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

I find the way AST is right now a bit boring because its too straightforward, you only need 3 different seals for Divination and its the only skill that seals matters. Any chance that we get more spells affected by seals or different effects for different seals combinations?

Has the player OPTION for using the PVP combo system for PVE content had anymore consideration?

Thank you for all your hard work! I hope you and the team have managed to get some rest, although I can see from your schedules that you're all going hard at it regardless.

My question is: When I speak to the Exarch about current happenings, he gives me a basic run-down on what all my Scion friends are up to...save for Urianger. Why does he not mention Urianger?

Any chances for player chat bubbles? It's a bit hard to notice when someone says something in the middle of a busy dungeon when I can't take my eyes off the middle of the screen.

Can we have more regular dye colors? We get 18 shades of brown 17 shades of green, 17 shades of blue, but only 9 shades of pink, purple and yellow. I'd like more peach colors and magenta.

Good day. Will there be a separate inventory in the game for fishing tackle (bait, jig,and so on) That would be so wonderful!

Once the issue of making older hairstyles work on Viera is addressed will Viera's hairstyles be made to work on existing races aswell?

Shadowbringers brought a change in Job Quests with the introduction of Role Quests. Is this going to be continued in the future as a means to streamline the stories for individual jobs? Did Shadowbringers bring an end of the current stories of the Job Quests?


I've always enjoyed the stories told in the Job Quests and worry we will lose out on learning more about the world in a more personalized way. I love going on grand, main story adventures, but I think having more down to earth stories that explore who are are and the jobs we play are important as well. I quite liked the role quests, but I also felt empty with how short the Job Quests were.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by firedrake

In the 5.01 patch, GNB sound effects received substantial changes. The feedback from the community thus far seems to be overwhelmingly negative, both in the official forums and on social media. Is this feedback being acknowledged, and can we expect to see any further tweaks or even a complete reversion to the old sounds? Additionally, can you help explain the thought process behind the decision to make this kind of change so soon after launch? It feels like it was very rushed.

---

In addition to this... PLEASE change it back to how it was. All they wanted were for the explosions to be higher in volume, not to change the pride of the job, please please PLEASE revert it back to how it was released, there was nothing wrong with it. It sounds absolutely horrid right now. I'm not being as professional as everyone else here I'm sure lol.

Will you and the development team look into having all bosses in a singular instance over multiple and would you consider adding trash back as well? I know in an interview you said you wanted to not artificially extend content but I feel trash could add to a more immersive experience rather than feel like you're trying to make people spend more time within the run. To Elaborate further on having all bosses within a singular instance I would imagine this would lead to having to have a longer duration for the timer of said instance, but to counter act it could you possibly introduce a the feature from deep dungeons to raids, once you've killed a boss that is where you're group will start and if a member can;t make it another can come in and replace them and at their choice not receive loot lf they are ok with skipping the previous boss. I feel doing this could lead to an overall better experience for raids and possibly make them feel more involved over having 4 separate instance that feel like glorified trials in comparison to earlier versions of Alexander normal and Coils. Is it something that you and the team have considered and if you chose against it what was the reason? And if you could possibly do it after the 5.x series with a larger development team would you?