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Are there any plans to address animation delays? Some abilities are virtually useless such as Brutal Swing which is intended to stun and possibly interrupt a cast but due to the incredibly long delay in the animation the stun doesn't activate in time.

Also there is a huge disparity between the warrior and paladin tank it seems there is no clear vision for the warrior tank we get a limited number of tank type abilities past 30 and even the self heals we get cant be used well because they are not affected by wrath and they make you lose wrath. Also pugilist abilities don't seem to make as much sense for us as the lancer ones especially if we are to remain second rate tanks that do decent damage.

Will you be moving the EU servers to the EU, the game is great but the latency ruins it for me, i see people jumping around, the animations of other players are not smooth and this could be fixed by having a server near to home

Oh also one more question, will you be making Ifrit hard mode not as dependent on BLM or SMN because waiting for 40 minutes for everyone to leave instantly because of no BLM or SMN is really annoying

Thanks Yoshi!

Since you have had a working transfer system since beta 3 why have players not been allowed to transfer to be with thier LS/FC and who thought it would be a good idea to only allow transfers during beta 3 and not in beta 4?

Hello Yoshi P,
Will there ever be full keyboard/mouse support for the ps3? So a person could bind skills to a key, similar to the pc version. Or at least how the beta was using keys 1-0 for skills? Thank very much.

Can we see an option to limit the number of players on screen like FFXI had?

Warrior!


Idea: Token based damage nullification.

How about an ability by which you can convert some of your Wrath Stacks to "Fury Motes" - Fury Mote : Each mote consumes and redirects 1 attack away from the Warrior. Up to 5 motes can be held. Duration 30sec Cast: Instant Recast: 20s Only available when Wrath are available. Consumes all Wrath stacks.

You can have Wrath V and Fury Mote V active simultaneously via -> Combos>Fury Mote Conversion>Infuriate.

Similar to Ninja tanking in FFXI using Utsusemi. This would (imo) maintain the unique style of WAR while giving it some true mitigation that makes Wrath utility active.

Can we get an answer on warriors please? As it stands no legitimate guild is allowing them for the end-game with valid reasoning.

I have to start by saying the customer support is probably one of the worst I've ever seen and I really hope there are plans to improve that dramatically. I do not wish my worst enemy to ever have to deal with customer support as it is right now.

Once everything is working, it's a very good and pleasant game to play.

That said, here are my questions:
1) Are there plans to improve the account management, like Blizzard's Battle.net? One place for everything.

2) What are the plans for the end-game in patch 2.1?

3) Can you make the quests and FATEs visible according to our level only, or at least an option in the settings?

4) When can we expect the Final Fantasy XIII event with Lightning?

Hello Yoshi P

Lately I've been getting duties and finding that key members (Healer and Tank) have abandoned the duty run, effectively killing it as players don't select the option to join duties in progress. This is really starting to annoy a lot of players as they feel they can't complete the content without having to start fresh each time. Will the devs be working on a way to tempt key players to join in-progress runs or perhaps revamp the duty finder to automatically sign all players up to duties regardless of completion status?

Also, are there plans to implement a report/blacklist from chat system? Many of the players I've seen on the Ultros server believe (as I do) that such a system would greatly improve overall interaction within the game and also greatly help Square Enix combat spambots/RMT advertisers.