Who are you going to play as in GW2?

If I play, it'll be as a Sylvari. Only race I am interested in outside of human, which interests me much less when other races are available. I'll also take my lesson from Guild Wars this time around and simply play a single character of the class I most often play in any game: monk.

btw, if arena net decide to use them as playable race , I'd definitely play as them

ill play w/e is innately best at prot monk.

if they;
a) dont have innate bonuses (i hope they dont) then ill pick the coolest looking one
b) dont have prot spells ill quit. no joke. pvp would be LAME.

I'm hoping that the races are only for looks and don't actually affect the classes. Forcing people to have to play as a certain race to maximize effectiveness will really hit a nail into the coffin.

Unfortunatly that's what'd make sense. Just like asurans are innatly (correct word?) better at spells and magic, the norn would be for melee, even if you have all classes on each race if you'd want to make a warrior you'd have to be a norn otherwise you'd simply be underpowered. Unless the same profession for each race has somewhat a different aproach. Norn would be the 'regular' warrior, and an asuran warrior would be something hybrid, in the lines of a dervish for example. Hum, actually that makes more sense than the first guess. But still, you'd have to choose the race based on what you want to be...

asura probly cuz it sounds cool x)

Ill play Asura, Charr, Norn and Human.But my main would be human or norn , Im not going to stay in one race! I hope there are a lot of characters slots!

Human, Norn or Sylvari, based on which is hottest.

i'll be a witch doctor

1) Sylvari are closer to Dryads and Nymphs than elves.
2) there are already vampires - they only exist in Urgoz Warren, and are based off of the Chinese Hopping Vampire.

I think just the opposite. If the races end up having purely cosmetic effect on your character then ill probably be better off playing something else. I really hope GW2 is not another "barbie dress up" game like GW is becoming.

If you want to be a caster, then go asura
If you want to be melee go norn or dwarf.
If you want to be a ranger or sin, sylvari is your race.

If I see any asurans running around wielding a hammer ill uninstall and go play a real RPG.

lvl 70 blood elf

I lol'ed. Kinda true. When GW2 comes out ill let a friend buy it first and see what its like, but ill probably stay with GW1 unless it dies the rest of the way. Otherwise i might try out the dreaded WoW. In all reality, i might just forgo both options and take up smoking crack again which is much less addictive IMHO.

I'll probably be messing around with the different races first to see which ones suit me (and so will most of us).

As of now i can say that i'll be playing Human, but also interested in Charr and Sylvari.
I don't really like the design of the current Norns, and Asura look a bit weird :P

Oh and for the professions well definitely a Warrior, because you need one so that you can put all the nice sword/axe/shield skins on it.
But i've always wanted to play ranger, i've made one 2 years ago but never really got around to playing it. So i'll be catching up in GW2. Also a Monk.

Tbh they might do it like WoW (maybe other games do it too, i don't know) and let races only choose certain professions. Like you can't be a Blood Elf Warrior. (i think, lo0lez)

I've always wanted to be a male break dancing midget, but that is of course not available so I'll go with Asura

You can't be because I am one it is my Chinesse(sp) zodiac sign.I would if I do play GW2 probably be human or norn.I am on the fence with this one.

Wouldn't playing as a Sylvari make you more vunerable to slashing damage and fire damage since you are technically a plant?

Pretty bad handicap if you consider fire dmg and slashing dmg are probably two of the more common damage types aside from piercing and dark/chaos.

Regardless of whether it makes sense lore-wise, I hope that there are NO advatages to playing one race or another. I would accept, at most, one or two professions (of 6+ professions) to be off limits to races so long as it is uniform.

I don't like the idea of having to be a certain race to get the most out of a certain build. It means that if you want to run that build you have to re-roll. Fine for PvP, not cool fo PvE. GW has a good thing going with being able to re-roll at the drop of a hat (in towns). Those who want their skill trees and min-max and inherent race bonuses should probably be playing a game other than GW.

I will probably play human, assuming I buy GW2.

Asura, but only if I can make it talk because their voices make me laugh

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