Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part IX!

Part 3

Will there be adjustments to duty finder to create a party makeup for the specific instance?
Many fights do not need 2 tanks 2 healers and the rest dps, and some depend on having at least one member on a specific job. This has led to the duty finders automatic feature being used less and less in favor of manual party creation as with the difficulty of the current content, it is useless.

how many hours of story progression after 50 will we get every 3 months?

When will music for each weather condition be implemented?

when will we get awesome vanity items and will a vanity slot be added?

will more music and voice overs ever be added?

1. Is there any updates on the “katagami” Vanity systemthat was mentioned in Letter IV?


2. Will there ever be added an incentive to have multiple characters? It says at the Mog Station before you pay that it is recommended you upgrade from entry to standard account, yet having more then one character seems pointless due to the class system.
Would it be possible to make alt characters like "Skins" you wear and have all the class level and character development connected to your account? Or at least have this be an option?

Greetings Yoshida-san and Dev team!
My questions are as follows.

1. Can you please elaborate a bit on how exactly people with large amounts of gil are being banned? My friends and I have been worried, we've been saving up gil since launch in anticipation of housing and were wondering if we are at risk. I've personally been hoarding up the allagan coins that can be sold to NPC's. I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling a bit worried.

2. Are there any plans on addressing Materia Stats and item stat caps? Currently, the stat caps on gear is quite low, so much so that both I and my LS mates feel at a loss at how we're to best use Materia. For example, most gear that I've seen will not allow any additional of a displayed stat - regardless of level. This is doubly so if that stat is something that your class calls for for example, Warrior and VIT or White Mage and MND.
So if that stat is VIT, I cannot add any more VIT to that piece of gear. Then, sometimes, I can't even add a stat that I want even if it isn't listed. So using VIT as an example, let's say I have a body piece that has STR, DET, and ACC but I also want to add VIT to it. When I go to meld materia, I can't add materia because for that body piece the cap for VIT has already been reached even though that body does not have a displayed VIT stat.
I hope that makes sense.

3. Are there any plans to make plans to make elemental resistances worth investing into? Currently, elemental resistances are pretty much useless.

4. Are there any plans to allow for crafting of multiples during a synth- allow me to explain. Currently, when crafting Rivets or Rings, it is more or less a 1 to 1 ratio (ignoring the cost of shards). So one Ingot = one Rivet or one Ring. It would be helpful if such items such as rivets and rings had multiple yields per synth. The cost of using up a whole ingot to make one ring/rivet doesn't make sense, even when ignoring the cost of shards. Once you add the cost of shards into the process it becomes very problematic.

5. Are there plans to have certain mobs spawn and despawn during certain times of day? For example, undead spawning at night and despawning at dawn.

6.Will patch 2.1 also see the introduction of more quests?

7. Are there any plans to address the game raining gear upon players? Currently, because players can get gear from quests and they can get even better gear from dungeons, crafting has suffered.

Is anything going to be done about the low amount of exp leve's, guild leve's, and dungeons give?

When will the marriage system be implemented? Last I heard Yoshida said it would be "soon after release", so when can be expecting it?

1) fixing the healer level 3 limit break do that it doesn't raise everyone with the debuff? seems dumb for a limit break to have this penalty.
2) addressing dragoon vulnerability during jumping actions? like the pathing damage they take if they use a jump that moves through enemy aoe damage elements on the ground or the death that follows a jump from animation lock? such as titan landslide after a dragoon jump landing.
3) addressing vulnerability of limit break users while in animation lock. such as death to plumes in most primal fights or landslide.

4) inability to invite or accept invites to parties, free companies, friend requests or other things of this nature while crafting, shopping, repairing or otherwise engaged in an act that's really shouldn't affect these things.
5) ability to buy more than 1 of the same item at a time from the market boards before the purchase window automatically closes itself.
6) option to auto pass on cut-scenes once they have already been viewed.
7) the ability to toggle headwear on heavy darklight plate.. jesus its hideous...
8) ability to turn off the display of others debuffs/effects on enemy targets so as to make it easier for those of us who use dots to track our abilities to more efficiently re-apply our own debuffs/effects..
9) remove stupid cap size on furm posts..

