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I've also been waiting for the Viera and thought for sure they'd be the new race when Au Ra came out instead. However, I know Japan has been clamoring for another 'cutesy' race in the same vein of lalafell. In the concept arts you can see those big and beautiful Viera, but there is also smaller and softer arts too. I've seen some people saying they might make the two varieties very different to make everyone happy, some tall and strong veira and then a smaller cuter variety. Which like, yes, I would love that. I don't expect it though.

Top two nightmare scenarios for me? 1. Viera being female only.  And then 2. Another Au Ra ugh with big strong ugly males and then tiny pretty females. 


Of course, when you look at the concept art of Au Ra, the females are really cool looking and viscous! And then we got basic pretty with horns. </3 So I try not to get too excited about the viera, but bunny boys/girls are my fav so too late.


Spoiler for pretty credibal leak talk below
The same leaker who has been right about pretty much all he's revealed so far indicated a pic of a bunny and a lion when he hinted about two new races. I swear to god it better not be like 'all female Viera, all male ronso'. That'd be so boring.
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iirc yoshi-p has said that he doesn't like the whole "male only" "female only" races and he doesn't want to do them. i think there was also some backlash about the female only miqo'te pre-ARR? not sure if i'm remembering right but yeh

re: leekz
(here's a link to a reddit discussion on the leaks)

the leaker, blufever, has been right about everything so far (as kappaccino said). the funny thing is, they've gone dark, probably because they realised they've "said too much" and they're laying low for a while, as though they actually have something to lose. plus, the dev team definitely seem like they're prepping for viera, at least, what with the ivalice raids and the bonewicca sets; the boots definitely look like they could work for viera feet, which is part of why the team decided to step away from viera and do au ra instead, and a lot of the gloves have claws, which is a very viera aesthetic >3>

not getting my hopes up though 😂 i don't want to be disappointed plus there's always fanon


ANYWAY ON TOPIC

alongside more customization options, it'd be cool to see a 'third clan' for each of the races we currently have, so like, doman or garlean hyurs and ishgardian elezen. maybe a bulky type of miqo'te, not like roegadyns but something that's more like the bulkiness of a tiger, that'd be sick. not sure what they can do for the other races tho

new races uhh... aside from viera, i do think a race based upon plants would be cool, like they have plant features like vines and flowers and thorns, and greenish skin. they'd be a human version of the sylphs, so they'd work since they're not a beast tribe.

100% though i just want far more options on the character creator. stop using the 'server limitations' excuse, spaghetti code can be fixed plzz i jsut want to choose an au ra's horns separate from their face, and have better face options tooooo

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I'd love less a whole new race (Though Ronso would be beast) but more another clan to the Miqo'te, and technically all the others. But I'm gonna talk about Miqo'te cause that's the race I've got more experience with -

So far everything exists in a duality - but I'd LOVE to have a clan that has specialised for dawn/dusk hunting. That may not be so adept during the day or during night, but really good during the time when the light is neither, who may have slightly more bulk then the standard Miqo'te, but equally they're less a clan in terms of banding together but are total isolationists, two meeting can cause fights etc.

To me that'd be really interesting and maybe that clan splits into two - those who adapt to the dawn those who adapt to dusk. Or maybe it's the females that tend to dusk activity etc...

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personally i'd really love to see both viera and aegyl show up. both because i really want to be able to make one of them and because i'd genuinely be interested in seeing how their story lore would get integrated. plus the aegyl could give a really cool arc to later story updates in my opinion.

honestly i don't think the game really needs other clans. like. sure i guess it would be nice to be able to do a doman hyur or a new miqo'te clan or a garlean but. in a sense, i'm kind of "but they don't really add anything other than flavor and to a certain extent it doesn't make sense unless they're adding new possible starting locations, which also wouldn't make sense since that'd tweak so much of the resulting game." if they do that, i'd wanna see a new game plus style mechanic. like. you beat the main game and get to certain points and you have the option to roll all your levels and quest progression into a "new" character that starts in a different area and gives you a little questline to move back into the main eorzea.

