VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Avidria]

Shame Sethrak didn't get added as a playable race in WoW. Might've had me considering if I want to play that game for maybe five seconds longer before ugly laughing myself out the door again.

It does kill me though that like... Idk this is probably just a me thing but Hrothgar just seem so soft and cuddly to me. Like they're beastly in the sense that they have more obvious and defined animal traits than slap ear on head but they're so round and soft and clawless. Idk. They're like giant kittens to me.

Not necessarily a complaint, I get it's a stylistic choice of the game overall for... Almost everyone to be incredibly pretty or cutesy. But man what I wouldn't give to be able to play a female character who's both beautiful and also mature and fierce. I could maybe get that if I played around enough with Roe or Highlander, but I've never been a fan of their animations or most of their options. Viera is the closest to what I want and they're tragically allergic to hats.

[Akimori]

Shame Sethrak didn't get added as a playable race in WoW. Might've had me considering if I want to play that game for maybe five seconds longer before ugly laughing myself out the door again.

It does kill me though that like... Idk this is probably just a me thing but Hrothgar just seem so soft and cuddly to me. Like they're beastly in the sense that they have more obvious and defined animal traits than slap ear on head but they're so round and soft and clawless. Idk. They're like giant kittens to me.

Not necessarily a complaint, I get it's a stylistic choice of the game overall for... Almost everyone to be incredibly pretty or cutesy. But man what I wouldn't give to be able to play a female character who's both beautiful and also mature and fierce. I could maybe get that if I played around enough with Roe or Highlander, but I've never been a fan of their animations or most of their options. Viera is the closest to what I want and they're tragically allergic to hats.

Because they are! I dont think you meet a single hrothgar that is "mean" without an actual reason for being mean

Magnus? The man is grieving
The bozjan Hrothgars? They're exhausted and fighting for their home land
I dont think radovan and Rostik? They're not really mean, but...abrasive and sarcastic (radovan has his own demons to fight)

But they all have one thing in common; They're all crying about missing their families <3

[Akira_Kojima]

I'll switch back to Viera once hats extreme is resolved.

[HeyMcFly]

I want new and unique hairstyles for Hrothgar & Viera

More headpieces/ headgear that are made to fit Viera and Hrothgar as well as hats

[Denji]

I want new and unique hairstyles for Hrothgar & Viera

More headpieces/ headgear that are made to fit Viera and Hrothgar as well as hats

So do we all but Square has decided to prioritize locking people out of their characters.

Better luck next year.

[Adamantini]

I want new and unique hairstyles for Hrothgar & Viera

More headpieces/ headgear that are made to fit Viera and Hrothgar as well as hats

I invite you, and whoever else is interested, to change the forum signature asking for it. You can copy mine if you want.
With this we will always be telling the SE what we want, and that we still haven't forgotten, without having to keep creating topics all the time

[Raim]

Still requesting a Hrothgar posture toggle in Aesthetician. We already know the animations exist from cutscenes and emotes. Their model was already rigged using Roegadyn skeleton anyway so it can't be 'that' difficult to do.

[XiRon]

Still requesting a Hrothgar posture toggle in Aesthetician. We already know the animations exist from cutscenes and emotes. Their model was already rigged using Roegadyn skeleton anyway so it can't be 'that' difficult to do.

Its so so apparent that the devs hate the stupid hunch too bc no mildly important hrothgar npc stands that way, theyre all set to use an emote or cpose to hide the hunch.
Magnus was the only hrothgar who hunched and that was before his development and he stopped drinking and started leading the miners again so yes I would love in 6.2 for the hunch to be a toggle.
"Its more bestial" ok super duper that doesnt matter when hrothgar have nothing else bestial that would require a hunch. They dont run on all fours like Charr or Worgen, they dont have digitigrade feet, theres no reason for a hunch to exist except to hide that hrothgar are retextured roe...but that wont matter either because you and I and GOD KNOWS female hrothgar, like all women, will ve designed to be ootseycutesy waifus and they will thereby lack the hunch, and 1 sex not having a glam ruining hunch is stupid and unfair.

[LisSquid]

It's good you mentioned Worgen, because upright male Worgen is something people request a lot. The females don't hunch, but can also run on all fours/get on all fours to attack so it's weird.

The race Yoshida himself proclaimed to have wanted since the beginning needs to see some of these Extensive And Unique customizations. Preferably before the next expansion.

[Bergfinn]

It's good you mentioned Worgen, because upright male Worgen is something people request a lot. The females don't hunch, but can also run on all fours/get on all fours to attack so it's weird.

The race Yoshida himself proclaimed to have wanted since the beginning needs to see some of these Extensive And Unique customizations. Preferably before the next expansion.

No for only worgen, but for all races that suffers from the "savage/wild race must be hunched" issue, way before blizzard gave option for orcs chose their posture. Even GW2 where Charr have lore reasons for that (only shamans from the Fire Legion stand like that and they don't want to look like their old oppressors and demigods believers) and the model torso is a feline one, people request that since day one bc how amazing the arts of non hunched Charr are.

For Hrothgars makes no sense at all being like that not only due the model they uses as base (Roe) but also due the race they are inspired from (FFX Ronso) aren't hunched + lore wise Hrothgars are maybe one of the most civilized and developed races on the entire star. If we use the ridiculous "savage/wild race must be hunched" rule, Miqo'tes should be the ones who have lordosis, for example.

Seven hells, even the ingame race that is the combo between Charr and WoW's Orcs in terms of lore, values and civilization, the Amalj'aa, have no hunch LOL