Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

About Hunt. The hunt system as it is now leads to stress and toxicity between the players. Wouldnt it be better to make Hunts 8 man for A and Alliance size contend for S mobs. Where people try to spawn the monster with an item or throu other requirements? So everyone has a equal chance at getting rewards with the same effort?

Are there any plans to make Grade 6 crafter and gatherer materia easier to obtain?

Could we have the consolidated combo skills from PVP also get in PVE?

Other MMOs use a similar housing system. Yet they adjust Wards as needed. A new housing area is but a drop of water on a hot stone. Why are you so insistent on keeping housing artificially low even on servers with high population?

The desing team that made the changes to job actions in PVP Did a great job, i think some skills in PVP are better even in PVE, Like PVP Synastry from Astro or the PVP protect from WHM. Any chance we will see these PVP skills replace their PVE counterpart some day?

Would it be possible to pass along deeds to a house already bought? this is referring to people who had to change their accounts from PC to console and dont want to lose their homes

Allied seals

Its kinda difficult to amass the seals required for the mount movement speed increase. Is there a chance to increse the seal obtained by solo hunts or in general?

Will you add percentage values to attribute tooltips, so that we don't have to wait for extensive community testing to find out what stats to meld?

Can we get a roulette for the 24 person raids? I would think this would be easy to implement.

Question #1: Dragoon's Eyes of the Dragon.

Dragoon feels particularly punished with the mechanic of being able to lose eyes when BOTD is lost. This is especially felt with boss mechanics that require a great deal of downtime or interruptions where you cannot strike him. Is there any possibility to maintain your eye count even if you lose BOTD? Perhaps losing just 1 eye count instead of all the eyes you collected.

Question #2: Any chance of a Sohei monk looking gear for DRG from the higher levels of Omega raid?

Question #3: When will the Thavnairian Consulate be opened/available/relevant for quests or the story?

Can you share some details regarding general tank damage design? Specifically, at the high-end gameplay side of things
Were tanks designed to be able to hold enmity outside of tank stance while using their dps combos for the majority of the time?

Here's the context

Coming from 3.x, I know many tank players value their ability to do damage even when main-tanking. This was done usually with the Warrior using defiance and unchained to start the fight and with ninja's shadewalker skill.
This allowed the tanks to be able to hold enmity throughout the entire fight without going into their tank stance and using their enmity combo.

In 4.0, with the damage calculation changes, this is no longer possible with VIT accessories, as they provide no bonus to their damage. The only way for a tank to hold enmity in a VIT accessories was to be in tank stance and use their enmity combos, which, simply put, is not fun.

Many tanks at the high-end level I know claim that, "if [they] cannot use strength accessories come omega savage, tanking simply will not be fun and [they] will stop playing tanks".

I believe one solution to this would be to add STR to tank accessories

In a recent Kotaku article, they discussed an issue where two player purchased dozen of houses. Housing plot is such a limited resources that may people can't purchase because of supply not price. There has also been a black market that has come about for buying and reselling plots at 5 times the plot cost.

May question is when Shirogane is released can you also change the housing policy to basically read "An account can only purchase one personal plot and one Free Company plot per world?

There are a lot of text pop-ups I'd like to be able to turn off.

FATE JOINED/COMPLETE
QUEST JOINED/COMPLETE
Gathering spam
Retainer sales spam
Area names
Boss speech bubbles blocking my screen during fights

Could we get some configuration options that would allow us to turn these off, or allow us to resize and move them out of the center of our screen?

Can we please have an option to turn off battle music? I love the music of each zone but it's ruined when I get aggro by mistake (which i just run away from so there is really no reason for the loud panic music)

Why is it that still there are a great many items, which should be able to be stored are left to either take up countless amounts of retainer/inventory space, or to be discarded. Worse yet, many of the MogStation items, limited time items, and Giveaway items such as Maid/Butler outfits are permanently lost. There are no ways of storing them, Reclaiming them (except repurchasing those items, if you're lucky) and if the question is put forward to a GM we get "nothing we can do".

With new content, primals, raids and the amount of mats that are available, not to mention already having to somehow find space for the lvl 6 materia, having the space to be able to do anything is getting harder to do.

