Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVIII! (Exploring Patch 3.2)

Why is it not possible to trade Steel Sky Pirate spoils for grade V crafting/gathering materia? And why did you not add grade IV crafting/gathering materia to the Ixal beast tribe quests?

Hello,
Is there any chance of us ever getting the option to manage/delete any mounts we no longer want?
And also, can we get the option to level a fellow like on FF11? Leveling our chocobo was fun but I for 1 had more fun leveling/setting up my fellow. Or even a kind of glamour to to set my chocobo as another mount to fight along side of(i.e. coeurl or direwolf)

Also, on the subject of mounts, any chance of a Cloud motorcycle mount with flying capabilities. The lore can stem from the magitek mount.

Thank you

Class Customization
Are there any future plans to diversify how the Jobs play, as seen in other MMO's via Specializations/Talent Trees, Ex. Fury Warrior, Protection Warrior, Arms Warrior, or is simply adding multitudes of new jobs the alternative?

Gear Diversity
Are there future plans to add either new Secondary Stats to gear, or add gear that gives unique Battle effects, Ex. Chance on hit to do extra dmg, Chance on being hit to increase Parry, Chance on heal to apply heal over time. Gear currently seems somewhat simple in that higher numbers=better.

Are we gonna see what's behind the goblins' masks?

What is your favorite content in 3.2 so far?

Might be a bit late to ask since we're in 3.2 atm and Alexander is more focused for this expansion, but will we have Binding Coil and Final Coil of Bahamut Savages sometime in the future?

The new airship parts that have been released in Patch 3.2 cost an enormous amount of capacity points, requiring more than half of them just to fit one piece. Is it still planned for us to see an increase in the level cap for our airships?

The major problem with raiding Alex Savage is that if people wipe in certain mechanics in a certain amount of time, and they use Cooldowns at the wrong time, the entire party would have to wait an extra 5-6 minutes for certain cds like Hallowed Ground, Bendication, or Living Dead, which is way too long to wait. Can you make a program where if the entire party wipes on the fight at any time, all CDs automatically reset? Or at least shorten the Cooldowns a little bit.

Following the great changes to the pala making it a great class to play again, is there any chance of some minor changes to DRK? I feel that the additional blind from dark arts dark passenger, and the dodge up from dark arts dark mind do not fit with the play style of DRK.

Will we be able to finally trade in the crafted Malevolent Moggle Mogwand for a 2 handed version?

When we will get a Glamour Log / Glamour Set Tokens / ANY Glamour enanching system? The current system is pretty brutal on inventory space.

For the majority of all the mounts we have, if not all, they are all either an enemy or a novelty. Is there a reason why we got that insect thing instead of a puk mount from the Vath beast quests??

Please can we have another Dragon Quest collaboration event or at least some new Dragon Quest equipment or items? (Sabrecat mount or liquid metal slime minions!) We Dragon Quest fans in the west need more love!

I don't like all mounts and minions and there were a lot added to the game with 3.2. Some I like , some I don't.

Can you add a system for customizable mount and minion roulettes to make those more useable for players? I think a lot of players would love to let the system pick the ones they like and not one they don't like from the entire collection ....

are we going to see the smn pet glamour soon? if so, are we getting a bahamut egi as glamour?

Is there any chance we could see an option in settings to change audio sources? Using an audio jack headset works, yes, because it's still accessing the same source as the onboard speakers. However, when changing to say a usb headset, audio does not switch, and you're forced to restart the client to get it to play through the correct source. If you want to change back to your onboard speakers, you have to restart the client again, else if you unplug the headset, all audio is lost, even if you plug the headset back in.

I know it's not just my headset, as many, many people have made this complaint before. Not to mention I can confirm with people in my own fc and random people throughout the server that they experience the same issue.

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Upgrading FC House Sizes

Can we PLEASE upgrade the size of our Free Company houses, or at least allow them to transfer to a zone of their own allowing them to upgrade in size?

This would be an incredible gil sink and something that would unite players.

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From the otherside of the coin on this subject - I am in a small FC which is myself and my best friend (Real World) who is online a couple of times a month. We are wanting to go from our smaller house to a mansion (eventually) but also realize the current Gil sink that will take (and the fact I will have to make most of it).

For smaller FCs, and FCs (and housing in general, including private) this would be a nice feature.

The problem that I see - all of the maps would have to be rebuilt to allow for this as a guess.

It's been discussed since 2.55 and seems to have fallen off the radar, but how goes the egi glamour system? When can we hope to see this implemented?

With Microsoft's recent announcement of now allowing open cross platform play will we be seeing FFXIV come to Xbox 1 as well?

Can we have personal airships that we send out from ishgard to explore so we don't have to rely on or be excluded from the profits/benefits only a very few from each free company has? Make is so maybe we have to spend allied seals to buy the tanks for the personal airships, thus making people want to farm dungeons (gear) /fates for seals.

