Thread: Are dwarves the new race for 5.0?

Will be Dwarves be the new race to contrast with the tall bunny race?

They could just add more beards for lalas instead.

I'm thinking more to the idea of Lupines in contrast to Viera. Also, inB4 the boon to the ERP community at that point.

Rally ho!!!

Originally Posted by Penthea

Rally ho!!!

Lali-ho! I'm a dwarf from a different area!

...when did they even confirm Viera as a new race that would be added with 5.0? I've been on holidays for a while and feel like I must have missed that annoucment (and a quick search didnt brought anything up)

And further than that: When did they confirm that we would get two new races with 5.0?
Because unless they official state that somewhere, I wouldnt expect that to happen, since I imagine that developing a new race is quite a lot of work, seeing how they would have to adjust all gear in the game to fit that race.
Furthermore there are certain lore-limits on introducing new races, I would imagine. While both the dwarves and the Viera could probably get a decent enough explantion for why they arent known in Eorzea, drawing from the respective games they appear in (with the dwarves simply living underground and the Viera in a magically hidden forest), it would probably still cause a bit of a headache to get two new races into the game without being to irritating. Remember the big deal they made out of Yugiri in ARR just to make sure that Au Ra dont interfer to much with whats known in Eorzea?

So unless they've actually confirmed any new race, I wouldnt get my hopes up for one, not even to mention two.

If anyone can provide me with a source though, I'll happly stand corrected and while I'm not intrested in new races personally, I'll keep my fingers crossed for all of you who want to be bunnies or hairy lalafell!

Originally Posted by Vidu

If anyone can provide me with a source though, I'll happly stand corrected and while I'm not intrested in new races personally, I'll keep my fingers crossed for all of you who want to be bunnies or hairy lalafell!

There's no official source. Just a person saying certain things, those included, with some of what they said previously being correct, suggesting someone that actually knows rather than guesses.

But it may be simply a case of them being very good at guessing and being correct before...but the rest of what they said being wrong.

Originally Posted by Vidu

...when did they even confirm Viera as a new race that would be added with 5.0? I've been on holidays for a while and feel like I must have missed that annoucment (and a quick search didnt brought anything up)

There has been a person who has been leaking things pretty accurately for several patches and they said that viera will be a new race. Supposedly there will be another race but they did not say what it is because they don't want to spoil the story (I'm mildly amused this person has some standards as to what is and isn't okay to leak). I'm not going to provide any links to this as I doubt the mods would take kindly to that sort of thing being linked on the official forum.

Viera have been mentioned in game in the SB alliance raid storyline, so it has at least been confirmed that they do exist in the story for the game. They were originally intended as a new race in HW, official concept art does exist, but for whatever reason we got au ra instead.

It's also no secret that viera is a highly requested race by players.

So with all this in mind, it seems very likely they will be playable at some point.

Originally Posted by Penthea

There has been a person who has been leaking things pretty accurately for several patches and they said that viera will be a new race. Supposedly there will be another race but they did not say what it is because they don't want to spoil the story

Well, considering that he said it might ruin the story, and the story is currently about Garlean things, and FFXIV likes to recycle things.... It's probably a Garlean rebel race. I hope I am wrong though.