Originally posted by Xzen

Originally posted by KingJiggly

Originally posted by Xzen

Originally posted by KingJiggly

Sylvari. The ability to form entire armies in a few days defiantly favors them, the ability to give all their experiences to one sort of mind, hinting at psychic ability. Also the possibility of multiple trees with ccompletely different characteristics is huge. Charr would be caught up in there geographical area, with mountains practically surrounding them and patroled by norn. Humans would pose no threat to the norn, seeing they are facing there own inner dilemmas, notably centaur. Asura would be quickly wiped by infinite sylvari armies and lack of real organized army outside some golems. Humans would quickly be next, and that is where it would stop. Norn would hold out thanks to cool conditions, however they would have to split there army to deal with the sylvari threat. Charr would overtake them, leaving sylvari vs charr. By that time, sylvari would have taken military tactics from humans to use against charr, and while it would take a while mainly thanks to the mountains, sylvari will win. 

 

And that is my answer. 

Charr have tanks and airships and big bombs. To beat the Sylvari all they have to do is drop some napalm on their home.

Multiple trees and sylvari would have similar tech to thx to Asura. Next!

So now we have races allying up? Then I say "nuh uh" the Asura sided with the char and combined their tech. =P

I meant after destruction of Asura. The sylvari ability to coalesce all there experiences in one mind would make reverse engineering and engineering very simple. Not to mention charr on other side of of Tyrian. That is what I meant. Alliances are not allowed lol

Originally posted by Laross
I think in any war it wou come down to those who have more knowledge and the technology to gain the knowledge.   In any conflict the opponent with update information will usually have a greater advantage

Even better answer. None. The Order of Whispers would manipulate everyone and no side would really come away any better off than when it started.

Originally posted by Xzen

Originally posted by Laross
I think in any war it wou come down to those who have more knowledge and the technology to gain the knowledge.   In any conflict the opponent with update information will usually have a greater advantage

Even better answer. None. The Order of Whispers would manipulate everyone and no side would really come away any better off than when it started.

Sylvari win then for reasons I said earlier.... Lolololololololol

I think this debate is somewhat trivial because in ANY fantasy mmo settings and in ANY lore, humans will ALWAYS win if there was a race war.

It is ALWAYS because humans are the most populus, prolific and adaptable race in any game settings, even though they lack any special attributes.

And in terms of the games itself, look at how many players roll humans compare to any other race and you'll see that the numerical superiority is simply way too much versus any other race.

I would say Asura or Humans, and leaning more towards the Asura.

Why?

Asura are cunning, manipulative, condescending a**hats. They would turn the other races against each other, and work to ignite internal conflict within the other races themselves. Why waste the energy fighting the enemy, when they enemy can destroy themselves? Not to mention they control the Asura gates.

People are so quick to count the Sylvari out and I'm not sure why; they're not my favorite race, but the pale tree is OP as !@#$. 

Not remarking the fact that it, in and of itself, is astoundingly large for only 250 years of growth (and growing), it can create sentient life at will. What kind of !@#$ is that, lol. And on top of that, can access the "dream", a wealth of knowledge so vast it spans the entire Sylvari's consciousness. I don't think petty flame throwing is going to do anything at all. Heck, Sylvari can learn to be fire elementalists after all. 

It's really a toss up between the Asura and the Sylvari for me however. The Asura have an unprescedented understanding and wielding of magic and related properties, making obsolete the analogue practices of the Charr and the medieval childsplay that the Norn and Humans bring to the table. And Asura have the ego to boot! Really, it's the whole package right there. :D

Originally posted by aRtFuLThinG

I think this debate is somewhat trivial because in ANY fantasy mmo settings and in ANY lore, humans will ALWAYS win if there was a race war.

It is ALWAYS because humans are the most populus, prolific and adaptable race in any game settings, even though they lack any special attributes.

And in terms of the games itself, look at how many players roll humans compare to any other race and you'll see that the numerical superiority is simply way too much versus any other race.

Just to point out, Arena Net has made it a point to put humans on the brink. They've lost 2 of the 3 nations they've once had within Tyria itself, and contact with Elon aand Cantha have been severed. The only standing humans in the discussion right now are those at Ebonhawke and Divinity's Reach and without the Asura gates, they might as well be on opposite sides of the planet.  I don't think player population is part of the discussion, but even if it was, humans are still virtually in the middle of the fight so they've be on all fronts. It's really not reasonable to expect them to do anything in this scenario. 

