ideas for racial traits and abilities

[Geesus]

Anyone who played 11 will tell you it was cool but it also sucked. Example my Elvaan. Hit like a truck but had the worst Accuracy EVAR! So I spent tons in gil buying or having crafted specialized gear to compensate or having to farm the gear. And it did force some players to be excluded do to their gear or race.

If it existed already in game sure I could deal with having it again; I'd be use to it. But with things as is let's leave them as is please.

[Vanguard319]

I could see it happening with the guardian deity you pick, i.e. having Oschon would give your character an attribute bonus that would benefit an archer (say +5 to dex and pie). It wouldn't be overwhelming, and would potentially benefit other classes as well, but would be geared to give a slight edge for the class most representative of that deity.

[Biggs]

No - then it will just turn into only certain races are competent as certain disciplines and that would break the entire armoury/discipline system. Races are plenty unique. I've never confused a Rogaedyn with a Mi'quote...

The clans actually make this statement totally false. In XI it was true because there was 1 galka, 1 taru, and so on. But if they make hellsguard traits different than seawolf traits, you could still create a Roe mage with just as good of stats as the Lala's. I think they had the right idea when they added the clans to XIV but didn't take it far enough. I mean, how sweet would it be if Dark Elves recieved a dex bonus during night time, or if Hellsguard Roe's had a higher fire resistance? (because the lore says they live in or near a volcano). I think there is a way SE could make everyone happy here with very little effort.

I think if they had racial bonuses and then made it so the diety you picked adds another bonus of some kind, they could really add a layer of complexity to the races that just isn't there right now.

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

Tauren
Troll
Night Elf
Child Link
Lee Sin
Your Mom

kirin
viking

[KiriA500]

Roggadyn: increased health percent, hardened skin(defence bonus), tail smash(stun target), roar(terrify opponent for a second or two).

Roggadyn

tail smash

[Bongeh1986]

galka = hp
tarutaru = mp
elvaan = STR
mithra = DEX
hume = meh

[Charismatic]

Anyone who played 11 will tell you it was cool but it also sucked. Example my Elvaan. Hit like a truck but had the worst Accuracy EVAR! So I spent tons in gil buying or having crafted specialized gear to compensate or having to farm the gear. And it did force some players to be excluded do to their gear or race.

If it existed already in game sure I could deal with having it again; I'd be use to it. But with things as is let's leave them as is please.

lmao @ native DEX having that much of a noticeable effect on ACC in FFXI. Being 12 DEX below Mithra (at the most) is 6ACC below the race with the MOST native ACC. It doesn't even matter.
Anyone who bought into that junk was just silly.

Elv was the best race for most DD jobs since you cap out on ACC on most things wearing the same stuff as everyone else and then have more STR on top. Galka was better for DRK whenever soul eater is involved (especially zerging). And of course Elv wasn't the bees knees as BLM/SCH nuking (or RDM chainspell nuking) but even then the differences weren't so great... though noticeable.



If they were to implement some sort of racial traits, I'd hope they'd have an equally small impact as the core stats did in FFXI.

[Belial]

Racial abilities and traits should be reserved for PvP. That is all.

[syntaxlies]

greetings citizens.

during boring class yesterday i was thinking about how to make races more uniqe in this game and though that adding race traits or abilities would be good ad interesting. these are my ides that i come up witt so far:

Roggadyn: increased health percent, hardened skin(defence bonus), tail smash(stun target), roar(terrify opponent for a second or two).

highlander: increased strength bonus, increased hp regeneration, enrage(increase haste or attack maybe), overpower(knock back/knock down)

elf: increased movement speed, aggro range reduction,

tarutaru: evade bonus, agility bonus, roll

cat men: increased agility, inceased haste, kick

hyur: too weak

what do you gus think about adding traits or abilities to each race? if people dont like other races have some "advantages", each race coud instead be given something unique that dont affect gameplay, for example some emote or something.

Roggadyn dont have tails...

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

Roggadyn dont have tails...

we can wish that they re-implent them in 2.0