Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[SturmChurro]

I actually had a dream last night about switching back to my veena, and then getting annoyed about the hair situation. Old habits..

You know they will.

Yep..

100%. It's depressing. Viera is the race for Rhana. I can't change her, because then she wouldn't be the WoL any more. I just want her to have something different.

I really do want to switch back, but reality kicks in.. Viera/hrothgar are second-class races.

I'm pretty numb to it by now, but it's still disappointing.

When they asked us to "please wait a little bit longer" they cited (surprise!) resources as the reason it's taking longer, shame our hairstyles don't seem to grow in the cabbage patch out back like the hairstyles for everyone else do.

They had to make male viera instead, it looks like.. and probably just as limited.. so that's great.

It's already being spun as being a good thing to first release male Viera and female Hrothgar and then add something. In the big picture it might look good, but for people who play Viera and Hrothgar now the reality is that we might be looking at 4+ years by that time. I don't think that's a good thing at all.

But I admire your optimism and hope you're right.

How many male viera players you think will actually stay as one?

I'm quite sure that we will probably get something at some point in 6.x for viera, as they would want to boost fantasia sales and viera numbers with male viera released, and as for hrotgar I'm kind of optimistic the same will happen with female hrot's release sometime in the future, what Im really surprised about is that in the QnA no one asked about it, wonder if they'll do so in an interview

People wanted it so bad, now we have double the limited races! Great stuff!

wow ...no mention of female viera at all !, this is ridiculous
why would you even bother making male viera when it's going to be restricted ...
on the other hand i am sure these few coming days they will be making so much profit out of all the fantasias viera/hrothgar players will be buying

Limited races are great for fantasia sales! Players switching to and from them. Hrothgar just to get their second hairstyle! Imagine if females have to as well!

We don't know.
That said, the guy's knees when it stands next to the bed seem to be on about the same height as my character's, who's 160cm tall, making Viera from Ishgard inn about 160-165 cm tall. I wouldn't make any conclusions from that as it's a trailer and it's hard to judge even when trying to get same angles since it's not guaranteed that assets in trailer are accurate, but there is a chance that male Viera will be shorter than females or same height as they are.

There's also this comparison, which still isn't 100% indicative but... yep.
https://mobile.twitter.com/IllyXIV/s...42367152168962

If male viera are as short as miqo'te, what's the point? Hopefully the height range is larger. Sure, they are a bit better looking than male miqo'te, but is it worth the limitations? Male miqo'te can wear hats and have access to all added hair.