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

May we potentially see more adventurously designed Housing Districts (such as the implementation of Shirogane) but in places like Norvrandt or other shards in the future?

In the game there is tool tips within skills and abilities about combos which are really handy, will there be a guide or tool tip on how to deal with rotations for example Black Mage to me has one of the most complex rotations around?

Will we ever have a return or continuation of the Moogle Delivery quests?

Summoner right now is not fun to play and is an awful mess are there plans to fix it?

There are a great many good looking mounts and armors that have been in prior ranked pvp seasons that some of us may have missed or not been here for. Would you be willing to consider adding these to the shop or mog station one year after rewards are handed out in the same way as events are handled?

Have a question in regards to the ARR kettle glams from the ARR relic weapon quests. Was wondering if their was any thoughts on expanding this querky side of Gerolt. I was a little surprised that we didnt see Gerolt use the new techniques he learnt from HW and SB relics to make new Kettles, or even other kitchen items, such as duel glowing rolling pins for Nin or a Wok shield for Pld I feel like there was a bit of lost opportunity both continuing Gerolts comical experimentation with techniques he learns and thinks of on kitchen items, as well as new, kitchen inspired glams for those who might like to show of their love for cooking even during combat.

Any plans to let us the Skip Cutscenes on Main Scenario quest Praetorium and Castrum Meridianum again?

Will Dancer and Gunbreaker be getting glamour options for weapons? (Like primal weapons, Dead Hive, Endless Expance, Vortex, ect. and maybe Ultimate Dreadwyrm and Ultima weapons?)

Can we get a Hybrid or Support Role? FFXIV Jobs are feeling way to similar to each other, nothing feels unique. As Alexandre_Noireau perfectly put it.

"All classes are feeling way too similar, the game has already being too streamlined for too long in terms of builds and player style and customization. Is the price to pay for balance and honestly, i don't know if its worth it. We should get more freedom to play roles in a more diverse way, the trinity has served it's function, is time to move on"

Can we get shout converted into a permanent chat like most of the others? I am referring to how anytime you say something in shout chat it defaults back to the previous chat channel you had set. Being able to use shout with having to keep switching to shout chat would be a nice quality of life feature.

Will we learn more about General Ran’jit in the future? How he became loyal to Vauthry? He stated that he worked with him of his own free will and wasn’t a thrall like the others. What about more of his relationship with the Minfilias as well as Ryne?

Will you ever consider adding themed apartments outside of the housing wards in towns and cities around the game world and across all expansions, to places like Tailfeather, Camp Drybone, Aleport, and even the adventurer towns of each content cycle like Mor Dhona, Idylshire, Rhalgr's Reach, and Eulmore?

Can you update the quests and fates of all ARR, HW, and SB zones with the level scaling of SHB quests and the exp bonus fates and maidens of SB and SHB, and increase the base experience earned (before bonuses and scaling are calculated) for all quests and fates up to level 70?

Can we get a job leveling item that does not automatically skip all the class and job quests? I dislike the leveling experience up to around 60 for almost every job I've leveled so far, but love the quests. I'd pay to skip straight to 70, but not if it means missing out on the quests.

Can we get a hunt monster that is a Phooka named Mother Phooka? I would also accept Mother of Phookas Ty <3

Can you add swimming and flying to more areas of the game, specifically ARR zones? For swimming, even if it's just surface swimming it would be a nice, immersive feature across a bunch of areas. I understand that adjusting zones for flying would be a daunting task, but even if it were done in incremental patches rather than all at once that would be really cool.

Is there any chance that we will be seeing a Keeper of the Keys mount? I absolutely adore that rainbow yeti. It would be nice to have it as a mount.

Has a glamour system similar to World of Warcraft's Transmogrification feature or other similar systems been considered? Perhaps acquiring the gear for first time going into a collection and then still requiring glamour prism as a currency whenever wishing to glamour gear. This would give a boost to older content as well for people wishing to complete their collection.

Would it be possible to choose what interior style (lavender beds/goblet/mists/shirogane)
a house has without having to relocate to that corresponding district? Recently it seems we have less and less restrictions on these types of things and I think many people would be happy to choose the inside style of their house.

