Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Ultaniku]

It may be because I made my Viera fairly tall, i fifty realize the min height ones was barely taller than the male Miqo’te. I kinda like that, makes me happy that my male Viera can hopefully be taller than at least some females.

[PurinSato]

I will say this: I am both elated for male viera, even though I won’t play them, and disappointed we didn’t hear a peep about the state of viera/hroth hair the whole stream.

That said, I do not think this team is as scummy to be like “well TECHNICALLY we SAID a slower rate hehe....so anything we do isn’t lying ”. While I do think it’s ridiculous and frankly bad taste they are just ignoring it while giving out a ton of hairs to everyone else, I am going to try to give them the benefit of the doubt that there’s a reason for it. We still have the 14 hour stream. We also still have the huge live letter and media tour before the launch. This whole fanfest, while cool, seemed kinda poorly organized (to be expected- it was an experiment). They didn’t allot nearly enough time to events. The Q&A got cut off after like 5 questions. The VA panel went way over schedule. 2 hours for a keynote that was supposed to encompass 2 fanfests worth of content reveal- they didn’t even touch on huge swaths of upcoming content. It’s possible that they simply didn’t have the time.

I try to keep in mind that the way they announced all that hard work that their team did on headgear in a really lowkey way- I believe a forum post? So it’s possible we can expect something similar.

I’ll keep the faith until EW. The addition of male viera and the promise of female hrothgar, while I always expected them to show up eventually, shows that they are listening and care about these races. But if by any chance this feedback gets back to the dev team: a little word on the matter sooner than later would go a long way!

I don't mean to speak about another topic on this thread but when is this 14h stream happening?

[zeylos]

Just switched back to my veena as well. I need to catch up in story (haven't even unlocked the latest dungeon), and prep for the main story leading into EW come the 25th. I was hoping with good news during fanfest I would want to stay Viera, now I'll just be thinking of the hairstyle I paid 8 million gil for that I could use on Miqo'te, and that new one (someone mentioned) that I won't be able to use, with no alternatives for viera. Thing is I'll want to be viera for EW launch too (For story) so it'd be even more of a waste of money if I switched back and forth again..

Miqo'te just isn't my thing for story cutscenes, I can't take her seriously. Viera is my favorite.

Yeah, apparently, viera/hrothgar updates weren't important enough for the fanfest.. What some optimists say is that with male viera, viera as a race is 'complete', so now we should start receiving updates. I still think it's quite a bit late, they could have at least said something. Not to mention all the jumping around the question of male viera for the past couple years, and how they just couldn't add them.. I guess they really did want that to be there hit 'surprise' announcement.

I mean, to be fair, they never said they couldnt add them, they just said that they werent coming in ShB and that they didnt know about the future (months ago before their reveal, he said we are doing our best a/trying to iirc)

[BunniEclair]

I don't mean to speak about another topic on this thread but when is this 14h stream happening?

They don’t have a date pinned down yet because of corona. But somewhere between now and November. It was supposed to happen in Feb I think but they were unable to because of restrictions.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

With Male Viera coming out of left field, literally anything is possible at this point.

Still not getting playable children

[LisSquid]

Still not getting playable children

I am.. not sure where this came from?

[MorionQ]

I am.. not sure where this came from?

Oh, this was a request for a good while that almost completely died out by the end of HW. Padjal or characters built like the Twins as a playable option were the more prominent ideas but the argument that FFXIV had standards regarding potential loli/shota playable avatars thankfully shut that crap down.

[Chie_M]

Just in case anyone is curious about what I said I found a screenshot of my boyfriend and I facing each other in game and as you can see the height difference is pretty small between a max height male miqo and a min height female viera. Perhaps from this we can say that male viera are going to be able to be at least as tall as male miqos? Whether that means it would be min, mid or max slider height we don't know. Have to wait and see.

Unrelated... but what boots are you wearing?

[LisSquid]

Oh, this was a request for a good while that almost completely died out by the end of HW. Padjal or characters built like the Twins as a playable option were the more prominent ideas but the argument that FFXIV had standards regarding potential loli/shota playable avatars thankfully shut that crap down.

Oh, well now I am less confused and more offended that person assumed that was what I was talking about.

[Penthea]

Unrelated... but what boots are you wearing?

Level 80 sch AF boots, they're dyed. I love them so much. I wish I could wear them on every class.