Im the ultra rare Roe that has small boobs on the slider. A lot of people actually get confused when shes in heavy armor and one asked "how can you get male roes to have a chest that small?" Had me rolling.
This is too relatable. Playing a femroe with the boob slider on minimum, muscle composition and max height. Never used Fantasia, I am too attached to her.
As a male viera. All you have said is mostly true. I haven’t changed race but the hat thing does bother me. But the recent glam from Tataru’s grand adventure has me in love! And yes my golden eye blinds me from mechanics. This is why I always look up a guide because I know I suck at pattern seeking.
How Viera cope is that we clamour onto any headgear that works, and repeatedly reuse it for every single glamour plate we have if it has even a shred of cohesion to it.
Eh, my viera has a white eye, she can't see that well, main reason why she's a tank, paladin no less, in the boss face praying to the holy spirit to hit it, and sometimes just summoning way to many swords so she's sure that she is hitting it. Also exceedingly heavy armor that is so white and large that even if she didn't see her teammate for a spread mech they WILL see her. Tall ass bunny gurl with contrasting black and dark purple hair with a platinum full plate running around chucking holy swords. Pretty hard to miss. Also for some reason her lack of good vision made her other senses pretty sharp, so her balance is stupid good so she can run with stiletto style greaves just fine.
I picked lala solely as a joke, because I wanted to start as a tank and mashed potato in a tin can looked amusing. My friends told me I would change and there's a Fantasia at the end of ARR waiting for me, yet now I can't. It just feels so jarring to play as any other race when I get a chance during some solo duties. Smol speed is the way. Cute as well. Can barely see glamoured shoes, though.
as a lala tourist (not terrorist) who occasionally swaps over, i understand. it was very jarring to go back to catgirl this latest time around, and i’m sure i’ll be back to lala eventually… the smol is just too powerful
I dont think I can ever be anything but a Lala after seeing my wol in all the msq cutscenes. Its just too good knowing everyone is relying on this tiny lala they have to look down at when talking to. I'd kill for a mod that makes people kneel when they talk to us in cutscenes xD Also bonus points on the cutscenes wherein a lala wol menacingly waddles into view and everyone is shocked/amazed or threatened by us
@@EurrikkeEdward I was gasping for air from laughing during HW cutscene, when antagonist asks: "What are you?!" and there's that gray filter with menace, but it's just a lala. Or the last solo duty of 6.0.
@Eurrikke Edward Agreed. Besides the hilarity of the menacing waddle stomp, Lala have the best emote/reactions in cutscenes. We're just so much more expressive!
I must be the odd giraffe out, lol - I've been playing an Elezen for two years and still going strong, and I headcanon him as Ul'dahn, not Ishgardian, funnily enough.
Same here. In my personal WoL headcanon, my Elezen originally came from the far east by birth, but after saving the world post-EW, he came back to Ishgard and took up sword and shield as an honorary House Fortemps knight.
One of the reason why I went from Elezen to Hyur because I realized that the headcanon I had for my character didnt fit at all with the Ishgardian aesthetic, lmaoo (she's a hot-headed monk)
As a player of a male Miqo'te with Face 4, it sure was quite the surprise when this video informed me that I was gay! You'd think I would have noticed before now.
Female Viera are strange. They're not actually a common choice, but they have a subculture where they congregate together. I told my partner about this and they've noticed it, too. Viera enjoyers just tend to gravitate towards each other subconsciously and form 'tribes'. I think it's funny considering how tight-knit and xenophobic Viera tribes are in the lore. You don't even see five Miqo'te together with no other races, but if you hit up a venue you'll sometimes see a half dozen Viera women relaxing together. Male Miqo'te so often have gay men playing them. So, so, so often. They're usually out and proud too, rocking booty shorts or fabulous glam. Female Roegadyn, conversely, have so many lesbians playing them it's insane. You can practically presume any femroe you see is a lesbian by default. Almost always have a relationship with a little Miqo'te or a heckin' big Viera queen. Probably has a lot to do with their side of the coin as lesbians IRL. Hyur men never speak, and often play on console. When they do speak it's to ask a question succinctly and then go about their day. There's a lot of paladins. Roegadyn males are either the nicest guys you've ever met and great at the game, rocking tasteful glam that looks like something realistic, or they're complete joke characters that meme about and never do any serious content. Hrothgar who reach level cap tend to focus pretty hard on being good at the game. You almost never see a Hrothgar floor tanking. I can almost guarantee they're a furry as well. It's as if all the skilled furries play Hrothgar, and the derpy ones go with Miqo'te. Female Hyur are usually glam obsessed and always lead down the road to ultimate raids. They'll spend weeks mastering an ultimate to have a shiny weapon for their glam, but otherwise are usually lazy about the game. It sounds weird, but you probably don't want these 'X Legends' in your savage raids. Female Elezen usually play relaxed ranged classes, with the most intense being the odd bard. They're dancers, bards, and summoners who only play other classes to get level cap. Their adventure plate is always one of these three classes. Male Elezen can be quite similar, but they do have a subculture of dragoon and paladin superfans. Lalafell are cursed because they either are in on the joke or not, and you never know which it is. They either take themselves too seriously and rage at the hint of a popoto joke, or they're cracking wise and bantering about biting ankles. They have a bad reputation in the RP community due to the former being super ERP creepy in spite of having the bodies of toddlers, and are often banned from venues (or even free companies). Most secretly enjoy being small because it feels like you run fast and jump super high. Speaking of creepy, male Au Ra are almost all played by straight women. You know the kind I mean; they love supernatural romance thrillers and probably fantasized about werewolves or vampires for their teen years. Unfortunately, they took all courting advice from said content, and often lurk about and creep on characters, making them uncomfortable. They're the ones who tend to overreact and get banned from venues when they're rejected, or pushy with the staff. Female Au Ra, on the other hand, are a coin flip between being played by males or females. A lot of trans people play female Au Ra for some reason. They glam like crazy, usually are obsessed with housing and/or venues, and almost always have their height slider set to minimum and heterochromatic eyes. A lot of them are reapers. So, so many reapers. Male Viera are probably the most mixed bag race of them all, likely due to being the newest so a lot of people mess with them. You never know how they'll act. I'll say that a LOT of women play male Viera, and a LOT of men who play male Viera were convinced to by their partners so they can have a bunny boi. Unfortunately, this means the creepy male Au Ra discussed above hone in on them a lot...
I've played two characters, and both have been female Hyur (one Highlander and one Midlander). I think you're pretty close to the mark, there! I wouldn't quite call myself obsessed with glam, but yes, I do enjoy playing dress-up with my little dolls. I've bought several cash shop outfits between the two of them (including an Eastern Lady's Togi for each of them), but I don't think I'd go so far as to run ultimates for a cool-looking weapon because I could indeed perhaps be described as a bit lazy (although I prefer the term casual). If my character looks good and I'm pulling my weight in regular dungeons, I'm happy. I'll probably never have a "Legend" title, but that's okay because my favorite of all the titles I've seen so far is Imperial Nuisance. Sure, everyone gets that one, but I use it because it makes me smile. Oh, and I plan to buy another cash shop outfit right before I log in tomorrow night because of that sale they're running right now. $3.50 for another bikini to work with? Now I know why the Loch Ness Monster is always pestering Chef's parents for exactly that amount of money. He must play a female Hyur, too.
@@biffwellington6144 It's fun how much of a coin flip the style of Highlanders and Midlanders can be, especially their racial gear. Dommy Mommy vs Cutie Patootie.
Trans Fem Au Ra player here. Literally 100% me, except the height slider (near max), but I'm convinced it barely does anything for female Au Ra anyways. Just last week was on a date looking through housing, because I'm new to the game and don't have the gil to have my own.
