Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV! (Item Team Lead Hayashi)

Are there plans for future crossover events with other Square Enix properties, which would give glamour-equipment from those games? There are much anticipated upcoming games like Final Fantasy XV which has gorgeous outfits, or Kingdom Hearts III and its unique look particularly with weapons; or even older releases like Final Fantasy Type-0 has some beautiful looking equipment I'd love to dress up in.

Any chance of allowing rare dyes to come from any other source except randomly from high level Quick Ventures and the Mog Station? Maybe as extra drops in trials to fluff up the loot. Example: Ravana EX could drop weapons, but also a chance at a Pure White or Metallic Gold Dye for example? That way you don't need to spend 60-70 days to level your Retainer from 1-50 to have even a chance to get them?

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

Dragonlancer Mezail's /visor function is currently a glitched animation. The chinpiece and the visor instantly vanish when toggled off, and instantly reappear when toggled on. This looks very awkward compared to Drachen Armet or Wyrm Armet. For Drachen and Wyrm, the visor has a smooth sliding mechanism during the animation which makes logical sense. The Dragonlancer Mezail has a very sloppy 1 frame animation change. Can this be addressed?

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God, yes, please fix this. I was tremendously disappointed when I bought my Dragonlancer's Headpiece and discovered this; especially after months of excitement seeing the piece being closed at the end of the Heavensward Opening Video.

Valerian equipment is based off of Tactics Ogre equipment, Onion and Light armor is based off of Final Fantasy I and III equipment. Any chance of introducing Final Fantasy Tactics (Lion War) inspired job equipment?

Lancer and Dragoon has its own 'maiming' set which is unique, but jobs like SCH/WHM and SMN/BLM share equipment. Any chance of differentiating sets down the line? As a result, any time new healer gear comes out, it's mostly a priestly white robe which doesn't fit the feel of SCH being a battle tactician/scholar. Can you make some future healer gear either SCH specific (not talking about job gear like esoterics/af/myth), or make healer gear look more scholarly sometimes? (MNK gets Striking gear and DRG gets Maiming, so why not differentiate SCH and WHM gear too?)

With Vanu-Vanu Beast Tribe Quests being added, I feel it's important to ask this.

There's going to be a Book you can buy or earn from them to teach us the VanuVanu Dance, right?

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

Lancer and Dragoon has its own 'maiming' set which is unique, but jobs like SCH/WHM and SMN/BLM share equipment. Any chance of differentiating sets down the line? Can you make some future healer gear either SCH specific (not talking about job gear like esoterics/af/myth), or make healer gear look more scholarly sometimes? (MNK gets Striking gear and DRG gets Maiming, so why not differentiate SCH and WHM gear too?)

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I feel like there's a fair issue with a lack of gear differentiation a lot of the time. Even DRG Maiming Gear will often share its design with Fending or Striking Gear with only minor aesthetic or color differences. Or Striking and Scouting. Or Scouting and Aiming. Are there any plans to create further differentiation in Multi-class Armor design in the future? Perhaps customizeable equipment, which I know is something a lot of people have been asking for?

Regarding the new Hairstyles being added in 3.1, will we have to buy them like with the Ponytail added in the Manderville Gold Saucer, or will they be added to the Aesthetician automatically with the update?

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Originally Posted by Dererk

Gear progression once you hit 60 right now is at 50 item levels. In 2.0 it was 30

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it was 40 in 2.0, amdapor gear was 55 and allagan weapon 95, which makes a difference of 40 :s

Hello,
this request was done more than once already.

But could you increase the maximum slots for housing items in houses.

Especially the 200 slots for a mansion are too little. With all the new items, the house just look empty. And we have a lot more furniture but just can't add them as the house is "full".
A lot more slots would be nice to also make a mansion feel cosy.

Thanks.

the current gear stats are not interesting. every patch we just get the new set of gear because it gives more numbers. can we have fun or interesting stats, or maybe as a set bonus to mix it up?

Given the popularity of collaboration events. Will we ever see an event related to Final Fantasy Agito/Type-0? It 'd be amazing if we could get the Rubrum chocobo barding as a reward.

Please make it happen!

With the distinction between flying and non flying mounts, can we get a roulette action specifically for flying mounts?

Would it be possible to make the mount ridden by Acnhag (the first boss in Amdapor Keep (Hard)) obtainable? It's a super cool looking steed.

Are there any plans to make the bonus minions from soundtrack or plushy purchases available in other ways? Like the carbunkles and wind-up bahamut/dalamud. There are a bunch of us who play in the house who would like these, but we don't have the money or need for multiple soundtracks and stuffed animals. Lol.

Can we please get additional companions to fight alongside at some point? Maggie would be awesome and is already sentient. Lol.

Can we get a caster ability line for our chocobo companions? Choco Ball and Choco Meteor would be awesome to see added. It would be an excellent reference back to FFTactics and the badass chocobos in that game. Lol.

Would it be possible to get armor and weapon racks for our housing? I'd love to be able to display my awesome, but outdated, armor and weapons. Lol.

I've always wanted a hat similar to a Stetson. A legit cowboy hat, maybe several variations to pick from. I think they would look great on a Machinst.

Would you ever consider adding western cowboy hates for Machinists?

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Originally Posted by Melchly

In this thread we'd like you to pose questions for Item Team Lead, Yosuke Hayashi.

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So many posts here are ignoring the topic...

Anyway, I've been wondering just how much time / work goes into creating the look of new armor sets. Is it something that takes so long that the team can only come out with a few collections of gear sets per patch, or is it just a design decision not to add i.e. Centurio Seal glamours, or unique sets for Alex Savage etc.?

