Did your race help determine your job ?

Or vice-versa ?

Not paying attention to the stats when I first started playing the game( I had no idea what they were for at the time) I just chose Hyur, Highlander. Now they are good for the job I was playing atm (Dragoon) I slowly started to drift towards being a healer.

I then dabbled into making a new character but then decided against it (time reasons) then noticed the stats of different races..... I then switched from Hyur to Miqote due to their +3 MND and +2 PIE over Hyur.

I was wondering if anyone else took this big step in what in reality is a very minimal gain but for some reason I felt I needed to as I 'wasn't maxing out my potential.

I miss my Hyur tho....

No. I picked a midlander originally because I wanted a "traditional FF healer". So basically a pretty girl/female protagonist type character. For reasons.

I then got bored of her lack of hairstyles, and I didn't really grow to like what she looked like over all, so I changed my race. I thought I was going to change to something completely different, but highlander just spoke to me for some reason. Now I have a pretty, tall, badass WHM who also has not boring hair.

I don't want to be a Miqo'te. Call me racist, Iunno. They actually appeal to me the least.

Not really i just picked the race i liked the look and lore of the most. I did make her look small and scrawny since i wanted her to be a Healer and i always see those kind of characters as weak looking since they are the squishyist.

Nope. I just said, "OMFGKITTIES" and bam. Done.

I started off as monk because I thought it seemed cool, but ended up as my (at the time) 3 man FC's only healer... and stayed that way.
I think my personality determined my job main, rather than the character race (or vice-versa)

Nope.

<-----just loves cats. :D

Nope, not even in 1.0. Been the same ever since lol.

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/f/54...ffc0_50x50.jpg: Nope. I just wanted to be male "human". I like what he looks like and don't think I'll be changing anytime soon.

(From now on when I post I'll post with a pic of my character, that way everyone can tell I'm not the player who posted earlier/same as the character shown as "main")

Not really, I've been the cat race since XI where the differences in stats from one race to the next were even larger. I think mithra had more to do with dex and tarus (the lala race) had much better Mage stats, but at the time I was literally like, "KITTIESS!!!", and like someone else said above, chose a cat girl based on that. Was whm main for years. When I started XIV, I'd been a kitty for so long it just felt weird considering anything different.

Kinda...
I wanted a 'gentle giant' sort of character.
Goofy, friendly and freakishly large hands.

Though I'm regretting it every other patch due to healing robes looking awful on Roegadyns.
God bless glamours!

Nope. In 1.XX I settled as a Hyur Midlander after playing around with several races and looks, but I didn't get very far in 1.XX.

In ARR I started as a male Miqo'te solely to be a different race than my brother (started new character on new server because he and our friends couldn't jump onto a legacy server, and even if the server transfer system was up at that point legacy players couldn't move to non-legacy servers until a while after launch). Then I grew tired of certain animations, their hands, and cat like behavior, Used my 2nd free fantasia to change into Midlander (1st used to change miqo'te look).

I did choose a certain race in FFXI though. I went Hume to avoid all potential backlash for certain race/job combinations.

I came from FFXI so my race choice was predetermined. In that game it was more important what your race was based on the kind of job you wanted play. For example you hardly ever saw any Galka (Rogy equivalent) as a Caster Type, due to their low mind/int and mana. Just as well you didn't see many Tarutaru (Lala's) tanks either.

This is not to say there weren't people out there who didn't make it work, but it was more of a rare occurrence (or some one just leveling the job for the subjob).

Now comes FFXIV, so I figured the races would have a more class/job oriented statistical gain, but I was wrong. Sure I may have slightly less HP then the other races, but in the end it doesn't really matter. For me it was between the Miqo'te and the Lala anyway. I find the Lala's to be more cute.

I suppose in a way it did at the start. In beta I was a male miqo'te thaumaturge, while my female roe was a pugilist. But later I just did all classes on my roe and decided that scholar+weaver will be what I do most stuff with.

Nope, although looking back I suppose a highlander Marauder was quite fitting. But I just wanted a good looking character.

To be honest the extra vitality a Roe gets is kind of nice but it was not why I chose her. I started as a female kitty and realized that I really didn't connect with that character, so I made a cool looking Roe and we have been in love ever since.

I always been a healer in RPs I done, so I became a healer here, race be damned.

I planned on trying all races so i wasn't too concerned but since this was my 1st legit mmo, i picked hyur cuz it looked normal lol.

It didn't determine my main race, but it helped me determine the clan. I wanted to be a Miqo'te or Lalafell, and in both cases I chose the more magic oriented of the clans they have. I wound up going with Miqo'te because I liked the way they looked with armor more.

