Shortage of Roegadyn

I am unsure if this is the right place for this topic if it is please move it to the right place :)

Anyway I ben playing an Male Roegadyn for a few months. Then made it to a female. And to be honest I rarely see any Roegadyn male or female.

Is there a reason behind this? I aint judging people I understand all charachter modells in this game are extremly well done. (Best looking mmorpg on the market if you ask me)

But is there a special reason we see less Roegadyn?

I think it's just sadly a question of taste - people will inevitably prefer the more 'attractive'/cute races, hence why lalafaell and tarutaru are the most common/popular player races in FFXIV and FFXI respectively. Galka in FFXI (which roegadyn are heavily based on) suffered the same fate - forever doomed to be the least popular player race (as far as FFXI goes that info was based on past Vana'diel Censuses which use raw server statistics for data.). FFXIV I just arrived at that conclusion based on how many lalafells I see around.

Mind you, there are several roes in my linkshell/FC so yeah, just because you don't see a lot around doesn't mean no one plays as them. :)

I like m-Roes for the fact that you can actually see detail on the armors, and they make stuff look more badass. People complaining about Roes being big making gear ugly, that's only for gear that's already ugly becoming uglier. fem-Roes I put in as 'cool & tomboy cute'

Roes remind me of Hulk, not the brute savage original Hulk though, and thus portrayed as an intelligent and patient Hulk is kinda off to me personally. Imagine u play wow and create a toon orc and make it as savage as possible only to find out the orc ingame are gentle lol

I see a lot of male roegadyns. Female roegadyns on the other hand, maybe be common, just the they are kind the same height and build as a male highlanders. I confused few the two if I am not looking at them directly.

I see a lot more male Roegadyns than female. Then again I guess it's just a matter of taste - most Roegadyns I saw so far are mainly Paladins/Warriors and we know how rare those classes are in comparison to others. Then again, seeing an Arcanist Roegadyn or a Paladin Lalafell is always a fun sight :D

I think they revealed the race distribution, making Hyuran and Miqo'te the most popular race choice, followed by Lalafells, Elezen and finally Roegadyns.
Interestingly enough, Lalafells are much more popular than Elezen in JP where Elezen have much higher popularity in NA/EU region.

The nose... It's square...
Square noses.

Personally I do not like playing very masculine characters in MMOs as well, it does not really fit my personality and taste.

I've been contemplating changing to a Roe for a little while now.
When I created my character I wanted to go for something that looked exactly like myself, so of course, everyone goes Midlander with that default hairstyle. Couldn't bring myself to play the default so went Highlander and made him as skinny as possible.
"Quiet refined healer" was something I considered. Now I'm thinking giant friendly oddly dressed beast-man.

Also camera angle of screenshots is terrible being giant... Dat angle.

Even among the NPCs, there aren't many Roegadyns.

I chose a male Roe simply because out of all the races, they look the most like me :p

I'm not sure why it's not as popular, but it's a lot more than it was in 1.0. I see more than 5! I don't know what it is about it, but I created myself Hellsguard, have two items to change my char but don't see myself doing that anytime soon. He's too adorable

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

I think it's just sadly a question of taste - people will inevitably prefer the more 'attractive'/cute races, hence why lalafaell and tarutaru are the most common/popular player races in FFXIV and FFXI respectively. Galka in FFXI (which roegadyn are heavily based on) suffered the same fate - forever doomed to be the least popular player race (as far as FFXI goes that info was based on past Vana'diel Censuses which use raw server statistics for data.). FFXIV I just arrived at that conclusion based on how many lalafells I see around.

Mind you, there are several roes in my linkshell/FC so yeah, just because you don't see a lot around doesn't mean no one plays as them. :)

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Fun Fact: Hyur and Humes are the most common races of FFXI and FFXIV (respectively), with Miqo'te just barely beating out Hyur on the NA/EU servers. Galka/Roegadyn are, indeed, the least populace race, though.

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Originally Posted by jomoru

Could I see some basis for statistics only race numbers? Also I wanted to play a female character and don't think the Roe nose quite works with the body

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/000506.html

Could I see some basis for statistics only race numbers? Also I wanted to play a female character and don't think the Roe nose quite works with the body

Doesnt the lore say something about them being scarce race anyway? or like they live in mountains somewhere and only a few come down? I always thought they looked cool as a race but I play healer classes. They just look so dumb in caster gear. Galka in Scholor garb is hilariously heinous.