Can you give us info on what kind of furniture items each DoH can craft for houses? I'm a Lvl 50 WVR. What can I craft for housing?

How many houses can a player own?

Any way to make NPCs in town Load priority? Fate mobs load priority? Spawned mobs load priority? I run on average 23-35 fps yet I'm always waiting for them to load.

If a player owns a house and changes severs what happens to the house the bought?

Will we be able to grow shards/crystals/clusters in our Mog House?

I am a male player, and my main character is an Elezen female. I created her quickly to test the error 90000 bug during Beta 4. I chose a randomly generated name because I just wanted to do a quick test. By the time I reached level 10 and verified she didn't experience the error, I realized I really enjoyed playing that character. I didn't (and still don't) like her name, but I figured I could just change her name later. I figured this because when fantasia was announced, it was stated it would allow changing everything except starting class. Fantasia is now listed as allowing the changing of everything except starting class and character name. By the time this was officially stated on the website, I had put too much work into my character to just start over.

Is there any chance that we will have an opportunity to change our character name in the future (even as a paid service)?

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Originally Posted by fixitman

I am a male player, and my main character is an Elezen female. I created her quickly to test the error 90000 bug during Beta 4. I chose a randomly generated name because I just wanted to do a quick test. By the time I reached level 10 and verified she didn't experience the error, I realized I really enjoyed playing that character. I didn't (and still don't) like her name, but I figured I could just change her name later. I figured this because when fantasia was announced, it was stated it would allow changing everything except starting class. Fantasia is now listed as allowing the changing of everything except starting class and character name. By the time this was officially stated on the website, I had put too much work into my character to just start over.

Is there any chance that we will have an opportunity to change our character name in the future (even as a paid service)?

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They should rethink that, else alot of people are going to have the opposite gender name on their characters and that could destroy some people wanting to use the item in the first place. >< I know if I changed gender I'd be royally pissed with this name on a male! (not that I am planning on it, but still)

Can we please have jobs that combine crafting classes with war or magic classes. I'd love to see something like Chemist which uses Corsair and Alchemist as its base classes. This would extend playability and it would be nice to have a healer that uses potions instead of spells.

What is being done with invisible UNTARGETABLE characters and enemies in overcrowded areas, such as fates?

If it doesnt get fixed by 2.1, crystal tower will be UNPLAYABLE on ps3 and probably on weaker pc's too.

Can we get some information about this class? What we can expect, when we can expect it, what crafting class will make guns, etc.?

I've been waiting three years to get my gun back and I'm tired of waiting!

There is a lot of hackers/ farm botters in the game. Teleport miners/botanists and also there are disciple of war or magic teleporting straight to spawned mob to kill it, while they're invisible.

What do you want to do about this ?

What's being done to address the increasing problem with speed runner mentality in regards to bullying players doing dungeons to complete the story who want to watch the cutscenes? Also what is being done about bulling about a so-called "lack of proper equipment"? From what I understand, equipment caps are being implemented to keep people from joining if they ARE underequipped. What I'm talking about is people bullying others for not having darklight armor for dungeons that do not even remotely require to be that heavily geared to beat. Just the other day, I got grief for doing Castrum Meridianum without any darklight. If I tried to elbow my way into a private party that stated from the get go it was for a speedrun and some Darklight was required, it'd been one thing. I signed up through Duty Finder. It's really souring my experience of the endgame, in this type of behavior tends to spread unless dealt with.

When your Quality Assurance team tests battle content for playability, what exactly latency (ping) do they simulate? Do they play on NA or JP data centre?

Are there plans to support Steam OS?

Fleece is used in several end game recipes. However, there are currently very few ways to get Fleece. Unfortunately, because the value of Fleece is so high, the karakuls that drop them are a common target of RMT and botters. Are you considering adding more ways to get Fleece? For example, adding more karakuls to the world, or adding the recipe from 1.0 where you could create Fleece from 2 Sheepskin?

The life expectancy of karakuls is currently about 10 seconds. Please help protect the karakuls. Thank you.

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I would like to use shorter recast time for /wait command. Please let the decimal number work.

