Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXIII!

Will there ever be a jukebox housing item? The housing wards music can sometimes get repetitive and a jukebox with different songs from the game that we can have playing in our house would be a nice addition. There could even be new songs that we can obtain through the game such as for example the Gold Saucer or a rare drop from dungeons.

Hi Yoshi-P and all SE team! I just want to share my fan art of Heavensward to you guys =)! I have always been a fan of your game since I was very young age. The game system, character design, animation, voice acting, and music was amazingly done. I really love the flying mount, makes me feel like I am above the world ! I have always believe that one day my art work may able to reach you, and I was very very happy last year my artwork really DID reach you in the Las Vegas fanfest. Please continue making an amazing work. I hope one day, not just my artwork, but I myself can reach you Yoshi and the SE team :) !

http://img08.deviantart.net/9d88/i/2...ry-d90jv7b.jpg

This artwork was inspired from my favourite background song in HeavensWard, Aetherochemical Research Facility Dungeon ^^!

Was wondering about issues with freedom of movement. It's really a very minor issue but it does get annoying at many times. Example would be theres some places you can't jump over a small fence even though on the other side its not considered a restricted zone, and the many rocks along a certain path, some could be jumped on and some couldn't be on the same path. Say North Shroud for example, you can't jump into the river to cross over from point A to point B while in Central Shroud you can. As again it's a very minor issue, but it does get rather annoying. I am sure you can't swim in this game like many others eg; GW2, but at least let cross over rivers and jump on top of rocks along a path just for kicks.

The skill Unconscious Collective seems lack luster in comparison to the other healer class move alternates, Sacred Soil and Asylum, respectfully, are there any plans to adjust the numbers on this skill or is it functioning as intended?

In the time I've been apart of the FFXIV Community and the Veteran FF player I am, There's been some things that stood out like a thorn of a rose.

1.Can you please add UP and DOWN arrows on quest objectives when dealing with multi level areas

2. Please add Chocobo Rental to all Chocokeepers instead of Porter only. (low level players not yet having joined a Grand Company will appreciate this.)

3. Please expand the Housing lots especially for Private homes. (This is a feature that just seems awesome to be able to have your own home and decorate how ever you like but when I went to pick out a plot it was full and was heart broken that there was actually a set number of plots on a first come first serve basis. )

P.S I've made lengthy questions because I was explaining in detail the situation. You may use any part of this post. I know a lot of the community, regardless of country or server would be extremely be happy with these changes

With airships being new content going forward, many free companies now desire a workshop, especially those who have been created or have became active with the new expansion.

Unfortunately, this is not feasible for many guilds due to a workshop requiring a free company house with no land available on a multitude of servers, how will you address the lack of available housing plots?

Will you allow players to relink their SE account to another PSN account?
Right now both Realm Reborn and Heavensward are unavailable in the PlayStation Store of some regions (Russia), and people who have already started to play on PS4 are forced to switch to PC or to abandon their characters and start anew by creating a new PSN account.
Most people keep playing Realm Reborn and have no access to Heavensward. Game keys from box versions of Heavensward are incompatible with the existing Russian PSN accounts. Support is unable to solve this problem.

Would you consider to get rid of classes making the lore the reason of that? For example: At the end of 3.0 story line some big disaster makes classes useless and requires some natural evolution of them. So Archer will become Ranger job, Rogue become Thief, Conjurer goes Geomancer and so on. Instead of giving new jobs for the next expansion would be great to have a rework of class system with some becoming new jobs. (its just a matter of giving them 10 new jobs skills, should be easier to do a new job from nothing)

Will the devs ever put persistent facial expressions on characters.
For Example: my characater could have a /annoyed look on her face without having to spam the /annoyed emote button, or have the /alert emote facial expression look stay on your face until you type /alert again or /straight face? Or keep a /straightface while in combat stance?
I've been asking myself this questions ever since patch 2.4, but didn't care enough. haha

Are there any plans in the future to perhaps add more songs to the Bard Job? Would be nice to see something similar to songs implemented in Final Fantasy XI such as "Knights Minne", "Valor Minuet" or "Army's Paeon". I believe songs such as these that increase atk, def or HP regen of the party members would add more appeal to the Bards support role to a group. I would really like to see this.

I believe that these are valid changes and personally would like to see these implemented as well. Especially the addition of more personal housing. Thank you xBloodwingx for this post, I hope they take you up on these changes.

Hello! A quick question about crafting.

Would it be possible to make the high allagan set craftable? It's one of the admittedly prettiest designs in the game, but rarely anyone is willing to farm coil anymore, considering the heavensward release and whatnot. It'd be great if the set was obtainable again!

1. Will you guys be adding new faces, make up, eyebrows, and facial hair (and clan specific faces respectively available) to each race? (For example, Sea Wolf faces available with Hellsguard faces and vice versa.)
2. Will you implement a persistent emote/action for Roegadyn to carry smaller characters onto his or her shoulder? (I've always wanted to carry two Lalafellin on my shoulders.)
3. Will you guys rework some animations for each race, and perhaps add some new ones?
4. I remember hearing something somewhere on here about 'personal limit breaks' separate from the party limit break?

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2. Will you implement a persistent emote/action for Roegadyn to carry smaller characters onto his or her shoulder? (I've always wanted to carry two Lalafellin on my shoulders.)

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This brings up an interesting question: When will Lalafell get a Roegadyn mount?

Can you fix to leveling process from 50-60 please?

Were you trying to ruin bard or was it a mistake adding cast timers?

