6.2 Hrothgar Update

[SturmChurro]

If they had started since Shadowbringers and gave us a couple in between long wait periods like every 2-3 patches, which means maybe up to 5 new hairs since release, with plans to do more into Endwalker and beyond.
Id be 100% ok with this. Because then we Hrothgar Players (I have an Alt, as a reminder) would have these hopefully Cool Unique hairstyles, and they wouldn't have these dumb issues. They would be made specifically for the Hrothgar for their unique heads.

You can say Using old hair is less work and might come out faster...but at the cost of...yknow, the nonsense we are dealing with now.
Id rather wait longer for something to be done RIGHT, then a short period and get crap.

Yeah, but do you play your alt much? I have an alt too, and I haven't done ANYTHING on it in the past 2 or maybe 3 years except log on to fantasia or do events.

I find it questionable if waiting longer will actually yield anything good. As hrothgar already waited three years, and got those hairs.. A lot of the viera hairs don't even look that good for the long wait, with those gigantic foreheads..

How niche they are is completely dependent on how they're designed. Make them look like the dudes-but-with-boobs that the woke people on twitter (who REALLY want to challenge gender norms to feel special) keep pushing, even though we know the arvg person wants no part of that? Yup, a bunch of time and effort to please like 3 people and make something less popular than Femroe.
Make them look like some amount more-furry, taller Mithra as seen in the queen's artbook art and murals? Easily more popular than the dudes, at least, and could make a decent fanbase.

Regardless of how many people whine about Au Ra, the females are hella popular and show that a few people online crying don't speak for the majority.

Anyway, it's not a matter of talking about it at this point. They're coming regardless of what effects they have on the reg dev time, so the time to warn against that is looong gone.

Even if they made them not look like hulking monstrosities, they'd still be pretty niche, let's be honest. I seriously doubt that race counterpart will be worth the consequences towards customization options, gear, etc. for everyone else. Male hrothgar will probably end up being the ones who suffer the most for female hrothgar inclusion, for that matter. Again, I don't think they should have released male viera either, yet. The only way it would be worthwhile is them miraculously making it easier to fit gear, add customization options, hair, etc.. by then.

I don't think au ra are comparable to female hrothgar either. Unless you think they are going to literally just do miqo'te 2.0 where femhroth are more human than bestial.