Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVIII! (Exploring patch 2.4)

Summoner does not seem to be performing as well as other DPS jobs in FCoB. During long fights, summoners do not have enough MP to sustain their rotation. Energy drain restores a very small amount of MP at level 50. Most of the caster gear in 2.4 seems to favor black mages. Caster gear has been loaded with spell speed which has little effect on summoner damage. Are there any plans in the future to split black mage and summoner gear? Are there any changes being made to make summoner MP more sustainable?

Question Regarding House:-

Now that we have a stronger number of housing available, there are several new questions and issues that everyone is wondering.

1) Will a caretaker system be implemented? So that a owner can assign a caretaker to look after his estate and or plants and also mitigate the time before plot relinquishing when he actually needs to take a momentary leave (Like for thanksgiving, work overseas for a week or even surgery... I mean Real Life Needs)...

- Imagine a player who's had a family emergency.. and comes back to find his plot relinquished or his gardens wasted.... It was hard even for players who had to take 5 days off to attend the fan fest as well.

2) Will a deed system be implemented? So a player can fully, and or partially transfer his estate or trade it. Essentially selling it to a player as it - or just the plot, or relinquish it for some compensation so that they can be offered the option to UPGRADE to a better locations and or plot?

When can we expect the next Zodiac step? 2.45 perhaps?

Crafting and fishing used to be fun. Now they are horrible awful grinds. This scares away 90% of the player base, and consolidates money further into the hands of the few. Are there any plans to make crafting and fishing fun again or are you happy to leave it completely inaccessible to most of the game community with the ridiculous requirements?

Some sense of sanity for crafters?

It has always been a policy to never gate a player out of contents..
But it seems the same does not apply to Crafters and Gatherers

Pentamelding should always be an optional goal for anything.
IMO I feel that the bare minimum gear requirements for any crafters should NEVER involve forbidden melds.
If a crafter decides to do such a meld, he should at least be given a much higher chance of a 100% HQ

This philosophy worked well for crafting when it first started and players melded to craft 2 star items. I think its getting out of hand.. Is the dev considering this?
Crafters everywhere are already starting to give up on the economy

Please fix ninja pvp helm to show eyes instead just having it be a blackspace.

During the Patch 2.4 Main Scenario, I noticed that Aymeric was carrying a blue-ish Curtana. Does that mean we're gonna have another relic quest in Patch 2.45 or 2.48?

Can we introduce new ways to obtain Materia such as in dungeons from the boxes which only drop potions/ethers/elixirs. For example: The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) has four boss chests which yield synthesis materials and armor. There are also four other treasure chests in the dungeon, all four of which yield identical drops. X-Potion, X-Ether, Hi-Elixir. If we added materia to these chests, there would be a 1/4 chance of obtaining a tier 4 materia. There are 24 types of materia (excluding demi,) so the chance of obtaining a materia of choice per Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) is 1/24.


Dungeons Lv15 -> 30 Tier 1 [Sastasha, Tam-Tara Deepcroft, Copperbell Mines, Halatali, Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, Haukke Manor]
Dungeon Lv30->45 Tier 2 [Brayflox's Longstop, Sunken Temple of Qarn, Cutter's Cry, Stone Vigil, Dzemael Darkhold]
Dungeons Lv45-> iLVL 60 reward Tier 3 [Aurum Vale, Castrum Meridianum, Praetorium, Wanderer's Palace, Amdapor Keep, Pharos Sirius, Copperbell Mines (Hard), Haukke Manor (Hard)]
Dungeons iLVL70-80 reward 50% tier 3 50% tier 4 [Lost City of Amdapor, Halatali (Hard), Brayflox's Longstop (Hard), Hullbreaker Isle, Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard), Stone Vigil (Hard)]
Dungeons iLVL 90 reward 100% tier 4 [Snowcloak, Sastasha (Hard), Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard)]

Going to echo the previous questions on smn and spell speed. Was was the reasoning behind placing spell speed on so much of the gear in 2.4? It seems really odd from an itemization standpoint

can MRD WAR GLD PLD be added to Wootz Mail so we can utilize the look from FFXI since Ares's Cuirass had WAR PLD DRK DRG

Can we expect an upgrade to our storage capacity, including bigger tabs for the Armoury Chest? With all classes and jobs unlocked, class-specific equipment and PvP specific gear, 25 slots is VERY limiting.

Could you add a back-pack to display on our backs with a toggle on/off feature similar to how the Legacy tattoo works?

Could facial expressions be turned into persistent emotes, or made so that they last longer and are not overwritten by the expressions of the normal emotes that follow?

Will there be more features added for Free Companies to help build a better sense of community? Currently, FCs feel like upgraded linkshells with buffs and company housing as their only function. Members who want to contribute to the growth of an FC find it difficult to do so, because the current content limits FCs to 4 and 8-man content (yes, this includes hunts). In the future, will there be additional features and content that an entire free company can get involved in together?

