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Originally Posted by Windermere

Will our path companions from 1.0 ever come back or are they gone forever?

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I 2nd this: Can I meet my path companion again? I really miss her so much!

Question: - Are we going to see in future Different Limit Break for EVERY JOB?

Most doesn't fit at all on the Limit Break now, Bard doesn't have a cure spell and we cure or raise? Summoners should do something related to their job, not from black mage, and monks or dragon using cloud sword doesn't fit at all.

In 1.0 crafters had a big impact in economy, we was abble to repair other players gear with a single click.

Also it was faster than changing to every craft job, by yourself and repair one by one the pieces, Dark Materia now it's useless and have stacks stored.

- Are you planing to add the feature to let other players to repair your gear again?

Is any work being done to help players with connections with large lag?

Playing from Australia, certain fights are very difficult to complete (eg Titan HM)

(My ping times to the servers are upto 300ms)

Thanks

• Are there any plans for more FREE THIS WEEKEND events for Inactive Accounts to welcome older/previous players back to FF:ARR's brand new content?

• Are you planning another Open Day for Free Play to general public (like the Open-BETAs), and if so, is there any chance for it to be planned with a special Seasonal Event (e.g. a Traveller's-Themed Grand Festival) to welcome them into the World and Lore, and for everyone to enjoy the festivities together?

Lately, many players are trying to just sneak in farm party to get a easy win, or just ninjalotting on greed party disrespecting all players that worked a lot to learn the mechanics, making it very hard to get a win, or just ending in disbanding.
In other games you get a icon showing if you like to kill other players to warn others.
Since I not want to discriminate new players, but I'm sure no one wants people that doesn't acept the rules, would like to ask this.

- Can you add a feature similar to vote kick, that puts a icon on the player for at least 12h, so other players are warned about non friendly player? Also this will help to erradicate this behavior fearing the consequences.

NECESSITY OF ALT CHARACTERS

-Will the "issue" with summoner and scholar stat allocation be repeated when the second jobs for the current (and future) classes are released?

-Should we start lvling another character if we want to be able to play all the jobs this game will offer properly?

• Are there any plans for alternative PVP modes for competitive content?
  Such as a Free-For-All PVP or a competitive Dungeon-like PVP Arenas including foes; i.e 'Party A' VS 'Party B' VS Monster Spawns?

• Is there any chance we can see a new type of side Story Quest-line which allows Party Member to participate? Meaning the cutscenes will include the usual Player, but along side Party Member B, C, and/or D, and the Players can take part in unique story instances and story progression together or Solo?

Are there plans to address Mog Extreme? The fight is unnecessarily long and there are rarely enough people that wants to do it.

i wonder will u ever bring dancer to this game and if so what will it be classified as a tank, a support ,a healer, or a dps? When you implement new jobs can you please please please implement new classes to cause people like my rl husband already have all 8 classes to 50 and i'm afraid if you don't people like him will get bored and want to quit this game. Will there ever be light and dark elementals crystals shards or what not like there was in ffxi?

I would like to see the return of the Fire Dance! Is it possible to bring it back? :o

For the additional Free Company Housing Wards that will be added in a future patch, will the prices of these housing plots be reset to their initial value or will they cost the same price as the existing housing wards?

Is it possible to increase the zoom out for roegs? When I play as my fem roeg, I find that I can't zoom out very far at all. In certain fights, it would be really helpful if I could.

Do you feel like there's too many DPS roles, and what jobs would you say are best to counter that?

Will we see the Itinerant Moogle again and the earrings he sold? Cactuar Earring and Bomb Earring.
Or perhaps a different npc that will sell them?

Can you make it so that female roegadyn ride side saddle?

Better yet... can you make it so that anyone who wears a robe, rides side saddle? males and females- since if you were wearing a long dress/robe you would probably be riding side saddle anyway.... or have it hiked up around your waist.

Will there ever be a way to strengthen our characters through more than just armor and weapons? like achievments? or something else?

Example: Get so many points from achievements (0 / 100) and get an attribute point or something along those lines, maybe set up a skill tree for them?