I actually see quite many roes on Odin, much more than on beta, at least. Still, it's always a big deal when I bump into another female roegadyn, I always stop whatever I was doing, zoom a little bit to take a look at the character's face, maybe give them a poke or a wave and continue on. n_n Male roes are ok, but females are just gorgeous. There's so many female characters in this game that look like teenagers, so it's a nice change to have a more mature looking ladies. ;)

I play a Female Roe. Since well my missus is a very tall woman and I like tall women. :)

But now that you meantion it. The NPC are also lacking in Roes. Maybe it is due to lore?

it was this reason i changed to a m-roe, started as a m-miq and was so tired that 80% of my DF groups seem to be all miqote's :3

Everyone before me has lied to you!

Reason not to roll a Roegadyn...is Miqo'te have Major Boobage.

That is all

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Originally Posted by Nash20

Everyone before me has lied to you!

Reason not to roll a Roegadyn...is Miqo'te have Major Boobage.

That is all

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Actually I know someone who went with Maelstrom affiliation cause of Merlwyb's boobage!

Also, big races are always the least played. I'm actually surprised there isn't more lala healers around instead, since tiny healer is a must in all games, especially for pvp.

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Originally Posted by Nash20

Everyone before me has lied to you!

Reason not to roll a Roegadyn...is Miqo'te have Major Boobage.

That is all

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This clearly doesn't make sense considering that Highlanders and Roegadyns are the ones with major boobage XD.

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Originally Posted by Haprimac

I actually see quite many roes on Odin, much more than on beta, at least. Still, it's always a big deal when I bump into another female roegadyn, I always stop whatever I was doing, zoom a little bit to take a look at the character's face, maybe give them a poke or a wave and continue on. n_n Male roes are ok, but females are just gorgeous. There's so many female characters in this game that look like teenagers, so it's a nice change to have a more mature looking ladies. ;)

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^ This is exactly how I react whenever I spot a female roegadyn. Minus the poke and wave lol. I really like how Roegadyns look like. Especially the female ones. The game needs more female roegadyns! D:

I love my Roe. I usually feel the need to level an alt race in MMOs and regular games, but I haven't in FFXIV.

Easiest thing to do is just re-roll lalafell.

I see Roe quite a bit, even excluding the four I play with a lot (and yes, they skew the results a bit). Usually that's just walking around RT waiting for a queue (see quite a few Roe PLD and WAR there), but I see a couple hanging around the Market Boards or crafting too.

I suppose from a Lore perspective, you could liken it to mammals and size. The larger the mammal (generally) the fewer offspring it has (litter size and frequency).

When I was creating my character, I originally wanted to play as a Roeg SCH. Having been a Galka BLM and BRD in XI, I actually enjoyed the visual silliness and idea of a hulking brute doing the exact opposite of what's "expected" of them.

"But, Daddy, I don't wan't to be a warrior; I want to study and read, dance and sing, and write songs, and play music..."

Ultimately, it was the lack of the Galkan tail that did it for me. To me, the race looked similar but felt incomplete without it.

Now here I am slowly working my way to someday becoming a Lalataru WAR.

Female Roes have the best bodies in the game, if you like the fitness model / almost-bodybuilder look. Make a Hellsguard fem, dial the slider over to "ripped", earn enough WVR to make a Hempen Camise and Pantalettes, equip and enjoy. Those abs, that waist, those shoulders... and dat ass... :)

I love the lalafells but I think my heart is with my Roegadyn. They are massive and muscular and very masculine looking. Which are all aspects that I love. I originally started as a male cat boy but I wanted something more brutal and masculine.

Also Roegadyn females are so beautiful and Merlwyb is awesome.

My char is a male Roegadyn, and that's the race he'll always be. I love Roe's and I love their language too. The other races are cool, but I love the Sea Wolves/pirate theme. Big hulking pirates wielding two handed axes? Yes please!

