I role-played a blood elf back in WoW for years and absolutely loved playing this guy:
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Yet the closest thing to that in FFXIV would be either an au ra or an elezen and I actually like both quite a bit...but the weird necks put me off playing an elezen and the weird hips/general awkwardness of the horns put me off playing an au ra.
I also generally avoided playing a human in other MMO's but GW1/GW2 and FFXIV are the exception to this rule since I can play a realistically proportioned classically handsome human which wasn't possible in the likes of WoW.
I do quite like miqo'te, mind you, but very few role-players seem to portray them as anything other than 'hyur-with-cat-ears' and so the tribal lore is either ignored or becomes very difficult to indulge in.
Ideally I'd be playing a full-blooded Garlean but since that's unlikely to ever be something available I'm content to play a half-breed instead. I'd like to think that I've designed Graeham in such a way as to capture the 'half-Garlean' look quite well. A lot of people use the highlander model to reflect it instead but I don't find them nearly as expressive or aesthetically appealing (outside of their physique) as midlanders.
Roegadyn and lalafell just don't interest me in the slightest. I've never been fond of the 'very small' or 'very big' races though. At least not enough to play one myself.
Yet the closest thing to that in FFXIV would be either an au ra or an elezen and I actually like both quite a bit...but the weird necks put me off playing an elezen and the weird hips/general awkwardness of the horns put me off playing an au ra.
I also generally avoided playing a human in other MMO's but GW1/GW2 and FFXIV are the exception to this rule since I can play a realistically proportioned classically handsome human which wasn't possible in the likes of WoW.
I do quite like miqo'te, mind you, but very few role-players seem to portray them as anything other than 'hyur-with-cat-ears' and so the tribal lore is either ignored or becomes very difficult to indulge in.
Ideally I'd be playing a full-blooded Garlean but since that's unlikely to ever be something available I'm content to play a half-breed instead. I'd like to think that I've designed Graeham in such a way as to capture the 'half-Garlean' look quite well. A lot of people use the highlander model to reflect it instead but I don't find them nearly as expressive or aesthetically appealing (outside of their physique) as midlanders.
Roegadyn and lalafell just don't interest me in the slightest. I've never been fond of the 'very small' or 'very big' races though. At least not enough to play one myself.
