Race Change Service

Canonically they reincarnate, so, correct!

I'm finally gonna sport my WAR-PLD Galka! Stand in front of people with no Ja0...

Dont be jelly

Objective facts are you may gain up to 11 stat depending on race and some hundred or whatever HP.

If there was a monster rearing KI that gave you those stats, would you want it?

Only yourself can answer that.

HQ anything doesn't matter because who cares about a 2-5% increase over the NQ, it changes nothing.

Having an extra 15sec on warcry doesn't matter because the mob will be dead before that.

Nothing matters, delete your sims and don't min max.

There is a big *** leap between HQ items and changing race based on the max-min you want to accomplish for an event, right?

If I'm paladin-War I go galka, if I'm sch on Bumba I go Taru? For people who absolutely only play one category (mage or physical or tank) then, perhaps? But how are you going to factor in the minuscular benefits of a race over the other?

Swapping race is not like swapping HQ rings.

I think you misunderstood, that wasn't my comment at all, I was just replying to that comment.

I wouldn't take a KI that gave me 50 STR and 500 HP if it made me a n Elvaan. I wouldn't play if I had to be a galka.

I'm just glad the stat question is solved. I do hope this doesn't lead to people getting more focused on races like back in the day when no one invited galka mages or taru tanks. It's just something to consider alongside the cosmetics if you are considering changing.

I didn't say you should change race for an event. That's dumb.

As is the argument that 11 str doesn't matter because it's "negligible".

If 11 stat is negligible then so are literally all min-max efforts, monster rearing KIs, HQ items, optimising via sims et al.

Either all of it matters or none of it does. No in between.

You guys can do better than this, right?

11 STR matter? If you are making an Ambuscade WS cape for SB you would be dumb not to add STR to it.

If you are picking race based on the 11 STR, yes, you are dumb.

Why? Adding or not adding STR to your Ambuscade cape will not make you fail Bumba, but that's such a trivial effort for that benefit that you would be stupid or lazy not to get it. Changing race will not making you win or fail bumba, so changing it based on that 11 STR makes you even more dumb. Especially since changing race comes with trade-ff. Adding STR to your Ambu cape doesn't.

On the other hand, probably like 5% od DRKs min max and uses absorb Stat or scarlet delirium. One being almost +100 Stat and other up to 49% total damage multiplier.

"Do better" than what? I'm not arguing for or against any of the "optimization" here. The issue here really has nothing to do with Race change specifically. This is more of a fundamental disagreement in minmaxing efforts. I have stated numerous times that some people simply enjoy minmaxing and making minor gains in certain ways, whether it be through small quest bonuses, cheer effects, random augments (Oseem etc). You may not agree with the reasoning or the effort, but it's because the lens you are looking at it is "not worth it". That is totally fine, but to say it's "dumb" is just plain stubborn.

I happen to pop every possible +100 Gallimaufry box in Sortie, every single night. Most groups I go with ignore this. It's such a small amount that they don't even bother with it, even though its basically free. I personally don't mind taking two seconds for the extra. It's just a difference in people's interests. But it certainly adds up. Does it make a huge difference in when I will get my Prime? Probably not, but I do it anyways.

There's an entire community of people who play level 60 cap Ballista. They do this long-forgotten NM hunt called "Fields of Valor" where they trade the top sub-60 gear ( Areion Boots +1, Phalanx Rings, Pallas' Bracelets, etc) to certain spots in Zilart maps, kill an NM, and get a random augment in return. If they get even a +1 to Defense/VIT/elemental+/HP/STR/MP augment, they do backflips for how elated they feel that they can make even a minor improvement in their PvP performance. It's a super crazy obsession, but they gladly will do it once per game day because it's an advantage*.

I think you guys just don't value minmaxing to that kind of degree, which is totally fine. I don't think any of that obsessing is necessary either, I'm not even defending it tbh. But I can't say with a straight face that it doesn't matter, because obviously it does (to some players). You can argue whether or not something actually has an impact on whether you win or lose, that's one thing. But to say there is zero advantage or that the bonus is "negligible" is just not true.

Like I said, either all of the minmaxing in the world matters, or none of it does. Now whether minmaxing is practical is an entirely different argument.

Actually Galkas are homies with Odin, and they're such good homies with Odin that he helps them reincarnate since the Zilart done *** the mothercrystal of Al'Taieu.

