Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIX! (Exploring Patch 2.45)

Can we have another method of obtaining an Encrypted Tomestone? I'm a casual player and would like a new axe. But find it's difficult enough to get the relic weapon up to speed. Finding a coil group where people can keep their attitudes in check is even harder.

With Stoneskin II easing up on WHMs pre-battle preparation when should we be expecting an instant reset for abilities/skills (CDs) after getting defeated in an instance. After every defeat or attempt we have to wait for CDs to be ready which takes up to 4-5 mins, and time is a limited resource when raiding.

Are summoners expecting any upgrade considering the average playerbase is drifting towards blackmage due to the new content. Blackmage got a buff for the previous content to balance them out with summoners, so how will you restore balance?

I've been hoping each patch that the FATE requirement for the Atma/Animus books might be reduced or removed. I can't say that I enjoy the rest of the books, but the FATE requirements seem particularly annoying to me, especially for fates with 3-4 hour respawn times.

What you are essentially asking us is to sit around and not play the game while waiting for these fates. What little time I have to play I would like to actually..play. Not sit around waiting for a fate.

Hope you guys think about this. I know these are supposed to take a lot of time, but I'd like to spend the time actually working on it, not standing in a designated spot for a few hours.

I noticed Rowena changed her outfit, and others have told me that she has changed outfits quite a lot since 1.0. Is there a specific reason why she suddenly switched styles again?

With recent patches adding new stuff, no one does hunts anymore. So are there currently any plans to do something to hunts to make them appealing again?

The ceremony reservation system was not a good experience. I was not able to book anything at the registration time. Is there any way to improve this? Instanced ceremonies? A mirrored cathedral similar to mirrored housing zones? I think the amount of people wanting to participate will not decrease very fast since only 84 ceremonies can occur per week.

The issue of players using bot programs to farm monsters is still not addressed. How would you tackle this issue other than the in-game reporting which we players have no idea whether or not they are being addressed?

My question has to do with personal housing. I've seen many threads and questions to the producer about permissions for housing, however there has never been an answer or even mention about this issue.

This is a list of things I am interrested in for personal housing:
1. LOCK MY DOOR so I can give special permissions to those that can enter my house.
2. Allow permissions for decorating and moving furniture in my house.
3. Allow teleports to the front of my house.
4. Allow access to those I choose to tend to my garden. What if I'm sick and can't log in? I will loose w/e it is I planted. (Gardening permissions.)

Its seems like relic progression favours "first come first served". Players engaging in relic content a patch later may find themselves trying to upgrade their relic ilvl in much harder content than originally intended, or face a harder time as the horde of players are done with upgrades for now. This leaves slower players falling behind even more. Are there going to be any further "catch up" opportunities?

when paypal will implement as payment method ?

You left crafters out of relic progression for so long ( and no the base weapon and matiria dont cont in where I'm going in this ). But you made crafters a bigger part in the Zodiac upgrade and you made the recipes a 3 star requirement.

And this is frustrating because I don't do a lot of crafting so I got nothing beyond 2 stars and I don't do any kind of big farming so I had to spend almost a large part of the gil IV saved over the past year on materiel's and I know this has been said before but the item level for the zodiac weapon seams very sad for all this time and work that needs to go in to it.

Please tell me you at least have plans to tone the requirements down on this by the expansion because I plan to have Dark Knight be my main and id hate to go thru this with things like the crafted items again.

Many have already asked if the relics are over or if they're continuing, but the question on my mind is, if this is the end, where is the special audio and visual perks that were stated to be coming to the relic? I asked this question back at E3 for purely cosmetic differences special to the relic, such as black/purple fire for black mages, and it was said it was coming, not even a maybe, just that it was. Is this truly it? Or will 2.55 bring them to par with raid weapons and give them their specialties?

I've already posted on general discussion, but will post it here. Can you make race specific gear dyeable? I never seen it implemented beyond 2.4, but only job specific gear patches back.

i want to know what is the number one request you receive from players That you won't be able to grant?

i want to know if Yoshi-P agrees with my signature..

thank you beloved Yoshi-P! the whole player base is not represented by these forums! please look forward to our love of the world you helped us create!

IV noticed that the older dungeons now loop the music and now I can tell just how great the music to Pharos is. It was mentioned a while ago on how people wanted the music in dungeons to loop so this is really a great thing to have.

Now if you could just have us be able to go in the dungeons with out it being part of a duty that be perfect. Because i find it sad that all this work that goes into the environment for them but can never have a chance to really have a chance to look at it all since right now it's go in finish then just leave.

Regarding the Lion and the Bear Mounts, it's beginning to get a little difficult and time consuming getting the 200 Wins in High Level Duties such as The Binding Coil of Bahamut and Extreme Mode Primals. Can you perhaps lower the chances of obtaining them by allowing Hard Mode Dungeons and Primals and also Duty Roulettes to count towards getting those rewards?

When I was getting my Excalibur and Aegis Shield, the message said the chances of succession was 1.4%. Was that just a joke or was it real?