Female Au'Ras look too different?

[AlereRaeder]

This is my first time posting a thread to the official forums( hey guys) and I apologize for any formatting! I'll try my best to not make it long, but might prove otherwise.


The hook
With the benchmark being released not even 24hrs ago, I have become worried of what is to come for Heavensward. More specifically the large influx of female Au'Ra race changes

Female Au'Ras look so different that they are too similar.

Crazy right? but let me fortify the topic of this thread.

Like other races currently in the game, customization enables you to create cool, cute, beautiful, and elegant characters. However, every races, and their genders look similar enough to themselves that you can branch of specific differences to make your character unique. Kind of like human beings how someone from the East alongside someone from the West can differ in looks but still share the facial similarities a human.

Going straight to the point from now on (The jugular's exposed!)
Reference Pictures: (clickly bigger resolution 1370x1200 taken by me)
Female Au'Ra faces

Male Au'Ra faces

Female Mi'qote faces as an example for current faces

Faces are in order from 1-4.

This is where the facial differences create this huge gap of dissimilarity, essentially creating a mini-race for each Female Au'Ra face.

Male Au'Ra: see the similarities between 1 and 3, 1 and 2, and, 2 and 4.
Female Mi'qote: see similarities between 1 and 3, 1 and 4, and 3 and 4. 2 being the outlier, making Face no. 2 the most complex and cat-like. They similarities provide enough ground to conclude those faces belong to 1 race; 1 gender.

I point at the Female Au'Ra faces and see no differences between the 4 faces. 2 and 3 being slightly similar but nothing astonishingly close. They are so different it's like looking at separate races. Female Au'Ras look so different that they are too similar

If you chose an Au'Ra with Face no.4 you are now classified as a Face no.4 Au'Ra; every other player choosing Au'Ra Face no.4 will be the same because the facial structure, and customization within(mouth, nose, eyes, scales) those faces are so stiff.

Their faces look too different from one another and customizing a face still yields looks like the original.


I'd like to see your points of view about this, I'm all for being unique but the lack of differentiation is there. I'm reluctant to do a race change in fear of looking like everyone else who chose the face I picked. I also have no idea if this is the final build for Au'Ra character models and/or if they are gonna get revamped slightly.

[Yamimarik]

Just a quick heads up F.Y.I.... you can edit your first post to by pass the 1000 character limit, there for not wasting all your posts (you only get so many every day.) count.

[AlereRaeder]

Just a quick heads up F.Y.I.... you can edit your first post to by pass the 1000 character limit, there for not wasting all your posts (you only get so many every day.) count.

I have no idea how :l

[Yamimarik]

I have no idea how :l

You just press the "Edit Post" button, add in all the other posts into your first post, then voila! You have a huge-a$$ post that broke the 1000 char. limit.

[kyuven]

I see quite a few differences, so i'm not quite sure what you're talking about....

[Dyvid]

IDK, I can tell the difference in the eye style, scale layout, and horn style.

[saber_alter]

i can clearly see the differences in the four faces (besides the obvious scales and horns)

[PotatoSalad]

Eh? They look quite different. Just pick a haircut without bangs and you'll see.