Letter from the Producer LIVE 53: Ask Your Shadowbringers Questions!

Question: Do you think we could ever get a Z-axis for housing. So we can have more freedom in how we design and create our houses. Currently there is a way to glitch things into the air. But I think just adding another option that moves things on a z-axis would be fine.

I collected all the legendary 5-star Triple Triad cards of the Final Fantasy protagonists from 1 through 15. The only one missing between Lightning and Noctis is Y'shtola. When will you add a legendary 5-star Triple Triad card of Y'shtola Rhul to complete the collection of Final Fantasy protagonists?
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Is there any plans to put in the Mog Station the Tenzen Armor?

You created a wonderful new world in the First. Would it eventually be possible for those who wish to tell the stories of normal people be able to travel between the Source and the First in the future? So we can take our favorite new NPCs onto future expansions?

I love the architecture of the final zone. Will we be able to replicate that aesthetic in our housing in the future - i.e. can we have housing modeled after the final zone of the final zone?

The way we have now, we need to have all the dyes at hand to try and match in the dresser and save the plate.
So, it's a bit inconvenient when you make a plate but forgot the dye in the retainer. It could be possible if we could deposit dyes in the dresser? It could show how many of that dye whe have remaining, and we could use directly from it.
It would also save inventory space.

Can we please get Dancer gear divorced from bard/mch, looking at it makes my eyes bleed and 99% of it does not fit Dancer aesthetically. Also what happened to Haste and Drain Samba?

I quite like the Shared FATE idea and was wondering if it was possible to have some changes, even if very small, to an area based on your rank? When you rank up your shared fate it tells you that you've made the area safer, so I wondered if the zone might look a bit safer then? (A bit like how beastmen tribes work) :)

I love being able to watch zones change, Doma Reconstruction, beast tribes, player hubs, etc.

Will we see level 80 crafter quests from npcs on the source? If so, will it be simple like the job quests or something akin to deliveries like Kurenai and M'naago

When doing roleplay scenarios (like during Thancred fight in Shadowbringers) or when using certain mounts with mount actions (like during Praetorium dungeon) or when interacting with picking up/dropping items (like a boss mechanic in some Heavensward dungeon, I want to say Sohm Al, but I'm not certain), the provided crosshotbar layout is static and the buttons are on the right side.

Would it be possible to have the option to flip the buttons to the left side if it's not allowed to individually move them? I am more comfortable with my left hand and would prefer the actions on the left side of the crosshotbar.

With the current design of the SCH fairies, will we able to obtain/summon new fairies (example:Titania, Feo Ul, Anima etc) as SCH fairies glamour. I would prefer in a form of a skill instead of a command.

With the new added races, will we see any minor races added to be playable if armor not being viewed was not needed.
I want to be a Morq/Kobald because, BIG JUICY WORMS, especially the white ones are yummy in metal pots.

The final zone is absolutely amazing, thank you! And. . while extreme to ask. . . do you think it's possible that we could be able to utilize a bit of our own creation magic in the future? Allow us to create our own space? I'd really love to see FFXIV have a create your own zone sort of housing experience~!

##Perhaps note to Yoshida about Wild Star housing, if he's wanting an example of what I mean. Instanced housing/creative zone per player (or account) with high zone control, like a pocket of your own aether-space that you can upgrade over time (of course friends could visit, based on permissions of the aether-space). Some other MMOs besides Wild Star have done this, like Rift. Rift has found some ways to monetize it too, although I'd ask/hope any monetization allows players to buy extra aether-spaces and not unique/exclusive features, much like retainers (everyone gets retainers, but you can buy "more" retainers).

##Could probably add a lot to why/thoughts.. but I imagine that's not very helpful for a question (that's unlikely to be asked and very difficult/costly feature to add XD). Besides someone said I should make a big post on it and I haven't done that yet, so... not here! lol <3

Compared to other expansions, NIN feel a lot weaker even with his Trick Attack. Is there a reason for this? Can the ninja get a little love and raise his personal DPS? if not, can we get some new utility skills that compensate the lack of dps? Even if we are not kicked from parties like other classes, it doesnt feel fair that our dps went down that drastically while other got more buffed just because of the same utility we've always had.

Hi YoshiP, does the team have any plans of implementing a way to test out combat voices in the character creation screen? Like what Monster Hunter did when selecting voices, you can test out the combat voices with preview voice. It's the one thing that I always look when selecting voices, if the combat voice is cool or sounds right. Thanks!

Are there any plans to implement Directx 12 in the future?

The NA servers have seen a lot of changes in terms of population. There are no longer any servers listed as "new" or "preferred" on any NA data center. Are there plans to introduce any new NA servers?

Can we get Rival Wings to be apart of a pvp roulette? Frontlines is boring and dull, no one notices Rival Wings when its so much more fun because there isn't a roulette for it.

Will you add the cutscenes for unlocking Clan Nutsy Hunts to The Unending Journey?

I think that we need a greater variety of dyes in this game. There are some of my favorite colors that I can't use to color my character's outfits, which really frustrates me not having the right shade of the colors that I want.

Dyes that we really need (metallic versions of the current rare dyes):

Metallic Pastel Pink Dye
Metallic Pure White Dye
Metallic Jet Black Dye
Metallic Dark Brown Dye

Other metallic pastels colors would be nice too, though these are probably some of the most popular ones, not to mention, my personal favorites.

Other ideas I would like to see in game:

Glamour dresser that I can put in my house to use.

Glowing Dancer and Gunbreaker weapons, specifically the Moggle ones.

Thank you for considering my ideas.

Could we please one day have a tambourine glamour for DNC weapons? Maybe from the Gold Saucer?

