Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIV! (General)

Hi, I was wondering since we've seen FATEs relating to other games/series (Dragon Quest and other Final Fantasy games), will we see other content related to other Square games and series (not only FATEs)?

I think it would be amazing to be able to play through a dungeon version of Magus's Castle from Chrono Trigger and battle Ozzy, Slash, Flea and even Magus himself, or a chance to get the Mana Weapons from Secret of Mana. I believe there's a lot of potential for crossovers with many of the other Square Enix games and series and would like to see such content, but not just in FATE form.

Will we see lower-level dailies in the future? Like lv30ish?

Will marriage be added into FFXIV ARR?
If so when can we expect it and what would be the prerequisites

So much of end-game content involves mastery over mechanics. In the future will there be content where role and certain spells will be key to completion?

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Why hasn't an Aetheryte been placed at Red Rooster Stead?

There is a Levemete there. However, we have to set our Home Point at Moraby Drydocks (way over there). So if it happens that we get K.O.'d during the Levequest; we have to respawn down there and run back to the top of the map. Not good for time management.

F.A.T.E.S. same thing here. If we happen to die during one in the RRS section of the map; we respawn way down in Moraby Drydocks and have run all the way back to the RRS section to return to the F.A.T.E.S.

Hi awesome game and really incredible potential. I have a few questions:

1. A lot of people mentioned being able to bring chocobo companions into levequests. My question is can you make it so that levequests and for that matter job quests can be completed with other people in the party but just not allow the other people to help? Something along these lines would be especially useful when you are in a party finder group and you don't want to lose your spot but you need to do a levequest in an area while you're waiting for the party to fill up.

2. When I have my chocobo active I can't summon my mount roulette or any other mount other than my chocobo. Can something be done about this? One idea is to make it so that the chocobo runs along side or behind you and your mount like eos/pets.

3. When we get new gears it shows a comparison in either green numbers or red numbers for the mdef and the def. However it would be far more useful to have a comparison showing all of the other stats, not just def/mdef (keep with the same convention, green for increase and red for a decrease in stats). I'm actually very surprised this hasn't happened nor did anyone mention it in this thread prior. Yes I did read every post!

4. Dear God please can you make it so that you can invite people to a party while simultaneously having a party finder? When using the party finder you can't manually invite people and it drives me insane :)

5. Someone mentioned something similar I think about Ishgard but my question is: can you tell us when if ever you will include more areas of Coerthas (northern/eastern/western/etc.) I love Coerthas!

Since the game is lacking on tanks my question is :
How are you planning to keep the in-game balance if the two classes that are about to come will be DPS?

Is LuShang's Fishing Rod coming to the game?

So, since I haven't seen any questions yet about this...

1) When are we going to get Dark Knight, if ever?

I know there was mention of it being linked with Gladiator/Paladin, but I'm curious to know when exactly is it being planned for release? I'd like to see it as an update, but I'd be content with it being in an expansion.

I just want to know if I should save my atmas for it, or if it's so far away that I mind as well wait and farm another set.

Will we be able to join the Duty Roulette as a group? 1-3, or even a small party? I feel penalized for wanting to group up with my friends and miss out on the Duty Roulette rewards.

Now personally farming for 10 hours for a NM was not my forte however, I very much enjoyed farming certain nm as well as the gear that came with them. Do you have any plans to potentially make the return of xi NM that don't need fates and could drop useful rare items that only drop off of said NM

I know its difficult to make alot of gear that drops able to be sold on the Market board with the heavy RMT presence currently plaguing Eorzea soil, But I find my self more often then not just selling any gear i get to a vendor or passing on it in dutys to save my bag space. Are there any plans to make certain gear not untradeble if it remains unequiped so that some other person who may not have such lucks with drops could have a chance to earn or buy it off the Market board?

If at all possible could producer touch base on new classes. More info would be appreciated as I am holding onto ALOT of gear for gun and dagger class

Any thoughts about adding Free company or linkshell chests or buffs to dungeons, primals and raids as a way to foster free company and linkshell growth?

Are there plans for companions like the adventuring fellows in FFXI?

This may have been asked before; Since the materia melding system has soft cap limits, and pretty low advanced melding success rates, has the dev team considered adding materia slots to gear that is found in dungeons/raids? Or is there a possibility that an ability will be implemented so disciples of the hand can add slots to gear that is dropped from dungeons?

rmts there is an option to blacklist by clicking on there name and selecting blacklist when are we gonna get a click report rmt feature added especially since people aren't reporting them majority of the time there just blacklisting them and ignoring the problem cause its easier then reporting them

Hi Yoshida-san

Once Again thank you for such a great game please add Darknight as a Tank class.


Also please increase ALL tomes max to 3,000

Will we ever see Odin's shield available?
I have his herklaedi, hjalmr, and Zantetsuken. When will we have a skildir? I need to complete the look!

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Are there plans for companions like the adventuring fellows in FFXI?

