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

FFXIVs glamour system is decent considering the requirements to keep crafters part of it. That being said, it feels like it Really needs a simplification. Any chance we will see glamour prisms simplify from 1-5 to just 1 per expansion gear?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...on-MNK-weapons
Can Yoshi please make the weapon designers stop making mnk weapons like this

PvP
Can u plz add different rules and not just more maps for PvP. May be capture a flag.
Can u add an actual PvP reward for frontline duty roulette not poetic and soldiery.
If there's no hope for fixing Q times for PvP can u atleast look into something like a mercenary bottom? Example in the same areas as selecting a language before u Q u also can select mercenaries and able to join any grand company, and not just your own. That might help Q times. As of right now Q for PvP is garbage. Super slow.

Hi! Thanks for making and entertain us with this awesome game!! Will we get more options in character creation besides hairstyle? More face options in heavensward would be awesome! :)

Can you please add more eastern design armor. Do something like you did when you added the Koenig set for tanks in here and Ares set for dragon in here. Can I see something from ff11 and brought in here. Like the Usukane set, Kirin set and the Shura set plZ yoshi make it happen.

Also can you add more option for dying our armies. Example have the option to change the colors for each fingers. Or another example, body armor , change the shoulder pads different color and chest area a different color.

Can you please create an “Aetherial Teleport Address Book” or something similar that allows adventurers to register +20 or +30 of their favorite Housing Plot Locations to instantly teleport to a friend’s house?

Since more and more adventurers and free companies are taking advantage of the Individual / FC Housing Developments, it has become an extremely slow and cumbersome hassle to visit the houses of friends—especially with the introduction of subdivisions, and having to remember and mentally recall the various addresses (What Area? What Ward? What Subdivision? What Plot?) … Even more so, considering the work involved to just reach a friend’s house (I.E., sometimes having to visit a City State and use its Aetheryte to select the ward you want). There's too much busywork involved in simply getting to another plot / subdivision in a timely fashion.

I really, really liked the design the Housing Development team made for the Doman Partition. Especially with the door that automatically slides. Can you create more partitions with doors like this (one that open and close)? Like Rivera / Glade / Oasis / Alps / Royal style and so forth? It would be a huge boon to housing enthusiasts like myself who like to manipulate the partitions to create rooms inside houses.

I would like to get some of Good King Moogle Mog’s crafted i95 weapons and gear as glamours, or get the Regal Mailbox. However, the drop rate for Kingly Whisker is really low and has caused people to sell the Whisker for Gil in the MILLIONS on the Market Boards (currently on Hyperion server, Kingly Whisker has been at +2 Million Gil on average as a result, thus destroying any incentive for most players to go after it). Because Thornmarch Extreme is considered Old Content by this point, can you please increase the drop rate for Kingly Whisker?

Buying Crystal Shards for crafting gets really expensive in the long run, considering how easy it is to quickly burn through them with heavy-duty crafting. And having just BTN and MIN being the only two ways to get them (aside from killing Elemental Sprites on a DoW or DoM Class/Job) can become very time-consuming. Would you please consider increasing the effect of skills like Byregot’s Ward / Nald’thal’s Ward / Llymlaen’s Ward / etc. to increase the yield for Shards / Crystals? This would be helpful to serious, dedicated crafters who mass-produce items using Quick Synthesis, and it would also serve to hinder illegal RMT players who rely on price-gouging stacks of shards and crystals to sell Gil illegally online by making crystals easier to get for serious players who take the time to level up a gathering class to 50+ to gather shards.

Would you please consider modifying the “<wait>” macro command to operate in fractions of seconds (decimals) rather than whole seconds?

Back in Final Fantasy XI, it was possible to write macros and use a "wait” command line that would accept decimals and operate in tenths of a second, rather than whole seconds.

