Anyone else use a Fantasia and immediately regret it?

I once got a hairstyle change and it was too much.

Holy necrothread, Batman!

I've only fantasia'd once, and I don't regret it. I highly recommend creating your new look and starting it up as a new character (on a different server, if you have the base account). The character creator is very good at showing you what you're going to get, but nothing beats actually moving around in-game. Also, if you care about your voice at all, run through all of your emotes. Some of the sounds your character will make might sound totally different from what you expected, based on the samples in the character creator.

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I'm on the "couldn't possibly change my character's appearance" way of thinking. I like multiple character designs but I'd rather create alts (currently I have three) so they remain separate characters with their own names and personalities - and also glamours. Some of them have quite different taste in clothes! Plus I can log in as any of them any time I feel like it.

I used a Fantasia on one of my characters to adjust her height a little bit, and considering changing the eye colour of another, but that's all. Changing their face would be weird.

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...

Although I'd maybe change character hairstyles a bit if there were more subtle variations that looked like the same hair styled differently, rather than each one being a completely different haircut. Especially around their face.

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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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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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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 glamour and the hair just didn't work.

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In my case I think the changed style does work for him, most of the time, which is half the reason I didn't cave in and change it back. The other being that in deciding to change it in the first place, I'd justified it "in-story" for him and didn't want to just undo it.

Still, I’d spent a week or so thinking about it, testing it repeatedly in the preview screen, yes i was 100% certain and.... then as soon as I’d actually changed it, it was so weird and I was doubting it for days. (I still feel a bit bad for "doing that to him"!)

It definitely makes a huge change to how the character looks, and it's still strange to see him like that. Although now his old appearance looks kind of strange too. :/

(Still, his face looks the same as before, so that helps with getting used to it. It’d be extra weird if his actual face had changed as well.)

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Originally Posted by dayspring83

So I've been sitting on that free Fantasia potion since I got it and the other day I was bored so I decided to change my appearance. I logged back in, ran some dungeons took a couple of screenshots and then pretty much realized I didn't like the look and that I was going to be changing back to my old character ASAP.

It was really weird for me logging in and seeing Domino Dayspring and not the character I've been using since 1.0 beta.

Anyone else run into this? Can't see myself ever changing appearance again, even when the new races are made available.

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Thats why i like alts. You get attached to your mains look, been through all those quests and lived out a journey as that person. I just dont see ever changing my look either. However I Love Lala's and I made an alt to play with my Lala and have fun with its adorable look and nature. But as for changing my main into one.. Nope, couldn't do it LOL

2ish years ago I tried to switch my main from male au ra to female au ra and it lasted maybe a whole 2 days because it felt so off. Haven’t fanta’d him since. I don't think I can anymore, so even if we get a new race in any future expac it'll be alts getting switched up.

That said, I can’t imagine being set to one hairstyle. His hair is usually one of the mid to longer male ones but its easy enough to hand wave changing to a different style as getting a trim, growing it out, or pulling it up into a ponytail/bun/braid etc :P

I didnt regret changing from male elezen to FemRoe and that was the only time I used a Fantasia.

However, I can very much agree to the hairstyle-"problem". Vidu always has long hair in blue/green/darker colours (on occassion red or purple), but once in a while I've tried to change that. I really like some of the shorter hairstyles we have (which is a surprise, because I'm convinced that everyone should wear their hair long, I've been wearing my own hair long since I was 3 years old) and they have the advantge of not clipping with gear! However, each time I tried one with Vidu, it just looked... wrong. I think the longest I stuck with short hair was for about an hour, because I wanted to show it to a friend. Same with lighter hair-colours - they just dont look right on her.
It even goes so far that I only have a few glamour-sets that I switch in between. Most of the time a new look just cant convince me to give up my old one.

I'm quite okay with that though and am always wondering about people changing the look of their character every other day. To me, my character is perfect and I'm pretty sure that if I were to fantasia her, I would terribly regret it.
I even remember that guy who asked me if I would change to a Mi'qote because he wanted to see what kind of character I would create (...or maybe he just had a thing for Mi'qos...) - he offered to buy me the fantasia (+one for the change back), but the thought alone made me kinda uncomfortable, so I told him he would have to deal with my FemRoe.

Yep.

My first fantasia I only used to change my boob size to larger, hated it and went back to 25. So that was 2.

3rd was to change to Au Ra, I actually stayed Au Ra for almost all of HW, but I started to miss my Miqo'te, it was strange seeing a different character even though she had the same colour scheme. I missed my Miqo'te's goofy laugh most of all. (It's the one that goes HO HO HO in it.) xD I would have changed back to Miqo quicker if I wasn't so hard up on munz, dunno how some people afford them all! Better job than I, and no kids perhaps. :3