Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX! (FFXIV: ARR)

When will the Armoire get updated completely (there are still seasonal items from 1.0 that can't be put in the Armoire), and will it be kept up to date in the future?

Currently a lot of ninjas are plagued with an issue known as mudra lag where mudras do not cast as intended due to lag related issues. This issue causes misfires, slow mudras, and double animations ( shuriken coming out while raiton is being casted). The question was already asked in one of the live letters and it was said that while it was not top priority it would be looked at eventually. Is there any possible way we could get an update on the status of the issue.

Is there any plan to add a 1 v 1 pvp match? Maybe even add stakes where the two characters could risk gil/equipment? Something on the lines of the Arena in TES: Oblivion, I know win trading would probably be an issue but I'd like to have pvp without being triple teamed.

Will there ever come a time when leveling via questing (hard to do when up to date on story/multiple jobs to 50...quest lists are becoming exhausted), levequest, or dungeon grinding isn't the only viable means of leveling? When playing FFXI, and even vanilla 1.0, exp grind parties were a common theme throughout much of the worlds of Vana'diel and Eorzea. Understanding that this style of mmo is not exactly in the same neighborhood as the aforementioned, can we expect, someday, maybe, to see an exp mob grind as a viable source of exp? I really enjoy the current setup, however, I almost feel that it isn't a Final Fantasy game without killing a mind-numbing amount of sand hares/lizards...hmmm...sounds like Cape Terrigan! :cool::cool::cool:

Can you please make rainbows in the sky a weather condition after it rains?

Do u have any plan to fix PvP Q times or will it be slow again for expansion as well. It seems like PvP in here is being ignore.

Are you planning on sticking to animal type set of gears for PvP?

Cloud of Darkness (Extreme)

Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III was one of the hardest final bosses of any Final Fantasy. Can you please make the battle extremely challenging with a lot less players? Maybe bring back the original NES/Famicom melody?

Please give that evil demon some true justice with very hard difficulty!

Can we have weekly lore quests that tell us more about the history of Eorzea?


I am a lore junkie, I love knowing why Kefka went crazy, the history of the eidoloons, Dagger's real past, the legend of Gogo, the story behind Anima. These were all hidden in Final Fantasy side quests.

Please give us story quest once a week in old books finding out what happened to the Astral and Umbral eras, where Magitek armor came from, and hints to stories of old legends! Old school players will eat that up!

Are there any plans for increasing the drop rate of older CT raid vanity items?

With the progressive item level increases players are not really doing Crystal Tower or Syrcus Tower outside of their weekly carbontwine/oil quests. So those of us wanting to collect the minion or furniture items are looking at hour long queue times per attempt in addition to there being only a SMALL percentage the vanity chest appears let alone being the 1 out of 24 people lucky enough to get the item.

Any plans for more mid-tier content? As it stands now, content is being designed always at the same levels of difficulty...and that difficulty level just gets easier and easier as we get better gear. This game is in dire need of more levels of difficulty when it comes to content.

Dear Yoshi-P,

Will overall queue times for all classes see a decrease in the future? The main problem is DPS currently with the high queue times going as high as an hour or more.

I love the spotty dark patches on Miqo'te ears, but am saddened that they are only on a select few hair options.

It would be awesome to see them as a toggleable option for all the hair styles, male and female. This color variation/patterning would also look cool on the Au-Ra's horns/scales.

Dear Yoshi-P,

Will Duty Finder find changes to where people will stay in queue even if someone leaves? It resets the entire queue when someone leaves(meaning you'd have to wait the entire time again as DPS) and makes it all the more difficult to progress when gated by certain dungeons(i.e. Binding Coil, Titan EX, Syrcus Tower, Labyrinth of the Ancients, etc.), and when progressing story as DPS.

Dear Yoshi

if machinist are allowed to change their "guns", why cant Bard exchange their arrows? wouldnt be lovely to use blunt arrows while u are with monk? , slashing arrows with nin/war, and piercing arrows as default?

Will the Ahriman mount, the Bomb Palanquin and the ADS will be able to flight in the new zones?

Run Selling

Many of the rmts in the game get their business from players who drop exorbitant amounts of money on mercenary groups that charge an equally exorbitant amount. This kind of behavior always sets the stage for the vicious cycle of witch hunting and banning necessary to hunt down all those rmts and players who feed it. Sellers don't care if the money they're being paid with is legit or not and as long as nothing is done about this kind of behavior, We'll keep seeing this ad nauseam.

tl;dr What is the stance of the developers on the way selling runs affect the game?

The female characters have more exclusive attire than males. This is unfair for those who play with male characters; are there plans to give male characters more exclusive clothes and armor, or to allow them to use the clothes and armor that are already exclusive to female characters?

Any plans to remove the glamour restrictions? Diciples of Magic have less choices for glamouring than Diciples of War, and tanks have more choices than everyone else.

Can you please make a vanity gear "dapper hat" as seen below? V

You say the Magitek Mount will get Terra's Theme, but what happen with Golden Magitek? Will it get Terra's Theme too?

Incessant spam via /tell, /shout, and friend request is damaging the game experience and leading players to turn on /busy or ignore communication in their chat logs.

FFXIV's current anti-spam measures (e.g. report and ban) simply are not working, and impose a major burden on players and probably GMs as well.

Dozens of threads have been created in the forums but I have yet to see any official response to any of them.

Could you please comment in this severe problem and describe any planned changes to fight and hopefully eliminate in-game spam?

p.s. I just received 6 new spam tells while I was writing this!

