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

Are there any plans to increase the allowances for the Beast Tribe quests?

Can you give back Rage of Halone as final combo please? Royal Authority animation really sucks -_-

Housing for spriggan when? and when are healers gonna get any love yes WHM/SCH changes i find are really nice but AST is so bad right now i have mained AST since its release but i feel the recent changes are horrible and im not alone in this if people i talk to ingame agreeing with me is anything to go by. also why have you kept delaying a 4th healer in favour of yet more DPS? dont get me wrong dancer is great BUT as a healer main since ARR i feel like you dont' care for healers as much as you care for DPS.And don't try to use the "it's hard work" excuse on me i know for a fact alot of ff14 content is just ripped from other FF titles including and not restricted to music enemies places etc Chemist could work very well here but you would have to limit the amount of mix results it has compared to other titles any way i will stop now way too much text

Question:
I am a returning player and love the changes that took place.
Are you going to address the skill bloat for controller moving forward into Shadowbringers ?
Are there plans to stop locking story content behind end game raids Shadowbringers?

Trying to make this a non spoiler question:

Was the Crystal Exarch gonna be the this important in the story since the first time we saw it (and I mean his true identity, not as "crystal exarch")? or it was something that came before??

Are there any plans to change the restrictions on challenging Hetsukaze and Botan to Triple Triad in Kugane so they're not stuck behind out of date content (Eureka)?

Please add an orchestrion roll for the Ixali beast tribe's village music (Far From Home - we have a track titled Far From Home, but it's for the Drowned City of Skalla.)

Any update on the release of a BLU update for current or more recent content? :D

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What are your thoughts on Tenacity currently, The community seems to not recommend it over most other sub stats

Could you please increase the number of items we can place in an apartment to 150 or 200? Currently with the limited number of housing plots, apartments are where most people will engage with the housing system and only allowing 100 objects is extremely limiting, especially when little things like food and other tabletop items count towards that limit.

Is it possible to add a 'dance' performance mode for Dancer with jete and other dance moves?

Are you considering to add more customization options for hair/face for the Hrothgar in the future? I say hair/face because they seem to be linked and as a result, there are only 2 hair options per face.

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Originally Posted by jechit3

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?

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Energy Drain doesnt function that way anymore. it does a little bit of damage and refils a summoners aetherflow

Are there any plans on improving housing or adding how players are able to obtain houses?

I would like to also give my deepest thanks and congratulations to the FFXIV team on this amazing expansion launch!

Can we look into getting the Crystal Towers first 2 levels adjusted in item level to be closer to what they where back in there prime?
The alliance roulette is not balanced in challenge. The crystal tower is not the same difficulty as the others in its first 2 levels.

Soken-sama has outdone himself on the Shadowbringers main theme! It is an amazing track. But will there be a track with the voice of Susan Calloway perhaps singing about Hydaelyn’s perspective given the new information in the MSQ? I love her voice and I want to know what Hydaelyn has to say given what Emet-Selch told us about the sundering and how Hydaelyn and Zodiark came to be.

Question about Glamour Storage:

So the current way that the glamour chest works is you are limited to 400 items stored with various other information like if they item was previously glamoured or dyed. Wouldn't it make more sense to just store the item number and if its presently there or not which could be a 1 or a 0 in the entry. With this you could store a tone more items and maybe even make it work similar to the WoW transmogrify library where the appearance of every item could be stored. With this you would still be able to take items out like you can now and would be limited to just 1. With this you would not need to expand the retainer inventory or player inventory for quite a while as 95% of inventory space is taken up by weapons, armor, and accessories. This would also eliminate the need for the armoire in the inn rooms and free up player memory.

Glamour for retainers of the opposite sex?


Having a retainer of the opposite gender from my char means that they can't use gender-locked gear my char has, neither can I buy such gear for equipping it to them. Can there be a way to glamour gender specific gear to my retainers of the opposite sex, and also to buy opposite gender gear to those purposes?

Is there plans to give SCH an Aetherflow dump again that isn't a heal? (Hint: Energy Drain 4.0)

What updates can you give us on additional Hairstyles/visible hats for Viera and Hrothgar?

