Separate Au Ra horns from Face

[Sheriyana]

100% in support of being able to choose the specific horns we want. How this wasn't thought of during the race's creation back in Heavensward is a mystery to me. Tails should never have taken precedence over horn customization. I would have thought such things would be glaringly obvious.

It was literally talked about by the devs before the expansion came out but guess it turned out too difficult or whatever. I remember they said they'd try to make it happen before expansion launch and I was very disappointed when the benchmark came out.

[HeyMcFly]

It was literally talked about by the devs before the expansion came out but guess it turned out too difficult or whatever. I remember they said they'd try to make it happen before expansion launch and I was very disappointed when the benchmark came out.

If the community that was upset about viera/hrothgar had been just as upset about au ra horns- we'd see it done

[ronibosch]

The many times I've wished during character customization that fem Au Ra face 2 could be paired up with the horns/scales for face 1...

[Avoidy]

People have wanted this for yeeeeeeeears. Speaking as someone who's currently happy with my horns and face, I agree with you OP. More customization options are a good thing. It would be nice to have this. There's no reason not to.
Now, because it's these forums, prepare for people who come in and tell you why you don't actually need this, or why they think it's ugly so nobody else should be allowed to have it, or why SE is simply too small and too indie to even consider it, or that there are other more pressing things for the team to deal with first (why can't they do both?). Bonus points when people who have as much knowledge about the game's programming as you or I come in to try and give a tech explanation of why some QoL feature is "not possible" only for it to get implemented a year later or something (looking at you, guy who told me overmelding couldn't be automated like it is today because of technical debt only for them to implement it; had enough of the LARPing-developer excuses tbh).

Anyway, bumping to show support even though you're literally better off screaming about this in the xiv discord or just @ing the company on twitter since nobody important checks this place.

[HeyMcFly]

People have wanted this for yeeeeeeeears. Speaking as someone who's currently happy with my horns and face, I agree with you OP. More customization options are a good thing. It would be nice to have this. There's no reason not to.
Now, because it's these forums, prepare for people who come in and tell you why you don't actually need this, or why they think it's ugly so nobody else should be allowed to have it, or why SE is simply too small and too indie to even consider it, or that there are other more pressing things for the team to deal with first (why can't they do both?). Bonus points when people who have as much knowledge about the game's programming as you or I come in to try and give a tech explanation of why some QoL feature is "not possible" only for it to get implemented a year later or something (looking at you, guy who told me overmelding couldn't be automated like it is today because of technical debt only for them to implement it; had enough of the LARPing-developer excuses tbh).

Anyway, bumping to show support even though you're literally better off screaming about this in the xiv discord or just @ing the company on twitter since nobody important checks this place.

You have an excellent point
I actually just did that- I tweeted at them lol
I did the same thing often about lyse's hair

Thank you so much for your insight & support<333

[MikkoAkure]

What I would like is for SE to separate Au Ra horns from their face as the OP suggests. But then to put them on top of their head like a normal oni/dragon-ish/demon-ish horned fantasy race and give them proper ears.

Ear horns already clip through the sides of a bunch of full face helmets so it's not like having them go through the top would be any worse.

[SassyAssassin]

Definitely supporting this, I love face three but the crabby horns are far from being my favourite

[Zebraoracle]

As someone who has to deal with locked bullcrap as a hrothgar, I support this 100%. The questionable design choices, whether intended or not due to coding or body framework limitations, are incredibly annoying.

[VeyaAkemi]

While this is something I wholeheartedly support, I wonder how feasible it is, I wonder if the horns are baked onto the model in such a way that separating them would be too much... I mean we still have one and a half incomplete races in the game.

[Vahlnir]

While this is something I wholeheartedly support, I wonder how feasible it is, I wonder if the horns are baked onto the model in such a way that separating them would be too much... I mean we still have one and a half incomplete races in the game.

Considering they had to add a whole new face to just give male Midlanders a stubble instead of just giving them an extra facial hair option, I would imagine that they'd probably take a similar route. The entire character creator could use an overhaul at this point though.