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

Bunny boys, when?

After 3 Expansions only one question has lingered in my brainbox...

When, if ever, will we be allowed to craft while INSIDE our retainer window to allow access to all the pretty materials we have gathered over the course of our journeys. If a feature of such magnitude were to be implemented, I might actually craft something :). Right now it feels like a hassle to manage everything and play Where's Waldo for my materials. I leave that to braver people to do.

Would it be possible to add the daily/weekly hunt marks to the Hunting Log tab? Rather than having to go into the key items tab of the inventory and looking up each rank of marks one-by-one.

Will there be anymore Main Story quests in future patches?

Would it be possible to introduce additional housing space in S/M/L plots as an optional item on Mog Station? Similar to retainer services, the housing space could be an additional allotment for the player?

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Originally Posted by NyxTheCat

Would it be possible to introduce additional housing space in S/M/L plots as an optional item on Mog Station? Similar to retainer services, the housing space could be an additional allotment for the player?

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Could we please just have additional housing space as part of the game and not added to the cash shop?

Is the team looking how to improve ninja during this patch cycle? Job is really underwhelming at the moment.

Questions:

High-level crafting has, over the last couple of expansions in my opinion, become much too easy of an endeavor for players now as there really is no 'endgame' for crafting. Heavensward was basically the best time for crafting as far as I'm concerned. I know everything ends up revolving around the marketboard, but I'd like there to be something to strive for as a crafter beyond my gil count. Are there any plans to add some kind of a progression-style endgame for crafting similar to the weekly tomestone caps for battle classes at some point? Additionally, are there any plans to make high-level crafting more difficult?

Are there any plans to address the shortage of housing space or change how the system works overall? I don't think the current system fits in with how popular the game has become and I don't believe that a feature as desirable as player housing should be a limited commodity that basically amounts to a dice roll whether or not you get one.

any plans to add the ascian theme for the orchestrion rolls?

Treasure maps question:

There is a possibility to do the treasure maps a stackeable item?
The current system of one map per retainer and player is cumbersome

When will ninja get a re-work?
#fixninjaplease

Sorry if this has been answered before. Why was the choice made to take protect from the White Mage? Also is there a plan to add any more buffs back to the class. I feel buffs were a great addition to the job and now I just feel like a heal/dps class. Maybe add buffs for the party or more debuffs for us to use against mobs?

Question1: Will there be ARR, HW and SB primal, gold saucer weapons for the 2 new jobs Dancer and Gunbreaker ? It was quite odd to find out there where none given Samurai and Red Mage had them at launch of 4.0

Question2: How long will we have to wait for Viera and Hrothgar to be able to display every hat on the head? also how come any helmet/hat from 5.0 untill now isnt displayable on the new races?

Do you think you will ever add new wolf collar feast weapons to the wolf collar vendor and do you think you will ever make the feast top 100 armor sets that aren't usable on all classes available for all classes .(as a top 100 player of S1-2 it would be nice to glam on the lone wolf armor on my Crafters and gatherers)

With a week of Savage raiding under our belt, does the development team feel they met their goals for the vision of the Healer role in raid content moving more toward a "pure healer"? In what areas might they be looking to adjust content for healers in future raids?

With the Nier collaboration raid coming, would you consider doing a kingdom hearts collaboration?
With the new jobs a lot of the weapons in the kingdom hearts series could be used as glamour items and there are many unique outfits from the series. With it being so popular and with kingdom hearts 3 release it could be a good time for a collaboration.

Thank you :)

Are there any plans in making solo duties replayable outside of the New Game+? There are some solo duties I'd I've always wanted to retry with my character in different classes. Without having to go through the entire story again.

Will there be plans to allow 2 players along with 2 TRUST NPC’s to form a Party and run Dungeons? I would love to run some dungeons with a friend or two and have TRUST NPCs fill the rest of the party.

It’s been years since any updates to FC functionalities, when will there be an update?

Over the span of the previous two years, small features regarding player preference on certain job quirks have been added - summoners can use carbuncles again, players can change the size of demi-Bahamut, machinist was able to toggle the visibility of gauss barrel (when they still had it), and scholar now has a choice of which fairy they can use solely for aesthetic and appearance purposes. With that being said and in light of the split and controversy from the changes to Gunbreaker sound effects, has there been any consideration in using a similar system to let people choose between the original 5.0 sounds and the 5.01 sounds, even if the sounds heard are only affected on the client side?

Not really a question, but you can get rid of tornado kick. We don't really need it at this point.

Will a one time password (to prevent login from a new IP/computer without access to your account email) or some other addional security mechanism be added to further help to prevent accounts from being compromised?

[NIN]

When will ninja finally get a proper update? At its current iteration, it doesn't feel rewarding to play. We have to put in so much effort, memorization, and have good ping in order to play effectively. But our damage is just so sub-par for the amount of effort. There is a minimum 20 second window where we're stuck performing our 1, 2, 3 weaponskill combo without casting any other OGCD abilities. Maybe lowering the cooldowns of Ninjutsu to 15 seconds and Kassatsu to 30 seconds will help. A fast-casting, high skill-cap ninja would be a blast to play!
Anyways, can we expect any significant changes for ninja in this expansion?

