Help! Racial Identity Issues~

[Jamein]

I switched to lala for a few days a while back, and tanking t13 as a lala is just hilarious.
Also doing /panic before the wild charge in T10 is great.

I would've stayed lala just for the epic emotes, but I felt like going back to catman.

[BristolRuss]

Miqo'te. Friends don't let friends potato.

[JimboTCB]

say NO to fatlafel !!!

You're just jelly that lala girls got that junk in the trunk.

[Felis]

Lala for life. I always play the "short" race in RPGs and it saddens me if the only racial choices are normal boring human size. I just wish it was possible to make a slightly more gruff looking Lala that doesn't look like they've just drawn on a moustache with a Sharpie...

Miqo'te are also shorter than Hyurs.

[Magis]

After playing as a Taru in FFXI and porting it over during the small time I 1.0ed and porting it again... I can't see playing anything else. I always played as my character (not full RP tho) so its an extension of me if you will.

[Kyarra]

As you can see I love Mi'qotes, but I have problem playing small characters just because I get motion sickness playing one. (I know it sucks since first person gaming is even worse for me). They are both great races though, it is a tough decision.

[SpookyGhost]

But over time, I started to miss my Miqote and switched back. I felt like playing anything other than my 1.0 original wasn't really being "me".

I can give you a bit of advice from someone who had a similar problem to this:

Make an alt. My character isn't from 1.0, but it's been the same race since I started in 2.0. He's supposed to be a Lalafell version of myself, so I feel like if I changed to any other race he wouldn't really be the same. So whenever I'm inclined to change races (I love Roe male/female and I'm interested in Au'ra when they eventually come out), I go into the character creator and make an alt. Usually I get bored of them immediately, sometimes I just try on end game armor to see what they'd look like in it. After awhile I just delete them and go back to playing my main, because in the end I'd rather play him over anything else.

If you do feel like keeping your alt around, however, you won't need to decide between picking x or y race, as you'll have both!

[Adrian74]

i love how people are saying be a lala or a miqote we all know what people should do BECOME AN AU RA TODAY >:O

but in seriousness, i am under the same as you, i started 2.0 as a miqote and i played though 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 and 2.55 as a lalafell, i only changed back to miqote because i missed my cat girl and so i could get used to being tall for au ra, but a part of me dose miss my laalfell i found playing one adorably cute but it did remove (for me) some seriousness of the situation during cutscenes

Awwww, your lala was cute, whhhyyyyy?!

For some reason I like a lot more when people goes lala rather than neko.... But when having to decide for myself it's always a change every month or month and half... Perhaps is my time to come back chibi form!

Nice to see so many kitties going chibi and then original back again and repeating, just like me!



PS: SE, All of this is your fault!. Give us already a mixed lala-neko race! Some neko lala sized race!

[SayuriHime]

Wow! Amazingly good advice in this thread! As for making an alt, I have 2 leveled alts but I never play them. My main was so much work to get to the point she is. I just do not want to commit that amount of time to an alt.

I made a decision last night after looking over the pros and cons and all the advice in this thread and here it is:


I will say I'm already feeling nostalgia drawing me back but I'm fighting it! Gonna give my lalafell a real chance a becoming the new me! I'll update if I change my mind again. >< And thank you all again for all the words of wisdom!

[Adrian74]

Cuuute! don't worry, after a month or so, just come back original form? :3...

It is my problem also with the alts.... No gatherers or crafters 50... Can't repair my own gear or glamour it whenever I want.... Just too annoying to try alt.

But whenever I change, my retainers do!.... Right now all my retainers are lala, surely if I decide go chibi again, my retainers will all go neko.