Ask Questions for the Dev Team at the London Fan Fest!

Will Black Mage get Phantom Dart as a PVE ability as one of the new skills?

Will you add skills with the sigil of the other half of the Twelve with the DoH/L level increase (The ward spells currently have Bryegot, Nald'Thal, Menphina, Thaliak, Llymaen and Nophica's Runes)?

Will you change Rage of Halone to have her sigil or conversely, change Byregot's Blessing to omit his?

And finally are you gonna have an option to make Hotbars 4-6 Vertical as well as Horizontal?

Mechanics question - When the level cap rises will we be able to quicksynth existing starred recipes or send our retainers to gather from currently timed nodes?

Body Sliders.

The Height and Muscle tone sliders leaves much to be desired for the actual look I want.

If sliders are "too hard" to implement...

Then can you give us more body types per race?

Example:

Hyur:
Height - Slider
Body Type 1 - Thick - Medium - Large
Body Type 2 - Thin - Fit - Muscular
Muscle tone - Slider

What is the status of the DX11 client? Will it be released in time for 3.0?

A lot of the boss fights arena are a circle arena. Is there a reason for this?

This is still a hot topic on the general discussion and dps role forums. Can you please explain the reason for the design of Summoner's Egi and would you ever consider changing it?

Is there any plan to change SMN in the following terms:
1- Make it more Pet based.
2- Remove the DOT role to more elemental role.
3- Change Egi to Small sized primals

Thanks for answering in advance.

This may sound an odd question, but....where are the children?
Aside from the Hyur child npcs' we sometimes see around and the (somewhat mysterious) Leveilleur siblings, it would seem as though all other races exist only as adults.

Why is Slepnir being sold for real money instead of being a drop from Odin Extreme when it's released, like he should be?

Never-mind I know the answer, greed.

When the new race comes out, will we get a free phantasia?

Will there me more mandragora minions: You left out some mandrakes form XII (including some pallette swaps that could tie further into crossbreeding) and there are some plants without a corresponding mandragora (Lemons for example)

What happened to our path companions from 1.0? Are they ever coming back?

A forum post was started last year about the addition of a name change system. The reply then from a community rep was to a link that stated that the team definitely wanted to add a system that would do so along with more options for Fantasia. The Fantasia options have been implemented, but will the name change service be added as well?

When will be be getting user created add on support ? You guys said 6 months after launch originally but now its been over a year. Do you have any ideas when you might be releasing a software kit for fans to make their own addons?

Any update on direct x 11 version?

Will we be able to breed special coloured Chocobos (Gold, Silver etc)

Will we be able to breed Chocobos attributes to make them perform better? eg. Higher STR Chocobo can Run faster, Higher END CHocobo can maintain top speed longer.

Will we be able to trade 'Breeding cards' or similar with friends like in FFXI?

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Originally Posted by Iamapathy

Is there any plan to change SMN in the following terms:
1- Make it more Pet based.
2- Remove the DOT role to more elemental role.
3- Change Egi to Small sized primals

Thanks for answering in advance.

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^THIS completely agree

Q1. Will pvp gear have any use in frontlines besides being vanity?

Q2. Will the use of pvp skills be ever used in pve?

Q3. Will pvp materia ever be able to use in pve gear?

Q4. Can will new modes be added to frontlines such as CTF, and also will there be a reward system for killing and doing certain objectives in frontlines/wolves den.

Music Question:

If Yoshida-san is a primal, can we get a bonus primal track by Soken-san & Yoshida-san (as in both of them singing)? :o

Server question:

when are you going to install server in Europe ?

May we have access to sending off our Retainers to ventures from our mobile app's? While away from Eorzea it would be nice to have access to that feature<3
Possibly also to the Market Board? For those with full Inventories and sales happening slowly, maximasing the sales would be good from the mobile app again.

Why make a cash shop instead of giving better veteran rewards every month like it was at the start?

What are you wating to remove the GC restrictions from frontlines?

