Race Change Service

Using your example, I wouldn't nod and pat you on the head, I would cheer for you and maybe even try to come up with some blue items that are not obvious and easy to miss. Making the bluest lockstyle possible is for me more exciting, than for example optimizing this month Ambuscade clear time.

There are negatives. To a job that uses str, vit, hp and dex, very few negatives.

Why do you need HQ gear, you can win without it. A win's a win and a loss is a loss. You would've won without it, what difference did HQ gear make.

I mean, I've definitely played (and won) with people who used +1 JSE necks over +2, that's certainly true. The difference, obviously, is that +2 necks are literally exactly the same as +1 necks except they have better stats. That's not true for any race change at all.

There is no job that only uses STR, VIT, HP, and DEX, but also...there's no race that has the highest STR, VIT, HP, and DEX, so...I'm not sure what your point is here. Should you go for the highest combination of all 4 of those stats? How do you weigh each of them? What if your loss of INT, MND, or AGI ends up biting you in the ***?

It's all a (extremely minor) tradeoff and there are no free stats, only (extremely minor) compromises. It's nothing like a cheer or an HQ version of an NQ piece of gear.

Fine, fine, since y'all are so determined to keep this one on the rails...

What I want to know is, who are these players who are so fortunate that they get to choose just one or two jobs to optimize for? Who gets to always play a damage-dealing job and never has to worry about getting pushed into a support or mage role instead? You need three jobs ready to go if you plan to do Odyssey, and that's if none of your favored jobs overlap with those of anyone else in your group.

Sure, fine, changing race to min-max stats may be a valid consideration for specific subsets of jobs, but you're actively making your performance worse to roughly the same extent on other jobs.

Are people planning to do this on an event by event basis? (Are people really only planning on doing different events every fourteen days, since that's the cooldown on race change?)

If you're asking what is the superior race it's obviously Elvaan.

That's pretty obvious.

I'm saying there is a difference. That is all.

Interesting perspectives here... Will we see Asura turn into a Galka server? In short, if you enjoy playing mage jobs, choose Tarutaru. If melee tank jobs are your thing, go for Galka or Elvaan. I’ll probably switch to Galka myself, but I’ll let some time pass and think it over. Besides, it’s a nice change after 20 years as a Hume XD.

Race stats do not make a difference. It just don't.

The min-max argument is itself a semantic one - "Is 11 STR better than 0 STR?".

In practice, the argument that you will never hear is: "if only you were a Galka we would have met this DPS check".

For Oddy, Sortie etc, the race stats will get neglected by server lag itself, where you took a few extra seconds longer to WS because your macros weren't firing off. We have sortie runs where we leave with 14 mins left on the clock and others where we leave on red countdown.

In Oddy you end up swapping people around to meet job requirements. Usually goes: I can make some capes and throw some gear together.

And there you sit - NOOOOOO THAT WILL NEGATE MY RACE CHANGE-

I've always looked at the min-max bs argument as something extremely silly, or as a way for people to say "look, I'm on an extra level. You wouldn't even understand it". The quote is real btw. lol.

If your min-maxing isn't helping you beat content, you are just appeasing to your mental illness. It does not affect the outcome of the game at all.

By the way, since the stat distribution is not even, if you add up all the deltas, Hume comes out on top (36 stat point total), then Galka (32), then Elvaan and Taru (both 31), then last Mithra (30).

Hume is therefore the optimal mathematical choice, but we all know that Mithra is the only logical playable option, thus disproving the field of mathematics in its entirety.

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But my short legs makes me look like a tripod when naked. #noracechangefortaruM

You could also argue CHR has significantly less value than the other stats for nearly all jobs which would make galka and mithra look a lot better.

What do you mean by add up the deltas? I added up the total stats of each race (on my image post in the other thread) and it shows hume having 2 more total stat points than galka/elvaan/taru, and Mithra 1 below those. I'm not sure how you get a 4/5/6 point difference

Edit: oh, I see. This chart has the wrong data on it.

Which one is wrong?

Stat total while ignoring CHR is probably a better measure.

As long as the character isn't a mage (nuker) main, I think Galka's total stats and HP tradeoff for MP is superior since max MP doesn't matter much with all the idle refresh and buffs. Galka's drawback is it's model is bigger and can get stuck on mobs/npcs easier, and ...it's a Galka.

Hume has 3 more VIT than mithra, not 6. I'm not sure which of the others are broken, I haven't checked all of them. My post shows the correct stats for all the races.

Is there any lore attached to the race change to explain how the character changed races?

Asking such a bigoted question in 2025 smh

All right Galka now XD

Moogle magic.

I wonder if this might open the door for them to offer a paid Name Change service

You can technically already do this. Make a char on another server with the same name as you (or if the name already exists, even better), jump server, and it will force you to change name. You can then return to your previous server.

Is there a lore reason behind our characters being able to die repeatedly and always get back up? Is there a lore reason behind how we can carry 320 Mahogany Beds around at any given point in time? Is there a lore reason behind us being able to switch jobs on the fly, but somehow not be able to retain knowledge and skills from other jobs beyond half of a single one?

Basic game mechanics don't need lore reasons dude.

I know you can do it this way, but it requires you to pay for a server transfer twice, and also wait (i forget how long it takes) for that period of time to be able to do it again, and also create a new character, which is more money. If that's the reason why someone wants to change their name, just would be better to offer that option outright without having to jump through hoops. Just make it official

Name: SexyMithra
Race: Galka

Mithra is illogical on two fronts, actually.

1. They work for the Tarutaru, in spite of being superior to the Tarutaru (Tarutaru stat point total is distributed poorly).

2. The real reason people play them is pathological. In the compulsive sense. People are just compelled by the Empyrean to play sexy cat girls. Logic has no bearing on this at all. They could have a stat total of 3 instead of 30, and people would still play them. It surely wasn't the Mithra's stat total that made my brother's jaw drop and his pupil's dilate the first time we went through character creation in the early 2000s.

Catgirls simply have the mandate of Heaven, you see. And so I struggle against fate.

self-delusion is the key to success. REALLY, it IS!

everyone who's been to Windurst bathhouses knows ALL Tarutaru have 2 belly-buttons. The only differentiation is that some have inies and some have outies.

I sometimes put the third limb down the subligar leg if I'm doing real fast gearswaps.

Not sure how serious you are, but I always like to play very agile male characters and I had a problem when I started playing FFXI. In the end I choose small size elvaan, but I was seriously considering Mithra and not at all because of her female attributes. For me Mithra male would be ideal. I currently play with dress up as a Mithra, because I really like the animations. I kinda like Galka too, but I love to play MNK and can't stand Galka kick animations. They are like low kicks made by some 90 years old gramps. Elvaan has probably the best kick animation, but it's not really agile, it's more like very stoic.

why Berserk stigma appeared in race change thread?

That is random

I was just curious if it was going to be similar to monstrosity and you possess another monster

My first thoughts on race/change service were: Ah ha! now ppl who sell their accounts can completely erase their tracks!

... then I remembered this game too old to buy/sell accounts anymore