Everyone hates the elf race?

[Haprimac]

I love my duskwight. So much that I often ponder making him my true main over femroe. Problem is, femroe feels like it's my virtual self while elegent is a character I play. I intend to play both equally; femroe more in the beginning to experience all battle class stories and elezen more before patch updates for harder endgame stuff.

Gotta say, though, that my elf has a lot less glamour headaches than my poor roe. Can't even find the perfect hairstyle for her, because all hairstyles are made for midlander/miqo'te/au ra in mind, and I happen to be a fan of cute hairstyles+glam to which roes have to go an extra mile to pull off. Dx Meanwhile Mr.Fashion can look fabulous even in baggy yellow script DoH gear that would make my roe look like a mountain of cloth.

[Iscah]

Long necks also have the advantage of being able to wear most of the necklaces in this game without looking like they're being strangled by them!

(Seriously, a great way to ruin a lot of nice-looking necklaces is to make them hover uncomfortably high under the character's chin, instead of where gravity would actually make them sit. I don't understand it at all.)

The rarest race in this game is a male Elezen with face 4. I've been playing for two years and I've only ever seen one person with it.

I think the older faces are only really there for NPC designs, and the occasional player who wants them. Not just Elezen, but other races as well.

The game script seems to be written with a younger character in mind anyway, so it would probably be a bit odd to play as an older man and still get addressed as "lad" on occasions...

Not trying to be mean but I'm not a fan of my male Duskwight Elezen. I didn't like the face and hair choices and I find their proportions a little odd-looking. However I dislike the other races way more, and that was the main deciding-factor for me. I would've likely been a male Au'ra if their run and jump animations weren't so goofy. The Elezen have great animations and once you cover their bodies in armor the proportions don't stand out much at all. I would prefer male Viera or male Hrothgar more than likely but they're not available yet, so I picked the "lesser evil" of all the "original" races rather than one I actually liked (which is not a very satisfying feeling to have during character creation.)

If you don't mind me agreeing... yeah, your character does look a bit odd (though the profile pictures never help anyone look their best).

The really short hairstyle probably isn't best for Elezen, given that most people don't like the size of their head relative to their body - so fluffier hair makes their head look bigger.

Also are you using black as your eye colour, or is it just not clear from the picture? Turning it up a notch to dark grey/brown might help.

I love my duskwight. So much that I often ponder making him my true main over femroe. Problem is, femroe feels like it's my virtual self while elegent is a character I play. I intend to play both equally; femroe more in the beginning to experience all battle class stories and elezen more before patch updates for harder endgame stuff.

Gotta say, though, that my elf has a lot less glamour headaches than my poor roe. Can't even find the perfect hairstyle for her, because all hairstyles are made for midlander/miqo'te/au ra in mind, and I happen to be a fan of cute hairstyles+glam to which roes have to go an extra mile to pull off. Dx Meanwhile Mr.Fashion can look fabulous even in baggy yellow script DoH gear that would make my roe look like a mountain of cloth.

I feel much the same with my Elezen and fem Roe alts (though my Midlander is my relatively-virtual-self character). I also try to make my Roe "cute" and it's super hard to find things that look nice rather than awkward. Meanwhile my Elezen just makes everything (within reason) look good.