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[DrForester]

Had a horrible thought.

What if the "hat" is a unique hairstyle like the Fran helm for Viera...

[Caro178]

Had a horrible thought.

What if the "hat" is a unique hairstyle like the Fran helm for Viera...

There are male Hrothgar and Mamool Ja wearing the same turban in the trailer. It looks to be a traditional headpiece of the Turali people. Wuk Lamat is a Turali Hrothgar known as a Xbr'aal and everything so far suggests our player models will be Ilsebardian Hrothgar just like our playable male Hrothgar. There's no reason our Ilsebardian Hrothgar character customization would include Turali headgear. Also, Wuk Lamat's hairstyle is most likely entirely unique to her. We know there's a model that excludes the hat because she's not wearing it in the CGI trailer or the poster.

We already know they're in the process of amending the systems that will allow Viera and Hrothgar to wear headgear because it was recently confirmed so I find it much easier to believe that this is meant to be a subtle little hint of things to come than an entire regionally affiliated turban attached to a hairstyle. Gotta remember she's an NPC and NPCs are just special sometimes.

[DrForester]

We already know they're in the process of amending the systems that will allow Viera and Hrothgar to wear headgear because it was recently confirmed so I find it much easier to believe that this is meant to be a subtle little hint of things to come than an entire regionally affiliated turban attached to a hairstyle. Gotta remember she's an NPC and NPCs are just special sometimes.

We DON'T know that. YoshiP supposedly said it in a very unofficial setting while visiting a server on New Years. And what he supposedly said was "please be patient", which means absolutely zilch. I know we have nothing to grasp at but straws when it comes to headgear, but lets stop setting ourselves up for disappointment after disappointment. It's probably a unique NPC thing, and based on the trailer and poster, she won't be wearing it most the time.

Best case scenario, we're wrong and they've actually fixed the races they introduced 5 years ago. Worst case scenario, we can start hyping up for a fix in 8.0 that won't come either.

[Caro178]

We DON'T know that. YoshiP supposedly said it in a very unofficial setting while visiting a server on New Years. And what he supposedly said was "please be patient", which means absolutely zilch. I know we have nothing to grasp at but straws when it comes to headgear, but lets stop setting ourselves up for disappointment after disappointment. It's probably a unique NPC thing, and based on the trailer and poster, she won't be wearing it most the time.

Best case scenario, we're wrong and they've actually fixed the races they introduced 5 years ago. Worst case scenario, we can start hyping up for a fix in 8.0 that won't come either.

We do know because that is what he said. "We're working on adjusting the system for Viera and Hrothgar head gear" were his exact words. We can debate whether or not it will happen, we can debate how official the interview was, we can debate when it will happen but I outright refuse to debate whether or not he said it.

Here is the source.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../61125701.html

[Nureus]

The Hat isn't going to be a hair style like Fran's since we know from the official art and the CG trailer what her hair actually looks like. What I think is happening here is she is A) trying to not draw attention to herself and doing a terrible job at it or B) since it snows a lot in Old Sharlayan maybe her ears got cold. Guess we'll find out the reason in a little over 4 days from now.

As for Hats, Yoshi-P did say they are working on it in an informal Q&A. Now how long that will take who knows but I have a feeling that it isn't going to be a back burner project since they didn't follow though with the "For lack of hats you'll have more unique hair styles" part back in Shadowbringers which I'm sure they know that they burned players with that statement.

I would say 8.0 would be a safe bet for hats since they should have cleared the plate from the Graphics update and race development by that point. It could quite possibly be with 7.0 (maybe with the style of the gear) that hat options are easier to implement until they have the whole system figured out to get all hats to work. All we can do is wait at this point and hope for the best.

[ejunniim]

The Hat isn't going to be a hair style like Fran's since we know from the official art and the CG trailer what her hair actually looks like. What I think is happening here is she is A) trying to not draw attention to herself and doing a terrible job at it or B) since it snows a lot in Old Sharlayan maybe her ears got cold.

SOUNDS SO CUUUTE