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

What exactly became of the Auri/Drahn girl from Eulmore, referred to in text boxes as the 'Weeping Warbler'? There's a theory going around that her "ascended" form is the sin eater called Forgiven Obscenity fought at Mt. Gulg. On the one hand, the Warbler was a singer who lost her voice due to a tumor in her throat, and Forgiven Obscenity's boss fight is themed all around music, from the attack names to the arena itself. But on the other hand, Forgiven Obscenity appears in a cutscene immediately after our meeting with the Warbler. So unless the scheduling and carrying out of the ascension process happens VERY quickly, the theory isn't likely.

So even if she didn't become the Forgiven Obscenity, did we ever encounter the Warbler as a sin eater?

Will the Ishgard Restoration have a storyline attached to it? And will it offer insight into the various important backstory characters (Hamignant, Edmont's wife, Haurchefant's mother, Aymeric's birth mother and foster parents) that still have yet to be seen by the players?

What happened to Daigoro after Gilgamesh disappeared at the end of the Stormblood Hildibrand questline?

We know that Aymeric has a cat, but do any other NPCs have pets that we don't know about?

With the upcoming reconstruction of Ishgardian land is there any plans to make marriage in the Saint Reymanaud's Cathedral, or any sort of optional or different wedding plan?

Also, will weddings become available during World Visit someday?:confused:

Currently we only have elemental shard for gardening. Are there any plans to expand gardening and add crystal and clusters seeds?

Will Eden continue the way it was like for the first part? E.g. no solo instances and fewer story and dialogue compared to Omega.
Or can we expect more content (story, lore, Solo Duty's) in between for the next parts?

Is there possibility to tweak the Trust system a little less grindy than it is now (after completing MSQ)??? One dungeon felt like it took forever.

Is there any plans to implement a system that would allow jobs that share gear to either have more than one of the same piece of gear or have alternate materia slottings? Example, skill speed has more value to Gunbreaker than the other tank jobs but since all the tanks share the same armor (outside of job specific gear which isn't BiS currently) any materia slots with Skill Speed in them would be a waste on say Dark Knight for example. So to have your gear optimized you'd have to constantly risk losing materia to unslot them and put in relevant materia to the job you're playing and it can be quite costly.

Do you have a healer main on the dev team that is responsible for job balance? And if not, do you think it would be possible to add someone who has this experience? Considering we have quite a lot of jobs now, one more person might make the work the job balance team has easier.

Do the 'rungs' on the voidal hierarchy of twelve indicate the social standing they originally had back when their world was the Thirteenth?

For example, would a peasant become a low-tier voidsent like an Imp or a Bomb, while rulers and royalty become upper-rung beings like the Cloud of Darkness and 'Queen' Scathach?

1)When will we be getting new customizations for Hrothgar? Also when will we be able to change hair styles on Hrothgar without the need of Fantasia?

2) What are you guys doing to combat the issue of player owning an buying multiple houses now? Yes they are still buying multiple after the 1 per person rule.

Going to the First has allowed the WoL/D to obtain many exotic goods and materials, which is established in game that the WoL/D can sell them through the market boards on the Source. How have influential merchants that have enough clout to find out who's selling this crazy stuff not come up to the WoL/D when they come back to the Source for a visit, and ask where they're getting the stuff, and how many sacks of cash gil do they have to give them to get a piece of the action?

3)Combining the fausets of Hand an Land was a bad idea.. The exp isn't shared well between without turning half in as one class an another with the next.. This dosnt help with some tbat have 3 or more classes in it. You should make the turn-ins repeatable for each job or make it like custom deliveries where we can do weekly turn-ins?

Forgot to request in my earlier post but remembered once I saw there would be MogStation maintenance.

Please consider adding an NPC in-game that allows us to try on MogStation glamour items. It wouldn't be a shop but purely a menu with all the items that allows you to test-before-you-buy kinda thing. It'd be a quality of life that I'm sure most players would welcome.

I just purchased the all game + all expansions just because of the vieras. But the lack of customization and allegiance of the race characteristics and design made me a bit sad.

So...
Do you have in mind to implement more viera fashion clothes/outfits/gear?

Can we get Blue mage for POTD? (even if that means separating the old achievement)

Will we see any updates to the Company chest in the future? It would be nice with more storage (5 tabs instead of 3 for example). It would also be nice if it was easier to place items in it, just like we can just "entrust to retainer" - an option to "entrust to company chest" would make things a little easier. :)

Would it be possible to make an option to complete all ventures for those retainers that are done? Like a Complete All and Send Out Again option. :) With all the fabulous new things that we have seen to the retainer system, I hope it will get even more love in the future!

Shadowbringers revealed a significant amount of details from Emet-Selch regarding the Ascians goals and their origins. How much of this had been planned since the relaunch of 2.0, or even version 1.0?

could we please have more of the 1.0 ost as orchestrian rolls

Would it be possible to use older animations for attacks and skills? For instance, Machinist’s heated shots look way over the top and I wish I could use normal-looking shots at level 80. It could be like a little glamor system where you could choose any previous version of the attack as your visual. So when casting Broil IV as a Scholar, it would look as if you’re casting Broil III, etc.

