Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Skivvy]

+1 for viera bc they have a special place in my heart (first exposure was from xii when i was younger) but if we're hypothetically talking about the possibility of viera clans, specifically viera and the RW feol, i'm mostly worried about customisation. since viera lore says the virea we're more aware of have white hair (with the exception of hair dye)/dark skin, and the feol are opposite of that, that sounds a little limiting? unless xiv implements a non-tactics/xii viera race which opens up more customisation...

I don't think they would copy over the exact lore from the previous versions, so I'm sure they could make something work within the XIVX realm. As far as skin tones, I could see them implementing the two clans with slightly different palettes, similar to how it is Miqo / Au Ra, Roeg, etc.

[UsagiAndCrepes]

Would Viera be taller than Roegadyn? o.o

Relatively speaking it seems that roes are actually giants. I did my best using listed FFXIV heights and height for Penelo in FFXII Scenario Ultimania and then traced it out on an old screenshot I found on google. Penelo's pixel height divided by her listed height, then that times roes listed height. I could be off a few pixels but it correlates to an FFXIV height comparison.





So roe and elezen is still much taller than viera.


I hope they would also make a /heels option for shoes like /visor that adds height to any character but viera gets 2 or 3 times as much increase.

[Fredco191]

How about we ask for Robots?

Like this one.

[Zeonsilt]

How about we ask for Robots?

I think Phantasy Star did that long time ago xD

[Laerune]

How about we ask for Robots?

Like this one.

The thing with robots is that they can look from cute, goofy to pure evil, but knowing SE they will go for the cute maid robot type of character custom customization for the females and dull looking one for males. Since we have already seen Viera artwork (both genders on the Ivalice inspired and the cute teen version) we have an idea of how it willl look ingame.

I would love to see full beastman, robots, undead etc for the other expansions, but for 5.0, I think its time SE respects the wishes of their playerbase and add this fan favourite race.

[Alacran]

I think Phantasy Star did that long time ago xD

The thing with robots is that they can look from cute, goofy to pure evil, but knowing SE they will go for the cute maid robot type of character custom customization for the females and dull looking one for males.

[Zeonsilt]

It would make zero sense for a Robot to be a "Warrior of Light", not to mention, "to get married".
Not sure how a Robot race would "fit" in FF XIV. That's why we got only Human-like races(imo).

[Zeonsilt]

Some PSO2 robots.
In-game:



NPC fan-art:



Damn, this one art looks cool ^
Viva Robots! Rise of the Machines!

Another problem is how to design a gear sets for them, it's x100 times worse, than Viera's case.

[Alacran]

It would make zero sense for a Robot to be a "Warrior of Light", not to mention, "to get married".
Not sure how a Robot race would "fit" in FF XIV. That's why we got only Human-like races(imo).

I agree completely. Just showing what i would expect from such a proposal.

[DeaconMoore]

It would make zero sense for a Robot to be a "Warrior of Light", not to mention, "to get married".
Not sure how a Robot race would "fit" in FF XIV. That's why we got only Human-like races(imo).

Hmm the HW Hildi story comes to mind for some reason. Gigi says hi.

It's fiction, not RL, they can come up with whatever they want for whatever race they want to bring in. Looks wise they could make'em look like anything as well and "gear design being a pain" won't be anymore of an issue than it is currently for any race. If it's worse, that's on SE for making it that way to satisfy their own masochistic tendencies.