I've seen some good ideas here, but lets be honest what FFXIV:ARR really needs is something completely new as far as race goes. We could ask for races from other games but they would not really fit here so why not make something that not the normal for final fantasy (if there was a norm). I'm sure that Yoshi-P has some ideas he wants to try himself and we sould support him in whatever brand new race he makes up for ARR.