Would you please consider adding a "Roleplaying" or "In Character" online status to add among the options (AFK, Busy, etc.) so that roleplayers can recognize/search for each other?

Sleipnir's slow walk is really cool! Could my other mounts, or my character, get such a slow walking pace as well?

Aside from the level increase to 60 and some new skills added to their kits do you have any plans to improve the pre-3.0 jobs if you are no longer doing branching paths like SMN and SCH?

If so does that mean SMN/SCH will be the only one like this or will it become just one class like the rest (meaning the removal of one of the paths)?

Could housing wards be set up so that a "trade plots" option is possible between houses in the same plot of different ward? Ex: Plot 1 Ward 3 trades place with Plot 1 Ward 5. There's many friends in different plots who would love to be neighbors!

Are there any plans to address the slight delay between casting Mudras that often causes the system to miss a mudra in the combo when a player clicks the actions too fast for the system to register, causing the ninjutsu to fail or cast a different ninjutsu than the one intended.

Can female ninjas have the male ninja AF pants please?

Can we please have a character creation and customization patch? I'd love to see new faces, voices, tattoos, facial features, hairstyles, etc. The current pace of options is extremely long to wait for.

Are we going to be able to ride mounts other than Chocobos while our companions are summoned any time soon?

In 2.4 patch notes it said Timeworn Peisteskin maps would have an increase to the rare drops drop rate, but this hasn't happened if anything all lot from these maps have been nerfed drastically as peisteskin maps have now become a waste of time to do compared with how they were before the launch of 2.4 patch, will u be fixing an buff these maps drop anytime soon?

Will we ever be able to attack while mounted?

Will we be getting gear set bonuses for gear outside of grand company gear?

as the lvl caps keep increasing there one question i manage many different jobs in the game and there's one thing that has always bother me and that is that i cant glamor my gear different for the classes that shear the same gear like whm and sch or blm and smn there r different jobs that can shear the same gear so i was wondering is it possible to change that and have the glamors be job base instead of gear base im sure every would love the idea since i have seen this concern by alot of players

While we're on that, would it be possible for there to be gearset-based glamours?

With the addition of Second Coil to the duty finder, and Binding Coil T5 being a requirement to get that, will T5 be made easier?

Why did you choose to only allow parties of eight to queue into Second Coil in duty finder and not just let a random group get together? How does that really make it any different from Final Coil?

Are there any plans on fixing/allowing dragoons jump ability's animation to bypass rocks and cactus plants that our regular jump can because if we use the jump ability's with them in the path line we still hit our target but end up blocked by the small obstacles.

With the addition of Final Coil, and the blocks that are T5 and T9, is there anything planned to help players gather groups for Final Coil. As a player who has finished T9 but has no static due to bad play times, it is very difficult to find groups for Fcob because there aren't any pug groups on the Party Finder at all.

Along time ago before the game even came out you mentioned allowing FCs to summon full primals if they obtain a special item from them and only one FC would have them at a time until summoned.
After this was mention we have heard nothing about it since.
What is happening with this?

is there any adjustment to Black Mage in PVP?
and please limit the amount of Healers in frontline per party.
IN frontline its just the more healer you get the more you can hold on to the flags then everyone would go in as healers other classes would be left out please give skill to Blackmage to be able to kill healers

Will the Fisher Retainer ever stop returning with Honey Lemon HQs? I send her out for Waterside Exploration, 18 hours and she comes back with a botany item and not even a fish!

Will we be allowed to let party members or people on our friends' list, drink and eat food placed in our personal rooms?

I'm not sure if this has already been discussed but will further upgrades for the Zodiac Weapons be discontinued after Nexus? And what of the item level, will it stop at 120 prior to the release of the Heavensward expansion pack?

When will the next Relic Quest Updates and what will the ilevel be?

Can you extend the period of time when our Housing will be gone after you are not log in and visit your house for a certain period of time? Right now we can't take a break from the game if we bought a House. Maybe we could extend it to 3 Month before it is put up for sale again?

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Originally Posted by Sequora

Summoner does not seem to be performing as well as other DPS jobs in FCoB. During long fights, summoners do not have enough MP to sustain their rotation. Energy drain restores a very small amount of MP at level 50. Most of the caster gear in 2.4 seems to favor black mages. Caster gear has been loaded with spell speed which has little effect on summoner damage. Are there any plans in the future to split black mage and summoner gear? Are there any changes being made to make summoner MP more sustainable?

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This message probably gets deleted, but i think its important this gets asked.
I burn trough my Mana so fast in coil, i lose so much dps,
We need a buff/Mana, since most gear is favored for BLM

Is there any plans in increasing the potency of tri-disaster from SMN as it feels more of a useless ability for that job than blizzard II?