Since the animations are already there, please let us use them!

Please give Scholar Energy drain back. The current playstyle of SCH i feel that I am forced to overheal just to spend aetherflow stacks so I can get the 10%mp refresh it's a waste to not use them and just refresh and seems pretty pointless. Are there any plans to change this at all?

Could you talk about the inspirations for the Legend of the Not-so-hidden Temple, and will we see more content like this either in new solo- or party-duties?

Can we please have the Azys La music (Order Yet Undeciphered) as an orchestrion scroll? And perhaps the arrangement of this song that plays during one of the solo combat duties?

What are your plans on adding more DoL and DoH content that isn't just Yet Another Version Of Hand-Ins?

It's always been annoying to level up leatherworker and weaver due to some of the items not being gatherable, namely different types of wools and hides. To a lesser extent, this also goes for culinarians (eggs, milk) and alchemist. I think the time is right to finally fill that glaring gap with the Shepherd class that was buried in Owl's Nest during the calamity. And maybe also re-add an updated version of Hamlet Defense.

Can we please get many more beard in costumization? Like beards with more volume for hyur as example

With the increase of the level cap, and the presumed increase of level cap for future expansions, you've tried to keep the number of skills a player has access to low as to avoid ability-bloat. This has it's own issues, however, as the lower level content rotations has gotten a lot more boring than they used to be due to the lack of skills.

How are you going to avoid the lack of abilities as the player levels up in the future, due to the increases in level cap and goal to avoid ability-bloat?

Have you ever thought to make use of PvP's combined combo skills for PvE to allow your development team to increase the number of skills to the player, without increasing ability-bloat?

Can you please remove "The fish sense something amiss. Perhaps it is time to try another location." anti-bot function from fishing or fix it so we have a five minute warning prior to this happening. So many times I have go out to do big fishing and I use fish eyes, patience II cast and lose all my gp and mooch with no warning.

Can you re-add the "...and finds it good/delicious/divine!" when consuming food items?

It was helpful to be able to judge instantly if you can make full use of the food you're consuming.

Are there any plans to (eventually) be able to use Blue Mage in more solo-oriented or side content, such as the deep dungeons or eureka? these seem almost made for the class.

May we see an option to preview (Sample) orchestrion scrolls we don't have before using or purchasing them? Sometimes you may see an orchestrion scroll on the marketboards but not have any idea what it sounds like unless you look it up online. Having a means to preview it in-game before obtaining it would be great. On that same topic please consider adding "By Design" (Crafting music from 1.0, used in some Shadowbringer quests.) as an obtainable orchesrtrion scroll! Thank you!

Is there any intent to change how Blue Mage acquires skills? currently BLU is advertised as a solo-oriented limited job and unsuited for party play (citing "overpowered" spells that the majority of monsters are immune to), but the majority of it's skills require queuing into instanced content like dungeons and trials which require parties to attempt.

this seems counter-intuitive, and is increasingly difficult to find players willing to join such outdated content, especially without the aid of the duty finder or roulette systems.

Can you make the straps on the Lady's Clogs dyeable? I'm trying to make an outfit work!!

what is the devs team's main intention on balancing current range DPS classes lineup?
Because from a player point of view currently,
MCH are meant for full range DPS which is really good and on the spot,
DNC meant as supporting DPS with lots of supporting buff in a party but so lacking in DPS compared to other 2,
while BRD are in between of supporting and DPSing which makes as a supporting dps role its not really supporting as before and dps wise also not that high.
which is causing problems if a party aiming for high DPS output won't pick DNC because of the DPS output are far too low compared to other 2.
and BRD, as a "supporting" DPS role, kinda lose its charm in supporting part and the DPS isn't that high (which kinda make is like broken MCH) so people would just use MCH instead
So if a party really aiming for high DPS output they'll only pick MCH from range DPS role
if this is what the devs team intended to do on balancing range DPS role, will there be any further parameter adjustment?
just to make sure to avoid job class discrimination on party finder in future endgame content especially if there will be content that can skip phases.
And from savages release till July 8th I already see few PF that wont allow you use DPS under Top 5 damage ranks from fflogs ie BLM, SAM, MNK, DRG, MCH
and can you replace Leg Graze & Foot Graze in ranged dps role action? since its pretty much useless in extreme and savage content and also never find a need in those skills while doing quests, leveling or even low level content

When is Astragalos coming back? Are you planning to make adjustments to it? Could you make the map smaller like Hidden Gorge?

Thank you.

Before anything else I would like to congratulate and thank the FFXIV team for a great expansion that is Shadow Bringers.

On the subject of housing:

1. With design mechanics already available in game, can players expect an improved form of apartment system as a form of instanced housing, having wide if not massive customisable spaces, allowing large scale gardening and balcony aesthetics?

2. Is the District and ward system here to stay, and will it become a sort of Legacy form of housing if an instanced form of housing is introduced?

Many thanks.

Could we get a version of Moenbryda's aether collecting device with a longer shaft for glamour that multiple jobs can use (ala the Black Bosom Reaper's collection)? It would be a great glam for CNJ/WHM, LNC/DRG and THM/BLM