With the Seventh Umbral Era scenario at a close after the events of 1.0, will there be any way for lore junkies, such as myself, to experience the entire scenario of 1.0? It would shed light for those new to XIV, since a vast majority came in during A Realm Reborn.

Hello from Sweden!

Will it ever be possible to get access to dungeons without having to form a party? Like a normal area, with normal mobs, farming spots etc? I love exploring but there are never enough time to enjoy the areas when doing dungeon runs.

EDIT - this is how I imagine it;
Say you beat Sastasha, logically the pirates there are now all dead. Now I want to see how that cave opening at the end looks like, and maybe do some ocean fishing there. I go back to the entrance and now there's a blue dotted line I can cross to enter the area, now with normal mobs instead of the "dungeon mobs". As I explore it I find there are now friendly NPCs there that's taking back the stuff that the pirates stole, giving new quests. Maybe a FATE pops up with some pirates that tries to take the place back.

Please take away the nerfs make the dungeons hard again. Please change the Atma situation farming low level fates is so boring that many ppl including myself refuse to do it because it makes us not enjoy the game. Gear should be hard and take time but it should also be enjoyable and NO ONE has said that farming for Atma is fun, in fact more have talked about how it has been more irritating then anything else and unfair. Please balance out weapons and equipment and make other weapons such as ex primal weapons upgradable. Please remove the vote Kick system. Thank you.

Looking to the future, will armor in Final Fantasy XIV feature capes or cloaks? This is a feature that is greatly desired by the game's community.



(Please! Upvote this so it gets asked)

March 21 2014 you announced add-on support was coming. The only add-on I wish I had is a dps meter. Is this coming to the game? Can this particular add-on be made so it ONLY tells a player their own dps?

I only want to be able to improve myself not compete with or be able to brag to party. I certainly don't want to see other players being harassed for their poor performance; allow a dps meter to let them know their damage is low.

This feature should be in the game by default in my opinion, not even an add-on.

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Originally Posted by Velo_Vandore

I've found most groups in the duty finder prefer to skip cutscenes and also optional area's / trash mobs / chests. I understand that they are interested in progressing quickly but I don't enjoy playing that way and have found it very difficult to get a group together for a relaxed run some days, even with my free company and a linkshell dedicated to relaxed runs.

I have tried the party finder which I feel is a great tool, but it seems unfortunately casual players are not generally making use of it so any "slow and easy", "story focused", "newcomers welcome" party I try to organize gets little to no attention. Will we see any of these playstyle preferences appear on the duty finder? Particularly, I would love to see an option on the duty finder to specify whether I will want to watch cutscenes, as I often reach new content by the time it's being farmed heavily already.

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Related to my question above - Do you have any plans / idea's to encourage all players (not just high level, serious groups and top tier content learning groups) to use the party finder more effectively? Particularly for causal runs in early endgame content or lower as described above. My suggestions would be:

1. In the duty finder menu, an icon with a number inside could indicate how many party finder groups are currently recruiting for each duty.
2. Allow me to recieve notifications when party finder groups are available matching my specific preferences. i.e I could register to be notified for any slow and easy run in Praetorium, Wanderer's Palace and Haukke HM.

I think if all types of players were encouraged to make better use of the party finder, we might see less problems resulting from conflicting interests in the duty finder.

I would like to ask if there will be a improvement for Focus Target? For example as a healer i would like to see stack/buff from the boss. Instead all i see is dots/debuff from my DD's(which is useless to me). It will great improve my play style as a healer, especially on end game content like First Coil Turn1 Cacadeus' Stacks and buff. Also on Second Coil Turn1 (T6), I would like too keep track the stack from Rafflesia.

Players now have to do 3718 wins on PVP to make rank lvl 40 so its a horrible high value of matches what we need to do. Many players now use bots and 4vs4 match farming and now are born my questions:

Have you plan resolve problem with too expensive grind in pvp before Front Line will come to life? Like increase pvp experience, skills for all on lvl 1 or others changes mechanic to increase popularity of pvp - like giving for wining tomestones, gil, materials for crafting - simply just add npc who will trade wolf mark for this goods and then pvprank are higher than better good we can buy.

