So Long, and thanks for eating all my fish!! (Race Bonus thread)

[Valmonte]

FFXIV is in dire need of some form of Racial Activity's/Bonuses to allow Diversity in Eorzea. i do not know if this is planed for 2.0, but it needs to happen on launch of 2.0.

i cant walk an inch with out running into a spawn of cat girls or taru's, its bothersome to me but i cant quite figure out why...is it cosmetic or is the fact there are just so many.

if anyone can trump my forum crawling skills and post a link to any information regarding racial information i'd aprrreciate it.

[Niqote]

I would actually prefer not... it was a pain in FFXI and it would be a pain here... one whom devotes herself to a job should be as proficient as that of another.

The problem my dear is the lack of race choice along with a lack of custom features. I know several people who would opt for other classes if only 'they had better hair' or 'if they had a tail' and the like.

[vageta666]

ik what u mean OP. like in xi where sandorians dispised bastok and bastok despised every1 and windy was hippy town where no1 cared. and u felt and saw all that while playing. especially the hatred of galkas in bastok. ik what u mean brah.

[Starlord]

If I recall.. I believe Yoshi-p said that That Races will have their own starter gear and Race stats... Now if I can just find the source....

[Valmonte]

I would actually prefer not... it was a pain in FFXI and it would be a pain here... one whom devotes herself to a job should be as proficient as that of another.

The problem my dear is the lack of race choice along with a lack of custom features. I know several people who would opt for other classes if only 'they had better hair' or 'if they had a tail' and the like.

Dress it up how every you like cat girl is still a cat girl, my issue is the sheer amount of people rolling cat girls...and why wouldnt you they have the best animation set ive seen so far for combat. the galka's look like there in post mordom, the male elves are more feminine than the females, High landers are left handed , Tarus are too small to see what there doing, and Midlanders are like OMG back to basics.

[Arcell]

Dress it up how every you like cat girl is still a cat girl, my issue is the sheer amount of people rolling cat girls...and why wouldnt you they have the best animation set ive seen so far for combat. the galka's look like there in post mordom, the male elves are more feminine than the females, High landers are left handed , Tarus are too small to see what there doing, and Midlanders are like OMG back to basics.

You can't control how many people roll a certain race or not, however they are giving us more choices with 2.0 so hopefully people will distribute a little more diversely. However race specific stats, foods, etc... is not the way to go. Animations, sure but outside of aesthetic changes I can't agree with any of it.

[Zyph]

I wish it was a little more varied. Not by much but slightly more, I liked the concept of knowing in the back of your mind that Galkas had more HP, Tarus had more MP, Mithras had more DEX, etc, even if you didn't really care about all that when you formed a party because it never was a huge difference.

I also hope that when 2.0 character creation comes out, they give us the option to see example gear and play around with emotes before choosing. That might just help draw people away from Miqo'te. :P

[REDace0]

...is it cosmetic or is the fact there are just so many.

There are a bunch of Mi'qote and Lalafel according to XIVpads' census, although it may not be dynamically updated and could be inaccurate for a number of reasons.

[Matsume]

isn't it obvious? Lalafell are the best...

[Valmonte]

You can't control how many people roll a certain race or not, however they are giving us more choices with 2.0 so hopefully people will distribute a little more diversely. However race specific stats, foods, etc... is not the way to go. Animations, sure but outside of aesthetic changes I can't agree with any of it.

an incentive to roll somthing else besides Taru's and cat girls would be nice.

exactly people are rolling a race for asthitics. thats not going to net you any diversity, even more so when a game looks as good as this one.