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I'm not too sure about XI stuff, but 1.0 had adventuring companions. I do miss mine. Will we see them return?

What if SE implemented a divining rod, which could be crafted using 1 of each atma, to award triple the odds of finding atma?
They could even add a secondary upgrade which takes the divining rod and 12 more atma, to again double the odds of atma dropping in FATEs: A "Gilded Divining Rod".

It would be equippable by all DoM/DoW in the glove slot.

I love Soken's work on ARR so far! Will see some collaborations with Naoshi Mizuta or other SE composers soon?

Just curious if there are any plans to add Dark Knight anytime in the near future?

Are there any plans for crafted i90 Jewellery?

Are there any plans for T5 materia?

Now that I've taken more time to delve into the descriptions of items. I have to ask Mister Yoshida / etc. About "New Lands" past Eorzea. For instance:

http://i.imgur.com/0dHfADL.png

Will we ever get to see these lands?

Will there be anymore dungeons involving our megitech armors? A remix to devil's lab would be awesome to hear in it if we had such.

Are you going to add an area that explains more back story surrounding the Primals, like what was seen in Final Fantasy 6? That would be so awesome in Eorzea.

Do we not have any dwarfs in our online world that is seen quite often in the offline versions? Are you going to add a underworld like what is experienced in Final Fantasy 2? If so, whats the timeline for the release?

Are we ever going to see more epic evil villian outside of Coil or is the main story at a stand still until the next expansion?

Since you are adding the Golden Saucer, is there a chance that you may add Ruby Weapon as the next weapon challenger for Eorzea to face? (Since Ruby Weapon was pretty much surround The Gold Saucer in FF7).

Will there be any future cameos of past Final Fantasy heroes (like you did with Lightning)? Could you add villians from older games?

Hi, can we get a feature that allows crafting with material held by our retainers? It's very annoying to keep crafting material in my character inventory because I end up with very little available space. Ontop of that, some materials look the same and I have to check each and every one to for the material I need to create something. When I have almost 100 items in my inventory things become very tedious. Is it possible to program the ability to craft things and use the material our retainers are holding?

I'm probably going to repeat a ton of things other's mentioned, but if we don't suggest enough, well you know..

Our Relic's need a Weapon Skill for our class/job.

We need new job/classes.
Dark Knight (Please keep this job as DPS)
Thief (call it what ever you want rouge, assassin. proper Sub Job (Ninja :D))
Samurai (You already gave us Helmets, Ronin sounds nice, why not?)
Our Beast Masters want their Beast Master!

I agree that our class armors should look different from the rest of the classes/jobs.
The Artifacts are perfect, but the rest of the gear could use a little more effort to make the gear stand out from the rest, for example PLD and WAR use the exact same Armor.(Excluding AF). Glamour work's but it's really nothing to special.

My main job and only job is Paladin here on XIV, i'm more of a DPS. On XI i was Dark Night, actually i liked just about every job on XI but maily DPS. Ninja was great for mission, quests... anyways... great game.

A few questions
1) We got ilvl 90 crafted gear, and yet no tier V materia? Because of this the Ilvl 90 crafted gear does not scale as high as the ilvl 70 did in comparison to its ilvl 90 counterpart. Besides this would breath a little more life into the economy, and more spiritbond parties.

2) BLM buffs? How about some ranged auto attack? The job doesn't feel like the classic glass cannon that it should. While I do enjoy many of the mechanics in the game, many of them work against BLM far more than any other class. For instance a whm can cast cure spells even if their target runs behind them, why cant blm? If you get caught running from Thorny Vines, while getting eaten its easy for astral fire to fall off and you loose way to much dps trying to get it back up.

3) For lead designer: While we all wait in anticipation for new hairstyles, I am wondering if we may soon get some new facial hair choices! I would love to give my miqote a proper beard, or at least some stubble. ^^

i know I'm probably too late in asking but is there any plans to add the option of toggling the error message and sound on/off as for me I like to both press buttons repetitively and use macros on my scholar and in both cases I get constant error messages and it has really became far too annoying so to be able to turn it off without turning off the rest of the sounds would be great.

thank you.:o

Can we please have the crafting materials that drop in expert dungeons moved from boss chests to side chests please? I am regularly running these dungeons as a tank and hoping to pick up dps class bits but, on average, 3 out of 4 chests contain crafting materials. I do not have a level 50 crafter and do not spend gil on anything other than repairs so these items are of no use to me. It is becoming increasingly disappointing to run an instance and not get any loot from it.

Hello! I would like to ask what the status on user created UI modifications is and if there's any chance we could get an (optional) toggle for audible notifications on procs (think bloodletter and firestarter) and possibly even cooldowns resetting =)

When can lalafells climb onto people and sit on their shoulders?

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Hello! I would like to ask what the status on user created UI modifications...

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Would just like to reiterate this. Any chance we'll be able to create UI addons in the future? If so, is there a timeline for implementation?