After patch 2.2 gear ilvl 70 can be framed form dungeons like braflox where people farm mythology anyway, so they use GC delivery to trade those items for GC seals, but finding this items in that list are just annoying. Can we have change that mechanic and simple "sell" items to that NPC?

I feel like this is old content, so these Fates should be accessible, by Dropping more and be viewed normally on the map instead of guessing. Or can the items be obtained by different means. I personally have only seen Both Fates once since I started playing last Oct. and love all the Items.

On another note two new ones would be cool as well to keep things fresh. Maybe a Gilgamesh and/or Yojimbo Fate. The same concept of special currency to get special stuff of course.
Genji and Onion Armors would be badass.

1) Will myth drop rates be changed to be equal to what Philosophy rates were before they were taken out? i.e 10 myth for castrum and preatorium, with an added 200 myth (so 300 total) from main scenario roulette) and w00 myth from high level and low level roulettes?

2) will Atma drop rates be mad higher? Or at least increasing for ppl who already have one atma but wanna get multiple atma weapons. For example changing it so that having atma weapon increased will drop atmas in fate but at an increasing chance higher than doing it with Zenith?

3) Will we EVER see armor and weapons that do more than just increase stats? things like double attack rate, shield block rate, having additional effects like poison, hp drain, defense down etc etc?

Will players who started in 2.0 ever get an opportunity to fight Nael van Darnus? Perhaps in the same way Ultima Weapon was challenged again?

I agree, acquiring Atmas needs a major fix. Its based off of luck RNG which the majority hates. I loved the process to getting the relic, and then to zenith. PLEASE bring back the joy of leveling up Relics.

1. Will player housing be in new areas, or will there be new areas for FC housing to move FC's too while layers buy out the older lots as the FCs vacate the old ones?
2. Will there be new swimwear made available for Moonfire summer event?
3. Are there plans for new tnk and hlr classes in upcoming updates?
4. If Blue Mages can learn boss abilities: how much unintentional trolling can we expect to see? Especially, for ultima.
5. Are Blue Mages "S" or "M" types?
6. If the Dancer is introduced: can we expect the male dancers to have very sexualized designs as well?
7. Does my last question belong in the "Lead Designer Takeo Suzuki" thread?

Dragoons are jumping type, maybe give them some highter basic jump(which on "space" button)?

Maybe some open world areas with open PvP, or dungeons with team PvP at certain points?!?!

I would like it so much!!!

Can you simply transplant Ballista into FFXIV?
It's a lot more fun than 'traditional' PvP.
I really enjoyed the random teams that came from sign ups as well as the fact that certain zones were utilized.
It was nice to be able to see the matches when going through said zones.

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Originally Posted by Buchan88

NO ONE has said that farming for Atma is fun

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Farming for Atma is fun and a very smart implementation to accompany a larger variety of ways to earn high-end gear. Please continue to give us more challenges and more options that challenge not only our skill, but our diligence, our perseverance.

I've heard rumors of minigames and possible flight mounts, I was wondering if flight was considered would that give the chance that our ahriman will rise to new heights? And with possible minigames will there be any non combat such as gambling which could reward players with rare vanity items coming from previous versions of final fantasy or even previous minigames such as blitz ball or chocobo racing?

May we have access to the full female version of Leviathan's theme that was played during an event?

I liked it (:

Can you please make the Ahriman mount's legs shorter or scrunch up when he flies?
Currently, it's legs look as if they are dragging on the ground when in motion.

On that note, can you make the Bomb Palanquin mount set a little higher in the air?
Currently, it looks as if my fem roeg will start scraping the ground with her foot when the palanquin is in motion.

Do you plan on returning some previous FF features for Classes/Jobs equipment combinations and Skills?
E.G;

• Archers/Bards (Bow Users) able to choose a type of ARROW (ammunition) with their OFF HAND?

• Pugilists/Monks able to choose different LEFT HAND and RIGHT HAND combinations to maximize elemental/status effects.

• Return of tactical Spells such as REFLECT (Magic Repellent), LIBRA (Foe Analyser) or BUBBLE (as a Max Health Increaser), etc.

Is there any chance we will get new Ranks in the Grand Company's?