... now that i say that, i really wish they would've given the option for that with the au ra because that sounds so cool omg, square you can take the idea for free as long as you do the thing and make it good.
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Now you've said it - that does sound really interesting! Maybe as an interesting mechanic for an alternate start rather than your class dedicating where you start it'd be even more interesting to use your race - so for example my Miqo'te Ta'vren should have started in Gridania (Typo'd probably) over Ul'dah

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Now you've said it - that does sound really interesting! Maybe as an interesting mechanic for an alternate start rather than your class dedicating where you start it'd be even more interesting to use your race - so for example my Miqo'te Ta'vren should have started in Gridania (Typo'd probably) over Ul'dah

i mean, i've always taken the starting area as more acknowledgement that you come from somewhere else (likely you were an adventurer before that point and had been for a long while) but. as far as the starting mechanic is concerned, i get why they have they have to do it that way since imo you need to progress your main class and do the level 10 quest for them before you can pick up other classes. so locking that content until you get introduced to the airships is a bit of a pain, especially for brand new players in limsa (since i actually ended up running from gridania to ul'dah fairly early on just so i could pick up the other classes and i use limsa as a starting place to try to force myself to progress the story instead of crafting forever).

the new game plus option would just work out since like. imo you'd be hooked up again really fast, they do have some ~spoilery~ reason to be able to make it work with some squinting for why you're still the hero of the scions (like it's not perfect and tbeh that's the biggest roadblock to it since imo you can't really make references to beating titan if the new game plus character hasn't - imo this is why you don't see the starting game quest content referenced once you get to the synced up part of the main story). and it's not gonna work out for them to long-term make a whole bunch of branching storylines just to have new species with new starting points.

essentially it's a mechanics vs story dilemma so. i've not looked super closely at the explanations for how the au ra are actually playable in-game so i might be talking out of my rear in that sense. but. idk i just think it would be cool for them to work in a mechanic to be able to explain the new species away in game rather than just hand-waving it a bit.

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It was your mention of the Au Ra that made me think that - because while I have an Au Ra in Limsa... I do feel they're a bit out of place almost in terms of it clearly states they come from a different place. Which is partly why I used Limsa because it was the only place that in my brain made sense to start

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HELLO BOYS AND GIRLS







- BLU coming out 4.5
- Gunblade basically confirmed via trailer
- Viera confirmed? at FanFes
- everything is on fire and I'm not okay
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HELLO BOYS AND GIRLS







- BLU coming out 4.5
- Gunblade basically confirmed via trailer
- Viera confirmed? at FanFes
- everything is on fire and I'm not okay

Viera are confirmed in all but name!

New race, bugs bunny racing shirt, all the hints towards Ivalice and the revelation of the woods as one of the new locations...

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I made a blue mage tank for an FF site that I never really got to play at a while ago.
I still play him, but not as a blue mage or even at an FF site though I did make him on FFXIV a month or two ago.

So...
I am...
SOEXCITEDFORHIMCUZNOWICANPLAYHIMASABLUONFFXIVEEEEK
I'm a little bummed that it's of course likely going to be yet another DPS class among the 30 others, but hey. It seems to be pretty cool nevertheless.

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ok so note to a little earlier - like I know ppl are clamouring for viera but I don't want to see a new race as much as I was to see more starting options for characters!

this kinda works into the 'more clans' thing but we only have about 4 faces a race. add more! more options! customization horn set ups for au'ra! third eye gem options for hyurs!

they already have a lot of things set up, but offering more customization would probably take care of that extra clans twitch? idk that's just me

what I want even more is miquo'te lore kthnks. where are all the tribes located primarily? their jobs? what about moon? because we got a xaela overload but like the miquo'te have had a tribe set up before the au'ra! so I mean...

this is slightly scattered because I'm still yelling about thancred coming back and how hot he is like hrngngn
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everyone's like "viera viera viera!" but really watch as the new race is sentient motorcycle jkjk

real talk though, that trailer is hype as fuck and i'm sooo happy about the route they're taking for the WOL, literally a dream come true

also dark knight being the mascot job 😩👌

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I mean, most of the lore is already there to be begin with. we could learn more about the sub-races of what's already here. apart from miquo'te, hyurs and au'ra, can anyone tell me any major lore points involving say, lala, roe or elezen sub races? I personally can't and lore for them is scant at best because of it?? a lot of the lore out there is player made, not from squeenix mouth. so idk why more sub-races is a good idea when we don't even have stuff on the ones we do have. and if we have, then where I must consume!

I'm all for more sub-races, but I feel we need to expand on what we already have first? that's just me tho. XD