I feel we're going to need something like at least 3 nose/mouth/eyebrow/jaw/eye shape options per face option (I would treat more than 3 as a bonus). One of my characters has a bigger nose than I'd like, but only because it's in a better position than the other options, the others being too far up or down. Eye option 3 tends to be the serious/exotic/fierce eye option out of the usual 6 available and I am quite fond of it- so personally I'd like to see more eye options in the vein of 3 (I would also like to see the 'majority' of any new eye options be bigger than the original offerings- One of the female Au Ra faces has an eye style that I like, probably number 3 again- but they're just a bit too small). On Jaws, a lot of existing choices tend to be A, B, or A+B being the 3rd option.
Obviously we're going to need a large increase of hair colour options, with primary colours being an important focus- a lot of vibrant colours are only in the highlights section, I know it's not an accident/it's an intended design choice within the game's world to naturalise the overall appearance of the player population, but it's still an artificial restriction that is sitting silently as one of many 'final straw' issues that will combine with others in the years ahead and contribute to players leaving. The deeper/darker/richer part of the colour spectrum is where we are coming up short, so being able to have our character's primary hair in handfuls of rich dark greens, blues, purples, browns, oranges and blondes etc would be great.
While more sets of character voices and battle grunts would be nice, some may find new ones jarring and it should perhaps be a lower priority consideration than other aspects of character creation. That one male viera's battle grunts are hilarious, but maybe not if you were hearing variations of it in every duty. Perhaps the devs selecting/taking 4-6 of the voice sets from each race (I know there's already some overlap) and making them available for other races would be a time/cost effective way to add a little more customisation (probably wouldn't work for Hrothgar and Lalafell though as they are too unique).
As fantasia is probably a large money spinner for the game, it is also in their interests to upgrade character creation capabilities. Surely it will come.

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