I feel like hrothgars tend to be the chillest people in the game, and for that reason I feel obligated to uphold that perspective outlook for others. If I get caught salty, I'll let my bros down, can't let that happen. So I usually act overly enthusiastic in chat whenever possible lmao.
honestly, in my experience hrothgar seems to be the most variated across every DC/world i've visited. on my home world, nearly every single hrothgar i've met is gay and they always greet each other in passing with /pet (seen this many times as the friend who got me into xiv is a gay hrothgar) yet on the other hand, i've been to different DCs and i have met some incredibly horny and mostly straight hrothgars, so i'm not really sure what to make of them now. luckily on my home world they're all chill.
As a duskwight I would like to correct this misinformation, we actually exist we are all simply hiding in the Mun-tuy bean cellars as that’s the only existing race lore in game.
As a Hrothgar player, honestly I picked it as it seemed to be the most “Fantasy” looking race to me, then immediately became a Warrior main that I usually switch up with either Summoner or Dancer for DPS. Honestly one of the other reasons I went with Hrothgar is because I liked the beard and Stache combo he has, sure other races have beards but I guess Hrothgar’s jaw structure makes the beard appear longer overall to me, kinda sad we miss out on a ton of hats but eh, can’t win ‘em all.
you know what, i actually like that. you are (if a heterosexual man) probably one of the few who picked hrothgar just for that reason, but i DO think they look cool, especially in armor their default idle stance is a bit rough though. they've got kind of a WoW orc hunch...
@@specstreTV Yeah the hunch is a bit weird, it’s not horrible and while it does make sense because of the Lion/Tiger base it does feel, jittery at times? Don’t really know what else to describe it, armor does look really neat on it and sense apparently female Hrothgar are being released eventually I’m kinda interested to see if there’ll be a slight armor patch that’ll give Viera and Hrothgar more hat options when that releases, kinda want a Beret for the military outfit glamour.
@@specstreTV we exist! I went hrothgar because the armour sets I like look way stauncher on a hrothgar than they do on anything else, and they had really interesting lore and naming conventions. I didn't really go in intending to play a hrothgar, but after spending hours in character creation, that's how it shook out. My girlfriend mains a femboy miqote healer and people just assume we're a gay couple; based on 99% of the other hroths I've met, I can understand why they would make that assumption
It's weird, I never thought about the heterochromia thing before. I actually made my character look like how I did relatively at the time, the quirk was I had an inoperable cataract in one eye so I reflected that as best I could.
In my defense for the blush, I only use it along with lip coloring because the face will look dull and lifeless without it. Adding that pop of color gives extra dimension to your character.
I just recently did this too because I switched to the newly added shaved hairstyle and my character looked too butch without a little color (but I chose a flesh tone for the blush and not pink).
I knew since I started playing that I would swap to male Viera (October before Endwalker released) and haven’t regretted my choice since. Even before the swap (and the only time I used a fantasia) I never used hats because I liked seeing my characters face. So really, I just have more space in my glamour dresser for other things since I don’t have to worry about them 😌
I spent so long making sure my face 1 Raen girl was perfect. And it paid off, because I absolutely love her and have never seen another Au Ra like her. She has silver-blue hair and blue eyes, which fits with most well put together glamours, but her black mage glam (my main) looks like it was literally made for her and hasn't changed since HW save for the dye. I'm so attached to this character, I tried to fantasia into a buff highlander lady but had to go back after a couple months. I can't put her into skimpy clothes because it feels strange, like seeing my own sister in a bikini. This is probably unhealthy.
I was going to pick a Hyur or Highlander… but some god awful reason the Miqo’te race was peaking my interest and now I have a male and female Miqo’te that have a shared backstory and quest in FFXIV. I love them both
Am I the only female Hyur midlander player who just picked someone kinda sorta similar to herself because she just wanted a nice power fantasy to live vicariously through? She's even kinda shortish even though I'm short irl.
My character is a Mi'qote seeker of the moon with ashen grey skin, and short white hair with black highlights. There was no deeper thought behind it, I just thought the combo looked good. She also has blue/green heterochromatic eyes. My own eyes look like they're both blue/green, in a pattern not dissimilar from Limbal Rings. She's never been fanta'd, but after several years, I did have had Vaindelyne make the highlights even darker, add a few freckles, and pick a slightly different but still short hairstyle The idea there was to make it look like she's changed and matured a bit over the whole saga from ARR to EW. IMO, the perfect callout for players like me is that we basically made our ideal girlfriend.
my most played miqo is very similar, but with braided blue hair which frames the face and matches the face paint in a way that makes her skin look blue as well. I don't think I had thoughts about reasoning. She has brown eyes because.... well, I thought it looked good. I felt like blue eyes would be too much of a self-insert and the first character i made was a redheaded blue eyes catgirl that looked basic as fuck and not very cute. I've occasionally changed her up a bit with the aesthetician but i always go back to her original style. I feel like she's a side of myself I can actually be proud of tbh.
OMFG, were sharing very similer brain cells with us making subtle changes to dentote aging/experiance in my case i added Scars over STB & and again in EW ( square add more scars) and same call out would work XD
This was one of the more unique takes ive seen about race/design choice. And seems to have an actual level of accuracy (not 100% but a lot better than most vids I've seen. LOL) You got me. I play male miqo. Very fashion conscious. 👌
As a super rare Elezen player (only one I have seen in my year and half of playing), I must say, you are correct about the Ishgard part. My favourite expansion is Heavensward, followed by Shadowbringers.
great video! I chose a very small female lalafell because I thought it would be funny to see a silly cute face in the very serious and dramatic cutscenes, despite my general preference to play male characters as a Brotherly Love enthusiast. I regret not choosing a male viera that should be both fashionable and give me double meaning to many many scenes. It sometimes suck to be too smol, you can't barely see your culinarian super cute little oven. When in housing, the cottage looks pretty much like a mansion. It's also harder to play overall, I guess, if you suck like me, lol ('im in the bad lala group demographics). BUT, after so many hours playing my adorable lalafell, I can't see the character with a different face and stature.
hey, as long as YOU'RE enjoying your race, that's all that matters :D i loved lala when i was playing it, because as you said, it's just such a silly race. their animations never failed to make me laugh. and of course, there are some perks -- for instance, the red panda sitting on your head rather than your shoulder like all the "normal" races. can't beat that.
Being a lala means you're one of the easiest races to tell where your hitbox is (because we're low to the ground and tiny) lalas have tactical advantages!! And Yeah houses are like mansions for us, but you can make a medium house with like 10 rooms in it 👀
I also play Lala and let me tell, you know EXACTLY where your hit box. I have found some truly nail-bitingly small safe spots in raids multiple times that other races didn't dare attempt. Its also fun to pretend to get offended whenever someone in the game says something like "I thought you'd be taller".
@@danifol2207 Not just headpats, the free cookies I keep being given! So many people just hand me cookies! I have a stack of over 100 of them. I never bought them, I never made them, I eat them and keep the exp buff rolling constantly.
I'm a max height female Au Ra, but only because I wanted my character to be the exact same height as me - so technically my Au Ra is "tall" but that really means 160cm. Which is pretty short irl. But yes, I am very much into housing.
Imagine my surprise when i found out that female Au'Ra are 4'9 minimum and male are 7.1 maximum.... That's like the difference between Snooki and Shaq. Seems like there would be some mechanical issues there. lol
I also made my Au Ra my own height, but since I'm very short, my Au Ra is pretty short too ♡ And yet I still sometimes feel like a giant because my friends are at 0 height slider on theirs, so next to them, I'm always the tallest 😅
I didn't particularly feel too called out with the fem!Highlander Hyurs (you are right about the modding however) but I swear the bit about hair colors and hairstyles came for my throat. Yes, I'm a filthy casual who's very invested in the story and if you let me, I will ramble for hours about my wol like some kind of proud parent. I'm one of those players who added white streaks to my wol's hair after Innocence and noted that it made her look like the other Scions.