Airship Travel

Can we please be able to construct a "transportation airship" to get to all FOUR city-states, free of charge?

EDIT: And don't forget Gold Saucer!

Would it be possible in the future to have mini events like "double experience point weekends?"

It would attract new, seasoned, and casual players to log in and work on DoW, DoM, DoH and DoL classes that would take them weeks (or months?) to get to cap.

Could also spread it to double MGP, Allied Seals, Centurio Seals, Grand Company Seals, and tomes.

For the Novice Network, one of the issue is that while mentors do have the privilege to invite new players, some will invite RMT/Bots either unknowingly, or to annoy other mentors and new adventurers. What's worse about it is that they're automatically added without asking if they want to be in the chat room, which is irritating to even new players, and the 30-minute penalty from being kicked doesn't keep them out of the Chat room after that amount of time passes. Can you make readjustments to the Novice Network invites and make further adjustments to how players are kicked out of the Novice Network?

Upgrading lore gear and materia

For the upgrading of lore gear, now that materia can be melded on these items, can we not lose the materia within them after handing them in for upgrade at Seika? (specifically, carry the materias in these i230 gears over to the i240 gears that Seika rewards)

Or perhaps return the materias back to the player's inventory.

Can we have the ability to just stand around in our FC's airship? I was really excited when I heard FCs can have airships but I was really disappointed when it turned out we can't even see our actual airships. I don't think we really need for a specific gameplay related to the physical ship, but I really wish we could just stand around in our flying airship and pretend to be airship pilots and such.

Can you add Tier IV crafting Materia to the Ixali daily quests please.

Will we be able to gift Digital Collector's Edition Upgrades in the future?

When will we be able to send/receive tells while in an instance?

Since PvP options are gradually expanding with the introduction of The Feast, the desire to expand PvP in general is increasing. I know you had an interview a while back where you stated you might open a server to have open world pvp, and while I personally hope you were joking and pulling people's legs (FFXIV was simply not designed with such a mechanic in mind, am I right?), it did make me wonder if it were possible in the future to add a designated area, a large part of the open world map, where PvP was open (and made sense canonically). Thoughts?

In a previous Live Letter, you discussed housing going forward. From the answer given in that letter, it seemed as though you planned only to add apartment-style housing in Ishgard and not a true housing district there. Since I and a number of my friends have been looking forward greatly to a proper housing district, could you confirm whether you are intending to add an actual housing district to Ishgard?

LOVE FOR THE FEAST.

We're already seeing the queues for The Feast slowing down after a week. This is making it increasingly more difficult for players to improve themselves for competitive PvP.

Currently, "Morale" makes little to no difference in PvP. Will we see more incentives for acquiring Wolf Marks, such as purchasing Unidentified items with them?

When will the replacement app for libra eorzea come out? We have been unable to log in to app for so long already due to maintenance for this. Also, can you give any description on what the new app has to offer?

I'm just going to toss my question in once more because it's really a little bit of QoL that I'd like to see happen. And until I get a definitive answer I'll try and try again.

The NPC in the final Sylph beast tribe quests and the Chocobokeep at the Gold Saucer both wear a matching set of boots to go with their disguise/uniform.
Can we actually get this model boot in-game for ourselves to wear? Perhaps as a reward for getting a Rank 20 Company Chocobo? Rank 10 awarded the suit after all...

Since Glamour is the true endgame, I would like to wear the mask I am close to earning, my suit and the matching boots to properly celebrate my mastery of all that is Chocobo.

Housing

There was talks about allowing the transfer of housing to a new plot/ward some time ago. Are there any updates to this? My FC has sunk a ton of gil into our airships, prototype research, and various private chambers, etc. We would like to move into a large house and have been saving gil to do this. But the loss of everything we have worked on seems extremely unfair. Effectively having to unlock all airships, sectors, research all over again seems a bit over the top. Especially because we love to run Diadem HM. We would not be able to do so until the ships were unlocked and leveled back up again.

Its Possible to have Bahamut Mount in future with second phase music

Have you ever considered allowing players mounts that instead of riding a chocobo or dragon they instead sprout wings to take flight. For example the summoners level 3 limit break uses the wings of Bahamut in the animation will we ever see these wings in the form of a mount or another type of wings maybe some angelic or fairy type wings instead of the player relying on a mount to soar the skies.

Crafting and Gathering; Materia

It's nice that we're now able to get lvl 4 materia from beast tribe quest rewards; they make nice stopgaps for melding into the pre-upgraded gear.
But can we please get a similar mechanic going for Crafting and Gathering materia? Like adding the lvl IV selection to the Ehcatl beast tribe quests.

Currently the prizes for the DoM/W materia has normalized thanks to the new method of acquriing it, but the DoH/L ones have pretty much doubled.

why is there not any King Moogle song scroll??

Any plans for open world content? I feel like I've been asking this for years...oh wait..I have lol.