Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[VacantStare]

Awesome, I'm glad that they changed things up a little and let the guys be shorter than the girls. It's not my thing but a lot of my friends are happy about this, so I'm glad they did it.

[Duskane]

the unlockable ones should take priority anyway
especially Mogstation and Strife

[SturmChurro]

Yeah, it definitely does look like that hairstyle....

Hang on, that's one of the Modern Aesthetician hairstyles, is it not?
If I can finally get to use all my Aesthetician hairstyles, I'll be very happy, tbh.

Also, about the height thing? My husband is shorter than I am irl, so I don't see the issue.

Yep. I was hoping to see this one day. Our hairstyles we bought or earned in-game becoming available for viera.

[WhiteArchmage]

My only issue with the male height is that I wanted my male and female Viera to be the same height as they're meant to be mirror images of one another. But oh well, that was the gamble I took when making a max height female, so I'll just make a max height male and deal with it; it's literally not that big a deal that a fantasy race has females be a touch taller than the males. I mean, biologically they already behave differently from humans, so...

Also, if we can at least use the unlockable hairstyles and mog station hairstyles that'd be a great addition, and something that was really lacking from Vanilla Viera and Hroth (poor Hroths seem to have gotten the short end of the stick, though? I saw nothing announced for them).

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Max height 186.5

FemRoe slider looks amazing

[NessaWyvern]

Yep. I was hoping to see this one day. Our hairstyles we bought or earned in-game becoming available for viera.

Heck yeah, every time a new hairstyle was released for the other races, I had been tempted to fantasia, but no longer! (hopefully).
Form and Function, Greater Lengths, and Samsonian Locks would look pretty damn good on Viera, I should think. I miss them so bad T^T

[SturmChurro]

Heck yeah, every time a new hairstyle was released for the other races, I had been tempted to fantasia, but no longer! (hopefully).
Form and Function, Greater Lengths, and Samsonian Locks would look pretty damn good on Viera, I should think. I miss them so bad T^T

I'm always tempted to fantasia so no big deal for me. I just hope future modern aesthetics styles will also be made for viera, so they won't be left out of those releases. Who knows what else we might get in future?

[NessaWyvern]

I'm always tempted to fantasia so no big deal for me. I just hope future modern aesthetics styles will also be made for viera, so they won't be left out of those releases. Who knows what else we might get in future?

At least if the old ones are made available, then there's more hope that the new ones might be made available too.

[Crushnight]

I don't see how it's 'petty'. It's a personal preference. I didn't want them to go in such a direction but they did and it is what it is. I most certainly aren't going to lose any sleep over it, though it does make me raise an eyebrow that niche aesthetics are actively embraced often for male characters whereas we still haven't had any of the conventional requests for character customisation embraced and added to the game.

Namely stubble for Midlander men and the other playable races that could make it work.

Not that it matters but I'm six foot two myself. I like playing tall men in games with character customisation.

Niche aesthetics tend to get more embraced because they are niche, they rarely happen thus when they do happen people gravitate towards them as more interesting, you could probably count on your hands how many MMOs have a single race of theirs have the max height male be shorter than the max height female, it is very uncommon to have such a thing.

6ft 1in is not considered short in the majority of the world flat out a max height Male Viera would be considered tall worldwide just in the fantasy world of FFXIV they are shorter than than half the other male options but still taller than Midlander which you seem fine with so this whole height thing really does seem petty when it is the actual aesthetics of the race as whole that bother you and not the height itself.

And you know what, that is a fine preference to have.

But you dismissed male Viera on their height and that is what people find petty about it.

Also I too hope they add more beard and facial options because I find FFXIV is laughably lacking in that department compared to everyone else and it feels worse when they advertise the game with a character who has stubble we can't even use >_>

(I'm 6ft 1in and would be considered tall as well and yes I too prefer men taller but I have always been open to shorter men as well because variety)

[Vahlnir]

But you dismissed male Viera on their height and that is what people find petty about it.

Yeah, this is how I feel about it as well. It's not that I have a problem with their preferences. It's that they dismissed male viera based on a difference of 2 inches, when they are already tall to begin with. To me that is petty, and that says that they weren't that interested in them at all to begin with.