Elzens, Roegadyns and Hyurs needs buff.

[mero-ix]

I love my elezen, the only thing I don't like is the way he moves sometimes. There are a few moves that make elezens look very goofy (the way they run for example).

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Male Elezen are such huge dorks with how they emote. I also dislike how they run, but I love my sexy Elezen and would never change!

My alt used to be a female Elezen and the way their shoulders slope along with their small heads bugged me. None of the hairstyles are very nice either so I settled on the Lightning hair to cover her billboard forehead. She is now much more content being a male miqo'te.

edit: I'll just leave this here:

[Recaldy]

I see cats over everything else. I </3 you Internet.

[MageBlack]

I love my Roegadn. Love him so much I made this crappy little song. I love towering over every other player and the feeling of excitement when I finally see another Roegadyn. I was the most rare creature at the beginning of ARR, I was a Male MRD/WAR. The OP is just silly and most likely bored. Only a few comebacks and nothing about what they are saying can/should be taken seriously.

PS: Mage Black is my alt. Zakarn Riskbreaker is my main and Sephre Rosewood is my 1.0 chr.

[SummonerSenah]

TBH, I think the reason I love playing my femRoe alt so much is that they are pretty rare compared to female Miqo'tes. Yet I wouldn't use a fantasia to change my Miqo'te to something else, either. Having two characters is the way to go.

[Sprinks]

credit to my friend Aque, for her fabulous gif~

[Dijana]

I think all the races look great, but miqo'te have the best animations. I like how the other races look more but their animations are so derpy

[LadyVal]

I love my elf, and I think she's pretty dang pretty. :P

I think most people play Lalas or Miqos because they either love nekos (which is common in any Japanese franchise, really) or they want to be cute.

I don't know how you buff the beauty of this though:



Really, a character is only as pretty as their creator wants them to be. I don't think any of the races need changes or buffing, there are enough options for every race that they can all be appealing.

[XLauncher]

Personally, I like being rare. Being a femroe is basically like having a claim check for all the commendations in a duty as long as you're not completely awful. Plus, I'm flippin' gorgeous, y'all don't know what you're talking about.

Speaking more seriously, I think SE didn't put as much effort into making the races feel as different as they could have. Appearance is just one piece of what can make a race in an MMO, and they didn't even branch out too much on that: everyone in FFXIV pretty close to human, especially in contrast to races like Sylvari in GW2 or all the stuff WoW has. More importantly than general aesthetics though, I would have loved to see a greater variety in animations between the races. This was something we had even back in FFXI. In combat, the animations were different between the races (can't remember if they varied between genders too) and suited their physical builds. The Elvaan had this "I have better things to be doing than this garbage" grace to their animations while the tarus had animations that were nimble (that backflip during Asuran Fists remains the funniest thing in that game). Contrast to FFXIV where all the races are pretty much the same as far as combat goes. I guess I understand; the graphics of the game probably demand a lot more time from the art department and they were trying to salvage a sinking ship so they didn't have time for that kind of detail. It's still disappointing though.

[Corfish]

I see plenty of Hyur actually, and a decent amount of female elezen. Not so much for male elezen, or any sex of Roe, which makes sense. You can get the rugged manliness of male Roe's without the worn out faces with Highlanders, and large female characters will always be an uncommon choice. I think the issue with Roes and Elezen is that they're exotic, but not really in attractive ways. Male Roes just look old, and male Elezen look odd. VERY defined cheekbones, crazy body proportions. The female Elezen look less odd, probably because the feminine qualities of Elezen look much better on women, with those qualities not handled properly for a male character, which just makes them immediately strange to most people. Female Roe look fine, but as I stated, conflict with people's natural idea of what a woman looks like.

But to each their own, this is just my own personal opinions on the races! I HAVE seen male Elezen that don't strike me as odd, though I've yet to see a male Roe I honestly think looks good, their faces always look smushed and puglike to me. I think the females for both races look fine (barring clipping issues for the fem Roes).

[jomoru]

I can't wait for the expansion so people can complain about Yugiri's race