Any chance we could have a full party queue for wolve's den? Requirements could be 2 tanks, 2 healers, and 4 dps that randomly switches the party members around, allowing for fast, fun 4vs4 pvp with friends?

Can you please make all styles of [ Hempen Undershirt / Hempen Underpants / Hempen Camise / Hempen Pantalettes ] available to all races?

Can we have a Tumbleweed minion that rolls around? maybe jumping when /poke?

Seeing as how there are requests for tattoos, or more gear that give the illusion of tattoos (much like the South Seas Talisman) and requests for more of the FFXI gearsets, will we ever have get something similar to the Igqira/Genie Weskit set? It was the one set I was never able to get in FFXI, and I'd love for a similar set to appear in Eorzea. :)

will the moogle gear ever be dyable?
i really wanna dye my paws brown to match my hair =^-^=

Paladin Question:

Will the adjustments in 3.1 make PLD have skills that will make him stand out of the other two tanks besides a shield?

Will gear in savage and hard core content ever glow (just like relics)? This would make people want to get them.

PvP reward items
When you added the Borderland Ruins (slaughter), new achievement appeared. My question is about the one you obtain at 200 victories with one GC which give you a new mount: Do you plan to add a new achievement following this one (for 400-500 total victories or 200 victories in Seal Rock for example) which will give you a new mount like a flying Ultima Arma or a flying Allagan Tomelith (to keep going with the ADS joke)?

Great Sword (DRK only) for glamouring

Will there a replica Buster sword (Classic Final Fantasy VII) for glamouring DRK's great sword in the future? I'd like to use it on a great sword for show-off!

Toy Chest Mini-games

Will there be added more Toy Chest mini-games? and will there ever be functional purpose of playing the mini-games? I have personally been curious about the mini games and thought it to be a shame that they have no particular use. I myself expected the mini-games to have some sort of reward when beating them, but they do not. So in short will there ever be any items or currency or anything at all which will give people a reason to play the Toy Chest Mini-games?

In addition to other question that ask materia can be melded on dungeon/high end gear, can we get more interesting status from materia like:

-Reducing damage taken and incerase damage dealt (i know this included in det materia, but its very insignificant, and not specific)
-Incerase HP/MP/GP/TP Regen

and job specific materia and meld to the soul crystal, to prevent gear bloating

and if devs team have no plans in reworking overall elemental status in this game, maybe just scrap the elemental resist materia completely, the elemental materia in the game now just doing more harm than good

When you right click on an item in your inventory/crafting book/market board and choose "Search for item" can you please search ALL of my characters on that server and their retainers at one time? In 1.0, 1 item came in normal quality, +1, +2 AND +3. 4 spots for 1 item. I was forced to slowly make 3 alts to hold all of my crafting items that I knew I would be using. (And then SE became greedy and tried to charge $3 for EACH ALT you owned, even though the only reason I created them was for the 4 variation of items, storage space!) I tried to keep my alt's retainers organized, cloth on one, house furniture on another, ores and metals on another, food ingredients and finished meals on another, but it slowly got disorganized when I am in a hurry, logging to an alt for 3-4 mins just to make room on my main guy to head into a dungeon shortly.

I loved playing FF11, I started on the US opening day in March 2004 and played for 2 1/2 years. I loved doing the "Gobbie bag quests". Can we get him to visit Eorzea as well? 100 spaces sounds like a lot but not when you start gathering ores, fish, etc, and try to craft as well and fill up on random 1 pc of this, 2 pcs of that while grinding mobs, and of course get several drops in 1 dungeon as well. And if you are converting spiritbonded armor into materia, you can easily get 1 of this materia, 2 of that, etc.

It would be nice to get 25 spaces every 6 months. I understand you are trying to earn money on the extra retainers, I myself pay $2 extra a month for a 3rd retainer for myself and all my alts, but this is different, this is out in the field space, not just storage space.

Can you enlarge the Armory Chest by 5-10 spots please? 25 spots are just not enough for all the jobs, especially when I temporarily add armor and weapons to spiritbond and convert, plus PVP weapons or armor for more than just your 1 favorite PVP job! Just like Gear Sets vs actual jobs available, you should have a few extra spaces always.

This can be a touchy subject, but here goes: Is there a way to balance out the crafted accessories so that you can't just meld full strength on a vitality ring (Tanks mostly use this to boost their damage while still meeting HP Requirements)? With how the current system works, you basically can fit 2 different accessory types in a single slot (Minus a couple sub stat values, but the loss is negligible in comparison to what you gain). Even though people are using a low item level value on their accessories (in this current case, ilv150), they just seem way too strong in their current state, as these pieces seem to rival, if not triumph, over the savage i210 pieces.

Can we expect more variety with what sub-stats we can have on our gear pieces with this game moving forward? I feel like we need to have more engagement with regards to what our pieces of gear can do rather than them just being merely stat-sticks. I do understand that balancing this can become a nightmare, but I'd be delighted if you can somehow find a way around that.

Have you thought about adding new a rare gear set from the hardest difficulty raid tier, e.g Alexander Gordias Savage, that is as strong as the gear that we will be getting by the end of the expansion to help with people wanting to raid and keep raiding?

Can we also expect unique traits to come back in to the game and gear set bonuses, like in the Grand company gear, to make a return?

There are many complaints about lack of inventory space even with the newly added retainer slots. Will you consider implementing items such as a working tacklebox, cubord/fridge, toolbox, or other useful housing or self items where we can store ingredients or tools needed within the items? (much like the armiore or FC chest)

Will the Orison's Robe dyed color scheme be changed, so the 2 red stripes match the color of the dye? It looks strange having these 2 red stripes on the front part of the robe when using, let's say, a blue dye.