Housing Item

Can we get the Elemental Wall Poster from the Bookman's Shelves added as a furnishing item?

Can we get a Company Chest (maybe access via Fao Ul) in the Crystarium please?

As someone that crafts a lot I was not happy that the amount of crystals needed for even the basics items was increased again. Gathering the materials for the item itself already takes the time but with the amount of crystals needed just to do each recipe once you will need even more time just to gather those. (And gives bots a huge market to make Gil)

Question: Are there any plans to buy crystals direcltly from NPCs, or maybe grow them in the garden like you did with shards?

When I use Jandelaine on my Viera or sometimes when I switch gearsets, her head disappears! Will this be fixed soon? (Sorry to trouble you)

My questions are mainly regarding the 5.0 DRK and changes to it. I apologize if these questions have been asked earlier in the threat, and they probably have, but better to ask than not.
1. What was the general idea for the DRK revamp. In the two previous expansions it felt like a very high APM class, that had a higher skill ceiling than most tanks with fast resource management. In SB it's aoe game-play fed resource gauges into each other which further pushed the resource management game play. Current DRK has no worthwhile interaction between it's two gauge, and feels to me like a straight downgrade in aoe situation game-play. Not remarking in terms of power, but in terms of their identity and how interesting they are to play.
2. What is the point of the changed Darkside mechanic? Functionally it's something that can be ignored, there's virtually no way to drop it without basic mana management, to the point it doesn't affect decision making in any way. Why not just remove it if it's something that has no effect on game-play/decision making. It's not as if the older darksides were much different, but at least one of them could be turned off at the right times to regenerate mp.

In all previous relic weapon questlines, you could just go back to them and do them on your own, undersized as well, but nobody's doing eureka anymore due to it being outdated content now. my question is, how are you going to work around this for people who want to go back and make Stormblood relics? because right now its very impossible unless you there are groups playing.

Thancred, the Rouge, uses his Baselard, paired up with a washed up High Allagan Cleaver as his choice of weapons. It looks really really cool. It would look even better on me. A Ninja. So could you add in a plethora of mismatching ROG/NIN weapons to the game please? (like, say, a wakizashi/tanto/kunai paired with... a Dagger of the Heavens) That'd be really, really great.

Concerning the Ascians and Amaurot - will we get more backstory to Emet-Selch, Elidibus, and Lahabrea? It would be neat to see cutscenes of their past, like a vision through the echo if we ever encounter Elidibus. I think many would agree that the city was so well done, and the story is amazing (though I wished Emet-Selch could have stuck around providing his unique insight on different topics to better the world, perhaps we won't have to kill Elidibus and he could cooperate, but I digress). If we could have more fleshing out of the original world, it would be wonderful to see what it was like and how people lived, and what every day life was like for them!!

Title says it, i miss playing alongside the Exarch and Lyna and so i know many people do. Can they be added to the trust system so that we can also play with them?

I even miss them so much that i have a second character up to that one dungeon i can play with them as long as i did not finish the shadowbringers story.

Also, this is likely asked before but the search function kept letting me down...

Hello!
Thank you so much for giving us so much wonderful content so far!

Has anyone considered adding a feature that could be interesting when two players are married, they can play a main scenario quest together and it would be a unique version for married players, like a co-op version of the story? Thank you!

Samurai LV80 skill Shoha is a very disliked ability through out the samurai community and wish for it to be used in a different way other than meditate.

As it currently is, we can only use it once or twice at full power; The skill is not very powerful if not used at 5 stacks.

Is it possible for this to be changed so we can use this ability more often?

Been loveing the game!

When Stormblood was released, many people saw the Lupin and wanted that as a playable race. Now with Shadowbringers, we have Hrothgar and as much as I love them, I feel that we just have yet another cat like race. I remember during talk of Shadowbringers release, there was talk of a wolf head for Hrothgar, was that a miss translation? Or can we hope to see some Lupin like features for Hrothgar like the head and tail. (Really liked the werewolf tail and wish Hrothgar had that as an option!)

Any plans to increase grunbreakers weaponsize for roe and hroth? Looks a bit small on them.

First of all thank you very much for making Shadowbringers I absolutely love it, it brought many tears and happiness!

My question is:

Would you consider implementing some kind of register system, as an addition to the already existing housing system, for people to get another way to buy specific plot in specific residental area whenever it becomes available as to give everyone chance to get a house where they desire?

For example someone would like a house in Goblet, Plot 1 the person would register together with the payment for the plot and once the plot becomes available they would become the owner unless it is canceled by person or due to innactive acount.

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Any plans to increase grunbreakers weaponsize for roe and hroth? Looks a bit small on them.

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They're not race specific, its pretty small on most of them tbh, just less noticeable on smaller races.

Will you create "race plates"? (the ability to save pre-created alternative the appearance of the character(not just appearance but can be and race)). I think many people were torn with the choice of race\appearance of your character, and I think it would not be bad introduction of such plates

Question

With the announcement that we will get a Nier Automata raid.
Will we get something similar with another SquareEnix IP " Kingdom Hearts "?
Since Kingdom Hearts 3 has been released in January it would be nice to see if we would get an event for it.
Would love to use Kingdom Hearts weapons on my character.

Housing Districts

Could we get one for the Crystarium?
After other housing districts are added to existing major city states that need them of course

When will we see an update to the game's reporting system? So far to report a player or a bot, you have to go to the specific menu and fill out a long form and it just discourages people from doing that. RMT activity can be easily reported by just right-clicking the said player, why can't it be done for the other offences such as botting or harassment? With a lot of new players and a LOT of bots coming to this game after the release of Shadowbringers, implementing a working reporting system that's present in literally every other MMO I've ever played would be a really good change.