Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Ultaniku]

While I’d like them to appear in the 6.X series, I could realistically see them waiting til 7.0. Use FemHroth as another draw for 7.0.

[Vahlnir]

I could realistically see them waiting til 7.0. Use FemHroth as another draw for 7.0.

I think that's what everyone should be expecting.

[Starshower]

They will most likely come in 7.0. A new race is a big thing to add, and it would boost expansion sales. Expecting them to come earlier will just disappoint you.

[LisSquid]

Since a lot of people want to talk about F Hrothgar all of a sudden, I thought I'd take the conversation out of the Viera + M Hrothgar Live Thread.

What I'm personally hoping for:
- In the short term: Mention of the project in the next live letter. Possibly art or concepts.
- Long term: Give us an expansion of Hrothgar customization. In the event that hair truly cannot be stripped from faces, an alternative would be fluff. I'd personally adore to have the option to choose neck fluff (perhaps one that touches the mane for a lion crown).
- A bent over "beastly" pose in /cpose. While this would be the first time I ever turn off "cycle idle pose", I think this would bridge a lot of concerns people have over posture. Some people love the M Hrothgar hunch, some hate it. Some people really want it for female Hrothgar, and this seems like it would be a compromise.
- Diadems, headdresses, and hair jewelry. Yes, I know this is more of a Viera thing and we didn't get those. HOWEVER, it would be an extra bit of customization unique to F Hrothgar that would remove pressure from the lack-of-hats situation.

[Colten822]

Orcs in WoW were initially hunched over all the time, but they finally added character customization to allow between upstraight and hunched. Too many gamers were self conscious about their gaming posture, it's a shame this won't be an option in XIV with Hrothgars.

I really do hope that the female hrothgars actually look like a beast and not some 'hot human lady with hrothgar features here and there" like a lot of eastern media portrays beast races.

My ideal female hrothgar is to look even more tough than a male hrothgar, grizzled and agressive like most females in nature, I want them to be able to crush my head between their big strong hands, because they will have very big mooscles.

Jokes aside, people say hrothgars look like furry Roes, so if they make the female hrothgars look like furry femRoes, I'll be happy.

[LisSquid]

Giving this a little boost.

How would everyone feel about mane extensions? One thing that, while not being the case for real cats, differentiates male and female characters is usually hair length. It's almost a given that a female character would have access to a number of longer hairstyles vs the male.

Hrothgar don't have access to different hair styles (aside from the head choice), but what I noticed while playing around with the male model in creation was "clip on" bangs. While maintaining the head as it is with a short cut, you could toggle a longer mane from this selection. I had thought about a head that had a glorious mane, but a toggle sounds like it would add more QoL with how often people already swap out of such styles due to clipping.

[Ultaniku]

Giving this a little boost.

How would everyone feel about mane extensions? One thing that, while not being the case for real cats, differentiates male and female characters is usually hair length. It's almost a given that a female character would have access to a number of longer hairstyles vs the male.

Hrothgar don't have access to different hair styles (aside from the head choice), but what I noticed while playing around with the male model in creation was "clip on" bangs. While maintaining the head as it is with a short cut, you could toggle a longer mane from this selection. I had thought about a head that had a glorious mane, but a toggle sounds like it would add more QoL with how often people already swap out of such styles due to clipping.

I actually would love the manes to be longer. And more full looking even.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Giving this a little boost.

How would everyone feel about mane extensions? One thing that, while not being the case for real cats, differentiates male and female characters is usually hair length. It's almost a given that a female character would have access to a number of longer hairstyles vs the male.

Hrothgar don't have access to different hair styles (aside from the head choice), but what I noticed while playing around with the male model in creation was "clip on" bangs. While maintaining the head as it is with a short cut, you could toggle a longer mane from this selection. I had thought about a head that had a glorious mane, but a toggle sounds like it would add more QoL with how often people already swap out of such styles due to clipping.

Well....Hrothgar are suppose to see some new hair soon in the 1st Major Patch I think. So this is a little Moot.
Otherwise still..its not really a bad idea at all.

[LisSquid]

Well....Hrothgar are suppose to see some new hair soon in the 1st Major Patch I think. So this is a little Moot.
Otherwise still..its not really a bad idea at all.

Thought I'd throw it out anyway! I don't have a lot of faith in their solution, so options to the existing heads wouldn't go amiss either way.

Fingers crossed that we have good news on the way so something as simple as "hair toggle" would be redundant!

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Thought I'd throw it out anyway! I don't have a lot of faith in their solution, so options to the existing heads wouldn't go amiss either way.

Fingers crossed that we have good news on the way so something as simple as "hair toggle" would be redundant!

I have faith, call me a Blind Optimist.