Next expansion will more au ra NPCs?

Long ago I noticed.

First realm reborn came old races.

Then new expansion heavensward.
I'm surprised heavensward more elezens than other races. And RARE au ras.

I hoped new expansion more au ra get story and NPCs. Since I love this race.

Depending where the expasion will take place. On Ala Mhigo, the Hyur Highlander is the predominant race. THe Au Ra comes from Othar continent (Where Doma is it). Unless the expasion take place in Doma, I don't think we will see much more of them in 4.0. Heavnsward take place in Ishgard, and this is Elezen area, that's why there are a lot of Elezen. 4.0 seems to take place in Ala Mhigo, so, the Hyur highlander will be probably the ones we will see the most.

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Originally Posted by Xlantaa

Depending where the expasion will take place. On Ala Mhigo, the Hyur Highlander is the predominant race. THe Au Ra comes from Othar continent (Where Doma is it). Unless the expasion take place in Doma, I don't think we will see much more of them in 4.0. Heavnsward take place in Ishgard, and this is Elezen area, that's why there are a lot of Elezen. 4.0 seems to take place in Ala Mhigo, so, the Hyur highlander will be probably the ones we will see the most.

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Supposedly, a lot of Hellsguard Roegadyn in Ala Mhigo too /crossesfingers

How about more male miqo first?

Though this patch added a few.
(Yeah I count...)

Ishghard is an elezen city :P mixed with some hyur (predominant race across Eorzea) , and of course some lalas an miqotes here and there , Au Ra are rare thats true

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

How about more male miqo first?

Though this patch added a few.
(Yeah I count...)

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I think the game is currently oversaturated with Miqo'te enough.

I would like to see more Au Ra NPCs throughout the game mostly because their introduction to 3.0 was awful. It kind of made me hate the whole race of them because they just don't feel like they belong in the game at all.

1.) They were first introduced with Yugiri. We didn't see any other Au Ra.

2.) They immediately became playable without any real introduction.

It was like, here's one...Now they're freakin everywhere. I get they tried to use the refugee story...but it just doesn't work that well. I think that for the next new race, a slow gradual introduction is best. Don't just show us one. Show us several. Sprinkle them around the maps. Populate them a little bit. THEN make them playable. I'm not the only one that feels this way, but believe me when I say I am also fully aware that my opinion is not shared by the majority.

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Originally Posted by OwlBlackX

I'm surprised heavensward more elezens than other races. And RARE au ras.

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That's because Ishgard is an Elezen city.
But you don't see many Elezen in Dravania

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Originally Posted by odie

2.) They immediately became playable without any real introduction.

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While this is true, if you play the Dark Knight story past 50, you'll get a bit more discussion of the relations between Ishgard and Au Ra (hint: they aren't good). What's discussed in the DRK story is a halfway decent hand wave for why there aren't more Au Ra NPCs in Ishgard anyway, and Gridania has always been unwelcoming to outsiders, while Ul'dah and Limsa turned the refugees down. The only place I would really expect to see more Au Ra is in Mor Dhona, and in unassimilated areas like Tailfeather, Idyllshire, etc. I think they just added a couple Au Ra NPCs to Idyllshire and quests starting there this patch? Just like with male Miqo'te, they are trying to increase their presence in the game--it just takes a while to build up enough quests for them to seem like they're even on remotely equal footing with the other, more long-standing races.

Probably not in the next expansion, but I'm willing to bet we'll go to Othard soon enough and get bombarded with Au Ra in the future.

I'd also like to point out that though they are few, the quality of the Au Ra NPCs feels overall pretty high to me. I mean, we have the bae Sidurgu, what more do you want?

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Originally Posted by sarehptar

Just like with male Miqo'te, they are trying to increase their presence in the game--it just takes a while to build up enough quests for them to seem like they're even on remotely equal footing with the other, more long-standing races.

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This is why I feel the Au Ra shouldn't even have been made playable yet. If they don't fit in at any of the city states, and they are just recently coming from their home continent, then I feel that allowing the players to have them and filling the game with PC AuRa was very premature. I haven't really gotten into the DRK quests yet. Hopefully the next race will not be introduced so suddenly. I tend to count the PC population as part of the world population like NPCs...I mean, we see them right? So instead of welcoming them into this world I share with them, it has caused me to see them as more of a pest. Othard would have been a much better time to make the AuRa playable.

