What feature would you add for more unique characters?

I feel that FFXIV doesn't have much to offer in terms of being able to make your character unique. Of course when vanity slot comes out, you can be unique in the way you look, but how about builds? I would love it if they can somehow enhance the materia system so that individuals can build their characters in a more unique way that isn't just cookie cutter.

Any suggestions?

More facial structure options for characters.

One of the following:
a. Vanity Slots
b. Vanity Slots
c. Vanity Slots

Trait tree.

clothes that dont clip on everything

If it was one thing for unique characters... I would have to say armor variety.
Not just vanity slots, not just A or B side grade equipment but a *large* variety of similar equipment in each tier while people would strive for BiS and Vanity would help them look the way they wanted to in approaching that you would have a lot of different looks for players.

I would like to (and hope that as the game matures this becomes possible) see 4-5 styles of equipment be in the top-equipment tier. Then another 4-5 in the next tier down. This would allow for a bit more mix-and-match to reach content minimums / stat-tiers.

In character creation, it would be nice to be able to customise body/face shape further. The current options make such a minimal change that it really make no difference which one you pick, e.g. jaw shape and muscle tone...

You know, I think it would be neat to be able to choose a 'personality type' that offers different emotes. Instead of all Lalafell having the same emote, you could choose to be a more serious Lalafell, and have less cutesy emotes.

Or how about a modest Miquote? Bashful, shy and demure instead of flirty.

Two words: Alternate Advancement

This game is badly in need of some form of horizontal progression.

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Originally Posted by Arcaloid

One of the following:
a. Vanity Slots
b. Vanity Slots
c. Vanity Slots

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d. All of the above.

Butt slider

Butts for Miqo'tes.
Vanity slots.
More sliders in character creation.

Uncapped stats on gear, which would actually make crafting useful, as well as embedding material for some truly funky builds.

Imaging a Vitality/Piety overloaded WHM for Holy bombing
A dexterity based Paladin that parries like a boss, but otherwise has lower hp
A vitality/dexterity based Dragoon that can off-tank effectively

I don't know. Something that would allow for people to introduce some variety into their builds through material usage, as opposed to the enforced cookie-cutter statistic limits he have now.

I'm assuming based upon statements made in the OP that this isn't about character appearance but about builds (aka: stats?), and if that's the case I have no idea what I could suggest that would fit inside the game as it currently stands.

The battle system limits everything to constant micro damage as opposed to slower, but heavier, spike damage, so that's right out the window.

Making crafted gear actually useful past the ilvl70 cutoff and removing materia capping could work, but then you'd end up with scenarios where no one wants to go hunting for dungeon gear, which is what the entire game is built around so far (unfortunately...).


Now if I did miss something and "feature" means just about anything that could be added to the game, then I'd choose better hair lighting and physics.
Something has just felt completely off about the hair since we made the switch from 1.0 to 2.0. It looks more like wearing a helmet than natural, flowing hair.

People will probably yell at me for this but... Capes!

Lightning had one here just a few days ago, we should be able to too. Doesn't have to be any more fancy than hers either. At least after DX11 is supported.

Capes are the go to fashion accessory for lords, princesses, warriors, wanderers, mysterious strangers, etc. How can not even one single adventurer (whatever their style or purpose) have ever picked up a sheet or curtain and wrapped it around themselves to fell foes or swoon the opposite (or same, it's all love) gender? Come ooon, capes have been a long time missing in this game; from the first trailer of 1.0 they've been hinted at but not actually given.

The simple article of clothing allows for drastically different appearances and allows for different stats as well.

Capes! Get one at a Yoshi-P near you today~

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Originally Posted by Elazu

Butts for Miqo'tes.
Vanity slots.
More sliders in character creation.

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this....also someone mentioned variations in emotes. those too.

also, more armor that i can paint.

it also would be nice if hairstyles weren't restricted by race/gender. hope 2.1 changes that.

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Originally Posted by Coulvre

In character creation, it would be nice to be able to customise body/face shape further. The current options make such a minimal change that it really make no difference which one you pick, e.g. jaw shape and muscle tone...

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This. Plus I would like gender neutral clothing. The option to equip a male variant on my female character and a female variant on my male character because, sometimes I just want to wear those awesome guy pants on my girl and other times, I want to show a little more midriff on my catboy.

Also the option to have male emotes on my females, female emotes on the males. My character was designed to be more boyish but still female, I want to flex when I pose, not do super girly "look at me im so cute" crap.

body decoration ? like ribbon on the tails, arm, addiction jewel maybe ? those items should be racial & sell by NPC (you can get 1 of those for free when create character) so you can change the item to have new look from time to time

Well as for the looks I've found that while more options on character creation would be good, they aren't really needed. If you want an unique character make one that stand out from the ordinary. Most people want their character to look normal or cool and then you end up with similar characters.

Vanity system will be there for the non-character-creation options as well as the barber shop in 2.1.

As for builds, in way the jobs are like different builds. Ofc we still need to get jobs for that to make sense. But tbh a bit of horizontality wouldn't hurt. Although often this just seems like you have a lot of options to build your character, but is actualy an illusion. You end up with 2-3 builds that have to be used to be efective. It just leaves more room for people who already don't do any research to be even worse off.

I'm also not sure that materia should be there for costumization. That would limit builds to the rich. Materia should be there to enhance the performance but not decide a build imo.

I'm with the body type suggestions. I'd love to see a fatass warrior with a beer gut or a monk that looks like Sammo Hung XD

But I guess everyone in Eorzea eats healthy and/or works out...

I hope the barber shop has some nice hair options. I'd like a real mohawk...not that mocock with corn rows on the sides :1

And the vanity slots should allow to mix gear types, for example Yda wear mostly monk gear, but has those red war/pld sabatons. A monk in a hooded robe would look pretty cool too. Something to let people be creative about.

Coustomizing appearance via vanity slits can't come soon enough, and a few more appearance tweaks would be nice.

But as to talent/trait trees... These are always a fool's errand when trying to add coustmization to an MMO. They always get theory-crafted to hell and back and the optimal builds are found, and we're right back to the "cookie cutter problem" again. Even sub jobs in FFXI suffered from this (at least before I quit, if you were a BRD/anything but WHM you may as well have set your search message to. "I have no interest in partying")

Being able to dye more of the gear.

Optional traits and optional class specific skills you can learn from class trainers.
Imagine: Pick 5 from a list of 20 optional class skills