I did pay attention to stats to some degree when making characters, but really choose for lore at first. Main at launch was Keeper Miqo'te then changed to Highlander; when I came back remade her from scratch to Miqo'te but Seeker.... Now main is back to Highlander. My alt was keeper and is now plainsfolk lala (stricktly because they had better dex then dunesfolk) though I miss my Miqo'te. Will probably give the new race a shot on alt before going back, unless I love the look/lore of them. I also have an elezen, though I don't play her at all; and I had a Roe that was remade into the elezen.

I went with mithra/miqote in both xi and xiv because i have so much fun playing the race. As for subrace in xiv sary is a keeper of the moon for the big eyes that say "feed me senpai" :3

So I recently changed my Highlander to a Keeper. Why? Because I really like what the new race looks like and was thinking to get into the mood of using a human/beast hybrid I should change to a Miqo'te. I made her pretty so she's not too bad. And I also like the nice (small) buff to my stats. I miss my Highlander but this new look is growing on me.

When I first started, I went Migo'te stats were the second thing I looked at, wanted to start as Lancer so looked at the Job Armor preview, and just liked how it looked on Miqo'te female. Got DRG to 50, then saw a Lala in full Wyrm set for the first time...When I got my free Phantasia, I switched to Lala. EVERYTHING just looks more adorable on a Lala.

For me it was the opposite. I mentally picked my job first and then picked the race that best fix it (stat-wise). At the time I mained a healer and the best race/clan combo for healer was Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te at 23 MND and 22 PIE. I have had a lot of regrets though since launch, as the sheer number of Miqo'te running around is off-putting. If the new race appeals to me I'll probably Fantasia to it, stats be damned.

Not all at all, it just wasn't human, elf, or oompa-loompa (srry lalas), and just found round roe not interesting enough to beat out miqo'te. KoD having ideal stats for healing (although neglible) was just a pleasant coincidence. Looking forward to the new race since boatloads will switch from Cat(and a bit from other races) to Lizard. Then people can whine about there being too many lizards for a change.

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For me it was the opposite. I mentally picked my job first and then picked the race that best fix it (stat-wise). At the time I mained a healer and the best race/clan combo for healer was Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te at 23 MND and 22 PIE. I have had a lot of regrets though since launch, as the sheer number of Miqo'te running around is off-putting. If the new race appeals to me I'll probably Fantasia to it, stats be damned.

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You might want to consider staying as a Miqo'te, the Au Ra are probably going to be really populous as well, at least when it first launches.

I think Black Mages are the only job that may actually "demand" a race to support their style. Those few points difference in Piety could very well be the difference between having another Fire cast in their rotation or not.

I chose Lalafell based on being a Taru from FF11. I've always liked the "underdog" type hero, always planned on leveling all the jobs. Fits in my perception of being DoM oriented now.

this might be lame but I picked Hyur to play almost any job and not look out of place ;P

Nope. Was originally gonna go Wildwood Elezen, but kitties looked more fun.

Gonna toot my own horn and say...

No, I was the best healer in my Free Company and Linkshells (in 1.0) lol

i always wanted to view my characters armor in big people model form, even in ffxi days, but the taru way of life had me... plus i wanted to main tank for once and i though a lala tank is just awesome.

each race has a "mage" and a "melee" group

Yes, I was aware of the stats if each race, so i picked rhe one with the more mind

Started off as a Miqo'te from playing Mithra in FFXI. Although I love being one, I changed to Lalafell cause of lore reasons. After doing the Sch quest line and since i spend about half my time on Sch (other half Bard, with some Pld and Drg) that I changed to Lalafell. After a while I changed back to Miqo'te cause I liked looking at my gear when the Glamor system came out. However, after a while I actually missed being a Lalafell (mostly as others have noted, a a seemly large amount of Miqo'te despite most races being about even in play) and have changed back to Lalafell and will probably stay that way for a long time, though playing a Lala Drk should be intresting...

I started as a highlander, then wanted to look even more generic so I switched to midlander. And the reason I did this is because as a generic hyur I look pretty good doing just about everything.

SCH was my job of choice from the very get go and so Dunefolk Lalafell came quite naturally.

Nope, stats never bothered me before, I just played what I felt was either "right" or "gives a challenge". I've been wanting to play a legit Catboy in an MMO for a while and XIV gave me that opportunity, so off I went~ I preferred the Seeker's skintones over the Keeper's, so went in that direction for my clan choice.

I'm white, and I main Black Mage, so anecdotally my race has nothing to do with my job.

On-topic: I play a Dunesfolk, because I played a Tarutaru in FFXI and the Plainsfolk IIRC didn't have a hairstyle similar enough to my FFXI char. None of the races' stats are so different that there's a good reason to pick one over the other for any job.

In my case I picked a Lala simply cos my 1 year old niece was all I could think about when ff14arr was launched.