Highlander Eyebrows - 7.0 Graphics

[Kelg]

Please for the love of god add eyebrows to male highlander already. People have been asking for this since ARR launch. I know how to 3D model and this isn't something that takes more than 10 minutes to do... I will do it for free if you let me. Highlanders look so much more off without eyebrows now that the faces are higher res, and the eyebrow paint just doesn't cut it anymore.

[Sneakiest_bear]

I know this thread is about the eyebrows we desperately need & deserve, but I also wanted to bring attention to the tattoo on Face 4 now clipping through the neck in the benchmark, so hopefully at least that can be fixed, as it's not like that currently:
https://imgur.com/a/Tjizas6


Also the tattoos on Face 1 also have a weird texture:
https://imgur.com/a/Y300zzH

[HeyMcFly]

I don't accept lore reasons as an excuse not to have something
Because lore has been broken quite alot in ffxiv

Highlanders should have eyebrows

[Darkstride]

I don't accept lore reasons as an excuse not to have something
Because lore has been broken quite alot in ffxiv

Highlanders should have eyebrows

Agreed. I only mentioned it initially because I fully expected the first reply to be "but what about the lore?".

[Vyrerus]

I'm actually pretty sure there's not a lore reason at all. At least I don't know of any. Someone call Anonymoose!

There was that rumor that they're half Roe and some people took to saying that was why. But that's not even true. They're not half Roes. And even if they were, Roes have eyebrows.

I suspect the real reason is that they were based off of General Leo's amano art from FFVI, and in his original art depictions, he has no eyebrows.

It's incredibly silly, but I guess that's just how XIV rolls.

I'm kind of scared for them to give Highlanders eyebrows, because I don't know if they'd give us good eyebrows or not. The spray paint has never looked good to me, and my fear is that they would do worse than that.

[Darkstride]

I'm actually pretty sure there's not a lore reason at all. At least I don't know of any. Someone call Anonymoose!

There was that rumor that they're half Roe and some people took to saying that was why. But that's not even true. They're not half Roes. And even if they were, Roes have eyebrows.

I suspect the real reason is that they were based off of General Leo's amano art from FFVI, and in his original art depictions, he has no eyebrows.

It's incredibly silly, but I guess that's just how XIV rolls.

I'm kind of scared for them to give Highlanders eyebrows, because I don't know if they'd give us good eyebrows or not. The spray paint has never looked good to me, and my fear is that they would do worse than that.

It was mentioned long ago in a Q&A about lore that they had once shaved their eyebrows to look more menacing and intimidating. But I'm pretty sure that's where it ends. It's not like a "all Highlanders are born without eyebrows" scenario, but more of a tribal behavior. Certainly nothing that should make it impossible for modern Highlanders to have them.

[Vyrerus]

Heh, that's some Koji Fox rolled out as an ass pull, huh? lmao. Oh man. That guy is so good at doing that.

We should definitely have them. It's one of those bizarre design choices that still baffles me.

[Kelg]

Eyebrows should be a toggle option, there's no good reason they can't add this.

[Setsuya]

Just wanted to share my support. Give highlander eyebrows!

[potatsdevourer]

Personally if their problem is how to implement with the most likely to satisfy the masses, I would say to start with filling in the eyebrow where the painted eyebrow was.
People who play as male Highlander already accepted how the theoretical eyebrow looks like when they choose to fill it with painted eyebrow.
People who don't like male Highlander would not be bothered anyway with or without eyebrows.
It is indeed hard to gauge for people who are repulsed by the lack of eyebrows on Highlander, but atleast the developer can start from somewhere and tweak from that.