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The change made to the various crafting recipies unbalanced their costs greatly. What will be done about the current state of the cost of ilvl70 crafted gear, and when.

In 2.1 when crystal tower is added (as scheduled), will we see the addition of ilvl80 or 90 crafted gear?

Will spearfishing ever be re-added, and will more of the fish that are currently totally useless see use in new recipes to go along with possible ilvl90 crafts?

Also, will Certain fights/instances, Dhorume Chimera, Hydra, and Winding Coils of Bahamut, ever be added to the content finder?

Just a few things

1, Can we get chat bubbles? They really help with communicating with others (and anyone who doesn't like them can turn them off)

Thank you

When are we going to get better HUD customization. Currently we can not scale the entire UI, only certain elements and we can only use preset sizes. If we use a large resolution we can not scale the UI to fit. The same goes for using a small resolution.

Will we get real EU servers with EU database?

Are prepaid game time cards coming to NA any time soon?

2, Before you look at PvP can you firstly look at the latency issues in the game, the server updating your location only every 0.3 seconds isn't good enough for PvP

Thank you

3, Tied into the above, can we expect to see the AOE system overhauled so its alot more accurate in detecting when players are hit?

Thank you

Are there plans to add new Disciple of Hand and Land jobs? If so I would love to see a mechanic and or engineer as well as gardener and or shepherd.

Can we expect higher difficulty in Bahamuts Coil going forward? It's not really as hard as you've made it out to be, at least not initially.

I noticed that near the Titan instance there is a small sanctuary that has hot springs and pools, will you implement a benefit to using baths or hot springs in the game?

Will you add a way to interact with our minons? Like feed it, emote with it and it reacts back, dress it, maybe even wash/brush our minions? Will we get a dog minion in the future?

Will there be additional instances for level 50 characters to gain Allagan Tomestone Of Mythology and Allagan Tomestone Of Philosophy at the same time because right now there is only one instance that is available to do this.

Will Free Companies be able to have access to their own retainer to sell items from the company chest?

You say that Crystal Tower is easier than Coil, but is that strictly because gear progression wise the item level requirement is lower, or because the fights are overall less intense.

If possible, could we get details about the item level requirements for dutys that are to be added in 2.1?

Will we see a Thief job before the end of this year? Please do not make Thief a class if it is added to the game.

With a lot of Healers and Tanks reaching end game, and little reason to return to lower Story dungeons, is their something that is going to be done to address the increasing wait times for Duty Finder or perhaps more incentives for higher level players to come back and run lower " Story Required" dungeons?

Do you plan on adding more minions? If so when can we expect them?

Question regarding about dps class formation in raid groups. Right now, Bards brings so much to a raid than other dps classes because of their high dps and support songs. Other dps classes have to worry about mana, tp, movement and positioning unlike Bards. Why bring non-Bard dps classes into the raid when we can fill them up with Bards, since they have high dps and support songs while other dps classes only have damage, nor uniqueness like the Bard songs do. Will dps classes have some sort of uniqueness beside damage that they can bring to a raid group like Bards do?

Are you happy with the balance between Warrior and Paladin tanks where one tanking class is being featured prominently over another due to better damage mitigation abilities?

Are there changes/fixes coming to the ability list for the Warrior to allow them to tank higher end content?

In the next update can we see samurai and ninja?

Rightnow the entire end game economy revoles around Tomes of philosophy and Tome of Mythology. Are yu going to be increasing the method of obtaining these or do you really want players to run Amandor Keepfor hours and hours on end?

Will the trash monsters in these endgame dungeons be adjusted to drop gil or coin pieces even tomes of philosophy on death or will they continue to be a source of armor repairs and nothing more?

With the amount of vendors and gear given away crafting is all but useless until level 70 dropped recipies. is this intentional?

Mining and botany are extremely tedious in their design, is this also intentional?


Samurai, ninja, dark knight. Are they coming?

