Anyone else use a Fantasia and immediately regret it?

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Originally Posted by Duskane

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not sure where you got that from but i think au ra males look just fine with the healers and the poses of the attacks
more elegant then feminine imo

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It may look good on your character, but I made a character that wouldn't pose that way. For example, look at the male Au Ra emotes or their running animation. They are different. There are none where he would position his hand in such a feminine-elegant way. I don't know how to describe it properly. But it wasn't what I personally had in mind for the character I created.
He wouldn't do that swing when casting Holy or things like that.

I'm not a roleplayer, but when I create a character, I still think a little bit about their personality or how they would behave.

To me (and I'm a girl irl), most of the WHM and AST animations look very feminine.
That is fine, but it doesn't go well with every character unfortunately.

I made as close of a copy of my ffxi character as I could when FFXIV first came out in 2010 and kept him until HW. I then switched to a female elezen just because it is so hard to get a glamour I was happy with as a male. This was never as issue in xi or even v1-arr, but decent male options are just becoming fewer and fewer.

I am, however, always an elf. Ever since I started d&d as just a wee lad, if there is an elf, that is what I play. I did change to hyur, au'ra and miquote for a super short time but changed back within days. I cannot get past the au'ra male run or the way the females legs are awkwardly bent while standing still, miquote all have almost abnormally circular faces and the males have those weird fingers, plus I am a dog person, cats are just jerks and hyurs are either horrifically eyebrowless or just plain and boring imo. Roes are not bad but too bulky for me and lala need to die in a fire, I would never even consider a fanta to one of those lil things.

So back to elezen it was since I can live with a long neck, it looks normal to me at this point.

This is why i use the Stormblood benchmark program, i make my character up looks and how i want her, run the benchmark to see ingame lighting and decide its really helpful.

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Originally Posted by Limonia

It may look good on your character, but I made a character that wouldn't pose that way. For example, look at the male Au Ra emotes or their running animation. They are different. There are none where he would position his hand in such a feminine-elegant way. I don't know how to describe it properly. But it wasn't what I personally had in mind for the character I created.
He wouldn't do that swing when casting Holy or things like that.

I'm not a roleplayer, but when I create a character, I still think a little bit about their personality or how they would behave.

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I'm the same, and it can be really jarring when the character emotes don't line up with your idea for their personality.

It would be nice to have more control over it, but it would probably mean sacrificing visual customisation options.

I fantasia quite often, and most of the time I've been perfectly happy with my choice. Now and then, I have felt like I switched too soon from a particular race, and that's always a slight bummer.

The only time my fantasia has lasted less than a day was when I went Elezen. The second time I tried an Elezen, I think I made it about 2 days. For whatever reason, I just can't make those feel like my character. I think that 2nd Elezen fantasia proved that to me, so at least that particular itch has been scratched :P

I was a known Fantasia Sl*t, before I turned into this arrogant guy. Well, a while after I tried to go female elezen and.. what to say.. it felt so sooooo wrong suddenly, I don't know why. It's weird. After 3 or 4 hours, I changed back.
I don't know what this guy does to me, but its good for my wallet :v

I did have one regret but it was totally my own fault due to forgetfulness on how the game works >_> I came back to the game to spend time with friends for a third time. The second time I came back I made a bunch of changes for an RP scenario that flopped out. I had a fantasia banked that I got from somewhere and when I came back the third time I wanted my normal last name back.

Yeah after using it only then did I remember that fantasias and name changes are two different things >_>

I changed to male au ra for a while and he was great but I was so disoriented by how big he was. Mounts are bigger, the running animation is more powerful. I felt he took up most of my screen and I was zooming out all the time. So impressive and I love their emotes but not for me, I switched back quickly.

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Originally Posted by Bahati

I changed to male au ra for a while and he was great but I was so disoriented by how big he was. Mounts are bigger, the running animation is more powerful. I felt he took up most of my screen and I was zooming out all the time. So impressive and I love their emotes but not for me, I switched back quickly.

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I don't like taller characters but I keep getting drawn to them for my alts!!! (Roegadyn, Elezen and male Au Ra) It took so long to get used to the different running pace.

Yeah my Fantasia problem is worse. I’ve only Fantasiad once for a race change, all my other uses have been for little niggling things like one eye color shade to the left or right or one skin tone shade to the left or the right. For some reason I struggle so much mostly with deciding on skin tone that even if I spend a bunch of time in the cc and also make test characters so I can actually see them in game, I’ll often still feel like something isn’t quite right after I’ve used the Fantasia. My charsare settled for now, but eventually I’ll probably again fall down the pit of hmmm coloring seems a bit off...

It took me a couple weeks to regret it. I went cat boy, but ended up switching back to my Highlander soon enough.

Nope never have regret it. I thought I would regret it so bought 5 fantasia's but didn't and still have 4 of them. Just wish could trade or sell them.

