Ned help choosing a main....race!
Generally in a game with a lot of options for race, class and crafting, I tend to make several characters and spread the crafting among them, while I decide which class I like best. I can do that with this game due to not being able to trade among characters, and any character can eventually become all jobs. That means I am left to finding the one race I like best and then deciding which job I like best.
While I may like the looks of a race for certain reasons, there is usually something that keeps me from choosing it as my main character. For instance, I don't see Lalafells and Miqo'tes wearing plate armor. It just goes against my views on those races. I do tend to like the small cutsie race though like the Asura out of GW2 and I have always liked catgirls though really small races like the Lalas tend to not look good in most outfits. I like the idea of the ninja and monk class, so it would seem that the Miqo'te would be a shoo in, unless I find out that I don't like the jobs.