Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX! (FFXIV: ARR)

Water content?

During one of the Heavensward presentations a black chocobo was seen gliding right over the water.

Besides "Sky" content, will we finally be able to swim and also get some seascape content?


(as a sidenote, it would be amazing if characters could swim at the beach in the mist :3)

Housing

Given the fact that Free Companies will need a workshop in their houses in order to build an airship, and considering the limited availability and prohibitive pricing for plots on some servers, how will the housing problem be sorted out?
And will the housing system be getting extra features? (ex: rooms for private houses like FC houses, guestlist\permission management, kick\ban someone from your house, eternal-bond features)

Playable Instruments?

Will we ever have playable instruments like other MMOs do?
Remember Tifa's piano back in Final Fantasy VII?

As it is right now, on the "Party List" part of the HUD we can see the party members, their HP, their MP and buffs. However we cannot see their TP. This is not a question, this is a demand for you to implement this feature.
Right now we have 6 classes/jobs that mainly use TP as their source of enmity generation, skills etc. Why cant the bard, the ninja for example see the party members' tp?

My second question is: will you add a /bellyrub emote? :confused:

More facial hair options please!

I want Ramuh style beards available. While we are at it, a breaded beard would also be really cool

Benchmark

Will the 3.0 benchmark come out on mac also or is it just a pc release?

Can you give some sort of bonus to those who went through the eternal bonding something like the veteran rewards?

By any chance can you add some special techniques for the married couples? Something that would force you to wear the ring and be worthwhile like the ring could allow the couple to cast magic farther or target them when it normally wouldn't be able to so it's like an amp? Imagine the tank is dying and the healer send the heal through the ring and maybe it can AOE?

Will it be possible to make all primals gain a new difficulty so the ones from ARR aren't just forgotten? Call it Savage or Extreme Extra E)(X?

Can we have some activities you can only do as a couple? Some combat some non combat?

Can you make some abilities useable while mounted? Sometimes I see adventures and I wanna help but from my mount. I'm thinking a few abilities that are instant, healing, and rezing.

Will there be any currently existing gear added to the list of what we could dye? I would love to be able to dye the gear obtained from The Binding Coil of Bahamut turns 1-13. It could give glamour incentives to continue running those raids when the new ones are introduced.

SUBJECT: Marketboard in Mor Dhona (!!!)

Please add a Market Board in Mor Dhona. Maybe even more than one. Mor Dhona is pretty much the end-game hub town and I'm sure the huge crowds of people there would love to do all of their business there.

SUBJECT: Screenshots as Paintings!

Many players enjoy taking screenshots of their adventures, weddings, etc. in Eorzea. Is it technically possible to implement a system in which players can frame their screenshots and turn them into paintings which can then be mounted on the wall in your room or house? It'd be the very best way to make a player's experience even more personal.

Now that all job roles will receive a new job, are you still considering making a hybrid class role for e.g. Red Mage in the future?

In Heavensward will all new classes be base less ? an im planning on getting a new pc soon will this have any effect on current game meaning will i have to register my new pc in order for the game to work an aslo can we please have the option to report gil sellers my black lists is full

Are we ever gonna get a sword-wielding DPS Job? To illustrate, the DPS Icon is a sword, but there's no sword-wielding DPS Job, contrary to 2/3 (!!) of the Tanks. Ironically there are more DPS classes that can use a Shield than Tanks too.

Can you guys make Samurai or any other swordsman a DPS Class?

Question regarding housing, can you please increase the number of items we can have both inside and outside our houses? It sucks having to remove items to place the new items, which makes my house feel very empty! I know a lot of people who feel the same way about the item limit being so restricting!

Question regarding retainer ventures, can you please make a "dye only" retainer venture (example: spend 5-10 ventures but have a guaranteed random retainer dye). The quick ventures way does not let people get the dyes easily enough, I have NEVER seen a pastel pink dye despite doing 500+ quick ventures.

Can the female battle stance (not including pose) be changed to a more appropriate feminine Stance?

Can you give us an update on what's being done with the Duty Finder and Companion Chocobo being out? Right now I'm not even able to use my Companion Chocobo since I'm mostly waiting for Duties to show up and this hasn't been discussed for a very long time.

Is there anyway to increase amounts on gil, increase the amounts on alexandrite/lights, make drop rates better, shorter animus books, increase and uncap poetics, make npc's selling material?

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Originally Posted by DeviFoxx

I have duplicates of Rare Cards from playing so much Triple Triad. It's a shame to either toss them or sell them to the card trader at the Gold Saucer. At some point in the future, will cards be finally Tradeable or Sellable? It would be nice to give the cards as gifts or rewards to friends.

