Race/JobFollow

Just out of curiosity's sake, how many FFXI player's are going to switch races from the one they originally chose for the first game? What about jobs?

Do you think the balance between the races will stay the same? As I remember it went elvaan > hume > Taru > mithra > Galka.

Gonna be Galka for sure, the über-race.

If heavy hitting jobs look fun I'll be one of those, but I might start as a tank if the game will have such role (tanking was such fun in XI). Hopefully there'll be Viking rather than Paladin though!

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 2:46pm by Hyanmen

<3 Mithra... =)

Depends on the race's back story a lot for me. If it is an aesthetic choice, solely, I would go for the Taru. But, I also liked their lore the most in FFXI.

If their story sucks, I may find myself going elsewhere. It isn't that I RP, but I hate having characters that I find boring.

I don't really care about stats (I'll farm for better gear if I have to). And I assume it will be like in XI where any race can have any job.

So Taru unless a better race is introduced, of the Taru's story sucks bad enough that another can make up for it (Mithra is #2 in aesthetics for me).

I don't know about everyone else, but I was actually slightly dissapointed when I found out they'd not changed the races, so far screenies have shown them as near-identical. Was kinda hoping they'd come out with something new for it, even if it was similar. I heard speculation about 'manthras' or 'girlkas' but thought even this was tragically unimaginative (besides I always just assumed that galkas and mithras were really just the same race and got their furry groove on behind - thankfully - closed doors).
I guess I'll go with another Elvaan or a Mithra if there's nowt else, All I hope is that next time I pick an Elvaan with an elvis quiff in bright white hair in my character creation it dosen't come out in-game as looking like a lanky blonde version of Simon from The Inbetweeners.

Male Mithra as a GEO.

Galka MNK, or, if it's available, a Male Mithra THF.

Considering they are meant to be similar, that isn't surprising.

But, even so, they actually are quite different when you really look at them.

Take, for example, the Galka. Compare the XIV one to the XI one and you will notice a LOT of differences (and I'm just talking about ones that have nothing to do with better graphical capabilities). Stature, Tail, number of fingers (or so I'm told), proportions (the XI Galka had shorter legs). Also, though it is hard to tell, it looks like their nose is normal now. Is it still clearly the one meant to be the Galka alternative? Yeah. But it IS very different.

With the Humes there isn't that big of a change, naturally, but it IS there. The XIV Humes have stronger features (more western, too) where the XI models had rounder angles (more Asian). Not a big change, no. But, as they are the race meant to be most human, you can't expect much else.

We haven't seen a Taru in the trailers, but there are some differences noticeable in the art. It doesn't look like they have the animal noses, for one. And their heads look smaller to me.

So, yeah. They are similar. But, if you look, they are actually fairly different considering they aren't meant to be completely different races, aesthetically.

Well, whatever job I choose, I would prefer it if I didn't receive a penalty against it based the race I choose. In other words, I would prefer to see no variation in begining stats and potential growth. I think there is sufficient difference in the differences between the jobs. This is for all the people in FFXI that became taru tanks or galka mages. I know there is gear that can make up the gap, but we all know there will always be a visible difference in performance. All I am saying is I don't want to be torn between choosing a race that best benefits my job of choice or choosing the one that I find most visually appealing.

I think alot of people would disagree with you there...

I keep with my elv and taru.

Im so gonna be male mithra... IF they have it, if not Elvann again!

Also... Don't forget they didn't say "No" to additional races.

Man, that's going to be a tough call. I think my easiest time to get though the game was being a hume.

This time around I have my mind set on a support, ranged, or main healer class. I'd probably go Elvaan if they give them that cool ranged attack stance like in XI, or Galka because of durability for endgame... it's just going to be tougher for doing mage jobs.

Play as hume?

I was an Elvaan tank in FFXI, I will be picking a female Hume in FFXIV and hope to play support/backline mage this time around.

Depends. I played Elvaan in XI. I like elves overall but I also like races like mithras. I never played mithra because there wasn't a male counterpart. Hopefully if they have male mithras I'll give it a try. If they have other races similar to mithra. Ie. Beast-like. I might want to try those as well.

It really depends for me. If the galka have any of that whole "enslaved by the humes to work in their mines" factor going on, I doubt I'll be willing to put up with the years of abuse I'll get. However, if there's a viking like class, so help me, I'm going to make a galka character, though my main will probably be a hume.