I wouldn't request for lowering the Global Cool Time. However, Would you reconsider about the decimal number for /wait command on macro system? Currently, /wait command only works in whole number intervals. Anything under wait 3 does not execute skills. Monk players who increased their skill speed stopped using the macro, because the macro is slowing down actual skill rotations.

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FYI, decimal numbers do work. My Swiftcast Resurrection and Summon macros both have a "/wait 0.5" between the two abilities and the macro works perfectly.

There are some issues with Summoner that make it a somewhat frustrating class to play -- will any of these be addressed in 2.1?

• difficulty in identifying our own debuffs on a target (green text not enough)
• inadequate debuff limit, which is already a problem in FATEs considering how often our debuffs fall off (resulting in low/zero Fester damage), and which will be a significant problem in 24-person raids
• debuffs not applied right away when their cast finishes (which can make Fester not hit for full damage if cast immediately after)
• poor pet AI that wants to use long-cooldown abilities at bad times, or that resets itself into Guard, forcing tedious management
• not being able to macro pet abilities
• most importantly, not being able to control the pet while casting a player spell, which is both annoying and inefficient when trying to move the pet somewhere or activate one of its abilities, since you have to cancel out of your current cast

This is simply a convenience thing: Would we be able to see a flag on armory equipment icons and/or description boxes that indicate whether that item is included in at least one gear set? I've many times converted or sold gear I thought I was done with, only to find out later that the gear I got rid of was in a gear set of a class I've not played in a while...Once you unlock every class, that's a lot of gear sets to inspect.

Building on my gear sets question, can we be allowed to directly manipulate our gear set equipment list (drag and drop), so that when we get the dreaded red and yellow warnings about missing gear, we can fix it quickly rather than having to create the gear set again from nothing?

gonna repost this from the one of the previous live letter things because i really want to know:

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Are there any future plans to shed light on some of the backstories of the major story NPCs that have been with us since 1.0--for example, the Grand Company leaders, Scions, etc.? We've gotten little blurbs about them here and there before, but will we be able to find out more in a future update?

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In the Server Transfer FAQ that was given to us for a preview; it says that we must not be a part of a Free Company to transfer to another server. But what if you are the leader of a Grand Company, and all the members will be making the move with you to another server?

To be honest this actually prevents people who are in a Free Company of like minded individuals who seek a better server to leave the server they're on for the server they desire because they have to start all over on their Free Company.

Right now, player characters are very lifeless when idle. Is there any chance of changing the default pose when a character is standing still to look more natural?

My question for housing is this: Do you have any plans in the future for placing housing in other area's? I absolutely love the Coerthas area, the snow is mind blowingly beautiful and would love to place not only my Free company home there but my personal home there as well, provided Behemoth doesn't come in and smash it to pieces ^^.

Before Beta Test 3; Yoshi-P said he was going to designate a server as a Role-Play Specific server.

Where, When will this RP specific server be announced? and why hasn't it been announced already?

How expansive will adjusting the interior structure of housing be? I would like to add secret rooms, hidden basements or cellars, or doors unlocked by passwords or puzzles (e.g. turn on a lamp to unlock a hidden door behind a bookcase or fireplace), like a mystery house ^_^ Free Company Cluedo anyone :)

Are classes gonna be Rebalanced, Such as warrior and dragoon/Bard. because right now classes feel weird for end game they feel like somethings missing.

thank you Yoshi-P you did something perfect to FFXIV
and we like it
BUT please .....
we need warrior ( JOB ) something make us feel that we ar warriors

here it looks like---> ( 40% tank - and 40% fighter and - 20% i don't know )

We know warrior in all the world and in all games = he can do lot damage and can use alot of weapons

but here in FFXIV looks like warrior trying to be a tank and trying to get HP and can only use Gaxe :(
more then 50% from warrior that everyone know is lost here

WAR in FFXIV is must be garden or Templar or any name...... but not warrior
and if you need it that way then please make it better and more useful

and take off HP gain from him and give him something that make the name worth it

Will I be able to put a Demon Wall in my house to scare off squatters?

Will you let Scholar Pets be macro'd into other abilities, right now Pet mechanics are incredibly clunky at high level play and it is the only issue with Scholar.