Written by: (@WadeDMcGinnis) | August 22, 2012 2:57 pm

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ArenaNet revealed during the latest and final stress test the dance animations for all the races in Guild Wars 2.

Is anyone curious to know which race does what dance?

The Human race mirrors their dance from LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem. Norn find their moves in the Carlton from a character on Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Charr find their inspiration to dance from the Maori Haka. The Asura do popping and the Sylvari use the Bhangra dance.

Check out the video below to find out which race knows how to bust a move and which just bites the dust.

Guild Wars 2 Reveals Dance Animations

  • http://twitter.com/prism2525 prism2525

    Human dance is the best imo, but that’s probably because i just love the song.

    Norn and asura are good too, but I fail to see from which ‘planet’ did they scavenge the ones for the charr and sylvari.

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/YSVAPKVBUPTX6YS3W2DLPOBNN4 AlokP

      Charr is from the New Zealand Haka, mostly popular because New Zealand’s rugby team the All Blacks do it before their matches to intimidate people. Sylvari is bhangra, a popular dance style in India and Bollywood – though the clip is from I believe Panjabi MC’s Bari Barsi.

    • http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

      That would be which hemisphere.   
       New Zealand and India.

    • http://www.facebook.com/fimbulvetrr Dovah Kiin

      culture-less dumbass.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Raymond-Macduff/660827451 Kevin Raymond Macduff

    roflmao only thing i got to say

  • http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm

    Dances are always the better part.

  • Fluffenstuffen

    That asuran dance… :)

  • http://twitter.com/Nin3r Richard Martin

    Yeah my favorite races get the best dances, human and asura. I like Hakas aswell and they could’ve done them better for the Charr.

  • http://www.facebook.com/inkogni.alex Inkogni Alex

    ya think this is the final stress test? theres room for more :D

    • Old Ben

      The fact that they extended the last test by two hours suggests they don’t want to make another one (otherwise they would have just ended the test at 4 PM and left the rest for the next one).

      However, some problems with the gem store weren’t fixed even after those two extra hours, and the gem store is kind of a big deal, so unless they manage to isolate those problems and be 100% sure they fixed them, they might still do a 1- or 2-hour stress test tomorrow just to check that.

  • Spark026

    We all do dumb things when we’re drunk.  That’s my Norn’s story…

    Like the Asura needed to be any more lovable…cute, cuddly, and pimp…nerf to dance incoming ;P

  • http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

    Lol, would love to see lines of Charr doing the Kapa Haka on the walls in WvW.   

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/YSVAPKVBUPTX6YS3W2DLPOBNN4 AlokP

      That would be totally fucking epic.

    • Razor4884

      Arena-net should make it that if enough people coordinate their dances together, the actual music for the dance can start to be heard coming from the dancers.

    • http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.hornsby.7 Jonathan Hornsby

       Now I am positive someone will make that happen. Keep your eyes on youtube.

  • Keith Lamar

    OMG this was dope

  • http://twitter.com/Latinkuro Latinkuro

    I can see them adding some more dance styles in the CS. And no I’m not complaining this is something I’d totally support and buy myself :D

  • Spammerbam
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Rosario/100002490853136 Joel Rosario

    norn dance the best that is all

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1339406775 Matthew Riddle

    Hate to admit it, but before watching this, I was 100% going to be Asura. Now, I’m 200% going to be Human.

    DANGIT!

    But awesome…

    • Razor4884

      You can be both.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hamad-Ali-Al-Jalahma/512893526 Hamad Ali Al-Jalahma

    Dat Asura dance … Winning !

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/TEIKKTC24GBE63XZULR7YNYPFE Ron

    If you were on the fence about GW2 before, you won’t be after this video.

  • Mike Richardson

    LMFAO now immortalized in 2 separate video games, I wonder if that was just coincidence.

  • http://twitter.com/Nathiest Nathiest

    Needs work. The dance animation kind of sucks.

    edit: The Asura. omg, omg, omg!! The greatest racial dance ever!

  • http://www.facebook.com/adzaell Adam Elliott

    Bhangra dance FTW!

  • Voiced23

    DAT Nord  dance…

    • Razor4884

      *Norn

      • Voiced23

        again

      • Voiced23

        … shift was on…

  • RBHgamer

    I have to admit I was worried I was being trolled when I first played this.  You gotta be on your guard with Gary the griefer around but now that i know its a thing, I gotta say the dances are pretty awesome.

  • Morturion

    Dammit, now I have to roll one of each race after all. The races I was least interested in got the most awesome dances D:

  • http://twitter.com/DaPhoolz Rp TheFoolz

    Maori Haka.. on the Charr would be awesome if there’r some voice and SFX

    • Old Ben

      They do make a few sounds.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1040766471 Belinda Smith

      I thought it was the Haka! (I saw it the first time on YouTube, so no sound or comparision) That suits the Charr quite well I think.

