This race sounds promisingFollow

I was thinking of going for dragoon with samurai as a subclass as an elvaan. Would this be any good? Is there a better subclass for dragoon?

Im kind of glad this elven like race is different in that they are taller, and stronger than the elves we all know of.

This is particularly awesome because, I think an Elvaan Samurai would be the shizzle. So in about two weeks, see you on Fairy with my Elvaan Warrior, Kengo ;)

And the Galka are meatshields lol. :D

~Kengo

The only caster class that Elvaan are good as is the RDM.

You have to comapre the racial advantages this class has and its disadvantages with the RDM's. The RDM has access to decent armour and weapons which allows you to melee during fights, the elvaan are known for hitting hard so as a RDM you can actually melee, the RDM also gets a hp to mp ability which should work well with their high racial HP.

Overall, the only caster the elvaan are good as is a RDM, apart from that, they suck as WHM or BLM because those jobs cannot melee and elvaan will not have enough MP to do sufficient casting.

You should go dk/thief because thief gives extra dex and the dk has very low def but has high atc.warrior is pretty good but i recommend dk/theif.

Few things... First off Elvvans are indeed stroger than Gilkas. They are equal to start and get stronger. Secondly,

"Elvaan shouldn't have as much str, but more agil and dex."

This is incorrect. To take the warrior job as an example, Elvvans start with9 str, 7 dex, and 6 agi. Gilkas Start with9 str, 7 dex, and 7 agi.
At level 70 Elvvans have 74 str, 54 Dex and 50 agi. Gilkas have 70 str, 58 dex, and 54 agi.

The real difference is in vit and HP, at level 70 Elvanns have 1268 hp and 58 vit where Gilkas have 1409 hp and 66 vit. However, if you want to tank in higher levels as an Elvvan (or any race) you will probably be a paly and, without going over all the stats again for a pal/war (they work out to be similar ratios) the equalizer for Elvvans is MP. Elvans have nearly twice as much MP (221 vs 113). This is actually an advantage. Not necessarily to make up for the total HP, but rather, to hold aggro. As you know cureative spells pretty much draw the most aggro of any type of spell comporable for the level. The ability for Elvvan palys to cast twice as many curative spells means that they are much more effective at keeping aggro and, without the ability to stack taunts like you can in other MMO's, this is quite important to a tank. The additon of having the highest Mind (effectiveness of each heal cast) or any race makes Elvvan Pal/wars the ideal tank in FFXI.

"Im kind of glad this elven like race is different in that they are taller, and stronger than the elves we all know of. "

Actually, this game finally got it right =). Most MMOs borrow alot of the race mythology from Tolkien-esque writings (yess I know alot of his mythos was constructed on Norose folk lore but I'm not going there now =). In Tolkien's work the Elves were, infact, much sturdier and more phisically imposing creatures than any other race. In the Silmarillion (where I was a King of Elves ;) the toughest of Elves were able to kill lesser gods that had gone bad (Balrogs) single handedly. So, Square really relied on the "traditional" ideal of an elf in creating the Elvvan race, rather than that travisty, pip-squeek, High elf of EQ and the the elf of EQOA. GJ Square :D

Thingol

This document seems to be the best place to figure out what Main jobs go with best with certain Sub jobs .... your race will also make the difference depending on what style you are looking for ..... hope this helps

http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/final_fantasy_xi_job.txt

Well elvaan may be one of the most useless races in the game. Because of galkas 200 more hp for a small lose of 2-3 str. im sorry but the implentation of race that is simplely for looks is compeletly useless. Tarutaru have magic, Galka have melee, mitra are just as useless, and humes are for people who do not know what job to be.

The definition of useless is different for different types of players. To roleplayers or casual gamers, identifying with their character is the main thing. For a power gamer, the character could look like a tree stump as long as the stats are top notch.

This argument is endless and comes up with every RPG. I can't really say it's gotten boring b/c it was never interesting to begin with.

ud think elves wud be gd archers with all the mystical stories and even the big elven archer at the top of the page but i would recommend to go into warrior with an elf then advanced job have dark knight because the magic will boost the MP

Well thats what id do neways! and dont go straight into ranger because wen ur low lvl ranger ur acc is very low and then quite frankly ur stuffed so be a ranger after building up a melee job


What the hell did he just say...ud, wud, gd, neways, wen, ur. THESE ARE NOT WORDS! JESUS CHRIST GO BACK TO SCHOOL.

But he's not typing it for himself, now is he? If he was, he shouldn't be posting it for others to read. Maybe it's just me being Dutch, but I never learned how to decode garbles like that. Guess the English taught in foreign countries differs from the kind I learned.

Sarcasm aside, imagine how bad it'd be for people who don't know English as well as I do to see stuff like that.

Oh one more thing please don't take what i said about u being Dutch as an insult...i did not mean for it to be so.