Noir Hat (and others)

[Adamantini]

I made a post about removing racial traits a while ago, but it didn't last long.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-racial-traits

It's not just ears, but tails are also being ignored or completely removed from items, and the trend is getting worse and worse as the community doesn't care. A plus point for the Hrothgars, as after the complaint about the removal of their ears, SE started implementing little ears on the few helmets they might have.

And does it seem strange to remove Hrothgar and Miqo'te's small ears? Now imagine the Abyssos helmets, which completely remove those of the Vieras, those huge ears that you can tell from afar are missing.

For the company, it's much easier to make everyone Hyur, they don't need exclusive models, and the community won't care (other than the Hrothgars who complained, these will get exclusive items until the dust settles and the company feels they can put Hyur items on them again).

But it's like someone said in my post

I'll say this again...

About 90% or more of the gear that took racial traits in consideration are just based on gear that was already implemented by Tanaka's team before Yoshida took over.
The first thing Yoshida decided regarding gear modelling was practically ask fans if they wanted quality (but unique models would take longer to be made) or quantity (but gear would lose detail, and we end up with less headgear that respects ears, less concern with tail clipping etc). Apparently at the time people asked for quantity without realising it.

Once they had to start pushing new models on their own that was literally it.

Tanaka and 1.0 had many problems. Attention to model detail was definitely not one of them. They did that significantly better. Down to visible swappable belts and ear holes/sockets in everything where it made sense.

the game is involuting, and most don't care.

Au Ra supremacy I fear, our horns can and will clip through every hat and helmet under the sun

Beware. Enshroud is there to prove that now skills can also remove all racial traits from you, and your horns are definitely gone here too.


EDIT: By the way, I think one of the big reasons Hrothgars and Vieras don't have their hats is simply because the company doesn't want to make items exclusive to any race, and these two would definitely need that on some hats.