Au Ra looks

[Magic-Mal]

They cant wear boots, they dont even have legs ^^.

I know but... immerse yourself and get the image in your head 0.0

[Riardon]

I just wish they ended up with more manly faces on the males and some more strong type on the females. They ended looking as a bunch of teenage emos instead. From the artwork image the lower ones look really good but. It's the concept closer on what we actually got but they ended with more teenage passive faces than those. The upper ones looked really out of place and wouldn't fit well. They were closer to being ferocious monsters and not sentient species. All of our problems can be solved if SE ever decides to give us extra faces/heads for all the current races so we can have what we actually like and not being limited in just 4 faces in a so large MMORPG. The poor and limited choices we have in char creation in such a large MMORPG are really bad. Stop creating more cute teenage Miqo'te alternatives and focus on choices on the current races is my advise.

[Reinha]

On the other hand, SE never need to implement completely new races. Just add some new content for the character costumization and thats it. You want Viera? Just choose an Elezen, give it bunny ears, scut and different feet. Miqote? Hyur with cat-ears and cat-tail. Or recreate an Elin by using a Lalafall with cat-ears and plushy tail.

Maybe having mixed races would be a good start to expand on. You can be any size of cat, demon or elf by crossing (Midlander, Highlander, Lalafell, Roegadyn) x (Miqo'te, Au Ra, Elezen). There would be 12 new appearances without making any new body types. The devs would not need to hide the fact that they are reusing models because it's a cross between existing races. This would probably satisfy most demographics because you could make Lalanimal crosses for the cute effect, Roeqo'te crosses for strong beasts or High Elf-landers for a bit tougher looking Elezen and the same with Au Ra. Making new animal races (like bunnies, birds, wolves etc.) the same old docile looking Huyr-with-ears would not be as much of a disappointment if the body type and some of the facial features could be swapped to that of another race.

[dinnertime]

Is there anyway we can get the original concepts for au ra. Like the Demonic look to them as in the original concept art for them. Cause compared to what we have now, they look so much cooler with a demon look.

I think the upper half would be very awful with clipping with all of those spikes sticking out. It's already bad enough that the horns and tail get ignored in gear.
The lower half however looks pretty similar to what we have, but better. I prefer the horns on top instead of at the side, and I think having pointed ears alone makes them look more demonic than draconic. I love how that guy at the bottom right looks.
Makes me wish the females were as tall and mature-looking like in their concept art. Pretty much what we have right now are just Miqo'te with scales.

I feel like Au Ra right now being labeled as demonic was a last minute decision if anything. They look more draconic to me.