I want to know where all these fem!Highlander mods are. I'm happy with my girl vanilla (except lashes, I gotta have my lashes) but it would be nice to have some options.
@@Korynith I said the same like. I literally find more mods don't have us than do. :( I feel like they don't know any highlanders and just didn't know what to say?
I started as a free player during lockdown. I chose miqo'te, but as soon as I saw Hrothgar I was like "why am I being a cat boy when I COULD be a Tiger Man!?" Also, Hrothgar are the only race with a truly triangular torso for the purposes of looking ripped or glams. Roegadyn and Hyur are beefy but in a "functional muscle" kind of way, with square-ish torsos. Elezen, Miqo'te, Au'Ra, and Viera are all skinny bois with rectangle torso.
@@AmellsGrace The body shape of a person can significantly impact how athletic they look. Having a chest that is a lot wider at the top and tapers to the waist/hips creates what is called a triangular torso. It means that your chest and back muscles are very well developed, and that you aren't storing a lot of extra fat around your middle, or at least that is the impression. In reality your body shape is heavily influenced by genetics, and you can be very fit and still have a "square" or rectangular torso. However, in something like a video game where aesthetics matters a lot, I'd rather have the more athletic appearance of a triangular torso on my character. If you google "triangular versus square torso" you can see a lot of examples of what I mean.
Hrothgar is very much true in my case Started as a catboy, i now play Sage as my main healer (and SAM tbh) And hell the stereotype of our players is 1000% true (every single one of us is as straight as a silly straw)
I would like to add to the lalafell part that outside of raids and dungeons, lalafell come in 4 different personality types: 1. Pure cinnamon buns 2. Meme machines 3. Chaos gremlins 4. Limsa lalas(also known as bad potatoes)
Started as a male huyr and played it till the end of HW, then i stumbled upon a few fem roes in 2b pants and they also wore the skankiest outfits and oh boy i was sold and after that i used multiple fantasias until i finally made the perfect fem roe and i have received praise for being one of the "good looking ones", i guess its due to me not using the superior face 2, that originally was my #1 pick until i changed my mind (For fem roes the Sea Wolves seem to be the only race option that allows you to make some sexy fem roes, since the other race...not even i could make any of their face options look good so its a damn irritating thing for me)
probably the 2 most different clans ouf any race! off the top of my (tired) head, i can’t think of any other clan that fundamentally changes models/animations-it’s usually just minor coloring/markings/flavor stuff
I started as a Lalafell because I wanted something close to leaving out my life as a HousePlant because I love just making people question how a plant is playing video games. Then came Endwalker with male viera which I’ve been saying was gonna happen since shadowbringers. Too which I made the joke that I chugged down growth formula and became a viera.
Thanks for featuring my adventurer plate. 😂 What you said about Elezen is true. You won't find any other red headed Elezen either besides the two that I play. Lmao (there's so few of us that we usually all know each other too because I recognize most of the others 😂)
I play a female Hellsguard Roe with warm toned dark skin, navy blue hair with white tips, yellow eyes, and white freckels! I started out as a male roe but I really wanted to try it out as a joke but got really attached to her. I do miss my big guy sometimes though. I got a lot of commendations when I played dancer as him lol. I chose her design based off of the aetherial sea before I had even started, I just thought the space-like aesthetic looked really pretty :)
Hey! I play Elezen & Duskwight! Ever since I started playing in 2019! That's got to be a record for resisting changing to Catgirl, right? 😆 One time I got a dungeon roulette of four Duskwights! 😱
This is Fem Roe slander. We do not just automatically jump to the bust slider and crank it to max. We crank the height slider to max first THEN the bust slider to max.
I played a male Miqo'te for years until they released male Viera. I don't think I will be switching back anytime soon. I actually tried to go back for a bit, but instantly missed my Viera. I've tried out a few other races, I dislike how the only height choice for Au'Ra male is way too tall, I don't hate Elezen, but the weird neck bobbing thing they do when they run is just something I can't live with. I lost a bet and had to play Lalafell for a while back in Heavensward, I surprisingly really liked it. I swear they feel so much faster than other races by default. I'll add one thing I've noticed about Lalafell. Character names. Lala players tend to have a funny name, cute name, or some kind of meme name.
Female Viera here! I actually made the swap from M/Miqote, and while the hat thing is a bit bothersome, nothing a cute, tastefully placed flower can't fix!
I started the game as a female Elezen since I normally play elves. But I couldn't get past the neck thing, so I rerolled as Lala because they look like "tiny elves with those ears!" :P
I'm a face 4 male miqo'te and I agree so much, I didn't use the most popular faces because they looked too young for my character- whereas face 4 I think makes a very handsome catboy :D I've never changed it since shadowbringers release
I made my character's height my exact height when I started playing, so naturally now that I'm older my character is basically a window into how younger me would've more or less looked compared to everything else in the world.
Late but its the appointed jacket and varsity flat cap! You can buy both from the marketboard or get the appointed jacket from a lvl 80 sidequest called A Gift from House Leveilleur and craft the varsity flat cap with a lvl 90 weaver.
Alright, so all your descriptions of lala's are 100% spot on with my best friend who plays. He's insanely good at the game, no matter the job he plays and has the naruto whiskers and I've almost never seen him die to a mechanic (literally its ridiculous, I've even tried to kill him with tank busters etc an he dodges em) Lol.
Idk my Hyur/midlander is very unique loooking and has little correlation to Ardbert in face funny enough and I always get compliments on his design and glam from random people almost everyday! Makes my heart happy to see people take notice of how hard I worked to make his design outside the norm 😅
I chose female hyur midlander, and specifically, face 1 and type 3 eye shape. Everyone's making their character notably with more rounded eye lines, and while they're more prettier, they're also the most common. Female mi'qote is, imo, has the prettiest eyes of all characters in this game for it's semi-animalistic features and it's sharp look. Female Au'Ra, on the contrary, has more gentle eyes which is really nice with certain themes such as elegance. Female Hyur midlander is mostly normalized human look, and to compensate for it's lack of uniqueness they have to be accompanied with heavy eye liners and thicker eyebrows.
"you are simply constructed curiously" is a fantastic way to close this video out, says the non-ishgardian duskwight elezen player who uses the shaved-head hairstyle
I play a moon kitty and recently I met another charcoal gray one just like me, apparently they’ve been collecting us grays and blues as friends. Like they’re starting a tribe lmao but honestly don’t see many of us, so I end up recognizing the few I do see
I would love to see all the gray and blue cats as a tribe lol That reminds me as a Seeker Miqo'te I actually wanted to find a FC with Miqo'te that works as a Tribe lol
I can't believe how accurate the Viera section was, I played Mi'qote for ages before switching to a bunny girl, although the hats in the end killed it for me after switching back and forth like 4 times before making the decision to stay as a cat girl.
eh. kinda annoys me that this video assumes everyone playing this game is a man....coming from a woman who primarily plays with her female and non-binary friends. we're out there, we just stay away from toxic gamer bros because they scare us.
I picked female Hyur because I didn’t want my character being too cutesy, if that makes sense? It’s a shame the only cool looking female options are on highlander and Roe because I also don’t want my character looking too tough. Ugh, the Goldilocks dilemma. But now I’m contemplating changing to cat girl because I feel so left out as a Hyur. xD
Minimum-height Lalafell turned ult raider turned female xaela au ra (straight male btw) and also minimum height This is terrifyingly accurate, one thing you missed is us xaelas are not only raiders, housing enjoyers, glam enjoyers, but also batshit insane
MIDLANDERS are unironically the most customisable due to them not having odd ears, tails, scales ruining glam and can wear headgear lol MIDDY GANG GANG!