Is it so hard to make it so that lvl 1 (glamour) items are storable? Or even have an npc that changes eg. antiquated sets into a 1 slot item, like how we got them?

Thanks if there's an update.

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Why is Stormblood following the same method of content delivery as heavenward. The amount of end game content introduced with Stormblood compared to other MMOs is laughable. The Omega raid although well designed is still following the same formula of an instanced battle per boss with only 4 bosses with savage also just recycling the same bosses with more mechanics and higher numbers and i feel like when you talk about super savage its going to be the same raid recycled again with even more mechanics and higher numbers like being served a different dish with the same flavor, it might look new and tasty from the outside but when you start to eat it, it is still the exact same dish as before and people will get bored of it.

Hi! Question on retainers! When I send mine out, on Exploratory Missions, I am still only getting back lvl 50 items from them, nothing HW or SB related. Are my retainers being asinine? or has the system not yet switched over as was previously planned?

In patch 4.X, will flying become available in 2.0 areas?

Have you thought about adding furniture drops in dungeons? The expert dungeons have decorations in them that I would love to have as a housing item.

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Originally Posted by Komosis

In patch 4.X, will flying become available in 2.0 areas?

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tell me this is a joke post.

Yoshida has expressed multiple times that he fully expects players to not play FFXIV nonstop. To take breaks from the game and play something else from time to time. Yet the housing system basically nullifies this for anyone who owns a house. Don't log in every 45 days and say goodbye to months of house-plot hunting.

Will the housing shortage ever be adressed?

With the Hotfix introduced to Leveling Roulette, are there any plans to possibly make said reward more diverse? While the choice of a Tier VI DOW/DOM is nice, it may be an even better incentive if rather than a Cracked Cluster you created a new NPC that you could exchange a "Roulette Token" for items that have limited ways of acquiring such as Hides/Skins, aka Monster Drops in general, which could be a better incentive for those who would rather run a dungeon for 20 mins to get say 50 of X material, then spend an hr spamming X mob in hopes of getting enough of the materials they need.

The ability to swim under water makes it possible to discover the zones from another angle, as in the air it is easier to move than on land, but these places are like the skies:
They are beautiful but they are especially empty and far too calm, why such expanses remains without monsters or NPCs? Do you expect a day to remedy this ?

Are there plans to adjust Dragoon at 70? LOTD feels like it takes too long to activate and it is very easily and harshly punished by mechanics that make the boss jump, and on top of that it's reliant on jump abilities that have animation lock

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Originally Posted by EusisLandale

We can see that Job abilities can work on Role abilities, Scholar's Deployment Tactics on the now Role Eye for an Eye and Paladin's Intervention on the now Role Rampart for example, so would it be possible for Dark Arts to regain its evasion boost to Anticipation?

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Expanding on this question: Would it be possible to start seeing more unique Job skill/Role skill interactions to help keep things feeling unique? For example, a Ninja's Smoke Screen having its recast time lowered a bit whenever they use Diversion.

Glamour: Novelty Gear

Being a main healer, I have found that we are drowning in robes with only a few select options for coats, shirts, tunics, and novelty gear. While I understand that players with female characters look very cute in the robes, males do not always seem to luck out in that regard. I understand that glamouring other jobs' gear on my Healer is out of the question, so my question is...

Could we please have more (and dyeable) novelty gear to glamour with?

Enough is enough with the useless fish! Do you EVER have any plans on making each fish have an associated craft or use besides fine sand? And can you please add to the variety of fish fishing retainers can catch, they're so much worse than their counterparts! The final bracket in HW of fish literally had no use across the board. Not a single one. Put them in tanks, let us mount them, let us cook them, but stop with the pointless ones. Also, enough with the fine sand! I have stacks of hundreds and hundreds piling up. Is bone ash supposed to be a joke?

Can we get something like NPCs relationships? Kinda with points, maybe with personal quests. Would love also to chose a love interest from the NPCs or something like that.
Would help explore important NPCs story and characters as a whole with personal story quests.

Any chance to get Moogle Stations outfits (like the Scions' ones) dyable?