I'd like to see the same for FFXIV, so I can write macros for Ninja like this:

/macroicon "Suiton"
/ac "Ten" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Chi" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Jin" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Ninjutsu" <t>

The reason being is that the Global Cooldown for Mudras is half a second (0.5 secs). However, the shortest time a macro can execute the next line is one second (1 sec). Which means that currently using a macro to execute Ninjutsu is actually slower than doing so manually. Some Cross Bar users want to optimize their hotbars for fast reaction times and quick DPS with fewer amounts of buttons to press and skills to activate.

Are you adding more Subdivisions anytime soon? Plots of land for housing have been steadily evaporating as a result, and there are many who would still like to buy a house.

Can you please make High-Level Gathering Nodes that yield large sums of Crystal Shards?

Some gatherers are reluctant to gather Shards because they take too long to farm in massive quantities. This negatively effects the Crafting Economy when serious crafters have to pay large sums of Gil for shards—further compounding the fact that high-demand crafted items typically require a lot of shards to craft, thus causing players to either spend endless hours gathering at a slow rate or spending even more large sums of money to buy more shards.

What’s worse is that because Low Level Gathering Nodes will yield shards, the RMT players will take advantage of that by creating new accounts with low-level MIN / BTN.

High level nodes that offer larger quantities of shards would hamper the RMT market by making it harder for low-level gathers to get shards in huge bulks at one time while simultaneously rewarding high level gatherers by giving them actual incentive to farm shards.

I read recently that the Chinese server for the game will be removing level sync from the lower level dungeons. Do you have any plans to incorporate this into the NA or EU servers and if so, will it be forced or optional (such as a 'join party in progress' box)?

Will we ever see the return of Hamlet Defense, Chocobo Caravans, Skirmish or at least similar types of events?

Lately, it seems that RMT /tell advertisement spamming has been occurring in much greater frequencies. So fast that I've had them happen from 5 different accounts within a 30 second time frame.

The only temporary fix is to set yourself to /busy status. Which is something players shouldn't have to do.

Is the Dev Team planning to address this in some way? Because this seems to be an ongoing source of frustration for many players.

The item "Moonlet Earring" was from from an event back from 1.0 days. Will adventurers ever see a chance of obtaining the this earring again, even if that is through a cash shop purchase?

I have duplicates of Rare Cards from playing so much Triple Triad. It's a shame to either toss them or sell them to the card trader at the Gold Saucer. At some point in the future, will cards be finally Tradeable or Sellable? It would be nice to give the cards as gifts or rewards to friends.

In a previous live letter (Letter From the Producer LIVE Part XVI) you talked about the possibility of a weapon and armour log. Have you got any updates on this?

Most of the mages armors look horrible and there is no diversity at all between them, and adding something to an existing set or changing the color do not make some of there set "new" at all, so stop reusing old stuff all the time. People are tired of the wizard hat and robe look, which make them look like hobos and not like casters, and want different set of armors for their mages that are pretty, elegant, and has style with practical touches, especially for the males (some robes suit better the females sure but not male mages at all). The war jobs get pretty set of armors while the magic jobs get horrible set instead. What do you have to say about that and your plan about it?

Will our private room in our FC get bigger at some point? Since the devs have not fulfilled at all the need of the populace for housing people have no other choice but to have their room to fulfill their housing need, so it'd be nice if it could get extended, the ability to get a bigger room or to get a second or a third room per example, to have an apartment with numerous room. So, any plan about that?

Hi!
Would it be possible sometime in the future to have your minion summoned at the same time as your companion?
A dream would even to be able to have them in instanced duties as well.
personally my minions tend to get a bit neglected because of my frequent use of my brave chocobo.

Hi,
Could we get some recent news about the european data centre?
Didn't heard anything new about it since the annunciation.

Can we get an update on possible new companions in Heavensward?

When are you going to address the bait issue for fishers it is long over due having to fill our normal inventory full of baits is a very poor design.There has to be sumthing better you guys can come up with maybe like mounts and minions work is worth exploring to maybe find a solution???