Would you ever implement an in-game DPS meter?

Could there possibly be a thing such as social and personal FC's where you could join one of each?

I like to share homes with my friends but many of us like to do our own thing when we get the chance

Can you remove the restrictions on planters and garden plots? A small house has a yard that has enough space for for 3 garden plots and being limited to 2 pots in house, whats the point in that?

Can you make houses shareable account wide? This would take care of some of the demand for houses. It would be nice if Alts could use a house a main account owns.

Question: Dear Yoshi, given you said that FFXIV lack some features due to constraint in the budget, who are the executives in SE that we need to get in contact so we can convince then that raising budget is a good investment for SE?

Are there any plans to add more trusts, or at least give us exarch and lyna back as trusts at 80?

Is there a chance the Grani mount get more suitable music feels very underwhelming at the moment for a warrior of darkness

Do you have a plan to remove "Extreme" from "Roulette Mentor" ?
exam. The fight with "The Minstrel's Ballad Nidhogg's Rage" chance to win is impossible. /cry

I understand that Viera has been quite a challenging race to implement. But, will there be a point, in the near future in which they'll catch up with hairstyles, specifically the ones from Modern Aesthetics, like the other races. I'm quite sad to see that my collection Modern Aesthetics became worthless on my character, even the one that was released with the expansion was useless.

Aside from that, I'm enjoying the game quite a lot, I'm very eager to see how the rest of the expansion will turn out. No doubt the best one so far. Very good job, FF14 Team

1) Why is FFXIV's Summoner so different from Summoner in other FF games? Summoner has never had anything to do with dots, but in this game it feels like the job is mainly focused on dots and summons are an afterthought.

2) Why are pets still glitched in that they prioritize movement to doing whatever they were supposed to do, even sometimes failing to cast Akh Morn/Revelation?

3) Now that pets can't tank, is there a plan to add any kind of survivability to the Summoner?

Thanks.

Will the development while still prioritizing adding new content be looking to add the older hairstyles and MogStation hairstyle options for the Viera and Hrothgar over the course of the scheduled content updates.

Post 5.05: Do the dev team realize healers get lowest gear priority in savage? How do they expect the coffer system to play out? Healers will have to get all their gear with pages.

This just seems to go with a long thread of “dev team doesn’t know what it’s like to play healer” actions.

The ast changes are, again, missing the mark. Although the changes are a great gameplay improvement they really need a dps buff.

Can you please throw Ninja a bigger bone in 5.1 than we got in 5.05? Because yikes.

First off, amazing expansion and that's coming from someone who has played FF11 since it was launched in Japan (CoP was the best expansion of that series).

I have 2 questions really.

1.) I'm disappointed with SMN in 14, primarily because they had a certain level of solo-ability. However since making the changes to the egi's, having Titan seems to be pointless since he doesn't keep hate at all. Can this be re-worked to actually allow him to be our tank egi for when we're doing fates or something.

2.) Eureka mounts. Those of us that never got the chance to actually do the Arsenal have missed out on some of the drops (wind-up Absolute Virtue, the Ozma mount, etc). As someone who is a mount/minion collector, is there any plans on adding these to the mogstation for purchase?

No mention of gunbreaker's sound effects in the patch notes? Are they really keeping them this horribly?... REALLY?

Whether added new weapons in dancer and hanbrake in the old extreme? Why is there no translation into Russian planned? A lot of players play from Russia and CIS. Virtually the entire server.

I like to organize my inventory in a way where all my consumables for example are in my last tab. Can you implement a way to sort tabs individually or a way to lock individual tabs from the sorting function? IE: I want tab 4 to not get sorted (locked) when I choose to sort the rest of the tabs.

Is there a chance summoner's Bahamut/Phoenix might be given the turret treatment, as their attacks have a 100y range, and movement usually messes with their AI, causing possible missed or delayed attacks on their part.

Do you plan on adding more npcs for the Trust System as we get farther in the main story?

After patch 5.05: when are you going to revert/fix AST's card system (by having arrow = speed, bole = defence, et cetera; have the play card be the the draw card like it used to be; and re-add royal road)?

After 5.05: can AST's celestial opposition be turned back into a stun?