Rank your Beast Tribes from best to worst

[BokoToloko]

Well, it has always been a question to me which are the community favourite Beast Tribe and which the least, so i thought it could be a interesting idea to open a thread in which everyone shows their preference on Beast Tribes. You don't need to include all of them and limit to stating the ones that call your attention the most if you like.

As the one opening the thread I could start posting my own ranking:

1. Namazu (hilarious kind, from deadpan retorts to antics)
2. Vanu Vanu (favourite serious Beast Tribe quests, love their manner of speech, story and their dance)
3. Sylph (my favourite cute tribe, i like the cabbage fairies)
4. Dwarves (lali-ho, dance, drunken antics and tanks. You'll always get high with tanks)
5. Goblins (they don't have tribe quest but they deserve their spot just for their gobbie tongeflaps and Brayflox and, to this day, I think I underappreciated Alexander raid story and the Illuminati)
6. Moogle (funny, fluffy and mischievous)
7. Qiqirn (pretty quirky tribe and endearing way of talking)
8. Ixal (I find their questline oddly wholesome)
9. Vath (I find them odd, but that's it)
10. Fae Folk (Fae are the light less cool version of the Sylph to me, the rest I hardly care for except for the porxies, maybe)
11. Kojin (i din't find myself drawn to them, it seemed a pretty bland tribe to me)
12. Amal'jaa, Mamool Ja and Sahagin, they didn't really grow on me.
13. Kobold: they represent me in so many levels. I hate it.

[GrumbleBeard]

1. Gnath
2. Sahagin
3. All the other non-crafter/gatherer
4. (power gap)
5. Crafter/gatherer beast tribes

[Haruka_R]

1. Goblins
2. Vanu Vanu
3. Qiqirn
4. Gnath
5. Dunno

[Bsrking5]

1. Moogles
2. Pixies
3. Cat fishes
4. All the other crafting/gathering ones
5. The rest
6. Goblins/ gnath

[Oichi]

1. Namazu.
2. Vanu Vanu.
3. Kojin.
4. Vath.
5. Dwarves.
6. Qiqirn
7. Ananta.
I also love the goblins in Idyllshire and the Illuminati in Alexander raids chain, which is one of my favourites stories.
Still need to find the patience to dip into ARR beast tribes... I will one day, I hope.

[Anienai]

1. Pixies
2. Crafting quest
8. Lalafells

[zonderbunny]

worst: moogles
best: everything that isn't moogles

[DoH]

Sylphs, without question. The number of quests where you have to carry something or go invisible (which prevents you from mounting or even running) through the Sylphlands (which is one of the most annoying zones to walk around in) is offensive. Ixali were probably the second worst - just a ton of running around, you have to wear those dumb gloves to do them, etc. Vanu Vanu were annoying because of the quest where you have to ride around on that thing and if you are queued for something and it pops during that time, you have to fly all the way back across that huge zone to get to the target location (other quests have mount objectives, but none were as bad as the Vanu Vanu).

The mining beast tribe quests are all easy - just stock up on the stuff you need to mine (e.g., using King's Yield II) and you can get several turn-ins worth of stuff in one go; that way, you can accept the quest and then immediately turn it in. This works for the Namazu and Qitari beast tribes (although the Namazu ones still sometimes require you to go out and talk to a random Namazu). The Moogle ones weren't that bad once you unlock them, but unlocking them was a pain. The Sahagin, Kobold, and Amalj'aa have several quests where you just have to turn in items from FATEs, which you should have a lot of from stocking up throughout your play-through (at least I did). In general, the beast tribe quests individually have become easier over time - ARR had the most tedious quests, HW had some annoying ones with large zones, SB was getting better, and ShB are all cakewalk.

[Gemina]

There is a lot to judge a beast tribe by, and how they are will differ from person to person. I tend to favor beast tribes that have a good story to it, and the quests themselves are painless for the most part. Using that criteria I would say my top three are The Fae, The Gnath, and The Kobolds. The Sylphs, Vanu, and Namazu drove me bonkers completing their questlines. I completed the Sylphs back when getting a thunderbolt to the bum placed a heavy/leaden status on you; the other two talk too much.

[Theodric]

I liked the Moogles the most. They're the most iconic, after all.

The Amal'jaa and Sahagin have cool designs. Same for the Kojin. The Namazu were mildly amusing.

I don't care much about the others, though. Especially the preachy ones. Some are insufferable because they constantly go on about 'oppression'. Others are insufferable because they actually have an interesting and ruthless society but decide to ignore that in favour of being bland, inoffensive wet noodles.