Would it be possible to add more options for disabling specific chat messages instead of lumped together as one. Such as disabling "XXXX has left/joined linkshell". Ideally having one tab for just friends and party text and nothing else, and then a tab for just chosen linkshells minus system messages would be wonderful.

Have other menu themes, like the new light theme, been considered? perhaps themes that are reminiscent of the older final fantasy menus, or perhaps customizable color picker wheel menus with different styles (smooth or marbled gradient)

Would it be possible to allow the Dragoon AOE combo (Doom Spike->Sonic Thrust->Coerthan Torment) to refresh the damage buff from Disembowel on at least part of the combo?
It feels a bit awkward to have to stop AOE, press True Thrust->Disembowel, ignore the rest of that combo chain, and go back to the AOE combo. Jobs such as samurai has this kind of idea behind it as well.

How likely would it be to get a gear set that perfectly matches the Faerie/butterflywinged aesthetic that the Titania weapons have?
I would LOVE to have a matching set to use with the weapons, especially when we hopefully eventually get crafted particle effect versions of the weapons.

Why doesn't SMN have Outburst proc when Ruin IV procs so that we have the option for a multi-target action instead of just a single-target action?

Would it be possible for the game to allow for using side mouse buttons (mouse 4/5/etc) as modifier keys? At the moment I have to use the mouse's keybinding profiles and set it to a ctrl key and then change it back whenever i am not in game.

Would it be possible to make Dragon Sight auto select the nearest person or something if the dragoon activates it without selecting a person? that way it will at least be used on SOMEONE as opposed to ONLY the dragoon.

RDM Displacement & Engagement should be made into 1 action with 5-10 yalm backflip, yes?

Would it be possible to update certain mounts to add nongeneric mount music? And for mounts from Trials that have multiple music or phases (such as Sephirot's Lanner bird, or Titan's horse) allow an option to select which phase of the song you wish it to play? (perhaps as a submenu in the mounts menu when right clicking on a mount)

Can you make outgoing text chat change color just as incoming text chat does so the chance of mis-telling is reduced/eliminated? For example, after the /p, /t, /sh, /fc commands, the text would change color to make it known which chat is being used.

Would it be possible to allow for saving multiple music playlists and naming them? Having the ability to have a relaxing playlist and an exciting battle one without having to constantly change your house's playlist would be quite nice! :D

Will it be possible to obtain this as an orchestrion roll, perhaps from the residential vendors?

Will it be possible to have pixie estate servants?

Will we be getting the purple and gold rectangular rugs from the crystarium apartments, as well as the faerie-style summoning bell?

Currently in the party finder, when you make a party and set it to generic role slots (Healer/Tank/DPS/Free) and someone joins, and then leaves, sometimes that will change the slot in the party finder to the job that person was. Are there any plans to address this?

Would it be possible to have the available floor space be perfect rectangles and not have pillars jutting out? Currently, having things such as library shelves and anything that is preferable to be flat against the walls, have to be quite a bit away from the walls to be placed.

Will we see any company/storage chests arriving in the shadowbringers main cities to manage inventory space?

Would it be possible to retroactively add the Shared FATE system to older areas?
It would breathe life back into some of those old fates to gain new rewards and have a reason to continue to do them and come back to them (probably a separate gem currency than other expansion fates)

Question about balancing issues
We managed to get all savages week one, but we really struggled having most of the low rdps classes (nin/mch/smn). Has example, I managed 99% on smn and blm on e2s, but the disparity is above 2k, and the effort to play smn is much higher. Not talking about op mnk, the disparity between classes has never been so high.
Are you going to do something about that pre 5.1?

Could we get a config setting for minions to show all/only friends/only yours? Minions can be heavy spoilers for main story and there is not much you can do to avoid seeing them.

Question about balancing issues
We managed to get all savages week one, but we really struggled having most of the low rdps classes (nin/mch/smn). Has example, I managed 99% on smn and blm on e2s, but the disparity is above 2k, and the effort to play smn is much higher. Not talking about op mnk, the disparity between classes has never been so high.
Are you going to do something about that pre 5.1?