Would it be possible for classes to get skills for levels 50 - 60?
Not jobs: the base Classes. This will allow for a greater variety of play styles at late game.
Maybe they would be class-exclusive skills, that jobs wouldn't have access to.

This could help negate the backlash over the changes to the bard, while preserving the changes, for example.

It would also allow people to choose between specialization and the ability to use skills from other classes.

With the arrival of Alexander first 4 floors in DF, do you have any plans to make a DF Roulette Raids (CTs and Old coils) and a DF Roulette Raids Expert(Alex current Floors) with better rewards than the dungeons roulettes?

Also can you add an option that will allow us to move The story/Quest text bubbles instead of it being on the bottom of the screen in the HUD layout.

Would it be possible to add things to collect to the open world? Perhaps bestiary or lore pages?

Do you have any plans to address the server capacity of the Aether datacenter? Particularly the issue with Balmung and Sargatanas being perpetually locked from character creation. I would like to see an actual developer response on the idea of free personal or Free Company transfer off of those servers so that new people can actually play with friends on there.

When will we be getting the new artifact armor and how will it be acquired?

Also, could we possibly have the augments upon its release so that we can dye it?

Will there be the addition of more floors of Alexander in the future? At the current time, we have 4 floors and they seem to be only a certain part of Alexander raid.

DoL/DoH white gear
Why vendors are selling only the lvl55 gear for gatherers and crafter? are you aware that several crafters needs to wait the lvl55 to complete the lvl53 quest?

Are there any plans to make an (Extreme) Version of The Singularity Reactor, If not can you consider it?

Will you ever implement under-water exploration in the future? :D

Do you already have an idea for the next big expansion? Where do you think the story will lead us to in that expansion?

I know this has probably been voiced but us there a plan to reduce the RMT in this game? This game is amazing and its being destroyed by RMT. Please do something!

Did the Allagan make the Gaelcats too? :o

1. Because taking selfies(screenshots) beside them just isn't enough, can we expect to see the Warring Triad in action sometime soon? Those statues are too beautiful not to square off against later. I know, I'm a hopeless fanboy high on the nostalgia all over Ishgard, but I can dream!

Any plans to make better and more interesting side quests?

IE not always find the lost moogle or kill X amount of monsters.

Dark Knight damage mitigation

After levelling my Dark Knight to 50 and running low level and endgame content from ARR, I've noticed how I have more difficulty with mitigating damage on dark knight compared to paladin and warrior at level 50 at roughly the same item level (ilvl 125). I have also noticed similar issues with Dark Knights suffering from major damage spikes while performing in Heavensward content and even into Alexander, and although this is a new job, I still feel there is something else making the job feel rather squishy.

Is it possible to provide Dark Knight with some other means of damage mitigation other than through parry and evasion? I know those avoidance stats are supposed to be the focal points for dark knight tanking in addition to some self-healing, but parry/evasion tanks have been historically hard to balance as well as hard to heal, which is why I think I've been seeing this dilemma arise consistently throughout all content.

Is there an ETA for fixing the Directx11 crashes, as discussed in 164968-Consistent-Game-Crashing-Exception-code-0xc0000005 and 242433-dx11-crashing ?

edit: and also this thread 241177-DX11-Crashing

oh and please don't add a DPS meter or parsing for that matter, and if you do please do it only on/for Training Dummies, because i've seen it in WoW and it is really bad and will only be used for flaming others.

Are we going to see any additional housing wards anytime soon?

Will there be any attemps at fixing the EXP-Gain from completing weekly Challenge Log Entries?
They used to be a percentage of your currently needed EXP to Level up, but now they are fixed to the EXP you need from Level 50 to 51.
Seeing that you need 864.000 EXP from 50 to 51 and 3.888.000 from 59 to 60 (thats more then 4-times as much) the EXP gain from Challenge Logs is currently not really worth the effort in the later Levels.

On the same note the EXP Gain from Battlecraft-Levequests and Fates hardly compare to what is needed to Level up, and the new 10-Leve-Levequests are useless if you are not farming for the Encased Vilekin (wich is useless by itself).
You said that the reward for completing them would be better wich they currently aren't.

Do you think the tome bonus message displayed for first time completion of a duty is being abused by the community?

In North America, it is common for players who have already cleared content to create 'no law bonus' parties and intentionally not help others. I think a feature which was designed to encourage players to help others is having an inverse effect, making it more difficult for people who are otherwise capable from finding a party.

Should the tome bonus message be removed?

Is there ever going to be a way to use mousewheel scroll up + down as keybinds instead of using it to adjust the camera?

Linkshell Limitations

Will there ever be an option to re-order linkshells and have more than 128 players in one? Currently, I have 4 linkshells dedicated to one particular thing with 128 people each. It would be nice if there was not a 128 limit, because FCs can go past 500 members, but linkshells are limited to 128. Also, will there be any changes to being able to see the last time players have logged in a linkshell? It can be difficult to decipher who has logged in recently and it would be nice to be able to remove people from a linkshell when they go inactive and be able to add new people to a linkshell that are active.

Is Fester supposed to ignore Warlord Shell during Ravana EX? All sources of damage seems to deal 0 damage during this, except for my Summoner ability Fester.

Are there plans to return tanks to their roles as tanks by class locking accessories so they are not "required" to wear Slaying Accessories to push DPS?

Due to this new standard of STR tank builds, A VIT build tank is shunned and looked down upon and treated like they are "bad' at their job (even if they are very good!!!). This isn't true for every server but is very true for Sargatanus server.