When I started playing I was a viera fan who changed to a male Elezen player due to the hat glam issue, I have no regrets at all! I adore my fashionable elezen who has the iconic gyr abanian plait!
I think I'm playing the only blonde woman character design in the game. I did see another, once, but she had exactly the same hairstyle as me (default back-length w/ hairband), was also a mooncat, and was also minheight, so it looked like a doppelganger in a maid outfit had briefly joined me to mine the Azim Steppe palladium sand node, then vanished into the mists without a word. I encountered a different Keeper who also looked identical much later, idling in Gridania. It was raining both times. There are dark workings afoot.
I started as Xaela Au Ra, fell in love with Heavensward, hated Stormblood, but I was too immersed in the character I created to fantasia to Elezen, so I just made up my own lore about my character's father being raised in Dravania. But if I ever make an alt I'll probably go giraffe.
M-Roe Scholar. Happy dancing occurs when the cohealer is also a M-Roe. Doubly so in alliance raids if the tank is the tiniest female Lalafell. The perfect raid squad.
You missed 1 thing with lalafells, its either max height that towers over all other lalas or min height that gets lost beneath hrothgars, anything between 10 and 95 on the slider is unused except for like 3 people including me.
As a hyur mid lander I can confirm that I'm very special and unique. The fact that I decided to main SAM and PLD make me scared of how spot on that video was.
No mods, but fem(high)lander who only got to 90 to gain access to all the glam. Favourite one atm is a blue tank setup with a heavensward(? I think) tunic thing, can't remember the name. And the island sanctuary fae wings. I'm blue bada bee. Big fan of getting older equipment and making it look good instead of using new stuff solely on the basis of it looking good in a vacuum.
The real rarity in Malezen players is one that's been designed to look markedly middle aged. I have yet to see an Elezen breaches 30 in looks. There is no middle. They're either young or a white-haired wizened sage pondering his orb. No in-between.
I'm a male Hyur that looks like me IRL AND I'm a SMN main w/ RPR/SAM/BLU tendencies. I have very few glamour options as I didn't really understand the system at first, despite surviving the calamity. 😮 I also have returned earlier this year and have been playing catch-up, some what okay at dodging, but average at best, and despise anything PvP. 😆
Chose lala day one of my free trial after some deliberation. Restarted the game a year later. Less deliberation this time to end up choosing lala. Used the fantasia given at the end of ARR MSQ not to change races, but put my height to minimum and change features. Almost zero thoughts about changing race. Recently purchased a fantasia and only changed features and gender. At this point I don't think I'll ever change my race. Small now, small forever.
Ooo this is the first time I've seen anyone get this specific with these kind of videos! Do you think you could do one with hairstyles or something along those lines?
4:55 Yeah, I couldn't help noticing the Scions all have white hair for some reason... Wasn't even why mine has it, I just thought it fit the whole "dark elf" aesthetic.
My Au Ra's design says that I "originally intended to use this character to dick around on Free Trial with the intention to fantasia to Hrothgar, but balked when I learned they only had a few hair styles and no headgear."
I feel called out for the adventurer for hirer hairstyle comment. Somehow you hit the nail on the head there but I’m a Viera player and the no hats hasn’t worn me out yet
Hey, I'll have you know I am a girl who plays a female roe and no I am not a lesbian! I just wanna be a buff mommy irl and can't so this is my next best thing ;_; My husband sure appreciates it :P (though to be serious is femores being played by all men really a common thing? because I had no idea) I used to be a duskwight too but that doesn't count since I am now Roe
honestly, i neglected the lesbian femroe and they deserved a mention, but straight women playing femroe has definitely gotta be a minority you have escaped my stereotypes.
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"femroes are almost universally played by straight men"
every single femroe i know: is played by a lesbian
you know what, i should have mentioned the very real lesbian femroe/femlander community. that 1’s on me.
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i never even met any femroe mains that isnt queer
Every single femroe and femlander main ive met has been a lesbian, myself included. Who doesn't love a woman who can kick their ass?
Im the ultra rare Roe that has small boobs on the slider. A lot of people actually get confused when shes in heavy armor and one asked "how can you get male roes to have a chest that small?"
Had me rolling.
LOL I feel that, I just really like the muscle composition and height of a femroe its nice
This is too relatable. Playing a femroe with the boob slider on minimum, muscle composition and max height. Never used Fantasia, I am too attached to her.
@@bonevgm good taste, fellow kinsman.
Im also going against the grain. i play a male Roe at max hight and IRL im 6'1" (i usually consider this tall, though opinions can vary)
My Thighlander alt has mid boobs.
"Your subscription is integral to your future, so fork it over bud." I don't know why but that snark ACTUALLY SOLD ME on subscribing.
you're lucky i don't have your chocobo hostage like some of the people here
Persuasion check passed
As a male viera. All you have said is mostly true. I haven’t changed race but the hat thing does bother me. But the recent glam from Tataru’s grand adventure has me in love! And yes my golden eye blinds me from mechanics. This is why I always look up a guide because I know I suck at pattern seeking.
who needs raid clears when you have drip?
How Viera cope is that we clamour onto any headgear that works, and repeatedly reuse it for every single glamour plate we have if it has even a shred of cohesion to it.
Who needs a hat when youre beautiful /cope
:')
Eh, my viera has a white eye, she can't see that well, main reason why she's a tank, paladin no less, in the boss face praying to the holy spirit to hit it, and sometimes just summoning way to many swords so she's sure that she is hitting it. Also exceedingly heavy armor that is so white and large that even if she didn't see her teammate for a spread mech they WILL see her. Tall ass bunny gurl with contrasting black and dark purple hair with a platinum full plate running around chucking holy swords. Pretty hard to miss. Also for some reason her lack of good vision made her other senses pretty sharp, so her balance is stupid good so she can run with stiletto style greaves just fine.
@@NM-ok9wb facts though
I picked lala solely as a joke, because I wanted to start as a tank and mashed potato in a tin can looked amusing. My friends told me I would change and there's a Fantasia at the end of ARR waiting for me, yet now I can't. It just feels so jarring to play as any other race when I get a chance during some solo duties. Smol speed is the way. Cute as well. Can barely see glamoured shoes, though.
as a lala tourist (not terrorist) who occasionally swaps over, i understand. it was very jarring to go back to catgirl this latest time around, and i’m sure i’ll be back to lala eventually…
the smol is just too powerful
I dont think I can ever be anything but a Lala after seeing my wol in all the msq cutscenes.
Its just too good knowing everyone is relying on this tiny lala they have to look down at when talking to. I'd kill for a mod that makes people kneel when they talk to us in cutscenes xD
Also bonus points on the cutscenes wherein a lala wol menacingly waddles into view and everyone is shocked/amazed or threatened by us
@@EurrikkeEdward I was gasping for air from laughing during HW cutscene, when antagonist asks: "What are you?!" and there's that gray filter with menace, but it's just a lala. Or the last solo duty of 6.0.
@Eurrikke Edward Agreed. Besides the hilarity of the menacing waddle stomp, Lala have the best emote/reactions in cutscenes. We're just so much more expressive!
@specstre that's why I just have a Lala alt so I don't keep throwing money for race changes.
I’m the duskwight elezen male that doesn’t exist. You absolutely hit the nail on the head about the ishgard aesthetic lol
I shake your hand, fellow male duskwight Elezen enjoyer. But yeah, the Ishgard aesthetics are real 😂
Lol I literally play a male eleven duskwight and am wearing ishgardian armor on dark knight
I must be the outlier of outliers, then. Male duskwight Elezen, but who firmly eschews the Ishgardian look.
A fellow Elezen play. I won the lottery today
Adding to the elezen duskwight players (might switch once I get fantasia though)
1:33
_Looks over at my Duskweight Elezen whom I fantasiad into over a year ago_
And I took that personally.