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Originally Posted by odie

This is why I feel the Au Ra shouldn't even have been made playable yet. If they don't fit in at any of the city states, and they are just recently coming from their home continent, then I feel that allowing the players to have them and filling the game with PC AuRa was very premature. I haven't really gotten into the DRK quests yet. Hopefully the next race will not be introduced so suddenly. I tend to count the PC population as part of the world population like NPCs...I mean, we see them right? So instead of welcoming them into this world I share with them, it has caused me to see them as more of a pest. Othard would have been a much better time to make the AuRa playable.

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I think the Au Ra were somewhat relevant to the situation in Ishgard, and they wanted to introduce them as being connected to the Ninja too, so I can see why they introduced them when they did. I agree that it's a little weird to see so many Au Ra suddenly appear, but I guess if you count them like NPCs, you can say that the sudden influx does match the story of a ton of refugees showing up pretty much over night. The PCs just have to fill the places of the NPCs for now.

Personally, I just think it was time for a new race. Variety is the spice of life! It sounds like you don't like Miqo'te much either, so I'm surprised you would not welcome a race that would decrease the number of Miqo'te. XDD

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Originally Posted by sarehptar

It sounds like you don't like Miqo'te much either, so I'm surprised you would not welcome a race that would decrease the number of Miqo'te. XDD

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I started as a moonkitty and switched to Roegadyn when I moved from Lamia to Balmung. Balmung was like..99 percent Miqo at the time so yes...I was hoping the Au Ra would cut down on that population. I just wasn't expecting that they'd become the new Miqo'te. It didn't end up being THAT bad and though the census may not reflect it, I typically notice the players out and about are split pretty evenly between Miqo and AuRa.

I mean it's kind of ridiculous to release a race with an expansion and focus 0% on them except have like 2-3 cameos of random npcs that don't really delve into the background of the race at all, here's hoping maybe when we move away from the dragonsong war into the other aspects of heavensward they might play a bigger role and we might figure out more than just the basic stuff about each tribe.

While I understand wanting to see more of your own race in the game (I'm certainly pleased every time I run into a male Miqo'te), lore-wise it might be iffy to see too many of them running around just yet. Give it some time, I'm sure they'll be the majority once we eventually expand into Doma.

I think they shouldn't bother adding any new races and instead focus on expanding the options for the existing playable races. Fix the issues that exist with clipping and offer a larger variety of facial features and I think most people will happy.

Au Ra introduced in Heavensward are mainly either refugees, adventurers or merchants. Considering they aren't native to the continent its not surprising there hasn't been much focus on them. Apart from maybe a small refugee settlement hidden away somewhere there wouldn't even be any Au Ra settlements on Eorzea.

That said they have been included a reasonable amount. It was a group of Au Ra that were behind the Enigma Codex that formed the basis for ideas the Illuminati formed around and lead to the summoning of Alexander. The DRK quests involve the an Au Ra and touch on his history. We have had a few Au Ra traders and the NIN quests involved a Au Ra princess tracking stolen treasures from her homeland.

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Originally Posted by odie

This is why I feel the Au Ra shouldn't even have been made playable yet. If they don't fit in at any of the city states, and they are just recently coming from their home continent, then I feel that allowing the players to have them and filling the game with PC AuRa was very premature. I haven't really gotten into the DRK quests yet. Hopefully the next race will not be introduced so suddenly. I tend to count the PC population as part of the world population like NPCs...I mean, we see them right? So instead of welcoming them into this world I share with them, it has caused me to see them as more of a pest. Othard would have been a much better time to make the AuRa playable.

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You're in for a bad time then, since the male Mi'qote PCs probably outnumber the amount of actually living male Mi'qote period. Both Sunseeker and Moonkeeper males are supposed to be of a much smaller number similar to the Mithra, and they only ever had ONE Mithra male NPC ever show up in the story. As for the Au Ra, much like the Adventurers supposedly are they come from outside the city-states, and its not like the cities have been exactly that welcoming to outsiders for one reason or another. The fact that Sidurgu even made it into Ishgard is a feat in and of itself, though he probably wasn't able to walk out in the open alot till recently.

My point here is that counting the PC population as part of the world's overall population is never a good idea because of cases like the male Mi'qotes and Au Ra.

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Originally Posted by Dualblade

My point here is that counting the PC population as part of the world's overall population is never a good idea because of cases like the male Mi'qotes and Au Ra.

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We actually don't have alot of male miqo'te running around that I've seen. Mainly female.

I know what you're trying to say but its hard to NOT count PC characters as part of the population

A.) Because I see them there if I want to or not.
B.) They also RP and therefore make themselves more part of the world than someone afk and idle in the street.