Will DRK see any change regarding their lack of mitigation skills? Shadow Wall being exceptionally weaker than Vengeance due to the 5 less second duration and 60 second longer cooldown compared to a class with a few more defensive skills is somewhat unfair. Buffs to Shadow Wall? Maybe change Quietus to something useful?
Also the immaturity of many people and the harassment they resort to is shocking. Do people even get punished?
Recently it was mentioned that the "ability to influence the party's damage" is a determining factor in a job's balance.
Has the development team ever visited the idea of focusing on this concept when designing a job, to create a play style that would be primarily supporting their party (for example, FFXI bard)? If so, are there any key points of that discussion that you'd be willing to share?
The topic of a "Glamour Log" is a matter of frequent discussion, having come up during numerous Live Letters and events. Every time it is shot down as impractical for FFXIV's infrastructure. So I would instead ask if the dev team has any ideas or plans for some form of glamour-storing subsystem to alleviate inventory and item bloat which does work for FFXIV's systems?
Going as far back as 2.1 Live Letters, developers have sporadically mentioned the possible concept of a Hybrid Role over the years.
In March, an interview with Yoshida was posted on a gaming news site (Twinfinite.net) where the concept was once again mentioned, this time in the context of deciding what direction to take when designing Red Mage. Does this mean the possibility is still in consideration in some form or another, and have there been any developments on the topic you'd be willing to discuss?
I would like to echo some of the Scholar question already posted here as I feel the current state of the class is an important issue to the scholar community. I've made several post in the healer forums about my thoughts on where Scholar is today and I feel like at some point during the Stormblood development cycle Scholar lost its identity. The changes to the class seemed to be overly harsh and punitive in response to the state of the class during Hevanswards. Many of the abilities introduced in Stormblood like Fey Union directly go against other abilities such as Dissipation creating a clunky system where key abilities are rarely if ever used. What is being done to restore the class's identity and bring its competitiveness back in line with the other healers?
Are there any plans to make the existing glamour system more robust? A frequent complaint is how a piece of gear can only have one appearance assigned to it, and since most jobs share gear (Fending, Healing, Casting, Striking and Aiming Sets) this imposes a number of restrictions upon players when using glamour. For example, if they want to use the Artifact Gear for one job, this means that the others which share a set lose the ability to be glamoured at all, as the appearance will be locked to the Artifact Set which will not appear on other jobs. To be clear, I am not expressing a desire for Glamour Appearance Restrictions (ie. Artifact Sets not appearing on other jobs, or not being able to apply the appearance of Fending Gear over Caster Gear) to be lifted. I'd just like a system which doesn't disable me from glamouring my PLD and DRK if I want to glamour my WAR. Or that lets me give my BRD and MCH uniquely different appearances.
So, are there any thoughts from the devs on making the glamour system more robust, so that players are no longer restricted by the limitations of shared gear?
Is the API for addons still being worked on or has that idea be scrapped?
With the continued item bloat we get every patch and us just now getting some slight increase in space, do you think we would ever see something like a glamour catalog?
Please implement a proper relinquish system for housing plots.
Say the owner get back 80% of the value. This might help with the "black market" of housing where players ask a higher value just to relinquish it.
I recently had the displeasure of getting put into a random party of bots that hacked their way past the starting gate. Do you have any plans on stepping up how aggressive you are in detecting and dealing with said bots, they ruin our game play experience.