Just a thought on Elezen.

[FallenArisen0990]

This is true too. I have to admit I prefer playing shorter girls, but I'm 5'2" (157 cm I believe?) so it's nice to watch a small girl destroy Gods and big buff characters.

Is it sad that my 0 size Au Ra, is taller than me irl? XD

[DreadRabbit]

Is it sad that my 0 size Au Ra, is taller than me irl? XD

Not at all embrace your height! Short ladies unite and kick booty <3

[Rokke]

This is true too. I have to admit I prefer playing shorter girls, but I'm 5'2" (157 cm I believe?) so it's nice to watch a small girl destroy Gods and big buff characters. But I do have a soft spot for Elezen: I nearly made one after seeing their dance. Awkward giraffes deserve love.

Also curse threads like these and the "show your ___ " threads. I am now in character creation just making different characters now >__>

I’m 5’1” and my main is a max height male Au Ra xD I don’t fault people for picking popular races. People are gonna play what they like to look at regardless of what others think- as they should! If anything, it just makes me appreciate the less used combos when I spot a cute one run past me in-game :}

[phishstix]

... I wouldn't say no to muscle slider for au ra females...what?

but as for the subject of elezen, since they are so tall like Male Au ra they should be running with longer strides. however they seem to take smaller steps. Other than that I have no problems. They could use a few more hairstyles though.

[SerasIV]

Well that's a lot more posts than I expected! I'm glad so many people like the Eleven though! I'm envious honestly since I'd love to play one, maybe I just need to mess with the creator a bit more!

[Lunafreya]

I really don't think you have room to say that when Elezen only have two faces to pick from (as shown in the post above). So while there are less Elezen females running around, they are far more likely to look like clones of each other because you essentially have less choices in faces.

I tend to really disagree that Elezen are only unique cause people play them rarely. A bad elf is easy to spot and a well made one is very unique, imo. There's really a lot to put into the character creator and I just dont see that for the au ra females and Miqote specifically. It could be the horns or it could be that everyone and their mum is using the same faces. Even with different faces I can still tell that many Miqote and Au ra females look like carbon copies. While it is true that we Elves have less face options... I think it really goes beyond that. I've honestly never seen an exact copy of my elf. I've seen some close but never exact. So in a way I do feel unique because the model of my character hasn't been seen. I do receive feedback on my character saying that she's really well done and I'm cool with that. I know Elezen aren't everyone's cup of tea and that's totally fine. My point is that I dont think we can use faces to compare. I've seen a lot of creative Elezen that look unique on here and sometimes in the duty finder.

As for your other point, we can certainly work together as a community to get more options but Yoshida already said it himself that more customization isn't a plan for the future. But hey there's no problem with trying like you say but I don't really think it will lead to anything major mostly because people will want x new race like Lupin or Viera which imo, is just boring to waste dev resources on. I'm not really bashing other races. I'd call it more disappointment than anything but I like to go out in the overworld and look different.

[Katsuragi_]

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That's because those two races have very distinctive features easy to set apart at a simple glance. An elezen face has basically all normal human features excluding the ears.
Youre most likely being unconsciously biased, specially by comparing your own character's face with other Elezens and since you don't really seem to care too much about the other two races not really paying too much attention to them. Not to blame, mind you.

[Katsuragi_]

I, on the other hand, since I started as Miqo (and its hard for me to not switch back because the neck droop on highlanders is something I cannot unsee... also I loved my miqo regardless, even if Highlander build is more my jam), see a lot of Miqos I screenshot for the sake of finding them pretty or unique enough. I do that with Elezens too because I find good Elezen faces to be rare, so I enjoy it when I find one. On the other hand, all Lalas look the same to me (because they're the spawn of satan, all small humanoids in mmos are), and so do Au Ras because I just dont dig the whole overdone porcelain girl and dragon features meme. Midlanders are also bland as hell. But every once in a while someone manages to make one that stands out.

(hurray for character limits)

[Xiomara]

I like being a unicorn/special snowflake. Never met another fem duskwight elezen that looked even close to what I look like.

[Lewtskie]

I like being a unicorn/special snowflake. Never met another fem duskwight elezen that looked even close to what I look like.

Mad props to a Duskwight that actually goes full drow; I actually find the darker skin much more attractive on them. I ran one such during the 1.x days, she still lingers on Balmung from the server merges back then.