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Originally Posted by Tempest222

Yeah my Fantasia problem is worse. I’ve only Fantasiad once for a race change, all my other uses have been for little niggling things like one eye color shade to the left or right or one skin tone shade to the left or the right. For some reason I struggle so much mostly with deciding on skin tone that even if I spend a bunch of time in the cc and also make test characters so I can actually see them in game, I’ll often still feel like something isn’t quite right after I’ve used the Fantasia. My charsare settled for now, but eventually I’ll probably again fall down the pit of hmmm coloring seems a bit off...

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I've had the exact same problem. I don't think there's really enough lighting schemes to test colours properly. Day and night kinda don't cut it. It always ends up way off than what I'm being shown. Trying to find a balance between pink/ yellow undertone is the worst. :c

i was an elzeen

I Fantasia'd once: male Keeper of the Moon to male Xaela upon HW launch. I had the intention of Fantasia-ing back and forth about every six months, but the cost is prohibitive enough for me to decide against it. There are times I wonder about going back to male Miqo'te, but then I look at my Au Ra and how well it suits my character; if I did change, I can't imagine that it would take long for me to go back to Au Ra.

And this is where alts have their use.

No, I've used the 2 I got just to make minor tweaks: Breast reduction, tail lengthening, eye color, stuff like that.

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Originally Posted by KaijinRhada

I Fantasia'd once:

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"My parents were out of town and I invited some friends over..." lol jk

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Originally Posted by Lollie

This is why you make burner characters on under populated servers.

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The issue is burner characters don't have all your glams.

And yeah, I went Miqo for about 40 minutes once.

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Originally Posted by BloodRubyXII

The issue is burner characters don't have all your glams.

And yeah, I went Miqo for about 40 minutes once.

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Hairstyles as well. I always make test characters to try out emotes, voices, etc, but glam and hair can make a huge difference.

As far as the hairstyles go, I really wish SE would just add ALL hairstyles into the character creator, and then maybe put an asterisk next to them saying available via in-game content.

My first one. Had 2 of them due to 30 days sub (back when they were part of the veteran rewards) and from HW digital deluxe. Had decided I was going to swap to female due to glamour options, so I went with midlander. The running animation immediately made me regret that choice. Not wanting to be one of the millions of cat or lizard ladies running around, and with my buddy already being femroe, I used the second one to go Thighlander and have remained one ever since, which was a week or two before HW launch.

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Originally Posted by Kazgrel

The running animation immediately made me regret that choice.

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I went from sun cat to moon cat for various reasons. The only thing I'm disappointed in is that the tattoos are darker. The sun cat tattoos are actually sun-faded.

I like my alt being an au ra but the name doesn't fit anymore. I have considered changing it but I don't think I care that much about it.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I only changed a character's hairstyle once (from long to short, and don't want to 'magically' change it back), and it took a week of deciding beforehand and a few weeks to stop feeling like it may have been a terrible mistake...

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Originally Posted by Sprinks

After I got the new HoH hairstyle, my husband convinced me to just go ahead and try it because I liked it so much. I honestly felt like Sprinks lost her identity. That lasted a whole 2 weeks because I changed my gIamour and the hair just didn't work. I do change from the buns to the ponytails at Christmas time due to HORRIBLE clipping with the reindeer antlers, but after 5 years of gathering dust, I finally tossed the fantasias that we got for free. I'm never changing my character to that degree. Ever.

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You know about the Aesthetician right? :O

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Originally Posted by Veila

You know about the Aesthetician right? :O

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Yes I do, and that's what I used. Was still "changing a character's appearance and then finding it strange" so I figure it counts.

And yes, technically I could have just reverted it at any time but I'd decided beforehand that I wasn't going to. I'm not quite a roleplayer but I do think of my characters as consistent people, so it wasn't just 'switching between hairstyles', he cut his hair short and it wasn't going to be magically reverting unless I really couldn't stand it. And it wasn't that bad, especially since I'd spent so long deciding in the first place, but the "immediate regret" was definitely there! Just needed a few weeks to get over it.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Yes I do, and that's what I used. Was still "changing a character's appearance and then finding it strange" so I figure it counts.

And yes, technically I could have just reverted it at any time but I'd decided beforehand that I wasn't going to. I'm not quite a roleplayer but I do think of my characters as consistent people, so it wasn't just 'switching between hairstyles', he cut his hair short and it wasn't going to be magically reverting unless I really couldn't stand it. And it wasn't that bad, especially since I'd spent so long deciding in the first place, but the "immediate regret" was definitely there! Just needed a few weeks to get over it.

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Oh ok, I gotcha. I was at work and couldn't type a better comment.

I'm kind of the same way. In all my years of playing (besides a race change way early on to Elezen) I've changed my eyebrows once...and it was a very hard decision xD and I've had a total of 3 hairstyles. My sister on the other hand changes her character left and right.

Just wanted to make sure so no one wastes any munnies! :)