: Tengu, Charr, Centaurs, Dwarves, Grawl, Dredge, ...

Remember there are even Wallow henchmen in Factions! I guess all playable races will be humanoid though.

My first choice would be charr(war) but it seems like every fred,jim an their dog will be playing it.Probably going asura necro now,minnions x3 your size FTW

Btw,how do female charr look . My guess is not to pretty

I would be so immensely happy if the following races were also included:

Tengu, Centaur, Forgotten, Dredge, Margonite. Especially the Tengu, Centaur and Forgotten.


I EXTREMELY hope that all professions we've seen in GW1 are available in GW2 to all races... but I would expect that there are some race-specific skills.

A pretty major thing I thought would be whether humans will be portrayed as the jack-of-all-trades. Because in most (if not all) games) the jack of all trade was always the worse cause he/she couldn't do anything properly yet could do everything crappishly.

Yeah I hope that humans will be pushed in a certain direction or if they are going to be left open a bit they should atleast be able to develope themselves in one way so that they aren't any weaker then another race but also can't do everything just like all the other races.

In that case, I'll probably go back to playing games with real PvP.

So far I want to be one of those cute little thingies.. or a Tengu... though turning into a bear would be cool so I'll have to see the model choice first.. but like most have stated, it's really going to come down to what their racial ability is.

Good luck, most games are like that with either specific skills or racial traits. But I'm also certain Gaile or the article said it would not be available in PvP.

Interestingly, it says in the article that ANet is keeping the total number of races under wraps, 'but we did uncover a few secrets about some of them'.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before.

Neriandal Freit - Human Male - Elementalist
Alsitha Freit - Human Male - Mesmer
Vierita Freit - Human Female - Monk
Sytheria Moonstar - Human Female - Necromancer
Aluriel Silverdawn - Human Female - Ritualist
Volishkar Moonstar - Human Male - Dervish

Those are the characters I intend on having in Guildwars 2. I have already admited that I will likely have a Charr character, but only one. Other playable races will likely involve the Tengu. I doubt anything like the Mursaat, Margonites and Forgotten. Those we can label as "Elite" races and I wouldn't be surprised (and HIGHLY support the idea) if we have to earn some of these races in the game.

The Five Known can simply be the Five Playable At First races. Now that's something to start pondering over. Remember, we've encountered many talkative other races in the game (Centaurs, Tengu, etc.), so begin to look over GuildWiki races to start narrowing down potential races.

I'm gonna find the smallest race, and make a warrior of the smallest possible size of that race, and either carry a big hammer for entertainment value, whilst using other weapons, or just find a big weapon

I would have to suspect that we will be able to play the Dwarves in this game due to the Eye of the North expansion due out this fall/winter.

I'll be making a human necro, a Charr ranger, and a Norn warrior to start off. I'll see what the benefits of each race are first though. I'm thinking a Sylvari ritualist would be cool too. The rest of my characters would probably be human though.

If Dwarves, tengu, and centaurs got in I'd definately make a dwarf (he'd probably be my warrior instead of the norn) and a tengu assassin, and maybe a centaur paragon.

All Charr for me >.>

Tengu are great.

How about playing as a Mursaat?

I'm using Spectral Agony!

Game over. :P

Where can we see pictures of these races?

I think I'll try all of them just to see how they act/move/attack/do emotes/etc... Although the asuras are a bit scary psycos!!

But I'm looking forward to making a sylvari cause I love things related to nature/light/magic...

Norns also seem cool for a more physical style of fightning.

Well, I'm rlly rlly excited bout all of the races and the Beta test will be awesome. And yeh I also like the tengu, the centaur and the dwarves as possible options for more races.