Ask Yoshi-P and Banri Oda Your Questions for the gamescom 2019 Q&A

With the return of energy drain enabling Scholar's to have a near endless supply of mana, and WHM's incredible mana management tools, will AST see any quality of life fixes in regards to mana management? Even with using mana potions on cooldown, Lucid Dreaming used on cooldown, and Lightspeed, I run out of mana just hitting a training dummy. Is there any plans to fix this? Because it feels really bad running out of mana when only your 2 dps spells.

This one is for the roleplayers!

When we're roleplaying an adventure, it would be great to have the ability to place animated virtual images of monsters or enemies in the field, perhaps something similar to the waymarks we currently have. Would you consider this please? It would greatly help enhance the roleplay experience!

Will we ever see more race oriented map that give more in depth background story of specific race like Azim Steppe and Rat’Tika Greatwood, especially for hrothgar and ARR race.

Can we get more "scarf" glamours for necklace in the future? Like Hopes scarf from FFXIII!

The Dwarven Mythril Hammer is awesome! Are you considering making more hammer and maul type weapons?

How much sake can Hien drink in one sitting?

I can create an old man looking character, why can't I create an old woman character?

Regula van Hydrus died saving an ally of the Scions. Why has this never been mentioned again in favour of the Scions painting Imperial Garleans in the worst possible light at almost every turn?

Can you please change the sound that plays when a Bard hits 100 on the Soul Voice Gauge? It can be confusing when you hear the same sound as when your Wanderer's Minuet gauge fills up.

Would you consider extending Dancer's active flourishing effects by two to three seconds when using Saber Dance?

Are you aware of the healing downtime problem healers have? Please give healers something to do when there is no healing required (even in savage this can be up to ~70%), more damage skills or more support skills. The healing skills are just too powerful or the damage in all content the group recieves is too low.

Is it possible to tie Enochian, Fire 4 and Blizzard 4 to one skill? So when you are in Umbral Ice and activate Enochian, the skill changes to Blizzard 4 and when you switch to Astral Fire, the skill changes to Fire 4. This would save us 2 slots on our hotbar.
Same might be possible with Ley Lines and Between the Lines. Once Ley Lines are active the skill changes to Between the Lines until the Ley Lines are gone.

In Shadowbringers there have been many echo-visions of the past. Hypothetically, is it possible the Warrior of Light/Darkness risk being trapped in an echo-vision if the frequency of visions increase?

Are there any plans to update the official site's forums to do away with the daily post limit?

Minor complaint rather than a question: the MCH spreadshot sound effects is just sad and underwhelming

Would it be possible to implement an instanced Free Company Airship to take the place of an FC house for those that cannot obtain a house?

Emet-Selch stated that Sundering divides the soul in all respects, including strength and intelligence. Given that the Source is now seven times rejoined yet no difference between say, the Scions and members of the First has been mentioned, could you clarify what the actual differences are between whole souls and fragments?

Can we get a raffle ticket for housing?
Like show the demolition time, and have the raffle ticket set up in place. Then you can be sure when it will be demolished and would take away that annoying and tiring hidden timer, completely disable bot action altogether(no autoclick bot, no sniping bot), and no people selling them at all as well. All problems taken away. Would also make a bit more fair game instead of OMYGOSHINEEDTOFASTCLICKORBOTORMACROTOBUY. Maybe also make sure that a person can't get into another auction server-wide if they already got a house for a while to avoid landlords;

It's kind of obvious most questions picked will be related to Main story, but can you not ignore healer questions this time? (and in future)

Last live letter is a bit disrespective to many players.

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Originally Posted by Miziliti

It's kind of obvious most questions picked will be related to Main story, but can you not ignore healer questions this time? (and in future)

Last live letter is a bit disrespective to many players.

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That because this Q&A isnt about job/class complaints its about lore/features/ etc.

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That because this Q&A isnt about job/class complaints its about lore/features/ etc.

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Where can we find the Q&A topic list?

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Where can we find the Q&A topic list?

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1:It's right there in the title: Gamescom Q&A

Farthermore: We're pleased to announce that our Producer & Director Naoki Yoshida and the Main Scenario Writer and Game World Creator Banri Oda will host a special Q&A session at gamescom 2019! Please post your questions about Shadowbringers and the world of FFXIV here.

Thus for anyone they should be able to correctly deduce...

Hey this is the questions about the world its lore,and creatures, and maybe questions about the lore changing up any when new features like new game+ are added.

Frankly the people that are whinging on about thier job /class in this Q&A at least are the ones in the wrong and are being inconsiderate and rude as well as self centered.

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Originally Posted by kidalutz

1:It's right there in the title: Gamescom Q&A

Farthermore: We're pleased to announce that our Producer & Director Naoki Yoshida and the Main Scenario Writer and Game World Creator Banri Oda will host a special Q&A session at gamescom 2019! Please post your questions about Shadowbringers and the world of FFXIV here.

Thus for anyone they should be able to correctly deduce...