When will housing be available in Twintania? and also will we get compensation for all the "missed bonus" in patch 5.0 :o

Bard and Dancer seem to be lacking in terms of overall performance compared to Machinist; are there any thoughts of adjustments in the future to balance out the performance of Bard/Dancer compared to Machinist?

I am a mentor on the Exodus server and I manage a number of newbie helping channels for casuals and end game players after they are no longer part of the Novice Network to help the two groups to help them take their first steps into end game.

As FFXIV grows as a community I want to be able to include more players together. Would it be possible to increase linkshell capacity to 256 players instead of 128? I feel this would help me and communities to foster stronger healthier bonds and also make it so that we can accommodate the growing player base to foster a more cooperative player environment.

Could we please get a sin eater lion mount in the store.. would complete my look - thanks ;)

Ive been playing monk since the PS3 beta, it's my favorite dps! I love the shadowbringers changes and additions to monk so far. But question, since were able to keep greased lightning up at almost all times with Six Sided Star, Form Shift, Riddle of Earth and Anatman, we have no real reason to use Tornado kick and to lose our greased lightning. Was this the intention? Or what can we expect from Tornado kick in the future?

Inventory Sorting

Will we have some adjustments/Quality of Life changes in Inventory Sorting in the future? Managing multiple inventories isn't very user friendly, especially when using the Glamour Dresser feature. It'd be great to be able to sort items in a faster way, toggle bigger icons for easier looking and search for name/class/level, for example.

Can we get challenge logs for turnining in collectibles for crafters and gatherers?

When are you going to fix housing issues? I finally saw a house open and thought ohhh let me grab it and found out there is a timer!!! I sat clicking for hours then had to get off to come back and it's gone. Why not first come first served. Housing really sucks I just wanted a small and I had no idea how long the timer was for. At least show the timer

What about the future of the Blue Mage? Will it ever be a Normal Job or it stays as a Limited Job?

Asking about potential NIN reworks. In general should we be hoping for QoL coming out? Or are we actually going to get a buff?

And with that in mind these are my personal favorite reworks/buffs withouy comments

-remove bunny mudra. Allow misteps to just not exist exactly like how dancer works.

-allow movement during TCJ

-shadowfang made part of armor crush combo. (SE->SF->AC)

-Raiton made into a long duration low potency dot buff fuma.

-Throw dagger no longer interrupts mudras or weaponskill combos.

-kassatsu used to execute ninjutsu rather than premptively upgrade.

-Connecting hyosho to fuma instead of hyoton. Hyoton made into an interupt or cooldown timed stun.

-bunshin duration slightly nerfed but full teased effect regained. Or tieing it to a set amount of gcds.

-altering meisui+mug for less redundancy and complexity.

-tighten mudra window (from 5 seconds down to 2 seconds) make ninjutsu cast current mudra combination when mudra expires without interrupting gcd. (Removing one button press from ninjutsuing and allowing the removal of the ability from hotbar)

Are you going to update the housing system?

I don't feel we're spending enough quality time with Feo Ul! Titania Savage, please!

Hey there Mr. Producer, When will you let me pay you money to never have to collect an aether current again? I really do not enjoy that part of the game, and it prevents me from participating in end game Hunts, etc... I understand that this is a fun part of the game for some people, but I just find it to be a hassle. Thankyou!

WAR has Equilibrium. PLD has Clemency.

Any chance GNB will get a high potency self-heal?

Maybe change Aurora from Regen to an 800 potency self-heal?

What was the reasoning behind having the skill Living Shadow summon the form of a male Hyur regardless of the player character's race and gender?

As a trans woman with a female character, it's incredibly distressing to know she'd be forced to summon an aspect of herself in a masculine body.
This single skill has kept me from touching a job that I've previously enjoyed. Is there any way this skill could be changed visually? A helmet-less copy of the player character with the same texture treatment as now would look much better in my opinion.

Glamour Question:

Can we please get a system similar to FFXI's glamour system, where you can glamour any item on any job (provided you have a job leveled that can wear it)?

Example. You have an 80 Summoner and a 60 Samurai, you would be able to glamour any Samurai gear up to level 60 on your Summoner.

Some gear looks a lot better than others, and it would be great to have more options for appearances.

In addition to the gear for normal jobs, I would absolutely love to equip some of the job specific crafting/gathering gear on all jobs. Every expansion there are some amazing looking outfits for the crafters and gatherers, but you rarely see it because most people (understandably) just go for the all-in-one crafted gear so as not to overload their armory chest.

Thanks, YoshiP!

1. Please give us the option to disable the error/warning text and sound when trying to use an ability before it’s available.

People tend to mash, and these just get in the way.

2. Any updates on new Egis for SMN?

Keep up the amazing work!