Ask Questions for the Letter from the Producer LIVE: NA Fan Fest(Exploring Patch 3.4)

Why did you alter Sword Oath to remove one one of the few interesting gearing aspects of the game where low delay swords mattered over high delay ones?

why does the Alexandrian Buckler have kite shield stats?

A lot of the patch 3.4 monsters have very high up time for combat, will we see further adjustments to PLD in terms of TP management? perhaps in 3.45? I would suggest changing shield swipe's additional effect from pacify to restore a little TP.

Will we see better rewards for the Recruit A Friend Campaign? It feels as though the recruited friend should at least get silver feathers for playing the game.

Are there any plans for a wind up Hraesvelgr minion?

Will we see more curled hairstyles in the future now that we know it's possible?

Are there any plans to add in some things from 3.4 for players to use or wear? Like Urianger's veil, or a mount version of the Cruise Chaser's airship form?

Why doesn't the PC version of the game have better graphic options as in a more high end mode? Many other games have this and the fact that XIV doesn't is a shame. I know myself and others would love a higher texture option and just overall graphic update. You have proven that you can give certain platforms different graphic features, so I don't see what the problem is.

Hi, I just really want to know about future classes/jobs that you might add (to which I really hope Samurai is included.) If this is the moment you guys will choose to reveal such information about 4.0, then which ones will it be? (Please say Samurai. >-<)

Is there going to be a more modern glamour (i.e. frilly short skirts, dresses, knee high boots) in the future?

Also, is there going to be an auctioning feature implemented in the future?

What makes you believe that the prices on the Mog Station are appropriate? (18$ US for a glamour without a haircut)

So, this has two parts:

1) With the addition of the three jobs for Heavensward, Armory Chest space is tight, particularly if you had a job or two still to level and wanted to carry the next levels gear. And forget having the job specific gear for Crafting/Gathering. There is just no room. Are there any plans to increase Armory Chest space?

2) Is there anything in the works to add pages to the FC Chest? It is very difficult to keep supplies for those wanting to lvl a crafter available to members and also store things we need such as gardening supplies or airship materials for the house. We have always encouraged members to help out one another via the FC chest, but we have to limit it to 1 page only and it isn't very helpful since one page doesn't carry much. We'd even be willing to pay for additional pages, such as the extra retainers, but we need more pages! :)

Would it be possible to implement a feature for the Owner of a free company to remove someone's chocobo from the stables, or room from the FC house? If an FC wanted to move to a bigger house but the person has not been online in a while the only way to do so is to kick that person because you can't move with any rooms in the house or chocobos in the stables. However, sometimes people like these haven't been online so long because they are deployed or have just had a child. An admin feature like this could be really helpful for FC looking to move.

Are you gonna add more dye colors later? Magenta is still limited to Rolanberry and Metallic red and the Melee gear has this nice chartreuse yellow color that I'd like to use on weapons and other armor.

I noticed that the Chinese gear added recently has set bonuses on it, something we really havent seen on gear before. Will we see set bonuses on high level gear in 4.0?

The various elemental sprites are gorgeous, such as the wind sprite, ice sprite, and especially the Light sprite from Amdapoor City (Hard). Could we ever get the sprites as a series of minios? I would love to run around with a light sprite following me.

What is the status of the Summoner Pet Glamours? Should we expect that in 4.x?

I've posted this in the forums once before but, is it possible to get more emotes? Maybe more of the ones the NPCs do?
I really like the squat emote I see some NPCs doing. If we could get something like that it would be awesome!
Also, maybe push ups and the flirting emote that NPCs do.
I REALLY REALLY want that squat emote though.

Any chance we might see a Geomancer, Beast Master, Red mage, or Dancer in FFXIV's future?

Any chance that players will be able to attain hairstyles longer than the "Queen Hairstyle," such as that of Ysale, or does hair that long pose too many problems?

Will we ever get the Chinese-exclusive golden cloud mounts in the Mog Station

Any chance we will get any of the designs for Viera, shown last year when the Au'Ra were unveiled, as a new, playable race?

Something actually 3.4 related.

This patch saw the return of all the Scions. With no more need to look for them, will Yugiri and her ninja return? I know she has to be away until a new voice actress is found, but can we get an ETA? I'm not a summoner so if you say you plan to make her return in 4.1 I will happily wait till 4.3

Not a question but I really love the new Alisae. Looks, voice, character development, combat. An A+ for everyone responsible.

EDIT: Befoire I forget, I managed to get a Mist apartment and I'm very happy about it.

- Also I just finished the two investigation questlines. While I do enjoy the usual Hildibrand randomness (but miss the trials with Gilgamesh and Ultros) I really really like the Scholasticate storyline. It's an actual investigation and for me that's a lot of fun. Brings back memories of Witcher with that long detective arc in chapter 1. HOWEVER. Final Fantasy XIV uses two kinds of cutscenes. Ones that are pretty much gameplay footage with free camera. In it characters interact using in game emotes. Others use in game graphics, but unique animations. The former had a pretty bad example in the Scholasticate questline when Briardien's sister handed over her collected testimonies. It looked terrible especially compared to how natural us handing Tupsimati to Papalymo looked. I know you are most likely aware of the limits of the former style and that is why Briardien freed Ulaa offscreen (invisible bindings and gags don't look particularly good) for exanple, but these kinds of cutscenes really don't work for anything beside talking and walking So it would be nice if certain interactions between characters were limited to actual cutscenes as much as the budget, the animation team and the PS3 allows it.