You're existence is a lie.
hold still, i've gotta get david attenborough over here for a documentary
There are dozens of us, DOZENS!
I also play a Fem Duskwight and have since I started the game years ago. Never even thought of Fantasiaing. There are dozens of us, DOZENS!
Me who went from Elezen to Viera
As a person who play Elezen
I must tell you. You're right about Ishgardian part lol .
I must be the odd giraffe out, lol - I've been playing an Elezen for two years and still going strong, and I headcanon him as Ul'dahn, not Ishgardian, funnily enough.
@@sharlayanarchon
It was a problem sometime being so tall it hard to take a good pic with other especially lalafell lol .
Same here. In my personal WoL headcanon, my Elezen originally came from the far east by birth, but after saving the world post-EW, he came back to Ishgard and took up sword and shield as an honorary House Fortemps knight.
One of the reason why I went from Elezen to Hyur because I realized that the headcanon I had for my character didnt fit at all with the Ishgardian aesthetic, lmaoo (she's a hot-headed monk)
Look, it's not OUR fault that we have the sexiest city next to Old Sharlayan.
As a player of a male Miqo'te with Face 4, it sure was quite the surprise when this video informed me that I was gay! You'd think I would have noticed before now.
Might be a face 4 anomaly. My husband is a face 4 cat boy too. I recently changed to bunny girl so I could be taller than him for once.
Female Viera are strange. They're not actually a common choice, but they have a subculture where they congregate together. I told my partner about this and they've noticed it, too. Viera enjoyers just tend to gravitate towards each other subconsciously and form 'tribes'. I think it's funny considering how tight-knit and xenophobic Viera tribes are in the lore. You don't even see five Miqo'te together with no other races, but if you hit up a venue you'll sometimes see a half dozen Viera women relaxing together.
Male Miqo'te so often have gay men playing them. So, so, so often. They're usually out and proud too, rocking booty shorts or fabulous glam.
Female Roegadyn, conversely, have so many lesbians playing them it's insane. You can practically presume any femroe you see is a lesbian by default. Almost always have a relationship with a little Miqo'te or a heckin' big Viera queen. Probably has a lot to do with their side of the coin as lesbians IRL.
Hyur men never speak, and often play on console. When they do speak it's to ask a question succinctly and then go about their day. There's a lot of paladins.
Roegadyn males are either the nicest guys you've ever met and great at the game, rocking tasteful glam that looks like something realistic, or they're complete joke characters that meme about and never do any serious content.
Hrothgar who reach level cap tend to focus pretty hard on being good at the game. You almost never see a Hrothgar floor tanking. I can almost guarantee they're a furry as well. It's as if all the skilled furries play Hrothgar, and the derpy ones go with Miqo'te.
Female Hyur are usually glam obsessed and always lead down the road to ultimate raids. They'll spend weeks mastering an ultimate to have a shiny weapon for their glam, but otherwise are usually lazy about the game. It sounds weird, but you probably don't want these 'X Legends' in your savage raids.
Female Elezen usually play relaxed ranged classes, with the most intense being the odd bard. They're dancers, bards, and summoners who only play other classes to get level cap. Their adventure plate is always one of these three classes.
Male Elezen can be quite similar, but they do have a subculture of dragoon and paladin superfans.
Lalafell are cursed because they either are in on the joke or not, and you never know which it is. They either take themselves too seriously and rage at the hint of a popoto joke, or they're cracking wise and bantering about biting ankles. They have a bad reputation in the RP community due to the former being super ERP creepy in spite of having the bodies of toddlers, and are often banned from venues (or even free companies). Most secretly enjoy being small because it feels like you run fast and jump super high.
Speaking of creepy, male Au Ra are almost all played by straight women. You know the kind I mean; they love supernatural romance thrillers and probably fantasized about werewolves or vampires for their teen years. Unfortunately, they took all courting advice from said content, and often lurk about and creep on characters, making them uncomfortable. They're the ones who tend to overreact and get banned from venues when they're rejected, or pushy with the staff.
Female Au Ra, on the other hand, are a coin flip between being played by males or females. A lot of trans people play female Au Ra for some reason. They glam like crazy, usually are obsessed with housing and/or venues, and almost always have their height slider set to minimum and heterochromatic eyes. A lot of them are reapers. So, so many reapers.
Male Viera are probably the most mixed bag race of them all, likely due to being the newest so a lot of people mess with them. You never know how they'll act. I'll say that a LOT of women play male Viera, and a LOT of men who play male Viera were convinced to by their partners so they can have a bunny boi. Unfortunately, this means the creepy male Au Ra discussed above hone in on them a lot...
I've played two characters, and both have been female Hyur (one Highlander and one Midlander). I think you're pretty close to the mark, there! I wouldn't quite call myself obsessed with glam, but yes, I do enjoy playing dress-up with my little dolls. I've bought several cash shop outfits between the two of them (including an Eastern Lady's Togi for each of them), but I don't think I'd go so far as to run ultimates for a cool-looking weapon because I could indeed perhaps be described as a bit lazy (although I prefer the term casual). If my character looks good and I'm pulling my weight in regular dungeons, I'm happy. I'll probably never have a "Legend" title, but that's okay because my favorite of all the titles I've seen so far is Imperial Nuisance. Sure, everyone gets that one, but I use it because it makes me smile.
Oh, and I plan to buy another cash shop outfit right before I log in tomorrow night because of that sale they're running right now. $3.50 for another bikini to work with? Now I know why the Loch Ness Monster is always pestering Chef's parents for exactly that amount of money. He must play a female Hyur, too.
@@biffwellington6144 It's fun how much of a coin flip the style of Highlanders and Midlanders can be, especially their racial gear. Dommy Mommy vs Cutie Patootie.
Trans Fem Au Ra player here. Literally 100% me, except the height slider (near max), but I'm convinced it barely does anything for female Au Ra anyways. Just last week was on a date looking through housing, because I'm new to the game and don't have the gil to have my own.
WHY DID YOU GET ME SO ACCURATELY WITH FEMALE AURAS
YES GIRL @@AscendantLizard
I feel like hrothgars tend to be the chillest people in the game, and for that reason I feel obligated to uphold that perspective outlook for others. If I get caught salty, I'll let my bros down, can't let that happen. So I usually act overly enthusiastic in chat whenever possible lmao.
They are also all gay and are furries lol.
Kind hearted gay bros
That has not been my experience so speak for yourself
@@BaryccyonAgreed. Most Hrothgar players I've come across are either very horny, or very snobbish/opinionated and think painfully high of themselves.
honestly, in my experience hrothgar seems to be the most variated across every DC/world i've visited. on my home world, nearly every single hrothgar i've met is gay and they always greet each other in passing with /pet (seen this many times as the friend who got me into xiv is a gay hrothgar)
yet on the other hand, i've been to different DCs and i have met some incredibly horny and mostly straight hrothgars, so i'm not really sure what to make of them now. luckily on my home world they're all chill.
As a duskwight I would like to correct this misinformation, we actually exist we are all simply hiding in the Mun-tuy bean cellars as that’s the only existing race lore in game.
No you don’t! Get back to not existing!
(Also I love your Ishgardian esthetic)
I chose male Hyur and by the Twelve I'm sticking to it.
As a Hrothgar player, honestly I picked it as it seemed to be the most “Fantasy” looking race to me, then immediately became a Warrior main that I usually switch up with either Summoner or Dancer for DPS. Honestly one of the other reasons I went with Hrothgar is because I liked the beard and Stache combo he has, sure other races have beards but I guess Hrothgar’s jaw structure makes the beard appear longer overall to me, kinda sad we miss out on a ton of hats but eh, can’t win ‘em all.
you know what, i actually like that. you are (if a heterosexual man) probably one of the few who picked hrothgar just for that reason, but i DO think they look cool, especially in armor
their default idle stance is a bit rough though. they've got kind of a WoW orc hunch...