Hey this is the questions about the world its lore,and creatures, and maybe questions about the lore changing up any when new features like new game+ are added.

Frankly the people that are whinging on about thier job /class in this Q&A at least are the ones in the wrong and are being inconsiderate and rude as well as self centered.

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Was just an honest question that I thought had a legitimate answer somewhere that I might have missed. Thanks for answering with your assumption and turning it into some nice public intellectual bullying

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Was just an honest question that I thought had a legitimate answer somewhere that I might have missed. Thanks for answering with your assumption and turning it into some nice public intellectual bullying

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Didnt turn it into anything. Theres 19 pages of questions and 70% of them are demands that thier class get addressed quite a few of them in beyond childish ways. all I did was point out the title and copy paste the first post on the topic. to point out that yeah theres the topic there what the questions are supposed to be about.

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Didnt turn it into anything. Theres 19 pages of questions and 70% of them are demands that thier class get addressed quite a few of them in beyond childish ways. all I did was point out the title and copy paste the first post on the topic. to point out that yeah theres the topic there what the questions are supposed to be about.

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i take questions about shadowbringers to mean anything about the expac

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i take questions about shadowbringers to mean anything about the expac

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Then dont be surprised or even remotely upset when your healer demands and questions aren't responded to. There is a proper time and place for everything in trying to hijack things for yourself you just ensure that your problems and issues get pushed farther and farther down the priority list. By being polite and following proper procedure and showing that you respect others allotted time as well you ensure that your own issues will get addressed and usually alot quicker. Personally I wish they'd just give you guys demanding things be changed your buttons back at a low potency so you could have your "engaging" rotation back but then I'm certain there'd be a complaint thread about the damage then.

Why do all Dwarves wear helms with fake beards on them, regardless of tribe or gender? (Can Lalafell even grow natural beards???)

(I don’t expect this to get answered, but I’d like to raise the idea). SE, can we please have a live letter/Q&A/something devoted to healers? There are a lot of healers with questions right now. Based on the like ratio on this thread, more than there are players who want to hear about story/world related things. We posted our questions for the live letter and the majority of them did not get answered, and I feel bad posting healer questions here when I don’t think it’s the appropriate place, but having an appropriate place to post them would be great.

Regarding Ast Design:
Before 5.0 Ast was a valid resource with many buffs and synergies compared to the other healers, his design was balanced with the lack of powerful pure healing or shielding skills and lesser mp regeneration which forced ast community to use the lucid dreaming + celestial opposition combo
5.0 healers rework was finalised to let all the healers bring the same amount of dps or buff dps but did not changed ast design in terms of power/ effort compared to the other ones.
Right now, indeed, Ast needs more effort to shine like whm/sch, cards new design keeps the player so busy, especially on savage tiers, and lack of MP regeneration skills forced ast to meld more piety than other healers and nocturnal sect seems so weak compared to diurnal right now.
Now that you clarified that you do not intend to rework card system or similar, are there any plans to optimise these aspects ?

This probably won't get picked, but can we get a new raise achievement? I've been raising a lot lately and I'm curious what my current count is :)

There was Thirtheen people who summoned Zodiark.
Are the Twelve, those who have summoned Hydealyn ?
Are we seeing more stuff about the Twelve ?

Assuming the fourteen member of the Thirteen has joined the Twelve, is our soul a fragment of the soul's deity we have chosen at character creation ?

In the scene before the dungeon Amaurot, Emet-Selch argues that he is right in sacrificing current life to bring back the Ancients. Even in the story, our heroes have trouble coming up with a satisfactory response other than Alphinaud stating that the ones Emet-Selch loves are now in the past. To me the question doesn’t have an easy answer either. Does it all come down to a battle for survival?

Can we have the lighter version of the Crystarium armor set?

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To clarify - the version we get has heavy pauldrons that aren't worn by most of the guards.

It would be great if we could be given both designs, so we can choose which version to wear.

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From coloration to personality, why is "Madbloom" Feo Ul so different from other pixies? Is it just b/c she's an important character and had to be designed uniquely, or is there more to it?

Can we please see more basic furnishing options, like chair, bed, table, couch, etc variety? The massive amounts of decorative furnishings we get are very cool, but there are so many styles of items that are already modeled that we can't use for basic housing designs--the barrel chairs in Wineport, Ala Mhigan furnishings, Ishgardian furnishings, etc.

When will we ever see a Keeper clan in game or get more detailed lore on them? Even Viera and Hrothgar have more collective lore than Keepers!

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Can we have the lighter version of the Crystarium armor set?

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To clarify - the version we get has heavy pauldrons that aren't worn by most of the guards.

It would be great if we could be given both designs, so we can choose which version to wear.

Are the Ancients actually immortal, or do they just live for a very long time (but still eventually 'grow old' and die naturally)?

Now that we have visited the First, are there any plans to visit other worlds in the future? Perhaps connecting FFXIV to FFXI with a visit to Vana'diel?