Playable Race [Poll]

Ryufu

What race will your primary character be played as?

http://www.strawpoll.me/20697226

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Frosty_Tips

wow the elves (both types) did very well in this poll. I didn't expect that well.

Kriddon

Not surprised about the tulnar. But what is drawing people to the elfs?

Daedrik45

Empyrean elf Paladin named Velarian

Sussurro

My main will be Vaelune. The class design is shaping into something that seems convoluted (which I would absolutely love) and as someone who doesn't optimize too hard the choice of race might be smothered by the myriad of choices we have to shape our character. I feel Vaelune will fit thematically with the class/character I have in mind.

Frosty_Tips

wildpancakes875 wrote: »

Not surprised about the tulnar. But what is drawing people to the elfs?

Excellent question WildPancakes, what is drawing so much hype towards the two elf races. My initial instinct is to blame the devs for highlighting them too much but I don't think that is the case actually. Because the opposite is happening with the Dwarf Niküa, they have gotten alot of video time yet are the least popular. We have seen what some elven buildings look like in a city node so that helped to hype them up.

lunarsky

wildpancakes875 wrote: »

Not surprised about the tulnar. But what is drawing people to the elfs?

@wildpancakes875

I usually play elves because I like their aesthetics. I don't like playing humans in fantasy games because I'm human in RL and it just doesn't seem as fun or exciting in a world with magic and dragons etc. While elves are only slightly different (usually) in appearance with the ears or more lean features it's just enough to feel pique my interests but not so different as to be unattractive/unappealing like Orcs or trolls are (for me). I also tend to favor their lore more too, particularly the wood elf tropes.

Makinoji

I love this poll. From a lore perspective, it's intriguing to see the humans the once most populous being at the bottom of the barrel almost.

Lfmr

wildpancakes875 wrote: »

Not surprised about the tulnar. But what is drawing people to the elfs?

Elves have always been the most popular fantasy race, it's probably because they generally are depicted as very graceful and beautiful. But, the numbers in other MMO's always have an overwhelming amount of Elf players. In 2019, 25% of all WoW characters were Elves in one form or another, and Blood Elves even beat out humans in numbers.

Nagash

Makinoji wrote: »

I love this poll. From a lore perspective, it's intriguing to see the humans the once most populous being at the bottom of the barrel almost.

Just have to make more NPCs

Frosty_Tips

Lfmr wrote: »

Elves have always been the most popular fantasy race, it's probably because they generally are depicted as very graceful and beautiful.

So we need more fan art of beautiful dwarves and Tulnar! I for one like a short girl 6 out of 7 days of the week!

GrandHarfang

loghan wrote: »

Lfmr wrote: »

Elves have always been the most popular fantasy race, it's probably because they generally are depicted as very graceful and beautiful.

So we need more fan art of beautiful dwarves and Tulnar! I for one like a short girl 6 out of 7 days of the week!

Orcs can be beautiful too!

ParadoxPK

Going with whatever fits being a tank the best.

Nagash

ParadoxPK wrote: »

Going with whatever fits being a tank the best.

A t-34?

Atiqa

Impossible to tell yet for me.

As far as I'm concerned, we basically just have the names of the races and some backstory. We haven't really seen what they actually look in the game, like actually in the game when the game is finished or near finished. Tulnar especially is a mystery.

When I look at it, Tulnar is the type of race that could be really cool, or fall short for me. One of the Orc's would probably be the ones I'm most interested in right now, but honestly any of the races could be cool to play except maybe Human which I find boring.

That's not taking into account actual pros and cons with the races, and that's a whole other thing to consider.

EDIT: Oh, and I base my race on what class I will play, and same thing there, we just don't know enough for me to remotely know what class I will go.

8BitBaker

I'm planning to main Tulnar but honestly I'm interested in basically anything that isn't human as well. I think there's a lot of potential in the other races and will likely have alts on each!

tianlansha

If I was an edgy 15 year old like when I started playing WoW back in 2006, I'd pick anything but a boring Human.

Now I'd only pick a boring Human, because I somehow identify with them the most... for whatever reason.

Frosty_Tips

@tianlansha Yeah the human race looks great, the human female especially for some reason always gets my attention, even more than the Tulnar female race. If I could mad science create some races into Real Life, i'd probably pick Female Tulnar and Female Human. Top two Verra races by far!

Protogen

Probably Tulnar (And only Tulnar). I just see Lizard-looking people and that excites me.

Kaelang

Likely depends on the racial bonus' that each race gives. However, I'm liking the visuals on the Py'Rai so far.

Celestial Scythe

I'm looking into the Elf for magic based classes, and the Tulnar for the Melee Based ones. I like the lizard/dragonkind idea for brutal fighters.

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