will we get Garleans Race?

[Rasikko]

They're basically hyurs with rocks on thier foreheads..

[SXTC]

So just ugly hyurs, but still hyurs

[wereotter]

Garleans can’t cast magic. So that means none of the jobs are viable. Zero, zilch, zip. Can’t be a white mage.... or any mage for that matter. Even gunbreaker uses aether imbued ammo. It’s known that ryne has to imbue thancreds ammo for him. So no we won’t have them as a race for that one reason.... magic

Your point is correct, but there are jobs that don't use any form of magic. Warrior, monk, dragoon, samurai, machinist, dancer, bard.

I don't think, to this point, that it would be good to introduce a race into the game that can play fewer than half of the jobs.

[Anatha]

Pretty much all classes manipulate aether in some way, especially MCH.

Garleans cannot manipulate aether. It's never going to happen.

[Feronar]

Even if you could somehow solve the lore and magic issues, they are literally just Hyurs with pebbles on their foreheads. It would be a total waste of a race slot. If they were to add one more race, it would make far more sense to add something more distinctive, such as Lupins.

[wereotter]

Pretty much all classes manipulate aether in some way, especially MCH.

Garleans cannot manipulate aether. It's never going to happen.

Machinist is using Magitek developed by Cid, no aether manipulation.

[Lium]

Are the Resonant still a thing? The writers could easily put in a story about a group of rebel Resonant allied with the Populares fleeing the empire and settling in an Alliance city-state.

Not that I think that would ever happen, mind you. And playing a Garlean through ARR would be just as jarring as playing an Au Ra. Yugiri shows up and you’re like “Um, Yugiri, I’m one of you. You can take off that mask.”

It would take some mental gymnastics to make it work. But gameplay wise, the writers could easily make something work out so that Garleans could have access to all jobs.

[VargasVermillion]

Your point is correct, but there are jobs that don't use any form of magic. Warrior, monk, dragoon, samurai, machinist, dancer, bard.

I don't think, to this point, that it would be good to introduce a race into the game that can play fewer than half of the jobs.

All these jobs use some form of aether manipulation in otherwords magic. Dragoons jumps involve manipulating their bodies aether to jump higher, machinist even uses aether for some of it's ammunition and the device on your hip is designed for that, none of the garleans that use guns have this device so while they can obviously use the firearm itself the machinist as a job is more about the device that uses the wielders aether. Most songs or buff based abilities would use aether and most 'flashy' attacks are aether based, like samurais projectile. Basically just cause it doesn't use MP doesn't mean it isn't using aether which garleans cannot manipulate naturally.

[Sauteed]

When I first started playing I thought it would have been cool, but now after really playing a while, I think maybe just having more interactive Garlean npcs would be cool. Maybe even maid/manservants.

Reason being as stated before I think it would take critical rewrites and really making them less cartoony super villain in general. The good ones that seem to defect like Cid, and some later ones I won't mention because people may not be at that point in the game yet are great, I love their characters, much. I really do feel it adds this sense that the things we do as the WoL really are impacting some one at least. I know a lot of people hate the duties where you play as some one else for multiple reasons, but I could see maybe a duty or two where we are in control of some Garlean defectors doing spy stuff could be awesome if done properly.

[wereotter]

All these jobs use some form of aether manipulation in otherwords magic. Dragoons jumps involve manipulating their bodies aether to jump higher, machinist even uses aether for some of it's ammunition and the device on your hip is designed for that, none of the garleans that use guns have this device so while they can obviously use the firearm itself the machinist as a job is more about the device that uses the wielders aether. Most songs or buff based abilities would use aether and most 'flashy' attacks are aether based, like samurais projectile. Basically just cause it doesn't use MP doesn't mean it isn't using aether which garleans cannot manipulate naturally.

I'm happy to go back and fact check myself, but the actual job description on the official job description for Machinist from the developers states that the job is using magitek technology, which is not aether manipulation.

Additionally many other jobs are not manipulating aether just because their attacks are flashy. Consider the flashy attacks that Zenos uses when we right him, and he can not manipulate aether. Also before we talk about the resonant he has, I'll stop that right away and remind that this ability is basically the Echo, and doesn't enable Garleans to use magics.