Au Ra Males, A Question Exclusively For You. .

[Vandi]

Ever since the release of playable Au Ra, one question design wise has been on my mind. When I look at Lalafells, Hyurs, Viera, Elezen, etc, from an artistic standpoint, each race seems visually compatible with its other. In the case of Au Ra males and females however..

I recall the reason for Yoshi’s decision to have Au Ra females shaped the way they were was parallel to the wants of the player base seeming to enjoy a petite cute shape above all else. It seemed like the safest decision. Even so. . .

So this question, purely out of curiosity is: Are you strapping dragons satisfied? Considering the potential for what COULDVE been had in comparison with what was received, are YOU guys contented. . .or left in a state of longing?

Would sincerely love to hear Au Ra male input above all else.

[Boblawblah]

What exactly are you asking? If male Au Ra wanted bigger females?

[AngaratoSvartberg]

i just wish they would have gone with the midlander/highlander levels of the differences between the clans of each race. some are way too similar.
could have made 1 petite and 1 bigger

give us more variety, give us more options

[poooman]

tbh as someone who almost picked male au ra when i started, i constantly wish they were more like the concept art. the scaled, clawed limbs, the more draconic/demonic look, just generally cooler looking in my opinion. ESPECIALLY if they were more beast-like in the dragon direction.
i wish the same for the fem au ra too honestly, not a fan of them in the slightest as they are </3

but seeing as they cant even handle giving hrothgar permanent claws or hats (or even know how to deal with au ra horns it seems), id say it was out the window from the start . lmao

[Doomfist]

I really like female au ra as they are now, but I also find female elezen extremely attractive with their slender legs and height. If female au ra had the height of female elezen......GAWD DAMMMMMMMM

*clears throat* Having the female au ra also share the height of the males would make gposing the two together easier as well. Right now au ra couples need to do awkward poses where the male crouches, or the female has to stand on a box / sit on a ledge to be face to face.

[FF14Xanz]

i'm content enough with the way things are but looking at the early concept art makes me wish this game wasn't so (pointlessly) focused on the necessity of things not clipping and instead would just let the consistency of that quality decline in favor of more fantastic and dramatic design choices. Everything is simplified and diminished to prevent the sisyphean task of modelling headgear and pants around tails and horns and ears from taking up too much time and now it seems it was truly fruitless to do so in the first place when viera and hrothgar are prevented from wearing certain headgear anyway. Imagine what we could have had if there wasnt this astoundingly misplaced investment in model interactions with gear, not to mention the ceaseless advocacy and excuses made on behalf of this decision (among countless others) by the playerbase.

tl;dr just let us pick horn shapes seperately from faces already idc what the excuse is you're not making new races anymore that should be first priority for the resources that have been freed up, its been asked for since heavensward.

[Iscah]

I love my Au Ra's weird build. Glamours fit him differently to the more standard male characters and it's fun to work with.

(Now if they would just give him his proper face back and not the personality replacement he got in the graphics "update", I can go back to being happy about his design.)

[Rehayem]

I wish they could've followed through their concept art with Au Ra (looks demonic I guess) but I understand the limitations. Besides, it kinda grew on me the way it is now, so I'm happy as is. Just wish we could get more long hairstyles that aren't DBZ super saiyan mode but rather Xianxia/Wuxia style.