Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV! (Item Team Lead Hayashi)

[ZhaneX]

The outfits that Tataru makes for Alphinaud and Y'shtola in the Heavensward Story are so lovely. Are there any plans to make similar outfits acquirable by players? Maybe a special shop selling "Tataru Custom" outfits?

[Raaz-cc]

Glamour-set-builder npc:

Could we please get an npc in-game that lets us make a virtual gear-set with every possible gear item in the game w/o us actually having to own the gear item itself? (It would work as the "try-out" option with preview, only it lets you choose items from the entire game and build a full set from scratch)

I think this can make older content be more attractive cause you can make a gear-set, note down the item names, and do the content needed to get them.

Today's "try-out" is only functional for one piece at a time and you have to own it/get it linked/find it on MB. With the limited amount of inventory space we have, a glamourset-build-npc would help immensely.

[Ardox]

Once one reach Ishgard there's no point in buying anything with tombstone of poetic in Mor Dhona (because merchants sell better items). That means there's less and less people interested in doing the level 50 raids and Dungeons since they gives no experience and the reward is naught.

Will the level 50 runs give any experience?

[Ardox]

Once one reach Ishgard there's no point in buying anything with tombstone of poetic in Mor Dhona (because merchants sell better items). That means there's less and less people interested in doing the level 50 raids and Dungeons since they gives no experience and the reward is naught.

Is there any plan to make tombstone of poetic interesting for character that are higher then level 50? (i.g.: make crafting material buyable in Idilshire, make use of them in weapon upgrading process)

[Kalsam]

Can we expect to see players with male characters having access to the same number of glamour options as those with female characters in the near future?

There have been discussions in the past on specific pieces of equipment being male or female only. One that comes strongly to mind that I hear we're going to be seeing a change on soon is the Bunny Ears from Gold Saucer, where a community rep said that there was plans to create more balance in the glamour system.

We've yet to see this balance.

There is also a variety of posts in the forums that tackle this in one way or another.
Thauvarian Dress on Male
Where people have even suggested things like merely removing the 'top' portion to make it an elongated loincloth for men. And other minor tweaks to other glamours to make them available to each gender with little work.

How the Veteran Rewards end up being designed from Male characters
Or even just on Gender Equality
Where people would be happy to see less of the Female/Unisex, instead of Female/Male or just Unisex come up with new glamours.

And those are just from General. I see many more looking in Items, Gold Saucer, and other forum locations.

Here is a semi-current breakdown of the glamours available specifically for glamour at this time.
(Credit to Terrini)
In this you see that there is 16 more choices for pieces than males.

And so I am here, asking the Item team if they have any further information on if we'll either see a removal of the 'female only' tag, or possibly more 'male only' options to balance out the glamours?

[razzgrizz3]

Why did you put "critical" secondary stat on whm esoteric gears?

[Ardox]

Actually, alchemist potions have somewhat very long cooldown compared to their duration (minutes against seconds), must be use at close range (for poison) and have mild effect. I don't know anybody that use poisons, and potions (heal potion, ether, etc.) are very seldomly used in dungeons or raids. They feel kind of useless.

Is there any plan to improve potions and poisons?

[Ardox]

Actually there's only cordial that restore GP and it is not craftable by alchemists. Is there any plan to add GP regenerating potion recipes (by replenishing or boosting GP regeneration)?

[Everlyrical]

Is there a lore reason behind the monochromatic gear scheme?

[jjcucumber]

Would you please consider combining glamour prisms? as it stands it is a nuisance to carry around 5 of each prism for each discipline. and since the mats are all the same for each lvl they could easily be combined and just used for any glamour in that discile of hand class. This seem to be a simple fix that would also cut down on item storage for each player.