Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Driavna]

Wait, can we actually be banned on the forums for showing pictures of a mod? (Even though its not our character) I thought photos were fine but don't state where to actually do it/etc?

If you get reported, yes. I remember one case of a few post being remove from "show your X" and that user banned. As always, someone needs to report you, so I going to guess that person had a loyal fan lurking around.

[Yencat]

Well if you never see another post from me you'll know what happened.

Remember me, remember that I once posted.

[SherlottaEryut]

In that case guys here's a photoshopped image of what it would look like if Viera had form and function. This is the potential, this is what we need.

[Driavna]

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I wish SE added those hairstyles! I was somewhat hype at launch till I checked what we got. Killed my mood for that day. One will think a race with almost no headgear at least will get hairstyles...

And now, seen how almost all headgear from current expansion still don't show I'm resigned that any unlockeable hair will also not work for my char...

[SturmChurro]

It's not my fav either but I've seen the ponytail look pretty good on Viera with darker hair and fuller, slightly more raised eyebrows, it seems to balance out the fivehead better.

For female Viera specifically I'd like to see 'Great Lengths', 'Gyr Abanian Plait', 'Form and Function', 'Samsonian Locks' and 'Both Ways'. I think the twin braids default hairstyle and Y'shtola's Modish hairstyle from Mogstation would look good on Viera too.

But just adding Great Lengths would shut me up.

I don't think so, the ponytail has that issue for a lot of races and it isn't necessarily a problem for just Viera, the standard positioning for the hairline on Ponytails is pretty high up.


Great Lengths has a pretty normal hairline position for all races that can use it, and through "certain means" () people have been using it on Viera and it looks great. There's a possibility they'd botch it of course but it should be fine.

Yeah, 'Great Lengths' hairline does seem to line up much better. It should be about as high up as a typical viera hair. I'd like to see more similarly long hairstyles anyway, it should be the player's choice to use them.

I wish SE added those hairstyles! I was somewhat hype at launch till I checked what we got. Killed my mood for that day. One will think a race with almost no headgear at least will get hairstyles...

And now, seen how almost all headgear from current expansion still don't show I'm resigned that any unlockeable hair will also not work for my char...

Viera would be pretty much the perfect race, if they got frequent updates with quality hairs, even if they still had headgear limitations.

[Geirskogul]

Viera would be pretty much the perfect race, if they got frequent updates with quality hairs, even if they still had headgear limitations.

Viera has in my opinion the best animations in the game (their run/jump animations especially, they are perfect) and voice options but it just makes me so sad that they've been so neglected. I think that if you're gonna go through the trouble of adding a new race you should do it right. IMO hrothgar should not have been added at all. Imagine if all the effort that went into hrothgar had instead been poured into the viera. Instead of getting one "complete" new race we got 2 half-arsed races riddled with issues and limitations.

[Fukuro]

I don‘t really care about headgear. Never used them on my miqo‘te anyways. (AF gears are the only gearsets i care about the headgear part- would be dope to see some extra work there to make them work with hrothgar and viera)
Just hopeful they either give us more popular hairstyles for males or give us more racial ones. The ones we got (minus snow‘s hairstyle) are for me personally F tier and I‘m really questioning their decision since I never run into people using them besides maybe maybe snow‘s.

[Yencat]

Viera has in my opinion the best animations in the game (their run/jump animations especially, they are perfect) and voice options but it just makes me so sad that they've been so neglected. I think that if you're gonna go through the trouble of adding a new race you should do it right. IMO hrothgar should not have been added at all. Imagine if all the effort that went into hrothgar had instead been poured into the viera. Instead of getting one "complete" new race we got 2 half-arsed races riddled with issues and limitations.

There's a good chance that if they made male and female Viera at the same time they'd have made the same mistake and would still need to go back and fix whatever was wrong with female Viera originally.

They also haven't even done anything for Hrothgar yet and we still only got 6, so I'm not so sure it would've been much better that way unfortunately.

I don‘t really care about headgear. Never used them on my miqo‘te anyways. (AF gears are the only gearsets i care about the headgear part- would be dope to see some extra work there to make them work with hrothgar and viera)
Just hopeful they either give us more popular hairstyles for males or give us more racial ones. The ones we got (minus snow‘s hairstyle) are for me personally F tier and I‘m really questioning their decision since I never run into people using them besides maybe maybe snow‘s.

Yeah ideally everything would work for everyone, but the only time I really think not having headgear sucks is when the only event reward is some form of headgear I can't use

Are there any hairstyles in particular you'd like to see for male Viera?

[HeyMcFly]

I'd like more diadem type head pieces to be made, mostly in mind for Viera (but can be used by everyone)
I do always wear something on my characters head- mostly a Tiara/diadem of some type because I love high-fantasy type glamours

If Viera hadn't been crapped on with the added hairstyles that look like a botched job & instead given all of the mog station hairs first (which I know SE would have taken their time to make right)- I'd likely be a Viera because I love Y'sthola's Moddish hair.

I'd 100% rather Viera have their own hairstyles with how terrible the ported ones look, except lightnings hair (bc its mog station) But I'm also biased because I dislike about every hairstyle except maybe 2 or 3 that is available due to lack of variety- they're all flat hairstyles or rpg anime hero.

Everyone here would have to specifically request improved ported versions of hairstyles, or rely on modders to do a better job or else you'll get another of these nightmares LOL

[Yencat]

If Viera hadn't been crapped on with the added hairstyles that look like a botched job & instead given all of the mog station hairs first (which I know SE would have taken their time to make right)- I'd likely be a Viera because I love Y'sthola's Moddish hair.

I'd 100% rather Viera have their own hairstyles with how terrible the ported ones look, except lightnings hair (bc its mog station)

Have you actually looked at the Lightning hair closely? The strands of hair literally grow out of one ear and stab straight through the other.

It's not terrible and I don't mind if that's what it takes to get access to more hairstyles, but that one in particular has really not gotten more special attention compared to others.

Well, except 2b maybe. That one got a little too much attention.