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Currently overmelding crafting gear is a necessity to be able to craft anything above 1-star recipes, but with overmelding success rates so low and it taking a long time to spiritbond equipment with random success rates it's becoming cost prohibitive to even attempt overmelding gear. Could the success rates of overmelding be increased or removed entirely?

Can you give us an update/ETA on the interface add-on system?

Would it be possible to give smn and sch different bonus stat point sets? My smn is specced for int, which in turn makes my sch specced int as well, which is a pointless stat for healers. This makes it so you can't play both jobs at their full potential, forcing you to either choose to play smn exclusively or play a gimp sch(or vise versa)

Would it be possible to add another clock to the HUD? Like make one clock local/server time and the other one eorzea time? This would make mining/logging unspoiled nodes much easier.

Can we get some hints on the class(es) you plan to implement after rogue/ninja?

What Quality of Life implementations can we expect to see in patch 2.4?

With the additions of new classes and jobs in the up coming expansion and more in later expansions, will we see an increase in party sizes or are your plans to stay with the current set up of 4/8/24?

Will we ever be able to turn off NPC chat bubbles during combat? I almost never read them during a fight because I am trying to focus on the fight. They block my view of the battle field. I would much rather the dialogue appear in my chat log.

Is there a special Even for FF type-0 when it will release
i really like this Game and i want to see it in my Favorite Game ^O^

Can you make gardening available for everyone and remove FC restrictions and/or plan to add a gardening field zone or something similar to that nature?

FC leaders are assigning favoritism to certain individual players and not to those who have seeds & topsoil for planting and wanting to garden. Making it difficult on the player base to easily want to leave the FC or quit the game over poor a design and usage of the "Gardening System."

Can you please address this issue, take it back to the development team and drawing board for a possible fix in a future patch.

Would there be another way of leaving a bad dungeon or raid without shutting down the game? The restriction of not being able to leave a duty while in combat makes it rather hard to leave bad parties where people either berate you, are rude, or just plain bad. I will happily take a debuff rather than being chained to a group calling me a moron for making a simple mistake.

you can abandon Duty, it comes with a 30 min duty registration lock out for not trying to use Vote Abandon

Are job specific Limit Break Animation still on the table?

What is the status of roaming primals and the FC primal summoning system?

What'll be the last ilvl before lvl cap is increased 50+?

Are you gonna make i90 versions of the DoH and DoL AF gear for players to craft?

I tried that. If you are in combat you cannot abandon. At least that is what it said when I tried to leave a bad Garuda HM.

Can you give Dragoon some of FF9's Freya's MP based dragon abilities to round out the job with some party buffs and so becoming more desirable

Regarding the GC Manuels, Can you allow them to show an indiacator of how much EXP you have left before the related effect fades?

I'm really glad that we can place our Free Company symbol on our equipment, but I would really like some way to show who I'm associated with a little more clearly. Would it be possible to have something like a chocobo barding similar to the Grand Company bardings that have the Grand Company flags hanging off the sides, that would allow us to create a custom Free Company flag to hang on our chocobos as we ride together across Eorzea?

Okay so for assessories (mainly rings) there has been one ring per metal that Goldsmith uses (Brass, Silver, Myrthil, Electrum and Gold) Likelwise with every metal in a tier there are 6 gems accompanying it. I was wondering if you're gonna add <gemstone> Ring of Crafting/Gathering, as well as other assessories using gems?

Not sure if this has been asked or what, but will Ninja Relic Weapon have a different quest line to get the weapon or will it follow the same quest line as all the other relic weapons?

Since Ninja seems like it would be coming from a completely different area (at least that is what I am gathering from the storyline thus far), it wouldn't really make sense for the same Relic Weaponsmith in the North Shroud to be able to craft Ninja Relics with the same kind of materials as all the other pre-2.4 classes.

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Originally Posted by AncientCetra

Not sure if this has been asked or what, but will Ninja Relic Weapon have a different quest line to get the weapon or will it follow the same quest line as all the other relic weapons?

Since Ninja seems like it would be coming from a completely different area (at least that is what I am gathering from the storyline thus far), it wouldn't really make sense for the same Relic Weaponsmith in the North Shroud to be able to craft Ninja Relics with the same kind of materials as all the other pre-2.4 classes.

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Honestly I think it will wind up like the other relics. especially since some of the stuff we need for them (looks at the Quenching Oil) is from another place we cannot access atm

That reminds me, will we be able t go to Radz-at-Han soon?

Are there any plans to implement food/gear that increases the Meld% chance of success?

way too often have i gone 1/4+ on a 45%+ chance on accessory overmelding

Can you give us the option of turning off the zone bubble-lines? When I hide the HUD I can still see them.

When are you bringing headbands to this game? I want to look like Lebron James.

Will there be food that increases the desynth rate?

Are you going to add the Sigils of the Twelve. symbols for classes/jobs and the Symbols the Beastmen use to the unicode database/font for the game?

Any plans for persistent facial expression emotes?

Could we please get a new auto-translate for {please look forward to it}?

Do the developers ever plan on implementing a open world, interactive, territory war PvP environments (preferably outside of Eorzea. Doma as a good suggestion) to where FC's can form alliances with other FC's, take, control, defend and attack territory, build siege weapons, settlements, town and military instillation's and so on as well as defend against NPC Garlean attacks and invasion on said territory?

Any chance that we can see a 24 man raid where the groups split up and do desperate fights? Kinda like the first ct, but making it so that we don't even see the other 2 groups for part of it? Maybe different paths have entirely different fights or something? I think that would be really cool. Also, can we expect to see a 24 man raid that is coil difficulty? Ct and st are really easy.

Separate** not desperate lol. Stupid auto correct...

Can we get some capes added to the game?

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Originally Posted by ArtyomFang

Can we get some capes added to the game?

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That and satchels. Oh, and let us be able to craft aesthetic weapons which when equipped, would fill the slot in which a shield or secondary tool would go. They wouldn't count towards stats though. (unless the devs decide too.) and would be mostly for vanity.

Just the idea to add vanity apparel to the secondary slot is very appealing and cool.

Are you planning on adding a system of sorts that would allow us to make our own dungeons?

Body Sliders.

The Height and Muscle tone slider leaves much to be desired for the actual look I want.

If sliders are "too hard" to implement...

Then can you give us more body types per race?

Example:

Hyur:
Height - Slider
Body Type 1 - Thick - Medium - Large
Body Type 2 - Thin - Fit - Muscular
Muscle tone - Slider

Why do male miqo'te's and male lalafells lack a muscle tone slider?

Lalas deserve six packs too!

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Originally Posted by Akamu_Aniketos

Why do male miqo'te's and male lalafells lack a muscle tone slider?

Lalas deserve six packs too!

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Not sure on the mi'quote, but I think lalas lack a muscle slider becuase they;re (supposed to look like) kids, also because of that it's hard to tell the actual age of the any given lalafell, the lack of muscle tone might have been to preserve that ambigulity

We've heard a small sample of the Leviathan battle music sung by a female vocalist. Is there any plans on ever putting that into the game, or on a soundtrack?
Many people I've shown the video of this to really enjoyed the sound of it!