Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLII! (Exploring Patch 4.2)

Are there any plans to address the crafted accessories for tanks being better than the raid accessories? Currently tanks have no loot to look forward to in Savage Sigmascape V1.0 unless they cannot afford crafted.

With the recent overhaul of warrior kit, dark knight players felt let down since WAR is way more use than DRK by groups, and since Stormblood goal was to get the tanks balance and the community agree as a whole that DRK does not bring anything to the group that PLD or WAR do not bring and are often better at it. Are major changes to DRK coming in the near future?

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Originally Posted by zztoluca

We need answers as to why some physical item bonus codes are restricted to one character per service account VS all characters per service account.

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Adding to this, is it true that it's because account wide items cause problems for SE? However I note that since this policy change, SE has released/sold more account wide items (2x Carbuncle mounts and the Panda mount) which suggests otherwise?

Bonus items have been account wide for over 4 years and I was told by SE support that it would now be for single characters only going forward. Will the bonus collectors items in the next expansion also be for a single character only?

Are there any updates to making older gear dyeable? I really want to dye my scion liberator's vest!

are you guys planning on having shared gear have an extra set of materia to choose from? like being able to switch between 2 sets of materia. Id like to use a piece of gear that would benefit all casters but choose a set of materia that ive already placed.

For example: BLM tend to meld Spell Speed to their gear while SMN/RDM tend to meld Crit/DH

Any word of how those Egi-Glamour are coming out of the oven? Also on the same topic, any chance we get the Anima weapon spirit form as choice of glamour for the Egi at some point?

After the Anima Weapon relic quest had been in place for some time, the crafted items were made available for purchase through the Grand Companies with seals. With the Zodiac Weapon quest line, this has never happened yet the crafted items are even more difficult to come by and there is still no alternative method to get them. Are there any plans to make those items available for purchase through the Grand Companies in the future much like the items needed for the Anima weapon?

FC Search Board for Recruitment
(AKA FC Search Function to apply to FCs)


Please offer an FC Search Board to find FCs (and apply) a lot easier.

Shirogane people still cannot bring in L1 players without them searching for them! We still don't have an NPC that takes you from Shirogane to the starting city-states!

Kefka and ExDeath Armor?

Can you please offer L1 gear that can be glamoured for ALL jobs?

The Light "Farming" stage of the relics on both 2.0 and 3.0 relics are the usually the most disliked parts of it, and while the light bonuses are nice, I think there should be additional venues in this regard. Any chance on adding an item that helps fill the light farming of previous relics in exchange for a currency amount?

Kefka Minion Laugh?

The original minions would respond to an /emote - would you consider an /emote that makes the Kefka minion use the voice laugh?

Who thought it was ok to end the 4.2 MSQ like that? :(

Now I barely even care about 4.2 or 4.25 anymore, all I want is for 4.3 to come out so I can find out what happens next. Such torture.

NPC to Teleport from starting city-state to Shirogane?

Can you please offer an NPC that will take us from Shirogane to one of the city-states?

This is VERY difficult for guilds in Shirogane to invite players into the Free Company without someone around and online.

Kugane requires L61, making this gated. Players should be able to port back and forth to Shirogane at L1. Even if you're L1 joining a Shirogane house guild, the NPC won't let you go back unless an FC member gives you 999 gil or use a Return.

With the patch 4.2, are you aware of the amount of botting that goes on in the various PvP modes on the NA data centers, especially in Frontlines, and if so, do you have any plans to resolve this problem?

Rotation Training

Will you offer in-game rotation training trials to better optimize a player at end-game?

It was mentioned that the dev team is working on a way to make the Glamour Dresser work with retainers. When can we expect that?

Are there any plans on making the Glamour Dresser work with Squadron glamours?

When can we expect a Glamour Dresser furnishing for personal houses/rooms?

Would you consider making a miniature version (like the Table Orchestrion)?

Anyway to slightly rework the middle part of DoomTrain to do an Active Time Event and have Godbert dressed like a fabled FFVI Character come grab the train and Suplex it? When it hits the ground since it's a phantom, it could just dissipate and reform.

Of make it the ending cutscene? Anything is possible in a virtual world right?

Maybe the Savage/Unending/Ultimate version?

Thank you for making it so we get back fixtures when we replace them! But now my inventory is full of walls and floors! Could you add a Fixtures tab to the housing Storage? We don't even need more space in the Storage, just an option to add fixtures into the slots we already have.