I love the gear in this expansion, but I would love to see Female characters have more formal, elegant glamour options, such as the Thavnairian Bustier, the high house dress, or the Far eastern attire. Is there any chance that we might see full-length kimonos, elegant Victorian or Elizabethan ball gowns, for woman or 17th century French nobleman's attire for men?

Could you guys localize subscription payments for south america? Or even, give us a server because its really sad that the accessibility for us cost so much.

Where is Viera? We want Viera!

Why not use the potsherd mentality for accursed hoard rewards?

Why RNG?

Hey there - I am the self appointed strata president for The Mist, 9th Ward Apartments in Excalibur and there's a few concerns I'd like to address.

First and foremost - the addition to said apartments were great! Thank you for that! It was well needed and takes off a great deal of stress until you're able to open more wards and Ishgard respectively.

Now onto a few concerns and questions.

Concern A) The apartments lack one key thing I feel is needed - and that is a mailbox. While I love how there's a market board and a summoning bell right there, a mailbox would be paramount to anyone who utilizes it as much as I do (and many others given the feedback)

Concern B) A lot of us are in an FC and it's a bit of a wayward situation. Some of the other FCs in the apartments expressed that they would like to be able to operate Airships much like how people who have FC mansions do as well. Is there any plans on incorporating a community workshop that would be instanced to the user and the party members so that they can at least be able to carry on some kind of planning for instance - the Diadem. We actually transferred from one server to Excalibur and that was one main concern of our own we had for ourselves and that was the need to do some exploration and expedition runs. Are there any plans to do something like that to assist those stray FCs without roots to lay down? I feel this would alleviate a lot of headaches for both parties.

Addendum to this - perhaps an option to have penthouses for those FCs? This would solve so many problems and offer a gorgeous view of the city they are living in - the best part? It's super easy to do than taxing your servers with more plots (or so I'd like to believe)

Concern C) A community garden. It would be ideal to have one of these. While we have chocobo stables (YAY!) we do need to feed, level and color our Chocobos. As with the instancing idea I was mentioning for the airships, would there be any plans for something like that?

Concern D) Guest access - Yes I know it was mentioned that we would not be able to share the room with anyone, but some players who are starting out would benefit being a roommate to one person so they can at least be given time to level, get a feel for the game and be able to properly position themselves. The apartments are great, but they are slowly filling up and this would at least give that player who otherwise can't afford or technically be able to purchase an apartment some kind of base of operation for themselves.


Thanks for hearing me out guys! This patch was amazing!

in the future may we have a fight so ridiculous and hilarious that people would wipe over laughter? like for example turning the healers into tanks and players have to hit each other to heal and healing damages while the boss does a silly dance

Is there any chance we're able to have TENANTS in our apartments in a near future? I wanted to share my apartment with my GF's char :(

I loved the story in 3.4, but one thing that has been a persistent issue in the story for me is the lack of acknowledgment of having leveled a healing class. As a healer main, I find it incredibly irritating when one of my companions is injured in the story and I'm not given the option of tending to them myself rather than letting nameless NPC chirurgeons take care of them. Is there any chance of us getting our class choices incorporated more into the story?

in the future will we get more housing space like maybe just 20-50 slots for furniture?
cuz a lot of chairs tables carpets and wall mounts eat a lot of spots, even the variety of food

Important question: How do we achive 1st lieutenant of the grand company? Do we have to get a higher Lv with our squadron to gain our promotion?

Like the glamour gear for some of the Scions, could we possible get it for Haurchefant's armor on the Mog Station?
I REALLY liked wearing it in the Grand Melee.

Now that PS3 support is being dropped there's a lot of opportunity for items such as complex gear designs, mounts, etc. that were not possible before. I was wondering if we could start seeing the implementation of "wing" mounts, where the player themselves sprouts a pair of wings and IS the mount. Angel wings, bat wings, etc. would both look really cool and should be a viable means of transportation now.

So I noticed this patch we have the Great Gubal Library as the new hard mode dungeon, last patch we had Hullbreaker Isle as Hard mode

Given there is a mix of 3.0 and 2.0 content still with no hard mode, what decides which dungeon gets the new level?

Because of the way Apartments are built, can people upgrade them to mansion sizes?

Now that the camera settings function has been added to the game how possible would it be to add a green screen filter?

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I really love the design of the Mandervilllian barding! However, I was disappointed when I found out only our chocobos could wear it, because it's really cute, and I think a version of that dress for player characters would be even cuter! Are there any plans to implement those kinds of cute, frilly outfits in the future? (eg. the Mandervillian maid dress, or something like the Ishgardian Rose outfit from the tank gear contest)

New Tank Jobs after Samurai?

Aside from Samurai, which everyone's expecting, what other tank jobs are you considering for future expansions? Would you consider Dancer as an evasion tank?

I've grown quite attached to my midlander, but she doesn't look very reliable as a tank with her current run animation. Are alternate run animations for races out of the question?

This is super dumb, please forgive me.

It was hoped that people would be able to ride their own airships that were built in the FC. Do you plan on expanding what airships can do and their usefulness?