


Classes are easily changed after you gain a few levels on your starting class. Note that the blue coloring of the icons corresponds to tank classes, green to healer classes, and red to damage dealing classes. Selecting a starting class will in turn be a selection of your starting city. Select a class (and thus your starting city-state) See The Twelve for more information about the Guardians. See Time for more details about the Eorzean calendar.Īssociating yourself with a particular guardian has no known effect on game play. See also: Hyur/Appearance Elezen/Appearance Hyur/Appearance Lalafell/Appearance Miqo'te/Appearance Roegadyn/Appearance Au Ra/Appearance Viera/Appearance Hrothgar/AppearanceĪ Nameday is your birthday in Eorzea. Some purely cosmetic choices can later be changed via the Aesthetician for a fee in gil, while a full re-roll of your character requires using a bottle of Fantasia. Sliders and radial choices are given for the following characteristics. These small stat differences do not make a material difference in game play however. Your beginning stats will vary slightly depending on the race and clan (but not gender) you select. So while we wait for the game to enter phase 4 of the beta let's go play around with the character creation.Download the Character Creation Benchmark Select a race, gender and clan It's a pretty unique system and I have yet to see another company use it for their games.

The default character shown during the Benchmark cutscene is a Mi'Qote male Paladin you can set the Benchmark to use one of your created characters that you have saved instead. The Benchmark also allows you to create and save character data for use during beta phase 4 and the official release version of Final Fantasy XIV.