This is funny. A DRK I knew used to play, I asked to see his Scarlet delirium set and he said "which one?" Apparently, he had a "safer" build that drops his health and adds DT+% gear with i-lvl gear, for when he wanted a small bonus but didn't want to risk dying, and another set which was non-ilvl where he is willing to risk it all for the potential damage increase. i thought this was absolutely insane to swap into, but he really enjoyed playing the game on the edge like that sometimes and felt the set investment was a situational huge bonus that could come in handy in certain situations.

It was something like this
ItemSet 380900

Mars Ring, Minerva Band, Tonberry Mantle, Eluder's sachet etc.

It's interesting to hear how others choose to play.

That's a long winded way of saying BACK TO THE MINES, GALKA

I don't think some of you understand, that min maxing can be a goal on its own. It doesn't need to be practical. In 75 era I min maxed HP on Galka MNK. It was purely for fun. It's still one of my best memories in FFXI, when I calculated theoretical max of 10003 HP inside Abyssea and when I finally got everything I needed and equipped it to land at exactly that calculated 10003HP. It was glorious for me. Same as pushing max MS Steel Cyclone or SA Cannonball or recently max white wind or max scarlet delirium. None of that really mattered from practical POV, but I had fun with it. I feel like Buukki fall to your trap guys and he has been trying to justify min maxing from practical pov in his last few posts, when his first post was essential for me. It doesn't need to be practical, it can be fun on its own.

This is a exactly a set I posted in DRK thread several months ago (or maybe around a year now) :P

Odin only saved the Galka cause he needed them to survive and continue to be vessels of rage. It's amusing that he is the savior of Vana'diel in many ways, but only out of pure self interest.

You can tell he's an asshat cause he let all the galka women die out.

If he were as bad as Zeus he would take all the Galka women for himself and sire a gazillion demigod children that roam the world wreaking havoc.

There were never any Galka women. Only Galka Mayo.

Well, we can't be 100% sure there weren't Galka women at some point and they just stopped appearing because every time one died they got added to Odin's Valhalla bouncy castle instead of being sent off to reincarnate.

Just race swapped harder then Marvel in 2023.

I'm trying on Galka for a couple weeks I guess. Not the first time I've been one.

Sure, and using my same example from earlier, if I told you that I was focusing really hard on getting the bluest lockstyle possible because I was thought it was the coolest thing ever, you could nod and pat me on the head, just like I'll do with the "min max" people.

The other problem with the arguments being put forth is they're ONLY putting the best stat forward (like +11 STR) and saying "wouldn't you take a cheer with +11 STR?!" when really it's more like:
Would you take a cheer with +11 STR, +70 HP, -3 DEX, +6 VIT, -9 AGI, -13 INT, +8 MND, -122 MP, that you can't ever take off no matter what job you're on?

I mean, there's an argument to be made that, depending on what jobs you prefer to play, you WOULD take this cheer, but it's nowhere near as simple as saying "Would you take 11 free STR?" This "cheer" would be a detriment some of the time, and offer little/no benefit some of the time.

And, as I've been saying, the benefits of this "cheer", if it existed, would be extremely negligible. This part is obviously just an opinion but I really don't see how anyone could try to say that these stats will make a meaningful difference in the climate of 2025 gear.

If you want to do it because you FEEL like it will make you more successful (even though it won't) then go for it. I've never, in any of my posts or in my mind, said/thought/expressed that someone SHOULDN'T change their race for increased stats. All I've said is that it's factually extremely unlikely to ever make a difference in your outcomes, 99+% of the time it will have no impact whatsoever, and even the .1% of the time it does make a difference, it's equally as likely to have a negative impact .1% of the time too, especially considering the number of jobs people play (or claim to play).

If someone strafed their character constantly to avoid attacks and said that it was the reason they beat Fu, I would never tell them they can't do that or they shouldn't, but I would also tell them how it's dumb, incorrect nonsense and they actually won because of the stats on their gear and their gameplay, not because of their "technique."

It does make a difference. A bigger difference than, say, the cheer that gives you str+4 and acc+4.

Strafing around a mob does nothing. Different stats does. Idk what you arguing.

Wait what?????

A win is a win and a loss is a loss. If you would've won without it, what was the difference that it made? If you lost even though you had the "cheer", what was the difference exactly?

Also, as I pointed out in my post and you apparently missed (again), it makes a (positive) difference, but it also makes a (negative) difference, so...it's not at all like a cheer with +4 STR and +4 accuracy. I explicitly called this out and you somehow didn't read those words.