There are a few dungeons which have to be run by low item level players, like Amdapor Keep or Castrum Meridianum/Praetorium, that are often run by high item level players as well, meaning that there can be a huge discrepancy in gear. For example, you could have a situation where a tank is many item levels below the DPS, and can't do his job properly through no fault of his own, or a player gets completely sidelined by the other players. Will something like item level sync eventually be introduced for cases like this to make it fairer on such players?

Will we ever see Weapon glamours based around seasonal events?

Fee question :

During the Live letter in Las Vegas , the new prices for Fantasia are inconsistent between regions :
$10.00 / £7.00 / €5.50.

Can you reconsider the prices to make them more consistent especially within the EU region ?


( 7£ is worth 11.3 $ whereas €5.5 is worth $7)

What are your plans in regards to the new cash shop that is being introduced? There has been a mixture of response moreso because FFXIV is a subscription model game and not a "free to play and pay for extras" model. Will items for sale still be accessible for those that grind for it?

Q1: Will you consider Changing Bard LB? In 2.0 Bard has no connection to healing apart from Second Wind.

Q2: Will Rouge/Ninja have new LBs or the same ones as Monk and Dragoon?

Q3: Is there a possibility of changing the Melee DPS being closer to their wielded weapon? A Dragoon suddenly using Final Heaven, or Monk busting out braver is a bit weird.

Q4: Every other game I know, and every Video Sequence and Story of Warrior in 2.0, has him more as a Brawler, a Fighter and less as a Tank. Are there any plans to give Warriors the possibility to chose between Tank and DPS when queing for Dungeons?

Q5: Are there any plans, that we will be able to change class inside Dungeons? It often happens that a Tank/Healer leaves and the wait time for a replacement usually is long, most of the time too long fore people to wait for a new player if it was an EX trial.

While I'm absolutely delighted that there have been hints of new jobs coming through in the new expansion (and more than a few rumours about Dark Knight), there's one specific job that I desperately want to know about:

Are we going to see Red Mage as a new job released in Heavensward?


(Because, Yoshida-san, you would make my life complete if that's the case. お願いします！)

Will you ever introduce a tackle box for bait for fishing? My inventory craves... needs this!

The housing system as it stands today is designed to remove money from the economy first and to provide player housing to a small minority of the player base second.

Will FFXIV's housing system change so that Player Housing is actually about giving players houses and not a mechanism of controlling in game inflation?

Will airship battles be added at some point after airship building is implemented? i want airship battles!

Follow up on airships

What will we be able to do with our Airships? Will they simply be a mode of travel and warp us to certain places? Will we be able to directly fly them much like mounts in other games? Battles? Racing? Customisation? Mecha-Airship-gundams?

Will a fix be implemented to stop the game from crashing when changing areas with AMD GPUs and LOD streaming disabled, perhaps by introducing a DX11 client?

(See: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...formance-Issue)

Are there plans to add a coffee drink to the game? (I assume the dev team drinks a lot of coffee, so where is it!?)

You (Yoshida) mentioned in a previous live letter that Limit Breaks would get a cosmetic change to personalize them for each job, can we expect to see this in 2.4 with the release of Rogue/Ninja or later on in 3.0 or so?

Also, will "Batman" be a Hybrid job, or will it be one of the 3 original (Tank, DPS, Healer) ones?

Will there be ps4 ff14 at the fan fest or is it just pc's? If it is just pc's will the ps4 controller be able to play on the PC cause I am only use to the ps4 and PS3 controller. Many thanx looking for to Saturday

I have spent over 200 hours trying to get one of the Extreme Primal mounts. Although I have seen them drop 5 times I have never won the roll on one. I saw at the NA fanfest that you were going to increase the drop rates on these mounts which is a good start, but would you consider other ways to get Extreme Primal mounts such as:

1. Spending Rowena's tokens from the weekly quest.
2. Making them available for purchase on the Mog Station Optional Item shop.