MNK - Favorite Racial Animations (Female)

Hello fellow Monks.

In anticipation of acquiring the Fantasia potion, I am sick of playing a female Miqo'te as it is definitely way too overplayed and I do not feel any sort of uniqueness. As my character's name is feminine, I would like to switch my race, but not gender.

The burning question I have is (since YouTube was very unhelpful in this regard): What race is your favorite for female MNK animations? Any insight is helpful, and any videos even moreso.


Thanks in advance! :)

idk about animations but as a lalafel I feel a sense of pride/uniqueness about my race and its always fun to form a pure lalafel party.

no race animation in game except for emotes

every race has the same combat animations, although some races (lalafell and roegadyn) will hold their weapons differently with certain weapons (i've noticed this for books on lalafells and polearms on roegadyns)

Dragon kick for any race looks awesome!

I actually see more elves, humans, and roegadyns than kitty people.

There are no racial combat animations.

However, since the races have different builds, they will still look different when doing the same things... a punch from a male Roegadyn will look heavier than a punch from a female Midlander. Also, of course different races look different in gear. My personal favourite for female monks are Roe and Hyur Highlander. They are tall and muscled, making their attacks look like they have a lot of oompf, but still swift and graceful.

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Originally Posted by TheTen

There are no racial combat animations.

However, since the races have different builds, they will still look different when doing the same things... a punch from a male Roegadyn will look heavier than a punch from a female Midlander. Also, of course different races look different in gear. My personal favourite for female monks are Roe and Hyur Highlander. They are tall and muscled, making their attacks look like they have a lot of oompf, but still swift and graceful.

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Good response, thanks (and thanks to the rest of you as well).

I'm quite surprised that the animations aren't racial. Not a big deal, but definitely not what I expected. Guess it comes down to some personal preference now. Time to mess around with the character creator and see what I like best in AF ;) Leaning towards Hyur.

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Originally Posted by Apatheia

Good response, thanks (and thanks to the rest of you as well).

I'm quite surprised that the animations aren't racial. Not a big deal, but definitely not what I expected. Guess it comes down to some personal preference now. Time to mess around with the character creator and see what I like best in AF ;) Leaning towards Hyur.

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Female Hyur have a really dainty run, so just be aware of that.

I'm a Male Highlander Hyur (best class for MNK as it has the highest strength) and I hate everything about it.

People have already mentioned that the combat animations are the same (i.e. Bootshine from a Male Highlander will be the same animation as a Bootshine from a Mi'qote) between each classes but Highlanders are particularly ugly. They look like mentally retarded cavemen and their running animation is atrocious: the back, shoulders, head, upper legs (basically 75% of your body) doesn't move. Only your knees and your arms flail a bit while running.

I'm actually going to use that 30-day item to change my Male Hyur Highlander to a Male Mi'qote as I believe they have the best running animations.

Damn, I regret giving my character a female sounding name instead of generic; I didn't expect to be using an item like this. It sounds like all races have downsides.

oops wrong thread

I love punching the crap out of things on my 2ft tall female Lalafell. I liked playing female Roegadyn during one of the betas for the most part, but the running animations for the larger races is pretty atrocious, female Roegadyn especially. And as mentioned by a previous poster, female midlander Hyur and Elezen are simply too dainty/dopey.

I know this sounds dumb, but when you are a Lalafell, movement seems so much faster because your animation has to be quicker to match that of the larger races (which is why the larger races end up looking slow and stupid). The world also seems much more vast from their height as well. Best suggestion I could make is to start another puglist on another server and just go out and punch/run around for a few minutes to get a feel for all the animations.

Awesome, thanks, that's a good idea that I never really thought of. Appreciate it.

Roegadyn and Elv. Females are the least seen on Cactuar by a very large margine. I hate how Miqo'te are said to be the least populous race yet 97/100 characters are miqo'te. I love the body of the Female Highlander but she has awful face settings and her hair clips through just about every armor set. All the hair for that matter is poorly done in my opinion, for all classes. It looks bad and needs retexturing. That leaves me with a Female Midlander. I'd probably play a Roegadyn if I could make her look like Merlwyb.

You can actually make female highlanders look just amazing in the face, seen many beautiful and down right fierce looking highlander fems, plus the run animation isn't stupid looking like a midlander fem. Played my highlander females pugilist to 20 as of now, and I've never had cause to be disappointed in the animations.

I see very little female Elves : (

Female highlander; between midlander and roegadyn in height, great hairstyles, great voices, pretty faces... down side? People be jelly.

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Female Hyur have a really dainty run, so just be aware of that.

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only midlander, highlander is something more normal

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I actually see more elves, humans, and roegadyns than kitty people.

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You're blind or inobservant. Especially around Balmung. I'm on Balmung. I have yet to see three Midlanders sitting in a bar without a tail between them.

I've seen people roleplaying Hyur... that have tails. But no. That doesn't count. Still a cat.