Removal/Balance of Racial Stats:

[AmiBeau]

First, let me start by saying this will be a completely niche thing that will not affect a plurality of players.

I would like the racial stat points to all be one even flat number; in essence removing the min/max of higher end gameplay in order to facilitate more people to play a race based on nothing but their desire of a race.

I'm aware of how little this affects gameplay if you just want to complete content; however, some people (like myself) will like a race but will settle on it based on the stats it gives.

The alternatives could be racial based flavor perks; such as faster outdoor movement speed, swim speed, etc. Something that cannot affect combat, but will still allow some sort of benefit albeit superfluous.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

At endgame its literally a statistical error in terms of effect. Your natural variance in damage is more than the 3 main stat difference.


Its flavor text and it should stay.

[Oizen]

Faster movement speed for certain races would most definitely affect combat more than the current race stats.

[AmiBeau]

Not in combat; nothing that would affect combat. As soon as you enter combat, it would end; much the same as peloton.

[Yuella]

Maybe something like Miqotes can hear "/say" from further away because of their superior hearing

[AmiBeau]

Something like that would be fun. Just fun, quirky things that would fit the races to add racial flavor based on lore.

[Mimilu]

Instead of racial perks/traits, I would like to see more job traits that make the jobs' handle slightly different. NIN has All Fours and Fleet of Foot as traits already as an example, maybe MNK and DNC could get them as well?
Maybe, with their keen eyesight and hearing, BRDs could get a trait that show enemies on their mini-map?
Maybe DRGs could get a trait that increase the height and range of their normal jump?
And so on. *✲ﾟ*(❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ*

[Shougun]

The stats on races is quite irrelevant, unlike say stats in at least vanilla FFXI. You can definitely imagine they don't exist, to min max race would be like min maxing 5 damage on a million damage critical hit... Lol.

I am a huge fan of gameplay role play and would love to see it actually present in more things but I caution race and would point to jobs, professions, and items instead. Put 10k hours into your character to see you picked wrong or a new race is just way more interesting passive.. I think that consequence is too much. Please go ham on other stuff though, if you want to jump higher just slap the dragoon crystal on.

[Kes13a]

considering they have gone out of their way to homogenize the jobs into a flatline experience...

I wouldnt hold your breath on changes to racial stats except to maybe remove the virtually insignificant contribution they have now.

would I like to see something out of combat, sure, would be nice. But racial stats seem to have suffered the same fate as so many other things in the game, forgotten and/or left out of their plans (chocobo companions and the grand company Adventurer Squadrons anyone?)

[Kimmay]

The stat bonuses for races are already a flat number, and that 3ish points mean nothing when your stat is over 3000, and rising.