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

One of the things we really look forward to with the release of a new expansion is the high end content challenges such as Savage Raids and Extreme Primals. However as much as we have these difficulty steps for the Primals and 8-person raid tiers, the 24 person raid tiers have always been only one difficulty. Has the development team considered ever adding a high end duty version of 24 person content?

Is it possible that we will see male/female Viera who serve Garlemald in the future?

Since SCH pet actions are now on the player's hotbar, could the team reflect that change by correcting the potency value in the tooltip to reflect the real potency (e.g. use the player's stats instead of the pet's stats in the calculation)?
For example. Consolation and Adloquium both have a cure potency of 300. However, Consolation only heal for 2/3 the amount of one Adloquium. In the tooltip, the cure potency for Consolation should had been 200 potency instead 300.

Why doesn't Seraph use Consolation after it has been summoned? I didn't summon it so I could use Angel's Whisper and/or Seraphic Illumination (which has the same exact effects as Whispering Dawn and Fey Illumination by the way).

If the development team is going to keep Aetherpact and Fey Blessing disabled while Seraph is out, could they implement a method of converting excess fairy energy into an additional effect of increased summoning time? For example, Seraph starts to take 10 fairy energy from the player every 3 seconds after her base duration has run out. This extends Seraph's duration from its base value and allow the player to potentially cast a third Consolation in one single instance of summoning Seraph. With 100 fairy gauge, Seraph's duration could be extended by 30 seconds.

Can I also point out that in the absence of the pet hotbar, I now have to clip into my GCD just to use pet actions? Because pet actions offer no dps increase, clipping GCD with pet actions is an overall dps loss. The top SCH players are not clipping their GCD with pet actions.

As a SCH main, I don't appreciate SE adding a regen to my Sacred Soil. This is lazy design. Please be more original in differentiating the healer roles.

Could we get an explanation behind the team removing Energy Drain from SCH? Did they want us to use Lustrate on a tank already sitting at 100% health just so we could effectively increase our fairy gauge (i.e. while using Aetherflow on cooldown)?

While SCH gained a new fairy and two new fairy skills, they also lost Selene's entire toolkit, Fey Wind and an AoE Esuna, along with the ability to manually cast Embrace on players.
Not including Broil III and Biolysis (which are just stronger version of Broil II and Bio II being passed away as "new" skills), SCH has only received one new ability this expansion, Recitation.
Is this how the design team is approaching "streamlining" the healer roles? Outright removing essential skills from the healers and making the job less fun to play with? Just look at the mess they made with AST. I guess we aren't getting a new healer role in the next expansion either while they try to fix this mess.

Can we get a wall mounted sign housing items where we can put custom strings of text?

Example usage: A small blurb below a portrait like in a museum, listing a menu for RP Cafes.

There is a lot of older content, such as the main story roulette and first two crystal tower raids for example, which feel as though the level cap is too high. Has any thought been put into to lowering that cap so that new players can experience the content as it was intended rather than ignoring all mechanics?

Guys, read...

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Originally Posted by Ridrina

Greetings,

Thank you all for submitting so many questions so far!

As we mentioned in 5.01 patch notes, we’re planning to make further job adjustments in the upcoming Patch 5.05 next week.

We’d appreciate if you could send in your job-related questions after trying out the changes from Patch 5.05. Thanks again, and enjoy Shadowbringers!

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Thanks so much for all the questions so far, everyone!

If I could take a quick moment to remind everyone of a few key points that will make it easier for us to gather your questions/thoughts/opinions and pass them along properly.

Please limit your post to a single question and please keep it as concise as possible! This will allow others who agree with your question to simply "Like!" it and increase its visibility. This helps us to see what larger groups of the community feels as well.

Unfortunately, multiple questions in a single post, or large posts covering a variety of topics, makes this difficult. Therefore, we ask you to keep it as straight forward as possible and limit yourselves to one question per post (and as always, feel free to make multiple)! Thanks for your help!

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You know who you are. Be nice to the Community Team.

The level sync system in the game makes for a less-fun time due to skills being removed when at a lower level; is there any chance that older content can be made to just reduce stats to be balanced for it instead of removing skills?

We will be seeing player available hoods like Krile’s Cat o Nine Tails, Y’Shtola and the Exarchs?

Can we have the Gender Lock be removed from the Cid Attire and the Aymeric attire? As a MCH main i’d Love to have more forehead goggles and there’s no reason why CID’s goggles are gender locked even if the rest of the gear is. Also Aymeric’s gear for females please? Because the haircut works on all genders but is not sold outside of the bundle with gear that’s unusable.

- Is there any chance Divination could have a recast time of 120 (at least), instead of 180? I think it's a big recast time for a small buff (and that implying we get three different seals, because if not, it is even smaller)