Changin Race

Once again, 5 str or 5 dex or 5 int is 5 you did not have before.

It is a difference. If a new piece of gear with an extra 5 str than your current piece came out you'd be all over it.

For non-Elvaans, changing to an Elvaan makes your big-PP dps numbers go up a tiny bit.

Idk about those other XI races, they're all inferior anyway.

Role playing game.

When you make a character people tend to treat you as you look in the game.

Sounds like you're self conscious about it cause you're afraid how people will act if they find out, but there is really no reason to be anymore.

One of the problems with XI is that some people playing a female character are "oldschool" and they are used to some teenager from 2005 losing their mind if they found out it's a guy playing a female character, the world has changed completely in 2020+ now and nobody really cares. Either cause most are adults now, they have played other games so are fully aware how things are or cause the younger people are coming from games like XIV where there just is no stigma at all to it.

I can count on one hand the number of women I've known on any mmorpg that did not either play a female character or the cute character, they tend to abhor playing a character that is treated how male characters are in these games.

If you have played a standard male character for a long time, swap to taru (the viewpoint will probably weird you out for a while) but you will tend to notice a lot of subtle differences in how people interact with you. This is why people tend to really want official changes instead of things like plastic surgeon, cause it doesn't just change how you look but how people interact with you.

Hume and Galka are categorically the best overall.

Galka has the most HP, which in today's climate matters a lot more than total MP. They also have the 2nd highest STR, only 2 behind Elvaan, highest VIT, tied 3 ways for 2nd highest DEX, and like 4th in AGI. Then they have tied MND with Hume or something like that. INT one stage above Elvaans. They play melee the best, and are actually like 3rd best mages despite having lowest MP.

Hume has the 2nd highest INT. 3rd highest STR. Tied in 3rd for DEX. 2nd highest MND. Highest CHR (it's tied 3 ways iirc, but also lol CHR). Tied in 3rd for HP. 2nd on MP. Basically not 1st in anything that matters, but they play any job basically at a 2nd best position statistically, which makes them the best at XI.

Elvaan have the highest STR and highest MND. 2nd Highest HP. 2nd highest VIT. But then... Lowest DEX. Lowest AGI. Lowest INT. CHR barely matters, but they are tied for first in it, along with Hume and Tarus. They make good melees and kind of good RDM/WHM/DNC due to how their heals/enfeebles work off of MND. But they have to get more MLs than other mages for nuking high tier stuff, and their racc/crit rate are a fair bit lower. They only beat Galka by 2 in the STR department, and that will hardly ever make a discernable difference, even at low levels. Elvaan babes are the hawtest women in game though.

Mithras have the highest DEX and AGI, but they're 4th in STR and 4th in VIT (tied with Tarus). 3rd in MND tied with Tarus. 3rd in INT as well, only barely above Galkas. They're also tied with Galkas for lowest CHR. Their HP and MP values are that of Hume, so basically they're a worse version of Hume that's slightly more accurate both in melee and racc.

Tarutaru have the highest INT and MP and that's pretty much it. In today's climate highest MP means very little due to all the Refresh and ease of access to elixirs via Curios. They are lowest in STR, VIT, and MND. They're tied in 2nd in DEX with Hume and Galka, and then 2nd in AGI. Tied in 1st with Elvaan and Hume in CHR. Lowest HP, though I guess it's not as bad now supposedly. All in all, I think they're worse off than Elvaan in having more stats at extreme lows, because their extreme lows effect how much direct physical damage they take, which they can also take less of, in addition to being more susceptible to white magic debuffs than every other race except Mithras.

All in all though, it doesn't actually matter. Like sure, there is a difference, and the difference is something people would clamor over if it were a gear piece, but...

1) It's not a gear piece

2) A lot of times the technically best gear doesn't actually give any better results than the 2nd or even 3rd best thing. Capped damage is capped damage is capped damage, and if the lowest STR race can do capped damage with physical WS then the difference between it and the highest STR race doesn't matter. Same goes for INT and magic damage etc.

3) There's a lot more disparity between Master Level characters of different MLs, with a lot of the highest difficulty fights in the game being beaten by groups with people who aren't all ML50. Because MLs give +1 to all stats per ML, this means that there are winning groups of the hardest content that have greater stat disparity than mere racial ones. So if the bar to victory says it doesn't matter, then it doesn't. At that point it's just e-peen type stuff and technicalities.

Here you go, nerds. It seems pretty clear that the racial stats are...extremely minimal. Also interestingly, the stat differences are the same across all jobs, no matter what. They might scale per level, IDK, these are all level 99 ML0 stats.

Most people will be using this for cosmetic reasons or how the community will interact with them in the game world.

In-fact many will not change race at all (which is why this turns into something worth financially adding over time), and will just change hair color or to a different face/hair model in the race they already picked. Hopefully they added more options to encourage this.

It will in effect be used by many as a hair dresser to change hair style / color.

The large majority will indeed be just that. Change face, alot of bald humes wanted hair etc

Just like server transfers. You'll change to taru and realize not being able to see over grass is irritating as ***. And change back. You jump to asura, realize the grass wasn't greener and jump again.

They are absolutely not adding new options, however. That's just not happening. No blue hair for you.

Are you saying I won't be able to style my Mithra like this?

This is the head selection for Mithra, many people will just swap from one hair color to another. For instance 4a to 4b, everything is the same just a hair color swap.



It's pretty easy to make simple different hair colors, it's just texture work. I made a few ages ago, they could even make a competition for it and players would make them for free if they wanted.

If they added one extra hair color per model (normal hair colors) it would add a lot more variety and make more money. Silly to not do it, but as you say they prob won't.

I feel like puking right now,,,

Just remember that now every galka you meet, what little of them are left, made the choice to still be a galka. Make sure you double down on the galka jokes

Remember, every WAR-DRK in the game had the chance to be a Galka, but decided to look good on Instagram instead.

My bad, it's not a +5 Str difference. It's +11 from a loltaru.

Not a tiny dps difference then. An oh-my-god-11-more-str?! one.

Waiting for the disappointment when this is a paid service, which it 100% will be to stop people changing race every other week.

Does anyone here expect it to be free? lol

They've already published the costs. It's about the price of a server transfer, outside campaigns.

Soon I will have my new home.

Everyone in this site is invited to a party to the house inauguraion.

But the pre requisite is that everyone must first race change to mithras

And to role play like one.

I was gonna use AI art to troll Panta, except it turns out AI art is *** stupid.



I was gonna do "what Panta expects" with a bunch of female mithra, and then "what Pantas gonna get" with a bunch of Lehko Haboka's.


1-What the *** is that?
2-Still accurate of what he will get.

Well, have your long waited snail Ghibli style

Delet that

It is a paid service on every mmorpg I've ever played, I don't think anyone expected it to be free.

I'm glad it's paid service, it will help the game more

If I was trying to make sense of this I'd kind of see that cry laughing smily in there.

what was the prompt?

There wasnt a prompt. I just sent the image and this was tossed.

I suppose it caught the original guy nature.

In that case, I must say AI nailed it