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I have a suggestion for this. make an NPC in the Gold Saucer that lets us pick a player who does not have the card from our friends list or FC list and the NPC will then hold the card for that player. not much more inconvenient than what we have now but lets us give our extra cards to players who dont have them.

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

Another question, sorry if this has been asked already:

in Final Fantasy 11, 1st expansion (Rise of the Zilart) requires player to finish main story of original FF11. Why following same formula with Heavensward?

And for future expansion (if there's any), would it also requires completion of Heavensward main story, or would it be separate story like XI's 2nd expansion and so on?

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clearly you didn't play XI long enough to realize you only have to defeat the Shadow Lord(Rank 5-2 in one of the main cities) to access the Zilart story and Dynamis(lvl 65+ access) that is nowhere near finishing the main story at all.

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Originally Posted by papichulo123

Can we block irl guys from making female characters???

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how about we don't make suggestions that will lower the population of the game. a lot of players would outright leave if SE made it so that males cant play female characters or females can't play male characters. this game is not designed as a pickup for real life and making it that way for yourself is dangerous. there is also the fact that if they did this it would expost females and put them in a very dangerous spot with some males. not a good idea.

my question. not sure if it goes here or the heavensward thread but here goes
are the Au Ra being given to us as part of Heavenward or are they being released to everyone when the expansion is released? and if so how will use of them be handled. someone made the suggestion that if you changed to an Au Ra then tried to use that character on a platform you didnt buy heavensward on you would be locked out from using that character on that platform.
I would like to think their implimentation would be smarter than that. you can make them on the platform that has Heavensward and use them on any platform heavenward or not.
can you please give us some information in regards to this?

Environmental hazards:
Will we ever see quicksand, lava, ice or other dangerous terrains? These mechanics are in battles ... why can't they be open world dangers?

Light Steel and Taffeta Upgrades! Can we get some other versions of the coliseum gear? something with an allagan flair or maybe an Ironworks galerus/subligar set?

Can we get a Morbol/Stroper Mount that does a Fragrant Breath action?

will relics be continued on from their zeta state, or will they become totally obsolete in heavensward and onward?

I'm a healer that likes to DPS, and as a healer that loves DPS... How will be the Astrologian in DPS? (We already know how they'll be healing, a wanna-be sch in one phase, and wanna-be WHM in the another one.... But how will their DPS patron be? SCH is very good against one target and decent AoE up to 4 enemies at the time. WHM is brutal AoE burst... Will Astrologian be brutal single target burst? Or have similar attacks to SCH in that stance and to WHM in the another?)

I'm a healer that likes to DPS, and I can't really love any healing class if I can't use my remaining time to help the party attacking....

Will be have more accuracy in the future? Perhaps Cleric Stance buffing it for us?

Accuracy is currently very troublesome.

I'm a healer that loves to DPS, and that was very rare in PvP... Because nobody in the party liked to die if their healer tried to perform cleric stance after all.... But now, nobody wants to DPS with a healer in PvP, rather, Nobody wants to heal in PvP

Will cleric stance come back? (You know the imbalance in PVP with premade healer parties was the fact of being able to stack Regen and Medica II... The use of cleric stance requires a lot of skill, even more in PvP where you can't just foresee, as in PVP, the enemy attacks and how much they'll do. Going cleric stance is a risk that requires all your attention and a lot of practice and reflex to use in PVP... Now, healers feel just... Plain and boring there.

Have there been any advancements on the release of Final Fantasy X|V for the Xbox One and if so, may we have any hint(s) on the status?

When, precisely, is the new Benchmark being released?

Would you consider adding special consideration for the level of a character's weapon to the gear requirements to enter an instance? It is not uncommon to see inexperienced players in i70 or i90 content with weapons as low as level 40-something; this can hurt the party badly, especially for a tank or healer. It's also not very clear without reading a guide where to obtain level 50 weapons (though this may change when leveling gear is added for Heavensward); having at least an i55 weapon is useful until a player earns their Relic.

I think we heard that there would be no "FanFest" in 2015. I recognize that this takes a lot of executive time as well as staff coordination to accomplish, but are there plans to have some sort of event where adventurers can come together for a 2-3 day period and enjoy the camaraderie we've developed during the past 2 years?

Please take Sword Oath and Shield Oath off of the Global Cooldown and remove the MP requirement.

Warriors can switch their stances without interrupting their combos, why can't Paladins?

Are there plans to introduce (lots) more housing items with the expansion?

is there a date when we will see Fcob in Duty finder and will see Echo ?

It takes a fair amount of time and effort to complete the dungeons and obtain the items necessary to turn your relic weapon into a Zodiac Weapon. However, too often it takes several runs, sometimes 10 or more, to obtain a single item. Is there a chance that the drop rate for the dungeon related items will be increased before the expansion?