ideas for racial traits and abilities

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

greetings citizens.

during boring class yesterday i was thinking about how to make races more uniqe in this game and though that adding race traits or abilities would be good ad interesting. these are my ides that i come up witt so far:

Roggadyn: increased health percent, hardened skin(defence bonus), tail smash(stun target), roar(terrify opponent for a second or two).

highlander: increased strength bonus, increased hp regeneration, enrage(increase haste or attack maybe), overpower(knock back/knock down)

elf: increased movement speed, aggro range reduction,

tarutaru: evade bonus, agility bonus, roll

cat men: increased agility, inceased haste, kick

hyur: too weak

what do you gus think about adding traits or abilities to each race? if people dont like other races have some "advantages", each race coud instead be given something unique that dont affect gameplay, for example some emote or something.

[Naylia]

No - then it will just turn into only certain races are competent as certain disciplines and that would break the entire armoury/discipline system. Races are plenty unique. I've never confused a Rogaedyn with a Mi'quote...

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

no it wont. everyone are still effective, some other race might be marginally better with equal gear but it is nonsense. i think most people choose race by basing on the looks, not statistics. thats wat i do at least, and did for ffxi and wow.

[NoctisUmbra]

100% against it for above-mentioned reasons. Keeping them purely aesthetic is the way to imo.

[Musaid]

How will roegs tail smash?

[Yves]

Agreed that racial traits ought not to be implemented. Players should not be penalized and excluded due to an aesthetic choice.

[Gramul]

How will roegs tail smash?

WHY GODS WHY?!

[Tango]

As much as I think races should differ in some means, else why have different races at all?, people will complain about it being 'restrictive' and doesn't let them experience everything in a mmo, so unfortunately it won't happen.

[Nakiamiie]

I am absolutely not against racial traits and abilities, however they would need to be available to all races. Let's look at an example: let's assume 25 racial traits/abilities exist and each character can only pick 10, regardless of their class and everything. The number of possible combination is big. However, it would require something like a PHYSICAL LEVEL to actually implement this. This was rejected many moons ago.

So, what we have left is racial traits unique to each race. This will not happen, it has been stated countless time that race if aesthetic only. Regardless of racial traits, I pick my race according to its aesthetic, not to be the best elite of all time. However, many hardcore player do. This would lead to segregation and racism in the game, each race having a favoured set of classes and so on. Unless, of course, the traits and abilities would be equally useful with all classes. But then, what would these traits and ability be? You see, not likely to happen.

Our best bet will be to have our guardian deity actually DO something (like granting a trait or an ability) and have the possibility through quest or whatever to change it in-game.

*wink wink wink* Skyrim and standing stones *wink wink wink*

How will roegs tail smash?

I think someone thought this was FFXI's forum, don't mind it and keep going.

[Zantetsuken]

I would like racial traits, but not nearly as extreme as the OP's suggestions. Higher growth on certain stats, or subtle elemental affinities would be nice. -- after all, they can be easily compensated by gear and now point allotment.

Special traits could also be granted via RSE gear which would be much easier to balance.

More than all this though, I would like to see different races use different poses/stances when wielding weapons or casting magic. I think that would give them more personality.