Are you for or against the addition of race-based bonuses?

[Sounsyy]

I enjoyed the minute differences between races in XI, I am for race specific traits.

More importantly, I am all for race specific armor appearance. We already have armor that changes (very slightly) when worn on male and female character, but I think it should also look slightly different on different races. It's all the same gear, it has all the same colors and substance to it, but each race holds its very own unique style. The stats would all be the same. A miqote wearing it has no advantage over a roegadyn wearing it, but the styles would be very different. This would bring some uniqueness and pride to each race without creating imbalance. I think the dev team did a very nice job with the new race starter gear in 2.0 concept artwork for playable races. I would love for this to carry over to other armor in the game. Maybe it doesn't have to be all armor, but at least unique/untradeable? Who has not looked at a roegadyn wearing full BRD af and not thought, "that just don't look right."

[Biggs]

This isn't changing, but I'm very much against it outside of fun abilities.

Tangent:

All these threads about changes to 2.0 when we're literally a month [give or take weeks] away from internal testing won't change a thing. I don't understand why they're littering the entire forum.

Because we need things to speculate on since the flood never happened. Even if it's just made up stuff

[Churchill]

Not to mention in FFXI racial bonuses mainly went to:

- Mithra could eat raw sea food.
- Galka could eat raw meats.

That's so minor that being against it is really just disagreeing with an idea for no reason -- The stat differences in FFXI only mattered early levels, end game levels everyone was boosted through gear progression and buffs, not because you have 5-7 int higher than another race, which is almost nothing end-game.

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Lv99 Taru BLM has 14 more INT than a Lv99 Elvaan BLM

That is a big difference, and no piece of gear makes up for that. dINT isn't an imaginary stat in XI.

STR is also relevant, Elvaan would have 11 more STR than a Taru, this heavily favors Elvaan because of the way WSC works, allowing for alternative (better) gear choices in some slots.

DEX, Mithra DEX is 96 vs Elvaan 86...or potentially 10% critical hit rate when dDEX is >40.

Aesthetics only.

[PeaceWalker]

Against. If FFXI is anything to go by.

[Reiterpallasch]

HP/MP pools would like word with you.

What would they say exactly? I'd imagine it would be along the lines of "You're going to always have so much refresh that your max MP doesn't matter" and "If you're a tank, your not going to be 1-shot even with a slightly lower HP pool".

So again, have you people actually played, or do you just think that these things mattered or had anything more than a trivial impact merely because you heard it somewhere and are parroting it here?

[Yellow]

I wouldn't mind if stats were a little bit different. Not enough to be game changing, but enough to be different, e.g Lalafell doing a bit more damage with BLM, but don't have as much mana as a Hyur might have (making up less power with more spells -- as an example).

I remember in WoW.. races had racial abilities for Priest :P That was pretty cool.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Lalafel not physically stronger than roegadyns!? Uh what about the two awesome lalafel brothers from Ul'dah from the miners guild. I bet they would mess up any roegadyn that crossed their path.

[Luhy]

As we add more identity to our characters, people get excited. We finally have a ring for the Gods we chose over 2 yrs ago during the Character Creation screen. We have craft-specific hats which sell like crazy even though they suck for most jobs. Lots of people came back for familiar-looking Dow/DoM jobs over just classes.

Personally, I hated the huge STR loss for being Miqo'te in XI, but it still gave a sense of pride to overcome it. People like that sort of thing. A small racial difference would be nice. Either that, or maybe just racial traits like a bit more range for a miqo'te Archer or something.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I must have skipped over it, I don't remember being able to chose my guardian...

:c sadness x infinity = Johnnyutah (Newgrounds fans should get it)

Wish I could rechoose. The God of Destruction of course.

[Buddhsie]

I don't think they should have their own abilities... Just a difference in stats. Not being able to choose a race to suit your favourite job/type of job is lame. Not a significant advantage.. Just similar to how it was in FFXI, or FFXIV at release.

Edit: It's why I chose Mithra in FFXI - because they made the best Thieves.