Would you play a Qiqirn if it was added as a race?

[Brightshadow]

The title says it all if the Qiqirn was a race would you play it?

I would absolutely love it if Qiqirns was one of the races added in the first expansion along side the Female/Male Miqo'te & Roegadyn because they are cool, short,merchants, and I feel like they can have a great storyline. Yes I know they are one of the beast tribes right now, but maybe there can be a separation in there clan. Originally I wanted Goblins to be a new race because I think they are cool and all, but the problem with them is that they always wear mask, and the backpacks. Plus Qiqirns are more human-like than Goblins and I think it would be easier to make armor look decent on them.

Here some lore ideas I had if they were added

Lore

Current Description

The Qiqirn look, for all intents and purposes, like rats. They are known to have tremendous appetites, which they will sate by feeding on nigh anything -- from rotten meat to hot trash. More than once I've taken one to the Phrontistery, only to have it steal away to the storerooms and gorge itself on medicines until its stomach burst or its heart stopped or some such ridiculousness. All the same, they are exceedingly clever things. They know their numbers as well as any scholar, and have a gift for merchant trade, as well. The Phrontistery even employs some to keep their books. In fact, there's a funny story about that. For no more than a dodo egg, the gluttonous things will even let me stick a-- Oooh! Nevermind that last part."

New Lore
Recently the City-State of Sharlayan has seen a increase of Qiqirn in the city, and they have seen how beneficial the Qiqirn are to the economy. So as a means of putting conflict with the Qiqirn aside and trying to bring peace between this small pack of Merchants the City-State of Sharlayan has offered a treaty to the Qiqirn to be acknowledge as part of there community. However the Qiqirn have never been known to Pick Sides they usually stick with whoever they believe will land them a fortune, so while some have decided to accept the city state offer, others have chosen to remain freelancers. Consequently the new Grand companies have requested all the help that they can find due to the recent rise of the Garlean Empire, so as a result many Qiqirn have decided to join the ranks of the Grand companies due to the rare items they hope to find from the empire.

Clans
Here are my ideas of the Qiqirn Clans
-Mercenary Qiqirn-The normal Qiqirn that have accepted the treaty.
-Bluefang Qiqirn-Blue in color, are from the the cold mountains of ???.
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Race Bonuses
I think to make the race choices a bit more useful maybe they should add some race traits every 10 levels. Here some ideas for race Traits. (They are unlocked by physical level) (There main role is to give a reason for a race and not just make it for the image) (When a trait has max next to it, it doesn't stack but overwrites the weaker version making equipping both versions useless.)

Qiqirn
-Bargainer (Physical Level 1)10% discount on all NPC prices
-Master artisan (Physical Level 10)10% exp bonus on Discipline of Hand
-Master Farmer (Physical Level 20)10% exp bonus on Discipline of the land
-Hoarder (Physical Level 30)Increases bag by 5 (Total 5)
-Savager (Physical Level 40) Increases Drops by enemies
-Hoarder II (Physical Level 50)Increases bag by 10 (Total 10) (No stacking)

Elezen
-restrain (Physical Level 1)During out of combat TP goes down 10% slower.
-Solider (Physical Level 10)10% exp bonus on Discipline of war
-Tactician (Physical Level 20)you use 10% less TP & MP when using a skill
-Farshooter (Physical Level 30)Increases Range of magic & range attacks.
-Soilder II (Physical Level 40)15% exp bonus on Discipline of war (15% total) (No stacking)
-Restrain II (Physical Level 50))During out of combat TP goes down 20% slower.

Hyur
-Jack of all trades (Physical Level 1) All classes gain a 5% exp bonus.
-Rejuvenation (Physical Level 10) When sitting down you recover 5% faster
-Master Chemist (Physical Level 20) All potions are 10% stronger
-Master Chef (Physical Level 30) All foods are 10% stronger
-Rejuvenation II (Physical Level 40) When sitting down you recover 10% faster (Max10%)
-Jack of all trades II (Physical Level 50) All classes gain 10% exp bonus. (Max 10%)

Lalafell
-Mana Master (Physical Level 1) increases MP by 25%
-Wizard (Physical Level 10)10% exp bonus for the Discipline of magic
-Rejuvenation (Physical Level 20) When sitting down you recover 5% faster
-Wizard II (Physical Level 30)15% exp bonus for the Discipline of magic (Max 15%)
-Tactician (Physical Level 40)you use 10% less TP & MP when using a skill
-Scholar (Physical Level 50)your Magic is 5% stronger

Miqo'te
-Quick Runner (Physical Level 1)Out of combat running speed is increased by 5% removed if attacked.
-Priest (Physical Level 10)10% bonus to healing Magic
-Quickfighter (Physical Level 20)Recovers Stamina 10% faster.
-Priest II (Physical Level 30)15% bonus to healing Magic (Max15%)
-Quick Runner II (Physical Level 40)Out of combat running speed is increased by 10% removed if attacked. (10% max)
-Quickfighter II (Physical Level 50)Recovers Stamina 15% faster. (Max15%)

Roegadyn
-Meateater (Physical Level 1)Can eat raw meat
-Bloodtank (Physical Level 10)Increases Vit by 25%
-Master Chef (Physical Level 20) All foods are 10% stronger
-Solider (Physical Level 30)10% exp bonus on Discipline of war
-Warmage (Physical Level 40)10% bonus to magic when being used as a Discipline of the war Class.
-Berserker (Physical Level 50)every debuff increases your damage by 5%.

[Randis]

i would play goblin!
Never liked the Qiqirn that much for some reason.

[Evangela]

can I have vampire race, please?

[Arcell]

No, I would not.

I'm also a bit against the race traits as that tends to make people think that Race X cannot do Job Y because it is "inferior"

[Umo]

Though I like Qiqirns I really don't want to play as a rat-like character... So no, I wouldn't play a Qiqirn :-/

[zaviermhigo]

Yeah FFXIV got rid of "over gimping" races due to base stats, because thats what they did in XI, as a Galka you're mp pool was tiny and you had to stack mp gear and hp to mp gear all the time. I'm against stat traits for this reason, no one should ever be like "lol elvaan blm" or "lol mithra bard"

[Brightshadow]

Well they don't really suffer from Pentalies in this idea they are just getting upgrades unlike FFXI. For instance the Ro won't have low MP like the galka because every race is similar except for lala, But the main idea is to make each role extra special in a role.

[Arcell]

These race traits honestly end up pigeonholing races into specific jobs and I'd rather not see that. With your suggested changes you'd have:

Elezen = Archer/Musketeer
Hyur= Jack of all trades with a useless bonus at a certain point (exp)
Lalafell = Mages
Miqote = Lancer
Roegadyn = Gladiator/Marauder

I'd really, really rather not see this happen. Even if it's a bonus, people see it as a penalty. You don't get an MP/Magic bonus so you're an inferior mage. You don't get the HP bonus, you're an inferior tank. You don't get the ranged bonus, you're an inferior archer/musketeer.

[Neptune]

No animal races I hope. It's weird when you have to party with a rat or goblin to get something done.

[CrystalWeapon]

No animal races I hope. It's weird when you have to party with a rat or goblin to get something done.

Mildly racist. lol

If I played alongside a Qiqirn lancer, it'd remind me of Freya from FF9.