@@specstreTV Yeah the hunch is a bit weird, it’s not horrible and while it does make sense because of the Lion/Tiger base it does feel, jittery at times? Don’t really know what else to describe it, armor does look really neat on it and sense apparently female Hrothgar are being released eventually I’m kinda interested to see if there’ll be a slight armor patch that’ll give Viera and Hrothgar more hat options when that releases, kinda want a Beret for the military outfit glamour.
@@specstreTV anyone who picked Hrothgar for the fantasy aesthetic also 100% played Charr in GW2. I don’t make the rules. Can’t wait for Fem!Hroth
@@specstreTV we exist! I went hrothgar because the armour sets I like look way stauncher on a hrothgar than they do on anything else, and they had really interesting lore and naming conventions. I didn't really go in intending to play a hrothgar, but after spending hours in character creation, that's how it shook out. My girlfriend mains a femboy miqote healer and people just assume we're a gay couple; based on 99% of the other hroths I've met, I can understand why they would make that assumption
Just admit y’all are furries lol it ain’t that hard
It's weird, I never thought about the heterochromia thing before. I actually made my character look like how I did relatively at the time, the quirk was I had an inoperable cataract in one eye so I reflected that as best I could.
totally valid, and it makes sense to have your char reflect irl traits :) hope you're doing better now!
In my defense for the blush, I only use it along with lip coloring because the face will look dull and lifeless without it. Adding that pop of color gives extra dimension to your character.
This! I made it very faint so it's barely noticeable, but faces just look dead without a bit of blood coursing through those cheeks.
I just recently did this too because I switched to the newly added shaved hairstyle and my character looked too butch without a little color (but I chose a flesh tone for the blush and not pink).
As a female Au Ra that has vibrant hair with highlights, this is shockingly accurate
I have a gay friend who plays a male miqote and his glams are kind of like what this video showed so.... I'm calling accuracy on this lol
I knew since I started playing that I would swap to male Viera (October before Endwalker released) and haven’t regretted my choice since. Even before the swap (and the only time I used a fantasia) I never used hats because I liked seeing my characters face. So really, I just have more space in my glamour dresser for other things since I don’t have to worry about them 😌
I spent so long making sure my face 1 Raen girl was perfect. And it paid off, because I absolutely love her and have never seen another Au Ra like her. She has silver-blue hair and blue eyes, which fits with most well put together glamours, but her black mage glam (my main) looks like it was literally made for her and hasn't changed since HW save for the dye.
I'm so attached to this character, I tried to fantasia into a buff highlander lady but had to go back after a couple months. I can't put her into skimpy clothes because it feels strange, like seeing my own sister in a bikini.
This is probably unhealthy.
I was going to pick a Hyur or Highlander… but some god awful reason the Miqo’te race was peaking my interest and now I have a male and female Miqo’te that have a shared backstory and quest in FFXIV. I love them both
Am I the only female Hyur midlander player who just picked someone kinda sorta similar to herself because she just wanted a nice power fantasy to live vicariously through? She's even kinda shortish even though I'm short irl.
My character is a Mi'qote seeker of the moon with ashen grey skin, and short white hair with black highlights.
There was no deeper thought behind it, I just thought the combo looked good.
She also has blue/green heterochromatic eyes.
My own eyes look like they're both blue/green, in a pattern not dissimilar from Limbal Rings.
She's never been fanta'd, but after several years, I did have had Vaindelyne make the highlights even darker, add a few freckles, and pick a slightly different but still short hairstyle
The idea there was to make it look like she's changed and matured a bit over the whole saga from ARR to EW.
IMO, the perfect callout for players like me is that we basically made our ideal girlfriend.
We play God better than he did every time we design cute girls in videogames.
my most played miqo is very similar, but with braided blue hair which frames the face and matches the face paint in a way that makes her skin look blue as well. I don't think I had thoughts about reasoning.
She has brown eyes because.... well, I thought it looked good. I felt like blue eyes would be too much of a self-insert and the first character i made was a redheaded blue eyes catgirl that looked basic as fuck and not very cute.
I've occasionally changed her up a bit with the aesthetician but i always go back to her original style.
I feel like she's a side of myself I can actually be proud of tbh.
OMFG, were sharing very similer brain cells with us making subtle changes to dentote aging/experiance in my case i added Scars over STB & and again in EW ( square add more scars) and same call out would work XD
Lol Bruh… you sure gf?
This was one of the more unique takes ive seen about race/design choice. And seems to have an actual level of accuracy (not 100% but a lot better than most vids I've seen. LOL)
You got me. I play male miqo. Very fashion conscious. 👌
What actually made me revert back to AuRa from Viera, was the lack of tail...
Okay, You're 75% percent right on the Auri Gal. At least for me. I joined at Shadowbringers, just went right into it. Never going any other way
it's a good pick :D
As a super rare Elezen player (only one I have seen in my year and half of playing), I must say, you are correct about the Ishgard part. My favourite expansion is Heavensward, followed by Shadowbringers.
great video! I chose a very small female lalafell because I thought it would be funny to see a silly cute face in the very serious and dramatic cutscenes, despite my general preference to play male characters as a Brotherly Love enthusiast. I regret not choosing a male viera that should be both fashionable and give me double meaning to many many scenes.
It sometimes suck to be too smol, you can't barely see your culinarian super cute little oven. When in housing, the cottage looks pretty much like a mansion. It's also harder to play overall, I guess, if you suck like me, lol ('im in the bad lala group demographics).
BUT, after so many hours playing my adorable lalafell, I can't see the character with a different face and stature.
hey, as long as YOU'RE enjoying your race, that's all that matters :D i loved lala when i was playing it, because as you said, it's just such a silly race. their animations never failed to make me laugh.
and of course, there are some perks -- for instance, the red panda sitting on your head rather than your shoulder like all the "normal" races. can't beat that.
Being a lala means you're one of the easiest races to tell where your hitbox is (because we're low to the ground and tiny) lalas have tactical advantages!!
And Yeah houses are like mansions for us, but you can make a medium house with like 10 rooms in it 👀
@@Isissa125 the best part is when you meet another lala and you're like family instantly. I also enjoy the ocasional headpat to be honest...
I also play Lala and let me tell, you know EXACTLY where your hit box. I have found some truly nail-bitingly small safe spots in raids multiple times that other races didn't dare attempt. Its also fun to pretend to get offended whenever someone in the game says something like "I thought you'd be taller".
@@danifol2207 Not just headpats, the free cookies I keep being given! So many people just hand me cookies! I have a stack of over 100 of them. I never bought them, I never made them, I eat them and keep the exp buff rolling constantly.
I'm a max height female Au Ra, but only because I wanted my character to be the exact same height as me - so technically my Au Ra is "tall" but that really means 160cm. Which is pretty short irl. But yes, I am very much into housing.
I confused a Mi’quote in a dungeon the other day was the my max height Au’ra who is my self insert
Imagine my surprise when i found out that female Au'Ra are 4'9 minimum and male are 7.1 maximum.... That's like the difference between Snooki and Shaq. Seems like there would be some mechanical issues there. lol
I also made my Au Ra my own height, but since I'm very short, my Au Ra is pretty short too ♡
And yet I still sometimes feel like a giant because my friends are at 0 height slider on theirs, so next to them, I'm always the tallest 😅
I didn't particularly feel too called out with the fem!Highlander Hyurs (you are right about the modding however) but I swear the bit about hair colors and hairstyles came for my throat. Yes, I'm a filthy casual who's very invested in the story and if you let me, I will ramble for hours about my wol like some kind of proud parent. I'm one of those players who added white streaks to my wol's hair after Innocence and noted that it made her look like the other Scions.
we love a story fan, i support you
I also added the white for the same reason. Delighted.
