Now to the races, first and fore most I know that the devs have already said that the races are indeed going to be more for aestheics than stats, however It makes sense that a big hulking galka should be more physically endowed than a little ole frail taru, Or that an agil mithra could dance circles around that big hulking galka. Its just more emerssive. Races are not equal, other wise whats the purpose of a race? might as well just be all humans.
A lot of people don't care about "realism" or a character's body appearance "making sense" with regard to their statistics. A level 20 Tarutaru Warrior can dish out a lot more damage than a level 5 Galka Warrior, even though the Tarutaru is still much smaller than the Galka. In Final Fantasy in general, tiny characters can utterly defeat huge ones. More to the point, I suspect most players don't feel more "emerssed" (???) in the game simply because their Galka White Mage has less mana but can take more of a beating.
The purpose of races is to add more variety and diversity to the game aesthetics, in my opinion, rather than having only humans everywhere for example. In your opinion it's so that the gameplay mechanics will be a bit different between each race, right? Well fair enough, but in my opinion that's an afterthought, not really necessary, and potentially annoying for people who want to do certain class/race combinations but feel compelled to pick a certain race to go with their class to reach their full potential (Black Mage and Tarutaru for example).
The level statement is a bit missleading because eventually they will be equal level at some point, and thats the point where most mmo'ers consider the real game to begin, end-game/level cap.
Let me ask you 1 question: Would you rather be hit with a 15lb double bladed axe by Brock lesnar or a "little person"? Both will hurt but 1 is going to do a hell of a lot more damage than the other.
In case you dont know who brock lesnar is, He is the UFC heavyweight champ. 6-3, 274 lbs.
I also understand why people dislike racial stats. It did suck for people wanting to be a galka whm, but that didnt stop them from, being a galka whm, there was racial gear to help them out. we just have a differnt idea on what we like in an mmo.
Waiting for:EQ-Next, ArcheAge (not so much anymore) Now Playing: N/A Worst MMO: FFXIV Favorite MMO: FFXI
All of those jobs were implemented 2+ years after the game was released....
XI had only Warrior, Thief, Monk, BLM, WHM and RDM at the start too. Talk about lame.
I just hope they add a pet class in FFXIV >.>
Sure, they will. XI had BST right from the start but like other pet jobs it's kinda weak. I hope that since the devs have a little more time to think of how the pet functions as compared to other classes now it'll be implemented much better.
There's no pet classes at launch, already confirmed by the devs. A dedicated summoner class would be difficult due to the story as well... supposedly the summons (I'm assuming they're called espers this time since so much of XIV is based on VI?) play key roles in the story this time.
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A lot of people don't care about "realism" or a character's body appearance "making sense" with regard to their statistics. A level 20 Tarutaru Warrior can dish out a lot more damage than a level 5 Galka Warrior, even though the Tarutaru is still much smaller than the Galka. In Final Fantasy in general, tiny characters can utterly defeat huge ones. More to the point, I suspect most players don't feel more "emerssed" (???) in the game simply because their Galka White Mage has less mana but can take more of a beating.
The purpose of races is to add more variety and diversity to the game aesthetics, in my opinion, rather than having only humans everywhere for example. In your opinion it's so that the gameplay mechanics will be a bit different between each race, right? Well fair enough, but in my opinion that's an afterthought, not really necessary, and potentially annoying for people who want to do certain class/race combinations but feel compelled to pick a certain race to go with their class to reach their full potential (Black Mage and Tarutaru for example).
The level statement is a bit missleading because eventually they will be equal level at some point, and thats the point where most mmo'ers consider the real game to begin, end-game/level cap.
Let me ask you 1 question: Would you rather be hit with a 15lb double bladed axe by Brock lesnar or a "little person"? Both will hurt but 1 is going to do a hell of a lot more damage than the other.
In case you dont know who brock lesnar is, He is the UFC heavyweight champ. 6-3, 274 lbs.
I also understand why people dislike racial stats. It did suck for people wanting to be a galka whm, but that didnt stop them from, being a galka whm, there was racial gear to help them out. we just have a differnt idea on what we like in an mmo.
Waiting for:EQ-Next, ArcheAge (not so much anymore)
Now Playing: N/A
Worst MMO: FFXIV
Favorite MMO: FFXI
All of those jobs were implemented 2+ years after the game was released....
XI had only Warrior, Thief, Monk, BLM, WHM and RDM at the start too. Talk about lame.
I just hope they add a pet class in FFXIV >.>
Sure, they will. XI had BST right from the start but like other pet jobs it's kinda weak. I hope that since the devs have a little more time to think of how the pet functions as compared to other classes now it'll be implemented much better.
There's no pet classes at launch, already confirmed by the devs. A dedicated summoner class would be difficult due to the story as well... supposedly the summons (I'm assuming they're called espers this time since so much of XIV is based on VI?) play key roles in the story this time.