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[Column] Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: FFXIV - Group Friendly, Elf-less Community?
BillMurphy
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Results from a poll posted to the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn community paint an interesting picture of the community's potential make up. We weigh in on the results in this week's column.
The poll’s race breakdown data is particularly noteworthy to me. Most MMO players would expect the usual suspects (Humans, Elves, insert diminutive race here) to top the charts, but based off the data we’re seeing expect a whole lot of catgirls and boys – and giants. Lots and lots of giants. Elves (Elezen) make up only a total of 7% of respondents while Miqo’te (cat folk) make up 34% and Roegadyn (giants) come in at 23%. Yes, they even beat out Humans (22%).
Read more of Michael Bitton's FFXIV: ARR: The Group Friendly, Elf-less Community?
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Past experiences with these kind of pre-release polls have proven that they are only taken by a game's hardcore fans, way before the masses reach the game.
And the masses are going to roll humans and elves in droves.
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Stop wondering, Elves has horrible animations.... you look like a walking peestick
http://i.imgur.com/nhTm07A.jpg
Another breakdown, with different results
i agree in the first point.
for the elves: i.. i don't know. Yeah. Their necks are a little too long, but the most annoying thing i noticed are the small heads.
Does nobody else think they have far too small heads? No??
Proportional to the hands and arms and body and so on...
At least the females have -- really small heads. yeah..silly
This one seems far more accurate/likely for the masses.
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Of course people are rolling support classes, since every game now aways has (for some god awful reason) abandoned the trinity...
People are excited for a game that has some interdependancy and are rolling the support classes they have come to love.
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This... wife and I roled this race for beta and they looked really bad. Not awesome in any way. Make them look scary or purdy.
I'm doing the same
What makes it even more surprising in regards to the large % playing support is it is actually even more then 58/42% Archers are not truly dps in the traditional sense they are more a dps/support. This is especially true once the Bard Job is unlocked but even pre-Bard Archers have the largest Mana pool of all the non-magic classes and couple that with the Archer being at home fighting from a distance makes them a great backup healer even without skill points dumped into it. During several fights in the last beta phase where our tank should have died because of our main healer being unable to outheal the incoming damage the extra boost I was able to provide completely turned the fight around as a level 33 Archer I believe my Heal was restoring around 86HP to my target and this was with all my points dumped into Dex.
What makes this even more obvious is the fact the Archer's Limit Break is a group heal I almost fell over when I used my Limit Break during my first group boss fight and instead of the boss getting damaged I realized I had healed everyone. LMAO
Gender: Female
Race: Roegadyn Hellsguard
Server: Coeurl
Job (DoW): Undecided
Crafting (DoH): All
Gathering (DoL): All
Grand Company: Undecided
Playstyle: Crafting
And here I thought I was being a bit original by going male Miqo'te (Keeper) Paladin.
Why do game makers even bother making "unique" looking characters when the pretty ones almost always come out on top 10-1
It was the 'character gender' data that had the more even distribution between male and female; the player gender data showed something like 19% women (maybe less, I forget).
The race results do not surprise me really.
The Roegedyn stat is confusing to me.I play a lot of Galka and Roegadyn and i know for fact it is a rarely played class.
In FFXI i see about 2-3 in a all of a jueno zone at one time and that is of around maybe 50+ players.
In FFXIV it seemed to be even more rare,i on very rare occasions ran into the Galkan like class.
The cat classes i am not surprised by,they seem to be popular.
I never really looked into the stat differences ,if there are any,i just made one Roegadyn and one of the Lalafell.
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I'd like to focus DPS on one toon, Tanking on one and Healing on the last. I love to play elves but the big bodies with the teeny tiny heads just creeps me out (must be an Asian thing to make their elves look different maybe?) I just don't really like the style of the elves (kinda like the creepy looking soga models in EQ II, I never liked them either). I like the way most of the races look, just can't get past the teeny tiny heads on the elves....maybe if they made the heads bigger to match the bodies or shrunk the bodies and left the heads the same size.
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Here's a brief video of a group of Elezen wandering just outside of Ul'dah!
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