I want to know where all these fem!Highlander mods are. I'm happy with my girl vanilla (except lashes, I gotta have my lashes) but it would be nice to have some options.
@@Korynith I said the same like. I literally find more mods don't have us than do. :( I feel like they don't know any highlanders and just didn't know what to say?
Got my ass ACCURATELY, damn...
-ex-catgirl current-lizardgirl with 788/800 glam dresser and gyr abanian plait among my daily hairstyle rotation
I started as a free player during lockdown. I chose miqo'te, but as soon as I saw Hrothgar I was like "why am I being a cat boy when I COULD be a Tiger Man!?" Also, Hrothgar are the only race with a truly triangular torso for the purposes of looking ripped or glams. Roegadyn and Hyur are beefy but in a "functional muscle" kind of way, with square-ish torsos. Elezen, Miqo'te, Au'Ra, and Viera are all skinny bois with rectangle torso.
I'm sorry, a what?
@@AmellsGrace I'm not sure which statement you are confused about.
@@TheJackOfFools the torso thing.
@@AmellsGrace The body shape of a person can significantly impact how athletic they look. Having a chest that is a lot wider at the top and tapers to the waist/hips creates what is called a triangular torso. It means that your chest and back muscles are very well developed, and that you aren't storing a lot of extra fat around your middle, or at least that is the impression. In reality your body shape is heavily influenced by genetics, and you can be very fit and still have a "square" or rectangular torso. However, in something like a video game where aesthetics matters a lot, I'd rather have the more athletic appearance of a triangular torso on my character. If you google "triangular versus square torso" you can see a lot of examples of what I mean.
@@TheJackOfFools Oh. Thats extremely depressing. I honestly wish I never knew about this.
Hrothgar is very much true in my case
Started as a catboy, i now play Sage as my main healer (and SAM tbh)
And hell the stereotype of our players is 1000% true (every single one of us is as straight as a silly straw)
we support our catmen kings
Depending on what femroth look like there is a very real chance that I join you in the future, except gender swapped
I would like to add to the lalafell part that outside of raids and dungeons, lalafell come in 4 different personality types:
1. Pure cinnamon buns
2. Meme machines
3. Chaos gremlins
4. Limsa lalas(also known as bad potatoes)
Beware the feral Lallas. They hunt in groups.
I went with Femroe to start with and i doubt i'll ever change. They are so cool
Started as a male huyr and played it till the end of HW, then i stumbled upon a few fem roes in 2b pants and they also wore the skankiest outfits and oh boy i was sold and after that i used multiple fantasias until i finally made the perfect fem roe and i have received praise for being one of the "good looking ones", i guess its due to me not using the superior face 2, that originally was my #1 pick until i changed my mind
(For fem roes the Sea Wolves seem to be the only race option that allows you to make some sexy fem roes, since the other race...not even i could make any of their face options look good so its a damn irritating thing for me)
@@soldierorsomething I've got the prettiest femroe on the planet and she's a Hellsguard
the first video of these where you actually separate the midlander and highlander, well done lol
probably the 2 most different clans ouf any race! off the top of my (tired) head, i can’t think of any other clan that fundamentally changes models/animations-it’s usually just minor coloring/markings/flavor stuff
I started as a Lalafell because I wanted something close to leaving out my life as a HousePlant because I love just making people question how a plant is playing video games. Then came Endwalker with male viera which I’ve been saying was gonna happen since shadowbringers. Too which I made the joke that I chugged down growth formula and became a viera.
1:52
_me, a bisexual, looking over at my male miqo'te WoL that has obvious eyeshadow on_
Holy shit its actually true.
i didnt need that kinda slander it was dead accurate
😂😂😂
Thanks for featuring my adventurer plate. 😂 What you said about Elezen is true. You won't find any other red headed Elezen either besides the two that I play. Lmao (there's so few of us that we usually all know each other too because I recognize most of the others 😂)
thank you for being an involuntary volunteer - be proud of your elezenness.
I actually know a guy who plays a red-headed male Elezen believe it or not 🤣
I'm a red-headed Elezen! I do change my hair occasionally, but I prefer red or pink :)
I play a female Hellsguard Roe with warm toned dark skin, navy blue hair with white tips, yellow eyes, and white freckels! I started out as a male roe but I really wanted to try it out as a joke but got really attached to her. I do miss my big guy sometimes though. I got a lot of commendations when I played dancer as him lol. I chose her design based off of the aetherial sea before I had even started, I just thought the space-like aesthetic looked really pretty :)
Hey! I play Elezen & Duskwight! Ever since I started playing in 2019! That's got to be a record for resisting changing to Catgirl, right? 😆 One time I got a dungeon roulette of four Duskwights! 😱
i hope after that dungeon you immediately bought that week’s cactpot tickets
*cries in being the sole female elezen of my FC and friend group* I just wanna be a tall pretty elf girl!
YOU GET ME 🤝
This is Fem Roe slander. We do not just automatically jump to the bust slider and crank it to max. We crank the height slider to max first THEN the bust slider to max.
As a whisker facepaint lalafell i finally feel validated
nahhhh bro got me dead to rights on the male hyur. even guessed my secondary class correctly
I played a male Miqo'te for years until they released male Viera. I don't think I will be switching back anytime soon. I actually tried to go back for a bit, but instantly missed my Viera. I've tried out a few other races, I dislike how the only height choice for Au'Ra male is way too tall, I don't hate Elezen, but the weird neck bobbing thing they do when they run is just something I can't live with. I lost a bet and had to play Lalafell for a while back in Heavensward, I surprisingly really liked it. I swear they feel so much faster than other races by default.
I'll add one thing I've noticed about Lalafell. Character names. Lala players tend to have a funny name, cute name, or some kind of meme name.
As a Lalafell with Heterochromia, I have no idea if I am good or bad. I just like tanking.
Female Viera here! I actually made the swap from M/Miqote, and while the hat thing is a bit bothersome, nothing a cute, tastefully placed flower can't fix!
I'm playing a Duskwight with min height sliders and I can confirm that I am, in fact, not real.
phantom bots in MY comment section??? inconceivable
I started the game as a female Elezen since I normally play elves. But I couldn't get past the neck thing, so I rerolled as Lala because they look like "tiny elves with those ears!" :P
I'm a face 4 male miqo'te and I agree so much, I didn't use the most popular faces because they looked too young for my character- whereas face 4 I think makes a very handsome catboy :D I've never changed it since shadowbringers release
I made my character's height my exact height when I started playing, so naturally now that I'm older my character is basically a window into how younger me would've more or less looked compared to everything else in the world.
I am offended at at how well the Hyur description fits me.
The hell is that outfit from 0:01 asking for a friend
Late but its the appointed jacket and varsity flat cap! You can buy both from the marketboard or get the appointed jacket from a lvl 80 sidequest called A Gift from House Leveilleur and craft the varsity flat cap with a lvl 90 weaver.
Alright, so all your descriptions of lala's are 100% spot on with my best friend who plays. He's insanely good at the game, no matter the job he plays and has the naruto whiskers and I've almost never seen him die to a mechanic (literally its ridiculous, I've even tried to kill him with tank busters etc an he dodges em)
Lol.
Idk my Hyur/midlander is very unique loooking and has little correlation to Ardbert in face funny enough and I always get compliments on his design and glam from random people almost everyday! Makes my heart happy to see people take notice of how hard I worked to make his design outside the norm 😅
Why the heck is this so...accurate? 😵
too many years. too many years…
Ate some rocks today then watched this, sick vid I feel sick I'm gonna call up the doctor
i hope they were moon flavored
4:20 jesus christ. that is the scariest looking male aura I have ever seen. that aint right
I chose female hyur midlander, and specifically, face 1 and type 3 eye shape. Everyone's making their character notably with more rounded eye lines, and while they're more prettier, they're also the most common. Female mi'qote is, imo, has the prettiest eyes of all characters in this game for it's semi-animalistic features and it's sharp look. Female Au'Ra, on the contrary, has more gentle eyes which is really nice with certain themes such as elegance. Female Hyur midlander is mostly normalized human look, and to compensate for it's lack of uniqueness they have to be accompanied with heavy eye liners and thicker eyebrows.