Are there any plans to add NPC Permits to old Beastmen Dailies?

Are there any plans to add more Submarine parts in 4.25 or will we only have 2 types til 4.3? For the amount of time it took for this content to be released, it feels very barren of content to customize your submarine with.

Was the Tank LB3 on Byakko Extreme an intended strategy or an oversight you didn't realize when play-testing this content? I personally think it's refreshing to have a Tank LB as an option to overcome certain situations.

Is Eureka's story going to be resolved in one part, or is it going to be split into multiple as it gets expanded, like in Palace of the Dead?

Are we gonna be able to take our chocobos in dungeons yet?

With Warrior receiving buffs regularly, and Paladin being in a great spot, can Dark Knight get some more direct attention? Currently, they provide less DPS than both Paladin and Warrior, have less mitigation, less utility, and have to rely on more resources then either other tank.

I was gonna say something but it was just about DRK and there seems to be enough of that...buff 暗黒騎士 pls thx

Can you please take another look at Dark knight many people feel like it's underpowered in every way and has kind of lost its identity :/

I'm loving the new changes to Divine Benison for White Mages, it's fantastic! That said, since players are now essentially consuming their healing lilies every 30s, what was already a relatively ignored mechanic has been rendered even more functionally useless. Unlike other job mechanisms, which reward players for optimal play, trying to proc the lily system is contrary to playing efficiently. Are there any plans to introduce updates to how lilies function and/or the Secret of the Lily traits?

Can you please give us more Quality of Life improvements like automatically handing in non-collectible quest items instead of doing many extra clicks and repairing every item we have equipped and in our inventory/armor bags at the same time?

Is it possible that we may see fewer Inventory slots reserved for Key Items? Would that allow for more slots to be allocated as standard Inventory? Currently, it is unlikely for the average player to use more than 1/3rd of the slots allocated for Key Items.

Auto-Zoom close on quest NPCs

So naturally, folks are zoomed away from their characters while doing quests.

When starting or ending quests, the NPCs are performing emotes, but we never get to see them if we're zoomed out. Example: Ananta does an emote that takes a few seconds before I cash in the quest, but I miss it every time.

Can you please offer a feature that automatically zooms towards the NPC to see them, even in first-person perspective or nearby?

For squadrons, can we recruit NPCs from various questlines (main, job, class, sidequests). I would have more interest if I could play this content with NPCs I feel I know. So, please?

Can we get a 'special task force' for each region that can funnel required information to the main special task force while dealing with issues in a more timely manner? It feels like the issues they handle are dealt with on a MUCH slower basis (if at all) on foreign servers.

Is there any chance that we might get any of the City State leaders like Nanamo's outfit and hairstyles on the mogstation?

Can we have a colorblind mode for the game? A member of my static struggles a lot whit certain mechanics in v5s and v6s

Can we have a patch where we get no Dungeons, but instead get two "primal" fights (and both have a normal mode as well as extreme)?
Dungeons do feel very much like wasted development time in the grander scheme of things.

What was your reaction when world first players beat all of Sigma Savage on the first day of 4.2?

Going forward, are we going to get different options for endgame rather than the current tomestone/dungeon/8-man raid/24-man raid?
I know Eureka is coming and I hope it is something exciting and different, but it would be nice to see things mixed up a bit.
We have been following the same pattern since 2.1 and frankly, it's gotten rather boring for some veteran players of FFXIV.

Are we gonna have an 8 man raid roulette anytime in the future?

Do you feel there's a discrepancy between the glamour options for male and female characters, and if so, would you have anything to say on the topic? Men have less options in quantity, which has come up in several conversations surrounding the new glamour game. Some feel that female characters get preferential treatment in terms of quality too. And I don't want to explicitly bring up the mythical male bunny outfit, but it's almost a symbol of SE promising but never delivering at this point. Can you share any thoughts?

Why do you not lock the raid for a week so you can perform all of your housekeeping and server maintenance for the increased rate of traffic so that it does not affect people trying to do the content?

Why do 4:1 and 3:1 crafts still exist?

Why isn't there any voice acting in the raids?

Why has the 4.0 series had less content than the 3.0 series?

Will We Ever Dungeon Party with the Leaders of Eorzea/Ishgard/Othard?

I imagine a dungeon like that would be an epic experience.

Even if they're doing things on the sideline or in their own party alongside our own.