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What is important when you choose your race ?
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beetleklee✭✭✭✭LoreDunmer are my favorite race so I chose classes that go well with them. Also like Argonians a lot. After playing the classes, I enjoy Dragonknight the most, and a MagDK was my first character so I have an attachment to them. I would say I min/max for the most part, but I still pick a race I enjoy over having the top choice (ex I chose Dunmer instead of Altmer for MagSorc. Still great but not as good as Altmer. Dun care.)PC NA
CP 690
EP Dunmer MagDK Level 50, Stormproof
EP Dunmer MagSorc Level 50, Stormproof
EP Argonian DK Tank Level 50, Boethiah's Scythe
EP Breton Templar Healer Level 50
EP Khajiit StamDK Level 50, Stormproof
EP Dunmer Magblade Level 50, Assistant Alienist
EP Argonian Stamden Level 50, Lady of Misrule (pvp)
EP Dunmer Stamblade Level 50
DC Redguard Stamplar
AD Altmer Magwarden Healer
vMA, vDSA, vSO HM, vHRC HM, vAA, vAS+1, vMoL2 -
theher0not✭✭✭✭✭AppearanceAppearance. If I am going to spend days if not months looking at a character I want it to look good.
Stats change, and lore doesn't really affect my characters more than I choose to (sure some NPC comment on race, but that is more of a reflection of who the NPC is rather than who my character is).
I'll of course consider both lore and stats but appearance is usally the most important.
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KeiruNicrom✭✭✭✭✭LoreWait races have stats?!
Im in it entirely for lore and appearances. Love Orsimer and Argonians both.
Praise Malacath and may the dread father take you0 -
red_emu✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭AppearanceBecause only one race is truly perfect inside and out.PC - EU:
Falathren Noctis - AD MagNecro
Falathren - AD StamSorc
Falathren Eryndaer - AD StamDen
Falathren Irimion - AD MagPlar
Talagan Falathren - AD StamDK
Falathren Infernis - AD MagDK
Your-Ex - AD MagBlade0 -
LadyNalcarya✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭StatsStats+appearance.
Would be really cool if I could have a character with bosmer or khajiit looks and altmer or breton passives, but unfortunately thats not possible.
Dro-m'Athra Destroyer | Divayth Fyr's Coadjutor | Voice of Reason
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Autumnhart✭✭✭✭OtherWhim
Racial passives matter, but not so much I'd only go Altmer.Shadow hide you.2 -
MLGProPlayer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Gameplay and appearance.
I need appropriate buffs for my role, but I also don't want to look hideous. When Dunmer was the best magicka DPS race, I still rolled an Altmer (second best) because I didn't want to look like a rat.4 -
MythicEmperor✭✭✭✭✭
✭OtherBeing of the Dunmeri master race, all options apply!With cold regards,
Mythic
Favorite Characters:Kilith Telvayn, Dunmer Telvanni Sorcerer (main)
Kilith, Dunmer Magblade (old main)
Vadusa Venim, Dunmer crafter (older main)
Hir Hlaalu, Dunmer Warden
Søren Icehelm, N'wah Warden
Fargoth of Morrowind, Bosmer commoner1 -
Rainraven✭✭✭✭✭StatsStats > lore > everything else
Most of my choices would have been different, if not for the racial passives and the magicka/stamina divide.2 -
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✭OtherMy very first character in early release was an appearance based choice (Wood elf w/burgundy hair). The rest had a little more thought put into them. How they end up looking still matters to me to some extent in the end, but, I'm not choosing the race based off of how they look.PC-NA - formerly, mommadani907Guild: Weeping Angels - Co-GMTwitter: @ Loralai_907 several Alt accounts....CP 1700+Active characters:Fauna Rosewood ( Bosmer Stam DK - Master Crafter/AD)///Loralai Darknova (Drunken Zombie Bosmer Stam Sorc - PvP/AD)Lilith Darknova ( Dunmer Mag DK - Master Crafter - PvP/AD)///and roughly 1billion alts3 -
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Tucker3711✭✭✭AppearanceI made mine after my self, and I look like a nord. (I don't drink like one though).
I geuss do like imperial stats though... @Tucker311- PC
Tucker3711
Nord Beth Rose (EP)
Imperial Freya Var (DC)
High Elf Hestia du foyer (AD)
Wood Elf Epona Caoin (AD)
Hotstuff Queen1 -
The_Smilemeister✭✭✭✭✭OtherKeiruNicrom wrote: »OpponentSmile66 wrote: »
That chart is informative yet annoying. Yall need the metric system
Metric hasn't been invented in Tamriel! Poor Bretons have been kept down by us bigger Imperials.
#Imperial...YouGetThePicture1 -
ArchMikem✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭AppearanceI guess Appearance would fall under "The one I like most".CP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
Quest Objective: OMG Go Talk To That Kitty!0 -
Minyassa✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭AppearanceUntil recently I thought I chose races based on a combination of looks and passives and alliance location. Then, the other day, I tried to make myself start a speed stamsorc. I failed. I just could not handle the orc appearance. I tried every slider combo I could think of to try to make a male orc face not have that freaky underbite goblin head and it just didn't matter, it's all variations on gourd-shaped. I suppose I could've made a female orc but I just wasn't feelin' it and by then I was pretty annoyed so I made a Khajiit instead. So I learned that appearance can be a dealbreaker when it comes to choosing race, and I guess that puts it at the #1 slot.Edited by Minyassa on August 19, 2017 11:32AM4 -
SASChris✭✭OtherFor myself i'd say it's a good mix between lore and appearance.
Passives are nice and all, but i've always viewed them to be more of a bonus more than anything else; thankfully they aren't at all necessary even if you wish to do endgame content, it's great that you can still be competive as a magicka dps nord, or an altmer who tanks with a stamina build. You won't be quite as good as those who enjoy to mix-max and all that, but as long as you have the gear, character and player skills, you can do any combination of race/role.0 -
The_Protagonist✭✭✭✭✭
✭StatsStats all the way, I have a couple of fluff characters, but to get any progress I need to concentrate on stats of the race I'm choosing.
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DeHei✭✭✭✭✭Statsyou forgot the point "optic/style" for your poll
DeHei - EP Magicka Templar AllrounderDe Hei(Youtube)0 -
Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Otherthe most important thing are to look at systematic discrimination and affirmative action of course0 -
svartorn✭✭✭✭✭
✭Appearance1) Appearance
2) Stats
I make my magicka classes Bretons and my stamina classes Imperials. I usually play human characters because I hate the appearance of elves and orcs and such. I want them to be pretty but I still want somewhat useful racials for the class I'm playing.1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭AppearanceI'm going to be looking at this character for 200+ hours, I'd better pick something I like. 1
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