"you are simply constructed curiously" is a fantastic way to close this video out, says the non-ishgardian duskwight elezen player who uses the shaved-head hairstyle
I vote next video is what mods each race is most likely to use. But that might get demonetized.
every hrothgar modder for some reason has very realistic nipples despite being furry
Me, a guy who plays a male viera and hasn’t fantasia’d away from that and likely never will: *fades out of existence*
Love your videos, and this one was really funny! Keep it up!!
thank you so much!! :D love to hear it
I play a moon kitty and recently I met another charcoal gray one just like me, apparently they’ve been collecting us grays and blues as friends.
Like they’re starting a tribe lmao but honestly don’t see many of us, so I end up recognizing the few I do see
there are dozens of us i tell you
I would love to see all the gray and blue cats as a tribe lol
That reminds me as a Seeker Miqo'te I actually wanted to find a FC with Miqo'te that works as a Tribe lol
I can't believe how accurate the Viera section was, I played Mi'qote for ages before switching to a bunny girl, although the hats in the end killed it for me after switching back and forth like 4 times before making the decision to stay as a cat girl.
eh. kinda annoys me that this video assumes everyone playing this game is a man....coming from a woman who primarily plays with her female and non-binary friends. we're out there, we just stay away from toxic gamer bros because they scare us.
I picked female Hyur because I didn’t want my character being too cutesy, if that makes sense? It’s a shame the only cool looking female options are on highlander and Roe because I also don’t want my character looking too tough. Ugh, the Goldilocks dilemma.
But now I’m contemplating changing to cat girl because I feel so left out as a Hyur. xD
yes, join us… 🐱
Reject both, become Elezen
@@rockidayo My first character was Elezen but I couldn’t stop focusing on the long neck ;-;
dont abandon us ;w; highlander emotes are worth it
Minimum-height Lalafell turned ult raider turned female xaela au ra (straight male btw) and also minimum height
This is terrifyingly accurate, one thing you missed is us xaelas are not only raiders, housing enjoyers, glam enjoyers, but also batshit insane
The Roe/Highlander venn diagram circle really spoke to me
MIDLANDERS are unironically the most customisable due to them not having odd ears, tails, scales ruining glam and can wear headgear lol MIDDY GANG GANG!
facts
When I started playing I was a viera fan who changed to a male Elezen player due to the hat glam issue, I have no regrets at all! I adore my fashionable elezen who has the iconic gyr abanian plait!
I think I'm playing the only blonde woman character design in the game. I did see another, once, but she had exactly the same hairstyle as me (default back-length w/ hairband), was also a mooncat, and was also minheight, so it looked like a doppelganger in a maid outfit had briefly joined me to mine the Azim Steppe palladium sand node, then vanished into the mists without a word. I encountered a different Keeper who also looked identical much later, idling in Gridania. It was raining both times. There are dark workings afoot.
I started as Xaela Au Ra, fell in love with Heavensward, hated Stormblood, but I was too immersed in the character I created to fantasia to Elezen, so I just made up my own lore about my character's father being raised in Dravania. But if I ever make an alt I'll probably go giraffe.
Male mi'qote face 4 was my look for years! The few that use it always seem to go with black hair and yellow eyes too haha
I play roegadyn monk and I can honestly say I have never seen another roegadyn monk
M-Roe Scholar. Happy dancing occurs when the cohealer is also a M-Roe.
Doubly so in alliance raids if the tank is the tiniest female Lalafell.
The perfect raid squad.
You missed 1 thing with lalafells, its either max height that towers over all other lalas or min height that gets lost beneath hrothgars, anything between 10 and 95 on the slider is unused except for like 3 people including me.
As a hyur mid lander I can confirm that I'm very special and unique.
The fact that I decided to main SAM and PLD make me scared of how spot on that video was.
Male Hyur Midlander Paladin main from ARR to Endwalker.
Finally made the change and Fantasia'd
To Male Highlander Paladin.
I feel called out as an Elezen... But in my defense, it's not my fault Aymeric and Haurchefant are hot...
>Elezen, being into the Ishgardian aesthetic
>Me, FemElezen that went to much into the Dravanian aesthetic
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it
Akh Morn
No mods, but fem(high)lander who only got to 90 to gain access to all the glam.
Favourite one atm is a blue tank setup with a heavensward(? I think) tunic thing, can't remember the name. And the island sanctuary fae wings.
I'm blue bada bee.
Big fan of getting older equipment and making it look good instead of using new stuff solely on the basis of it looking good in a vacuum.
2:02 best and most accurate take this face 4 catboy has ever heard
As a Hrothgar Scholar main, I was not expecting to get called out like thatXD
2:59 I feel so attacked because it is so true
Though I struggle between them and miqo simply because I like the way miqo pulls off outfits
The real rarity in Malezen players is one that's been designed to look markedly middle aged. I have yet to see an Elezen breaches 30 in looks. There is no middle. They're either young or a white-haired wizened sage pondering his orb. No in-between.
Au Ra was my first choice and will never change
it took me 3 minutes to figure out what you were saying with "mickatee"...
me-koh-tey
I'm a male Hyur that looks like me IRL AND I'm a SMN main w/ RPR/SAM/BLU tendencies. I have very few glamour options as I didn't really understand the system at first, despite surviving the calamity. 😮 I also have returned earlier this year and have been playing catch-up, some what okay at dodging, but average at best, and despise anything PvP. 😆
Chose lala day one of my free trial after some deliberation.
Restarted the game a year later. Less deliberation this time to end up choosing lala.
Used the fantasia given at the end of ARR MSQ not to change races, but put my height to minimum and change features. Almost zero thoughts about changing race.
Recently purchased a fantasia and only changed features and gender.
At this point I don't think I'll ever change my race. Small now, small forever.
you walk a noble path 👑
Ooo this is the first time I've seen anyone get this specific with these kind of videos! Do you think you could do one with hairstyles or something along those lines?
Oh lord. I play a female Au Ra Xaela and fall exactly into the generalizations for both male AND female Au Ra.
4:55
Yeah, I couldn't help noticing the Scions all have white hair for some reason... Wasn't even why mine has it, I just thought it fit the whole "dark elf" aesthetic.
My Au Ra's design says that I "originally intended to use this character to dick around on Free Trial with the intention to fantasia to Hrothgar, but balked when I learned they only had a few hair styles and no headgear."
Me, a 6'4" guy.
My character, a 4'10" catgirl.
Team all zeros on the slider bars.
Apart from that "cowboy" glam thing, Miqo'te male is so on point it's scary
My short ass felt attacked with the height slider.
crying and sobbing as i say 'im built different' as you miss all the marks for me
I feel called out for the adventurer for hirer hairstyle comment. Somehow you hit the nail on the head there but I’m a Viera player and the no hats hasn’t worn me out yet
feeling unreasonably called out as a healer and crafter who uses blush
Hey, I'll have you know I am a girl who plays a female roe and no I am not a lesbian! I just wanna be a buff mommy irl and can't so this is my next best thing ;_; My husband sure appreciates it :P (though to be serious is femores being played by all men really a common thing? because I had no idea)
I used to be a duskwight too but that doesn't count since I am now Roe
honestly, i neglected the lesbian femroe and they deserved a mention, but straight women playing femroe has definitely gotta be a minority
you have escaped my stereotypes.
Counterpoint: My purple-haired Lalafell is tiny and I'm 5'1 in real life.