I think you don't see the Roes because they are all running around in tank armor with no visor. :p

I agree that most people playing a FF game probably prefer the "cute" characters.
My choice was based solely on stats. I looked at the starting stats for each race and looked for the most balanced. That led me to Sunseeker (Miqo'te) or Hellsguard (Roe). Since I planned to start as Archer, I went with Sunseeker for the slightly higher starting Dex .. and now I main Paladin...

I still have a bunch of Roes saved in the character generator. Maybe I'll make a Roe alt.

I'm amused by all of the people in this thread saying that there are hardly any Roe NPC's. Have you guys BEEN to Limsa lately? There's a whole nation of mostly Roes. I guess you have a point with the main scenario. None of the Archons (in 2.x at least) are Roe. Merlwyb is probably the only significant Roe NPC that isn't a Tradesman or Privateer. The WAR NPC you learn your skills from is a Hellsguard. It is mentioned in that chain that few of them come down from the mountains. It's been a while since I played around with the character creator, but I seem to remember the M Roes being fairly generic.

Roegadyn for life. I am too sexy for this game.

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Originally Posted by Saikou

I'm amused by all of the people in this thread saying that there are hardly any Roe NPC's. Have you guys BEEN to Limsa lately? There's a whole nation of mostly Roes. I guess you have a point with the main scenario. None of the Archons (in 2.x at least) are Roe. Merlwyb is probably the only significant Roe NPC that isn't a Tradesman or Privateer. The WAR NPC you learn your skills from is a Hellsguard. It is mentioned in that chain that few of them come down from the mountains. It's been a while since I played around with the character creator, but I seem to remember the M Roes being fairly generic.

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I play a M Roe and I too have noticed a ton of Roe NPCs, not only in Limsa Lominsa, but all across. I do tend to notice that the race is a minority among players.

But they are conspicuously rare in Gridania. On the other hand, there aren't that many elezen NPCs in Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa, either.

Sorry roe fans, but the answer to the low pop is because roe as a race doesn't fit ur usual MMO BIG GUY RACE which are ALL MUSCLE BUT NO BRAINS stereotype especially when roe are depicted as an intelligent brawny race!

I like roe in character creation but in game i find there animation way too heavy

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Originally Posted by Saikou

I'm amused by all of the people in this thread saying that there are hardly any Roe NPC's. Have you guys BEEN to Limsa lately? There's a whole nation of mostly Roes. I guess you have a point with the main scenario. None of the Archons (in 2.x at least) are Roe. Merlwyb is probably the only significant Roe NPC that isn't a Tradesman or Privateer. The WAR NPC you learn your skills from is a Hellsguard. It is mentioned in that chain that few of them come down from the mountains. It's been a while since I played around with the character creator, but I seem to remember the M Roes being fairly generic.

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Mostly true. However, the MRD NPC and his sister are both Seawolves. The WAR NPC is like, you said, a Hellsguard. The PLD Storyline also revolves around a Seawolf NPC.


Buuuut: It's also kinda okay storyline-wise that there are few Roes...especially ladies, as it fits lore (which again you alluded to ;) ) Personally, I think they are very interesting and striking characters...and the easiest to 'personalize' You can make a friendly,pretty, grissly, beastly, ugly, etc version of a Roe much easier than you can with some of the other races. Try making a truely ugly Midlander for example...best you can do is 'derpy' :P

The absolute least rolled character types in the last player survey I saw were 4% Elezen Females (both clans), 5% Roegadyn Females (both clans)...with I think Hellsguard Females being the actual 'least played' race. (Most people don't like the black nose smudge)

All that said: In my BC static, 3/8 of us are roes. But in the entire FC, only 5 roes exist....and I am the only Lady Roe. My FC has an alarming amount of cat-people and teenage girls though....

I like being a m-roe specifically as a warrior they have the best fighting stance. Thats one thing i missed from ffxi and that was the different fighting stance depending on job and race.

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Originally Posted by ArielVang

I like being a m-roe specifically as a warrior they have the best fighting stance. Thats one thing i missed from ffxi and that was the different fighting stance depending on job and race.

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I hadn't noticed that! Now I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

I started off at launch with a Roe female that I played with up until about a month ago, she was totally fit, and I really liked her but, every bit of gear made her look like a transvestite.
I don't know how square managed to make everything look unflattering but I couldn't bear the fact that nothing did her justice, so I reluctantly switched :(