Originally posted by Harttz
I say that no one would win because some Asura would invent an ultimate weapon which would end up destroying the world.

Or alternatively, Skritt. Skritt everywhere. o_e

Originally posted by aRtFuLThinG

I think this debate is somewhat trivial because in ANY fantasy mmo settings and in ANY lore, humans will ALWAYS win if there was a race war.

It is ALWAYS because humans are the most populus, prolific and adaptable race in any game settings, even though they lack any special attributes.

And in terms of the games itself, look at how many players roll humans compare to any other race and you'll see that the numerical superiority is simply way too much versus any other race.

Yeah, except Arenanet turned that on its head and made humans the race who are on the decline.  D:

Originally posted by Meowhead

Originally posted by aRtFuLThinG

I think this debate is somewhat trivial because in ANY fantasy mmo settings and in ANY lore, humans will ALWAYS win if there was a race war.

It is ALWAYS because humans are the most populus, prolific and adaptable race in any game settings, even though they lack any special attributes.

And in terms of the games itself, look at how many players roll humans compare to any other race and you'll see that the numerical superiority is simply way too much versus any other race.

Yeah, except Arenanet turned that on its head and made humans the race who are on the decline.  D:

So did Tolkien... you know LORD OF THE F***EN RINGS. XD

Originally posted by KingJiggly

Originally posted by Meowhead

Originally posted by aRtFuLThinG

I think this debate is somewhat trivial because in ANY fantasy mmo settings and in ANY lore, humans will ALWAYS win if there was a race war.

It is ALWAYS because humans are the most populus, prolific and adaptable race in any game settings, even though they lack any special attributes.

And in terms of the games itself, look at how many players roll humans compare to any other race and you'll see that the numerical superiority is simply way too much versus any other race.

Yeah, except Arenanet turned that on its head and made humans the race who are on the decline.  D:

So did Tolkien... you know LORD OF THE F***EN RINGS. XD

Umm... you do realize that The Lord of the Rings sets the stage for the third age.  The age of man.

Originally posted by PaRoXiTiC

HUMAND BABY!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!

Face it... every movie, every storybook.... humans always prevail.

Not really, eg. Avatar ........

Originally posted by Yamota

Charr. They have the strongest most fanatical warriors and do not seem to be afraid to take losses. Can't see them being stopped by any single race, they would have to gang up on them.

Asura and Sylvari would go first as they are weak, followed by humans. Norn would last longest but in the end would succum to the Charr hordes.

I dunno, the norns have the same attitude there, those people actually dont mind dying.

Going against the norns would be a really bad idea, the norns fight guerilla style so the charrs might take Hoelbrak but in the end they would have to retreat.

I dont see the charrs or norns completely anihilate eachothers, it would end in a stalemate between them.

Originally posted by KingJiggly

Originally posted by Meowhead

Originally posted by aRtFuLThinG

I think this debate is somewhat trivial because in ANY fantasy mmo settings and in ANY lore, humans will ALWAYS win if there was a race war.

It is ALWAYS because humans are the most populus, prolific and adaptable race in any game settings, even though they lack any special attributes.

And in terms of the games itself, look at how many players roll humans compare to any other race and you'll see that the numerical superiority is simply way too much versus any other race.

Yeah, except Arenanet turned that on its head and made humans the race who are on the decline.  D:

So did Tolkien... you know LORD OF THE F***EN RINGS. XD

Not only him, there are plenty of books where the human race is on decline.

But if we think from a more realistic viewpoint then the bad guy wins surprisingly often which never happens in books and movies (ok, almost never).

People are too quick to yell Charr, Ascalonian humans already beat Charr untill the Charr resorted to trickery.

Hard to say generally speaking since I dont simply know the numbers how much each race is supposedly have at the moment. Though I do agree with Sylvari not being very high on my list. Edit: Because I assume there's not so many of them and they are still kinda trying to just find their place in the world.

I think there is actual some rock,sissor paper involved here.

First Norn will beat the Charr. Not first or second battle, where charr army organisation will win, but Charr is the only race that form a formidable opponnent enough to gain fame and glory from fighting, and nothing is going to stop the NORN from seeking fame and glory through fighting.

Well except maybe the Asuras, because they will just provide beer to the Norn, and keep the drunken giants harmless. So Asura beats Norn.

And Charr is going to beat Asura, systematical and slowly, 1 step at the time.

Everybody beats the timy humans, and nobody is going to get past the sylvaris dream, and get them into a war in thesse terms.