Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Anvaire]

Exactly! This is such a big deal! Perhaps it's just because I'm a longtime WoW player, but I really can't say how much love this fills me with.

On an aside, anyone else notice that their racial gear looks a lot like the Woad sets? Not that I'm complaining because I love those.

i think the Racial gear is ajusted from the pag'lthan gear tbh, the top looks like the caster one with some extra bits on. Thats not a bad thing though.

[Tlamila]

Midlanders max height is what 6 foot? How is that seen as short, or is it because they are shorter then females that is the issue.

At this point I'm imagining that the whole male playerbase is made by 2meters tall basketball players. I see no other explaination.

[Juzjuzz]

At this point I'm imagining that the whole male playerbase is made by 2meters tall basketball players. I see no other explaination.

Nah, they just wanna be really tall. Others wanna be smol (weirdly this one is okay?). Some prefer mid. Same shit different color.

[Fukuro]

I just feel like putting this out there, but I absolutely love how the male viera turned out. It feels so surreal male viera are being added. Our voices were heard, and I deeply appreciate all the work the graphics team has put into this. It might sound kind of crazy, but I've still been watching reaction videos to the male viera announcement even today (including ones I've watched already). I seriously can't wait for the benchmark.

i‘m so thankful as well! the graphics team did an amazing job, november can‘t come soon enough!!

Yoshi P: The development team loves our players, so when male Viera are actually implemented, we would love for you to have a smile on your faces when you play as one, and if you could say a quick “Thank you!” to the Graphics team, I’m sure they’ll be very happy. If you can do that, I think it would also serve as motivation for our developers to continue working hard.

I‘ll give the brightest smile while playing one, thank you graphics team!!!

[HollowedDoll]

It's weird that some people think they didn't develop from 13 to 20 something at all..

[Iscah]

The thing is, add more characters of different heights and that balance shifts. The way to get the humans back to looking like the average height they are is to add more average-height characters.

The three really tall races all have a gimmick of being that size. Elezen are meant to be tall compared to humans. Roes are meant to be huge compared to everyone. Au Ra have the massive dimorphism of tall men and tiny women.

Putting more races up that end of the scale undermines the point of them being there in the first place. "If everyone is special then nobody is."

I think it's why Hrothgar didn't end up being as big as people expected either.

In any case, I still consider Midlanders to be "the average" and the races above them range from "tall" to "really tall".

[LisSquid]

I don't see enough Roes, Elezen or m Au Ra running around at max height for my max height viera to feel anything other than giant.

So it's a bit strange to hear people say that it would be "making us feel small" by comparison.

[HollowedDoll]

They seem to be taller than max height midlander
So they are very likely to have very similar heights, assuming the trailer ones are mid height, male sliders tend to have a tiny bit more in terms of difference from min to max
In that case they're not much shorter than the shortest male elezen, which is pretty tall imo.

Comparison

[Juzjuzz]

I don't see enough Roes, Elezen or m Au Ra running around at max height for my max height viera to feel anything other than giant.

This lmao, so few players use thoose races, adding 1 bishonen tall race will add more variety in game.
Instead of an army of small ppl, with 1 or 2 lonely tall ppl.

[Tlamila]

They seem to be taller than max height midlander
So they are very likely to have very similar heights, assuming the trailer ones are mid height, male sliders tend to have a tiny bit more in terms of difference from min to max
In that case they're not much shorter than the shortest male elezen, which is pretty tall imo.

Comparison

everybody seems to be making comparisons and they're all different so at this point we won't know until it's out