There are a large number of items on the Market Boards which were held over from 1.0, yet no longer serve a purpose as of 2.0. Among these are multiple varieties of materials like slag and moraines, old beastman currencies, and various crafting materials which can neither be harvested nor used in any recipe. With 3.0 quickly approaching, will these junk items finally be de-listed, discontinued or phased out entirely? Are there plans for any of them be re-introduced or made useful?

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Originally Posted by DeviFoxx

I have duplicates of Rare Cards from playing so much Triple Triad. It's a shame to either toss them or sell them to the card trader at the Gold Saucer. At some point in the future, will cards be finally Tradeable or Sellable? It would be nice to give the cards as gifts or rewards to friends.

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This ^^

Alternatively, will you be able to desynthesise Triple Triad cards in order to obtain rare items (similar to the card mod abilities from Final Fantasy VIII)?


I think some of the new jobs could even lend themselves to this idea, for example, the Astrologian (being "card masters" in using the divining deck) could have a card mod ability to obtain these rare items from Triple Triad cards. Making the class useful outside of the battlefield as well.

Summoner
Can Summoner be separated from the Scholar since it makes no sense for them to be a DoT Poisoning Magic
Can Summoner get Spirit Calling Elementalist/Summoning Magic since it fits the image of a Final Fantasy Summoner.

Can we have some epic enemy or rival recurrent NPCs that are human-sized? Or even a lala!... It's a bit of... Boring to always see monsters monsters monsters... (The job quests battles and their music had me a good feeling about this... But yet FFXIV stills lacking of non-monster real enemies)

What about perhaps work into some idea of an adventurer that got too tired of cooperating with the rest adventurers and went to the solo side, levelling all of his/her jobs and challenging randomely adventurers through all the maps of Eorzea? ( Could be nice enemy, using different job skills or different jobs, even changing at time, could appear and attack you everywhere, surprising you, except safe areas)

Could we have an update on the system changes to allow Chocobo being summoned, while we wait on Duty Finder?

1. Are we ever going to see other youths and children of the different races? All I've seen so far have been Hyur, Padjal, and Elezen children. What about roes or lalafell? How big exactly are lalafell children?

2. Can we get a Phantom Train dungeon? It would be amazing to destroy it from the inside. Or have an alliance dungeon in which the parties would have fight each section/train car/etc seperately (similar to the Cerberus fight?)

We have the Mended Imperial Short Robe and the Mended Imperial Pot Helm.
Will we ever get the pants and gloves the Garleans use to complete the image?

Can we have Titles saved to Gear sets? like we have the visor function saved now. For more flavour when playing different Classes

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Originally Posted by JillyBean

When will we be able to (fully) share our personal house with our Eternal Bond Partner and/or have settings allowing others (friends/FC members) use of any/all amenities?

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Would it also be possible to link the house to the user account instead of the character so as to allow your alternate characters access to said housing storage

could you implement a feature to remove all text from a blacklisted individual from the chat log?

Would you consider adding the Draft Chocobo mount to the cash shop? Most people just make a separate account then just pay the max they need to get it so can't you just add it to the cash shop you know there will be a lot of people who would buy it.

Can we please be given the option to dye our relic Zeta's glows?

Kinda ruins the point (which was the reward for our hard work) of being able to dye the Zodiac+ if it's completely masked in a glow (which also forces us to use certain glamours to prevent clashing).

Can the Aesthetician please be given the option to CHANGE SKIN COLOR?

A lot of hair colors clash with certain skin-tones but I'd like to have the freedom to try all types without clashing.

Account-wide Achievements / Housing / Mail System please?

could you consider this idea to combat rmt tells
only way to send tells when under certen conditions

1 if you know them for example if your in the same FC or LS as them or have them on your friends list.

2 you are in a party with them.

3 you have a party finder up.

If you could adjust tells to these set conditions you could not only do a big blow to their so called business it could start phaseing them out of the game.