I was wondering if you can add the ability to see the TP bar while in dungeons and raids like we see the mana bar? As a bard I like to make sure I have the correct song up for whomever needs it. Also I'm sure it would be helpful for NIN's to use thier skill as well.

New players are frequently bullied into skipping cutscenes ("stop wasting everyone's time - just watch in the inn!") or locked out of boss battles, particularly in story missions such as Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium, effectively ruining the climax of the story!

Are there any plans to address this issue, such as locking the boss arena until the new players arrive there, adding party finder-like preferences (e.g. watching all cutscenes) to duty finder, or instituting iLvl sync so that overgeared players cannot easily rush ahead and kill everything?

^ Follow up to Avenger's request:

One of the greatest issues with this was placing cutscene after cutscene in one dungeon.

Can you please force cutscenes in certain dungeons, like Praetorium and CM (and whatever end-level dungeons Heavensward holds)?

Will there be more head equipment that combines hats with eyewear? (similar to Scholar Mortarboard or Buccaneer Tricorne)

Is there any chance for us guys to get the GS bunny outfit please? (Already posted an image in the appropriate thread that's a good example of how it could totally be done, there's already at least one more fanart for it there.) Or something different gender-locked at least?

On a more general level, can we please expect to leave gender-locked gear behind? Or at the very least more equality instead of there being two sets with one being female-only and the other without gender restriction? It's an annoying unbalance that many of us don't see justified to exist in the first place. An explanation as to why it actually exist would also be nice.

With the three new jobs, players who play all classes will find their Armoury Chest Main Weapon tab at 23/25.

What are you planning to do to approach the inventory crisis this game has been in for a while now?

In regards to our Grand Companies, will we ever see new missions, gear, items, and more specifically, the ability to move up from our current cap of Second Lieutenant?

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Originally Posted by Avenger

New players are frequently bullied into skipping cutscenes ("stop wasting everyone's time - just watch in the inn!") or locked out of boss battles, particularly in story missions such as Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium, effectively ruining the climax of the story!

Are there any plans to address this issue, such as locking the boss arena until the new players arrive there, adding party finder-like preferences (e.g. watching all cutscenes) to duty finder, or instituting iLvl sync so that overgeared players cannot easily rush ahead and kill everything?

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Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora

^ Follow up to Avenger's request:

One of the greatest issues with this was placing cutscene after cutscene in one dungeon.

Can you please force cutscenes in certain dungeons, like Praetorium and CM (and whatever end-level dungeons Heavensward holds)?

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Indeed, I haven't even been aware but just checked and I'm shocked to see that of all the dungeons featuring item level sync, the main scenario ones aren't among those. Kind of a major oversight, considering new player abuse.

On a more general level: are there any plans of you guys picking a side and giving us clear-cut rules, please? Because new player abuse can really get downright horrible way too often. I'm one of those who know from experience how disheartening it is. And quite frankly, the only reason such disputes exist and can't be resolved is because there being no actual directions when it comes to the DF and roulettes, because you want to leave it all up to the players - it clearly doesn't work!

SUBJECT: Mounted Sprinting!

Every player is able to sprint for about 20 seconds, allowing them to move much faster for a short time. Has there ever been an idea to allow a similar speed boost for mounts? I'd love for my Magitek Armor to shift gears into overdrive for a short time, or for my unicorn to consume TP to run twice as fast.

Will we ever see in-game voice chat implemented?! Such as party voice chat and/or voice Linkshells, with the ability to mute single or multiple players, and be able to enable/disable voice chat altogether if we wanted?

I ask this question because me and my friends are having serious trouble communicating during tough battles because we all play on different systems, crippling our way of communication since we can only type. And for the ones who do voice chat have to download a separate app on their PC or mobile device just to voice chat with each other, which a lot of people are still not able to do with the lack of having a computer or mobile device. I find it very frustrating with the lack of communication options since this is an online-only game, so communication is very important compared to games that don't rely on interacting with real players.

Can we please get Lord Aymeric's armor?

will the Manderville Gold Saucer ever get perhaps a Summoning Bell for retainer service' and/or an inn room?

I'm happy to see we all getting Cloud Strife Advent gear for 720 vet days, any plans to bring more gear glamours such as Tifa or Yuffie or maybe even Aeriths dress, Vincents cowl, in the mog shop or otherwise?

Any chance we will see a similar version of the haunted mansion from FF VII Gold Saucer find it's way into the Manderville Gold Saucer?

Real Money trader advertisement spamming has really hit an all time high within the month of March alone. I've reported several quickly only to see nothing being done about it. At this point I'm a little embarrassed to see this game has such an issue with RMTs in comparison to most other pay to play games. Can you enlighten us as to future plans to help reduce and remove these RMTs and regulate our /tell channels for ourselves again? I'm truly tired of being on Busy status.

I keep reading a lot of hype on adjustments to be made for the Summoner job, a job I'm particularly still interested in playing but still don't enjoy. Could you give us a bit of detail as to your plans for the future of Summoner?

With Heavensward on the way and their being so many level 50 duties (dungeons, hard dungeons, hard mode primals, extreme mode primals, current story mode duties) could you explain your plans for all of the current level 50 encounters? will their be a level cap of 50 and an item level cap?

Would it be possible to put in filters such as the ones you have for chat but for /tells? Like you can choose who you want to be able to send you /tells such as people on friend list your ls and FC members that way we could play RMT /tell spam free anyway yall could do something like that?