WoW introduced a Dragon race in their game. Yoshi-P, please...

[Soge01]

please do a hit for me as well.
God knows I shouldn't be smoking more substances xD
Though I'd take a "pet" dragon as well.
Hell, I'll even take the SMN style pets.
Where they'll give extra flair for your attacks.

Lol, will do! xD
Being able to raise a baby dragnet who grows bigger with every expansion (per ten levels) would be so cool to have!

I'd rather see our dragon basically attack when we attack and only have a few commands for specific actions when you want them to perform a certain move contrary to your own action. Like, when you do single target damage, they do the same and when you do aoe attacks they mimic you with their own. But when you want to focus on doing a single target attack to take down a specific enemy, but you want your dragon to burn down the rest of the trash mob, you just click on their "focus aoe" command and there you go!

Either that, or we just get a Dragon that'll occasionally swoop in and attack with us the same way we can summon our avatar to deal damage as a Reaper. And as for a "transformation move", instead of the Dragoon turning into a Dragon, we instead jump on our dragon's back and fly around torching our enemies with our combined/further coordinated attacks!

[Thaciscokidd]

One thing I miss about XI. I miss my little Wyvern friend.

[Tsiron]

Imagine being able to independently choose horns, or scale patterns and colours for your Au Ra... Say what you will about WoW's art style (it's not my favourite either), but they've got that over FFXIV, at the very least.

[Larirawiel]

I guess, it will not be possible to get "transformations" in FF14 without a huge effort. The problem is, the concepts between FF14 and WoW how the characters are designed are very different.

In WoW, there are no "real" clothes, except weapons, shoulders and the helm. It means, if you wear shoes then you character model may be altered in a generic way. But in most cases, shoes are only different texures without character model alteration. This approach has three advantages: almost no clipping, except shoulders, helm and weapons. You can introduce new races very quickly without much hassle. And because clothes are basically only textures, it runs very fast. But this approach is very unflexible. It is very bad for glam because only textures are swapped and nothing more. And some clothes may look very ugly on some races because they will be stretched in a very strange way.

FF14 has "real" clothes. It is great for glam and very detailed clothes. But the drawbacks are known: huge clipping issues and many clothes will need race specific adjustments. Newer game engines can apply clothes on a body dynamicly. Then those drawbacks would disappear. But this approach needs a good physics simulation. I doubt, that the FF14 engine can do that. And physics simulation is also not for free. It will cost performance.



Cheers

[Shibi]

Let's give the Hroth some ears first.
After that, let's give the Bunnys some hats.

More races, even if they are just reaper-type-glams, will just draw drama and cries of "why can't I wear this helmet, or that hair do?" or "Can we please turn off our dragon tails so we can wear capes and dresses?"

Yep, let's finish the poor Hroth and Bunnies first.

[Soge01]

One thing I miss about XI. I miss my little Wyvern friend.

I hope Yoshi-P gives Dragoon one in XIV as a reference to XI, if we never get a Dragon transformation.

I'd LOVE to have a little dragnet we raise and fights alongside us that grows bigger with each expansion that we eventually can ride into battle as our Reaper "transformation". And even made into a summonable mount.

[GrizzlyTank]

I actually like the way the dragon form looks. The human form looks terrible though.

Yeah, they should have made it so that the dragon from was the new class and every "race" could play it. but the race option is just the dragon's glamour.

[Duskane]

honestly the WoW dragons look pretty bad looks like something from second life
like why make dragons when you had cool snake people

[GrizzlyTank]

honestly the WoW dragons look pretty bad looks like something from second life
like why make dragons when you had cool snake people

[Retrisar]

I guess, it will not be possible to get "transformations" in FF14 without a huge effort. The problem is, the concepts between FF14 and WoW how the characters are designed are very different.

In WoW, there are no "real" clothes, except weapons, shoulders and the helm. It means, if you wear shoes then you character model may be altered in a generic way. But in most cases, shoes are only different texures without character model alteration. This approach has three advantages: almost no clipping, except shoulders, helm and weapons. You can introduce new races very quickly without much hassle. And because clothes are basically only textures, it runs very fast. But this approach is very unflexible. It is very bad for glam because only textures are swapped and nothing more. And some clothes may look very ugly on some races because they will be stretched in a very strange way.

FF14 has "real" clothes. It is great for glam and very detailed clothes. But the drawbacks are known: huge clipping issues and many clothes will need race specific adjustments. Newer game engines can apply clothes on a body dynamicly. Then those drawbacks would disappear. But this approach needs a good physics simulation. I doubt, that the FF14 engine can do that. And physics simulation is also not for free. It will cost performance.



Cheers

WoW armors change tho, they not looking now like cheap latex stretched with different texture.