    • http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

      Should be fantastic when a bunch of Charr form a Kapa Haka on top of a wall in WvW. 

  • Odog4ever

    Was going to roll human first and l like their dance the best so that’s a nice bonus. Seems like  my disinterest in Charr was warranted though…

  • http://www.facebook.com/shane.cominotto Shane Cominotto

    i think they are all done rather well, it would be nice if they had a secondary dance that was unique to the race and game :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Keller/100000218559506 Chris Keller

    I’m actually pretty disappointed
    didn’t WoW just add shufflin as the pandaren male? then other then asura they r all just weird flailing without much flair

    • http://www.facebook.com/osiris.neits Osiris Neits

      Well, Blizzard sort of added a half assed imitation of shufflin to the pandaren male :P  The human dance in GW captures it dead on. And the Carlton is all about flair lol. The Asura dance is the best by far tho, imo. I was just disappointed that there was only 1 dance per race- male and female versions would have been cool. Oh well.

      • http://twitter.com/mjedwards15 Mathew Edwards

        There was 12 different dances in the first guild wars when it was released and 20 after all the add on campaigns. 1 for each of the 10 professions, male and female. Not only that but collector’s edition purchasers go extra little features in their dances like ritualists dancing with their spirits and dervish dancing with a disco ball. The dances look cool but there should have been at least 1 for each gender too. 

        • RolyVento

          In due time and with expansions we will see more dance moves.

          • dawolv

             I assume they are putting them up for grabs in the gemstore.
            That’s a very nice thing that they can make a little money on!

      • http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

        The Pandarian Male shuffle is really good, conveys much more emotion than the GW2 human’s shuffle.  The expression on the GW2 human is just dead.   It was also fun that the Pandarian Male and Female characters have different dance moves, shows alot more effort. 

  • http://twitter.com/ShawnaRM Shawna R. M.

    They are trolling blizz with the shuffle. “Hey looks we did this better than you. XD”

    <3

    • http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

      I don’t know about that, the GW2 humans look dead to me.  Look at the dance moves, nothing is happening from the neck up.   Love the Charr and Asura at least they have something going on in the facial area.  But, the humans shuffle is terrible, doesn’t display any emotion at all.    

  • http://www.facebook.com/osiris.neits Osiris Neits

    That human female needs to learn the cooking skill O.o Anorexia is bad.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Case/100003772398650 Justin Case

       you know what’s worse than anorexia?jabba the hut looking women

    • http://twitter.com/Master10K Master10K

       Good thing players have the option to make slightly thicker females.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23323284 Heather Kelsey

    Nice!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Caswell/631559369 Jason Caswell

    Someone FINALLY did the Carlton!  ANet is officially more awesome.

    • http://twitter.com/Master10K Master10K

      Actually one of the races in Rift had the Carlton dance. I wish ArenaNet went for something else with the Norn.

      • Dixhallpike

        I completly agree. Norn carlton was a really bad idea

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tj-Vossos/647768691 Tj Vossos

    Sylvari Dance rocks

  • tommythepower

    Yeah also out gw2 developers breaks wind, make a story about that……

    • http://twitter.com/Master10K Master10K

       Do you have a source for that profound news update? I’m truly interested now. ^_^

  • Lynx Raven Raide

    For the record the name of the dance from the LMFAO clip is the Melbourne Shuffle.

    Also, interesting that they put the controversial (when first used) throat-slash movement in the Charr Haka. Didn’t notice that the first time

  • http://twitter.com/cr4zycru Cruc

    Well I was dead set on rolling a Charr….but now i think im going Asura…just cause of that Popping…so good.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/WZ324KCWGCMJENR2ZFFTCK3QP4 Blaze

    they should make more dance moves!

  • Jado Cast

    Popping is my favorite!

  • RolyVento

    Love the Human and Sylvari dances!

  • http://twitter.com/MMO_NUB MMO_NUB

    tyty

  • http://www.facebook.com/fredrik.gardsio Fredrik Fronken Gardsiö

    There we have the reason why i’m making my Human Female warrior into a Norn Female warrior instead, can’t stand LMFAO at all, and i grew up watching Fresh Prince, so it’s an easy choice :)

  • http://twitter.com/AmythieI Kamil

    Video is broken for me. Video format or MME type not recognized.  This new video streaming provider is terrible. Why the change?

  • MiZTiiX

    the pandaren have the shuffle , wtf

    • http://www.facebook.com/radamont.zeal Radamont Zeal

      yeh but if you compare the pandaren version to this version, this one is a LOT more accurate and a lot better.  Granted that’s an opinion, but wow dropped the ball on it.

      • MiZTiiX

        Really? because i think the GW2 one just doesn’t fit at all

  • http://www.facebook.com/Tyire Tyler Liden

    waiting for a game to pick up Gangnam style for a dance

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roberto-Rivas/828328057 Roberto Rivas

    Can’t wait

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1433957423 Rose Lima

    Mabinogi has Gangnam Style dance lol.

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