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

[Arcell]

how is it bullshit? Roegadyn never had a tail to begin with.

Exactly. Still unsure of wtf a Galka is or how it relates in any way to FFXIV. Never heard of them or seen them in our lore. I hear they're some male only race that somehow manages to reproduce that exists on some other world. As long as I've ever known the Roegadyn have been a typical 2 gender race and I swear I've never seen one with a tail before. Would probably look ridiculous either way.

[Preypacer]

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

The only people I ever knew, without exaggeration, to take issue with the racial differences in XI were the min-maxers who obsessed over every .001% of a point in their stats. Most everyone else I ever knew picked their race based on which one they liked the best for their looks, animations, etc.

And anyway, the idea that your racial stats made that big a difference in your performance was a myth anyway. One of the best WHMs I played with on my server (and there were many great ones) was a Galka. One of the best tanks was a Taru. People who really knew their jobs, knew the gear and knew how to get the most out of it simply were not affected by what their starting racial stats were.

[Zyph]

And I don't know why the OP want something that is already ingame since launch.
Example:
A Wildwood has 3 Piety more than a Duskwight
And a Keepers of the Moon has 4 Mind more than a Seekers of the Sun

This.

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[Mushy]

maybe if they were a racial BONUS and not a racial HINDRANCE like we saw with races in FFXI. I forgot exactly, but didn't the original everquest have distinct bonuses that didn't prevent you from anything(i know you could only choose certain classes but besides that) things like longer breath under water, better night vision, longer sprinting. none of these things are truly needed since the default level is sufficient so what you get is a bonus. now leave it up to the devs to figure out things to fit what could be a bonus in this game(because its not stats gear and materia do all that.) So what kinds of things could be a bonus? we know jumping is coming so the cats can jump a few steps higher? the lalafell can crawl through small cracks to spots in dungeon where the other races would need to go around.. I dont know what can y'all think of?

[Zyph]

maybe if they were a racial BONUS and not a racial HINDRANCE like we say with races in FFXI. I forgot exactly, but didn't the original everquest have distinct bonuses that didn't prevent you from anything(i know you could only choose certain classes but besides that) things like longer breath under water, better night vision, longer sprinting. none of these things are truly needed since the default level is sufficient so what you get is a bonus. now leave it up to the devs to figure out things to fit what could be a bonus in this game(because its not stats gear and materia do all that.) So what kinds of things could be a bonus? we know jumping is coming so the cats can jump a few steps higher? the lalafell can crawl through small cracks to spots in dungeon where the other races would need to go around.. I dont know what can y'all think of?

The highest stat will always be considered the ceiling, and every stat lower will be considered the hindrance.

[Mushy]

The highest stat will always be considered the ceiling, and every stat lower will be considered the hindrance.

the starting stats are already different and no one notices.. again I said for it not to be the stats since gear and materia are for that, did you read my post?

[Ricky]

There will always be too many cats in the game

[Zaaku]

how is it bullshit? Roegadyn never had a tail to begin with.

The entire point of stealing the races from FFXI was to make the transition easier for players with a lot of time invested in their characters. It is kind of hard to do that when the Roegadyn are lacking a huge aspect of what made the original Galka what they are.

[Mushy]

galkas(roes) were always ugly(offense intended) the lack of tail only looks better...

[Elexia]

Lol i swear she has the whole FF 11 lore bookmarked somewhere lol.

Once again it's easy to find information for a game people actually care about. If people cared about XIV as much as they did other MMOs you'd be able to find information a lot more readily as well. No bookmarks necessary.

Please no, racial choice should be cosmetic only imo, I'd rather not have a repeat of the nonsense that was FFXI's racial system and the way the community handled it tyvm.

Go into the character creator of XIV and look at the stat differences between clans (if available)..it already exists in this game it's just the way stats work they really have nil impact on anything, much like in XI it had zero impact on anything but the absolute early levels (lower mp base = obviously less spell casting = less things dead) but once you hit around the cap (75, 76-99 the stat raises does very little for you) any racial difference is nil due to the gear options and merits. A taru blm can be just as shitty as a galka blm, the taru would have a higher MP base and therefore produce more shit whereas a good Galka BLM will have a smaller MP base but not suck.

I've seen better Galka mages than Taru mages due to the fact THE COMMUNITY are hardcoded to believe the tiniest of details matters when the game mechanics doesn't necessarily tell you 1 race will suck compared to another.

the starting stats are already different and no one notices.. again I said for it not to be the stats since gear and materia are for that, did you read my post?

Or a player that never created a character in the past year.