What is the most important thing for you when you are choosing race?

Djennku · October 2022

D) all of the above

Zyva · October 2022

aesthetics

Khajiit Master Race, every class, every character.

whitecrow · October 2022

aesthetics

It has to be something I want to look at all the time.

Bhaalthazar · October 2022

aesthetics

Of my 18 characters, I have only four races taken.

My main characters (1 of each class) are all Khajiits, because I like their aesthetics, but also their lore. Lucky me, they have passive that I love a lot: "Feline Ambush".

Then, for PvP, I created 1 character in the other 2 Alliances, 1 Orc and 1 Dunmer.
For the Orc, it’s the lore that won, but I don’t like its aesthetics very much. So, I hesitate to change its race or to remove the character.
The Dunmer imposed itself, the Nordiques being pretty ugly and I could not find my happiness when creating an Argonian.

Finally, all my mules are Imperial, for the passive "Diplomat", even if I have a doubt about their usefulness for writs. Nevertheless, I was able to find a nice aesthetic, so they are 10 clones.

BloodyStigmata · October 2022

something else

It depends.

For the most part, I create a character idea before I even decide to make the character. Those ideas build over time and then as new cosmetic items, classes and abilities are added to the game certain ideas become more or less viable. The ideas are then eventually dropped or used.

I've already long since created 1 main character for each of the 10 playable races, so it's not like I'm left wanting for once race or the other in terms of role-playing or gameplay.

As for the remaining 8 character slots, most went towards character ideas for races outside the bounds of the 10 playable ones--Dremora, Sea Elf, Golden Saint, Xivkyn, Goblin, etc. I used either a combination of certain playable races + cosmetics or just a full-on polymorph.

In the case of the polymorphs, I used whatever race I felt had the best passives for the build I wanted to run.

SPR_of_HA_community · October 2022

something else

How it looks like and passives.

Cazador · October 2022

aesthetics

Aesthetics followed by passives. I choose a race that is at least decent for a role but still one I want to play. As a result I have a lot of khajiit dps and imperial tanks.

Stncold · October 2022

lore

Lore and aesthetics are pretty equal to me but forced with a choice I'll pick lore. Which is why my NB is a redguard and I live in a state of constant suffering with the trash passives instead of just swapping to imperial or something.