Mounts: Archon Throne

The Great Gubal Library had a fantastic, jazzy theme of which I found myself enjoying as I wandered through, reading the various books strewn about, which leads me to ask...

Would it be possible to get the Great Gubal Library theme added to the Archon Throne mount?

The reason why Samurai is so strong is said to be because they offer no raid utility.

Do you plan on making other jobs in other roles equally as strong if they offer no raid utility, such as White Mage and Warrior?

This being a premium cash mount, and you guys mentioned that it was in the works. I was just wondering what the status was on making Odin fly.

Thanks!

Do you not like SCH or SMN for whatever reason? Last expansion they seem to have gotten a lot of love. This expansion it seems like that love was ripped from them, T.T

I am in a rare situation that only the most committed of FFXIV subscribers are in.

I've maintained a subscription to FFXIV:ARR on a 180 day renewal. As a legacy player buying the game on PS3, the free time for returning + physical copies on other platforms + other free time that has been granted, my last renewal was on March 30th.

I got the free day associated with the NA data center move and participating in the Preferred Worlds campaign, my renewal date is now October 12th with a total of 87 days of paid subscription during the July 1st to September 30th qualification period for the Fly the Falcon campaign and there is no way through Mogstation to re-up my subscription early.

So my question for the live letter is this: Is there any plan to re-evaluate or extend the Fly the Falcon Campaign promotion so that players like myself that took advantage of the Preferred Worlds campaign but have a mis-timed automatic billing cycle can have a chance at participating?

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Originally Posted by Ruminator

Recently it was mentioned that the "ability to influence the party's damage" is a determining factor in a job's balance.

Has the development team ever visited the idea of focusing on this concept when designing a job, to create a play style that would be primarily supporting their party (for example, FFXI bard)? If so, are there any key points of that discussion that you'd be willing to share?

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i was thinking if this does happen maybe change bard to pure support like instead of healer dps and tank add another role called support jobs like bard fill and maybe add a alternate class to archer like ranger from FFXI where all the dps abilities go and just like how other jobs like arcanist has summoner and sch or other base jobs that have two upgrades maybe give archer both bard and ranger

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Originally Posted by Memoir

I recently had the displeasure of getting put into a random party of bots that hacked their way past the starting gate. Do you have any plans on stepping up how aggressive you are in detecting and dealing with said bots, they ruin our game play experience.

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thanks to the incredibly useful idea of being able to right click a name to report rmt its for the most part removed the previous annoying rmt spam but sadly some times they still do it and can take away for a dev to remove the account to stop the spam
any ideas on how to speed up the inspection like check the chat logs of that person after being reported like that so dev can decisively remove them

and as much as i agree with mem i wonder how would you get rid of bots? ive seen some that use normal looking names so how will you pick them appart from normal players so someone wont get wrongly accused?

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Could you elaborate on what will be happening with the Grand Companies, such as adding more ranks, more items to spend seals on, and more levels/uses for squadrons?

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i would like to elaborate on this by asking will we ever be able to use are squads for something useful such as maybe take them into dungeons with us after meeting certain requirements i think this could solve the que wait time problem if people just brought there squad with them

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Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry

Currently Astologian is an extremely strong job that, for some people, is starting to take the identity of the WHM and SCH. It can heal as much as WHM, and mitigate more than SCH, while offering extremely strong utility.
Are their any plans to try and reassure the identity of the two healers in this expansion?

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one thing im wondering since i prefer sch but it isn't that good in sb i heard mention earlier of possible hybrid classes maybe make sch a hybrid tank healer or healer support
or reassure the identity of sch by giving it the ability to remove debuffs that the other two normally cant since mitigating is a tricky thing im guessing thats why stone skin was removed so if sch cant be the healer mitigater then maybe it can be hybrid healer or healer with debuff mitigation instead of only dmg mitigation

When will Rogue become a starting Class?

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What will be done in the future to address the keybind/skill bloat that Stormblood did not alleviate?

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i would like to know what would you do besides just taking away other skills ? in sb all we saw is lots of abilities disappearing in particular the extra dot options sch&smn had will taking away abilities be the new way you alleviate keybind/skill bloat?