be Ananta

If SE ever thinks of making any beast tribe a playable race, please make it be the Ananta!
I always wanted to be a half-snake in an MMO and to be a Lamia is what I strive for.

Plus, there are Anantas in the game already holding different types of weapon. Thanks in advance!

Where will we put our boots and pants....? Now, I'm not opposed to wearing our boots around our elbows and our pants on our heads but it's a little silly.

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Originally Posted by Zaene

Where will we put our boots and pants....? Now, I'm not opposed to wearing our boots around our elbows and our pants on our heads but it's a little silly.

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Clearly as such:
http://orig03.deviantart.net/e180/f/...ng-d35iowm.jpg

Not really a fan of the race ( in ffxiv ) ... but thats mostly only cause they floating in the air.

If the race moved around like cassiopeia from LoL ( pic above xp ) i would love for them to be added asap.

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Where will we put our boots and pants....? Now, I'm not opposed to wearing our boots around our elbows and our pants on our heads but it's a little silly.

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The only way any beast tribe will ever be playable is if we get some kind of PvP deathmatch mode where one team is assigned alliance members and the other team gets assigned beastmen. Ergo, us not being the WoL.

The WoL CANNOT be a beastman. The lore simply doesn't allow it

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The only way any beast tribe will ever be playable is if we get some kind of PvP deathmatch mode where one team is assigned alliance members and the other team gets assigned beastmen. Ergo, us not being the WoL.

The WoL CANNOT be a beastman. The lore simply doesn't allow it

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It's just a race like the hyur or elezen. Hydaelyn can't be racist nor picky, when everything's in chaos.

It'll never be playable, because there aren't any male Ananta canonically. SE has moved away from that archaic and sexist attitude since 2.0 launched, with the inclusion of Male Miqo'te and Female Roegadyn.

That said, I'm in favor of Beast Tribes offering rewards at max reputation which allow the player to essentially glamour themselves into a member of that Beast Tribe. It should help go a long way to alleviate peoples desire to play certain Beast Tribes. Just make the buff last until turned off, persist through combat and character death, no duration, no cool down on the item, all of that.

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It's just a race like the hyur or elezen. Hydaelyn can't be racist nor picky, when everything's in chaos.

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Can a large sentient rock be racist?

In any case, the WoL is somebody that people have to look up to and trust, and there is a side quest where somebody who has never seen an Ananta freaks out and tries to kill her before asking any questions. If the WoL were a beastman, people would be more afraid of them, rather than trust them

So yeah, beastmen races are off the table.

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In any case, the WoL is somebody that people have to look up to and trust [...]

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And nothing says "trust" as much as a barbarian from the steppes with glowing killer eyes born from a tribe known for violence that people in Ishgard slew on sight not long ago for looking vaguely draconic.

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And nothing says "trust" as much as a barbarian from the steppes with glowing killer eyes born from a tribe known for violence that people in Ishgard slew on sight not long ago for looking vaguely draconic.

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Have you met those people, i trust them more than i trust ishgardians, even the jerks.

http://i.imgur.com/A3JxDAO.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/A3JxDAO.jpg

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omg hahahaha

A playable race limited to a single gender just wouldn't work out well at all. They tried that back in 1.0 and it was heavily criticised - and rightly so. Gender locked races/classes just aren't fun or an efficient use of resources.

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It's just a race like the hyur or elezen. Hydaelyn can't be racist nor picky, when everything's in chaos.

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Hydaelyn may not be picky, but the rest of the "human" races certainly are. Even if most races are not outright genocidal like the Garleans, there's no way that it would make any sense for beastmen to progress through the main scenario quests without some mighty significant changes. The odds of SE adding a separate "beastman path" Main Scenario to the game are ridiculously small...

It's not out of the question that we may someday lets us play as beastmen for isolated content (some form of PvP, for instance), returning to our regular player characters after the instance is over, but they will likely never be added as a fully-fledged playable race.

I love the ananta and can't wait for their beast tribe quests and m ananta minion & mount <3