Are we going to get the option to blacklist people who spam us with RMT advertisements? Currently, I see no option to blacklist players who send me /tells.

(Aion, by NCSoft, has a very good system in place. Every week they do a short maintenance where they tally the total number of blocked players for the last 7 days. Players who have been blocked the most often are usually RMTs, so they are permanently banned. Although, I am sure they do more research into it than just seeing how many people have blocked them).

Hi, to blacklist them for yourself personally just type "\blist add <r>" after they send you a tell. You can also turn it into a macro.

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Originally Posted by BoKatan

Can we get some chat bubbles? People that don't like them don't have to use them.

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I do like this idea, users that don't wish to use them or see them can turn them off in the chat filter options

When can we expect to see a cheat sheet on class and job stats? I would really like to see this before making detrimental errors on the stat point allocation for my jobs.

What plans are there to adjust rewards to be commensurate with time investiture or incentivize players to do them? Specifically, the following:

- Guildhests.
- Dungeons for experience. (FATEs are by far the most efficient)
- Grand Company seal acquisition from sources other than FATEs ("expert delivery" provides at most the same amount as a single gold FATE. Why? I'm giving away items that took longer to acquire than to do one FATE!)

How intense will crafters and gatherers be involved to the housing system?

So what are your plans for Free Companies? Are the addition of DoL/DoH and DoW/DoM going to be added to the next expanse or earlier?
Players that chose to raise chocobos; is there a limit on which house they need to do so? (would a player only get to pick from medium to Large?) As well as is there a limit to the number of chocobos you can raise.

Will there be a taxidermist to show our hunting trophies at our houses? Trophies such as Dodos, Odins left Arm or Bahamuts rear nose hair?

(LotrO did an excellent job here)

Will we be able to repair our friends armor with 2.1 as we could do in 1.x?

Will we be able to buy one piece off of a stack of 99 pieces at the market wards with 2.1?

is there any plan to fix the error 90000 issue where so many players are having?
please don't tell us it's our ISP because there were none issue in early access and beta 4
only started to happen after the first September maintenance, it's been 2 weeks, and there has not one word from the team to tell us if you are doing anything about it.

Any chance for a player made "music system" in the future?

Lotro (lord of the ring online) had a system like this, the best and most unique of its kind.
Since final fantasy for a lot of us is about the lore and memories of past Final Fantasy games mixed with the MMO model to share the experience with friends, more "Role Play" elements would only contribute for a more "living" world.

In the future, is there plans for more Class Based quests ?

There is an obvious need of such quests to me, to alleviate the need to "grind" when leveling multiple classes.
Having 1 Quest each 5 levels for each classes is not enough, there should be "classes/job story arcs" with deeper quests.

In regards to PvP for EU players.
Since the servers are on the other side of the pond, and pingtimes of 200ms it is really going to give a huge disadvantage for us.
Is there any plans at all for a datacenter over here?
It is also, to a much lesser degree, affecting PvE aswell as you have to react much quicker on deadly AoE attacks.

Are there any plans to add swimming and underwater content? So much water -- I just want to dive in!

Do you have plans to add more sound settings? Currently, when participating in FATEs, or anywhere where there are large quantities of players the noise from sound effects is painful. Would it be possible to add a sound effect option for "others" and "self"? I'd like to hear my spells, animation, mount, footsteps but lower the level of other players sound effects.

As a way to appease both DoW/DoM and Crafters and balance things, can you consider having Dungeons drop Rare Materials that can then be *crafted* into great equipment? (similar to how in 1.0 you needed to kill Uraeus to get a drop to craft into a certain item; or in a previous Final Fantasy when you had Rare Materials and/or "Abjurations" drop and these were brought to Crafters to help craft into something amazing.)

Sorry this question the about drake and the hint Yoshi p hint a lancer job with dragon. Will we be sometime see a job will dragon or drake for pets?

I not talk about dragoon.

Can you provide us any updates on Ramuh, Leviathan and Shiva?