Hrothgar Review

[IvoYaridovich]

I switched back to Au Ra after having a Hrothgar for awhile. In the end, the lack of hats, the fact we couldn't really aesthetician to play with our looks properly with hairstyles. the hunch, and a lot of lazy facial expressions made me like it less than Au Ra. I wouldn't mind the hunch if it was something we could c-pose away, but the hunch persisting in several combat idle poses (AST was the one that killed me, hunkered over that globe like its a precious thing) was obnoxious. I really don't get the MMO market obsession with bestial races NEEDING to hunch.

It also mildly bothered me that we couldn't be as big as Runar. >.> I tried a ton of different idles but Runar just seems to be bigger than any hrothgar we can make. XD

That said, they should totally make an emote to let the big races like Roes, male Au Ra, and Hroths carry the smaller races like Runar carries Y'shtola. >.> (or just carry anyone, cue the hilarity of a min size lala carrying a max sized roe)

[reivaxe]

Love the Hrothgar, can't give 1 rat's butt about head gear that isn't glasses or glasses related (OTHER than my Chocobo Mask as I earned that ish on the TRACKS) and I'm OK with sticking with 1 hair styles forever if I like it.

That being said it's deplorable that they locked manes to potions.

Knowing that I need to use a potion to change my hair has made me far more likely to change back to a female on my main and move my Hrothgar to a 2nd character.

[SturmChurro]

Knowing that I need to use a potion to change my hair has made me far more likely to change back to a female on my main and move my Hrothgar to a 2nd character.

Yeah, I think this is particularly egregious. I wonder if they are going to give out a free fantasia to players when they add the supposed new faces. Not like hrothgar players are going to be able to use them without that fantasia. My guess is probably not.

[Destati]

I have no idea if this has ever been mentioned before here, but a few months ago when SE posted renders of the Hrothgar on the official ShB site they changed them shortly after to reflect adjustments to the model.
The one on the left was the original render, and the right is the updated one.


I noticed that the old render has Head 3 (If I'm not mistaken on the number, either way it's the one that has the Coeurl-like options), denoted by the pointed ear tips and the blackened fangs - the only Head type with this option.

The updated render uses Head 1 and is what we have available in game.

It's likely that they changed the face to avoid the hair clipping with the ears, but seeing that combination makes me wonder if at one point the hair and the head options were interchangeable. Or maybe they never were, and that happened to be one of the options and they merely swapped it with another head.

[SturmChurro]

It looks like they fit the head to the hair, rather than the hair to the head. Maybe hairs were traditionally implemented and this is the problem that arose. Are the other heads in shape that different to each other that it required them to fit face to hair, rather than hair to face for each? Did they just have each head done before the hair, implemented it, and did this instead of fixing it properly, like a "duct tape" fix?

I have a feeling they didn't have time to fix it, and they just did it this way, and doubled down. Just speculation.

Wouldn't it have just been better overall to make the faces slightly more similar for more options overall?