Remove or decrease race penalties

[Mindi]

There should be a SE-sercive (you pay it like a monthly fee to play the game or to servertransfer) to change your race. Should not touch the race-differences at all, if ppl want to change their race should make them pay for it. If those who complain about their race are really bothered that much they can also pay a few €/$.

The Race-differences ingame should remain untouched.. beside.. all races wouldnt mind a HP boost.. like 20% for each race.

[Mirage]

I too think that HP values across the board have not increased enough since lv75, compared both to the monster's damage output, and the healing power of white mages. Something like 35% more HP for all races (maybe a tiny bit more for tarus) would probably be healthy for the game. At the same time, reduce Cure 6's MP cost to around 170, and give Cure 5 to red mages.

[Godofgods]

Having slightly diffrent stats across diffrent races is part of what makes in interesting. And it fits the storyline to. I wouldnt want to see a galka with more mp then a tarutaru. And i wouldnt expect to see a tarutaru out strength a galka. Their is a reason for that. Leave it the way it is.

[tyrantsyn]

You know the problem with a Taru's HP not being up to snuff with end game content goes a lot deeper than what you guys are making it out to be.

1: TP set ups are not optimal for taken damage in. While some race's can get away with it, because of their stats. Other's can't. One ideal fix for this is armor that reduce damage, ad's HP, and add's to haste and x-hit build's all at the same time. ATM there's little to none that offer this.

2: Content is way to over powered in some cases, in order to make it challenging. And in the case of the Taru's HP that couldn't make it, need's to be taken into account and adjusted. There's plenty of ways this could be done with out giving Taru's a HP upgrade. I'd refer to 1 on this.

When I first came to the game, I started on RDM. And I hadn't realize for a long time how much of a favor I had done for myself by doing this until I try out BLM. The MP pool on a Galka sucks, but can be counter by a good refresh rate. It never bothered me that the Taru next to me had 1000 mp. Because I had made a good choice for a job that would keep my MP pool going even as I went deeper into a battle.

Now, I noticed this earlier and I just wanted to bring attention to it. But if you a Taru and your front of the line job is DRK than you sir/madam have some big brass 's
You know you have a weak hp pool and you know your on the front line with one of the most self destructive job's there is in the game. So how would some one who chooses to do this combo going to complain after the fact. You have set yourself up with a challenging combination and you need to take that into account before you suit up and head out.

[Mirage]

I've got 99 Ragnarok, Ukonvasara, Twashtar, and Terpsichore, along with 110 Alchemy. Please tell me again how re-rolling is a viable option.

I'm sure you noticed the tarutaru disadvantage long before you got all those weapons

I'm not suggesting that rerolling is a real option, I'm just messing with you

[Kincard]

I don't understand how people can say "oh it only takes this many hours to reroll your character". Those hours I could've spent doing something else? Even just getting through CoP is probably a whole day just due to all the walking around you have to do. Do none of you value your time at all or something?

[Seyomeyo]

HP Boost on a taru at the very least. We're way too squishy

[Raborn]

Guys Girls Guys and Girls......
Don't you get it?

It's all about Balance

[Maruraba]

I'm a tarutaru and I'm against changing things. Some may have chosen our characters purely for cosmetic reasons, but plenty of us like having our race specialties and advantages. When we encounter a weakness, we deal with it and compensate for it. Knowing how to cast a black magic spell and walk the line on enmity to the point of NOT getting killed is part of the deal for a black mage, and using gear and food are part of the deal for those of us who want to be on the frontline. Having different races with different stats means having different play styles and requires you to think about how you play your job as an individual and in a group. It would be dull and silly to just lump everyone into one group.

For those who really feel that strongly about it, I say let them have an option, a time-limited race change thing like the ability to change servers. You want to be a hume instead of a tarutaru? Okay, fine, try it out once every 90 days or so. If people really feel that strongly, then we can give them that option, but there's no reason to deprive everyone of such a key feature/mechanic of the game. Variety is good and it should remain.

[FrankReynolds]

Having slightly diffrent stats across diffrent races is part of what makes in interesting. And it fits the storyline to. I wouldnt want to see a galka with more mp then a tarutaru. And i wouldnt expect to see a tarutaru out strength a galka. Their is a reason for that. Leave it the way it is.

You know damn well that if all the races in this game had had the same stats back when you bought it, that you wouldn't have even noticed the difference. You would have picked whichever race seemed the coolest to you at that time and played away happily in ignorant bliss. And if someone had suggested "I think I should be better at mage jobs than you because I'm small", you would have laughed and told him to F*** off. Years later some dummy would suggest it here on this forum and you would be arguing about what a stupid idea that is and how there are thousands of games where race / character have absolutely nothing to do with stats and players are happy about that.