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

Have you guys ever considered making 8 man dungeons? My friends and I like to hang out a lot and at the moment only have raids for 8 of us to hang out.

Parry

Why is parry so useless for tanks and are there plans to make parry more desirable in Heavensward?

Please do NOT remove lvl sync for low lvl dungeons in future updates as what they are going to do with Chinese server in their upcoming 2.4, PLEASE!
P.S. for your info, Chinese server is going to remove lvl sync (as well as ilvl sync if it exists) in dungeons for their 2.4 launching on April 1st (which seems not being a joke). Players won't receive exp anymore for the whole dungeon (except roulette bonus) if the biggest lvl difference among party members is larger than 11, though they will get gil and loots as usual. This is to say, if 3 new players under lvl38 happen to get a lvl50 player randomed into their party, they won't receive any exp during the dungeon. And official there is even asking low lvl players to use DF instead if they really want exp through dungeons...
Since one of key marketing managers of the Chinese version recently met Yoshida-P (and guess he got the permission of this modification), this makes me really worry about the future for JP, NA and EU servers.

When it rains in housing areas, how come garden planted seeds don't become watered/tended?

Are there any plans to make it easier for us to contact the Special Task Force? I always report what I suspect to be bots, via the in-game support desk, and the (I assume automated) reply still includes directions to the general SE Support website. Which is just that, general, with a button somewhere at the bottom that can get me to reporting issues in FFXIV. This is just very unintuitive, cumbersome, and pretty much an overall hassle to deal with, which I assume potentially discourages players to even bother with the in-game support desk. Not to mention it also potentially delays communication and proof gathering - having to get out of the game, and write another report, somewhere in a browser - I play on PC and even I don't wanna go through all that when I'm busy with something in-game; I can imagine it's even worse for console players. An in-game issue that is to be looked at in-game and dealt with by GMs of that specific game should not force me to a general support site outside of the game. Especially when there already is a way to contact GMs in the game itself.



Also, because this thread might be a monitored in a little more focused way than the others: for the umpteenth time, please remove the character limit. My post above is apparently a whopping 91 characters over 1000, so I'm forced to cut it, post it, then edit it, paste the cut-out part again, and save it - basically making the character limit nothing but an extreme annoyance to deal with. Again. Like countless times before. It serves no purpose when a) it's so easy to bypass; b) the dev posts themselves are so often so obviously way above the character limit anyway. Please stop punishing us for no legitimate reason.

In the expansion how will dungeon/crafted gear compare to gear from raids/tomestones/24-man?
Will they be closer in comparison than they currently are? Allowing us more freedom of choice or will we be once again choosing from 2 sets of gear?
Also will there be materia slots on gear other than crafted?

Are there any plans to have personal Gardens, for instance within your personal room of the FC Housing. Our server has too many people looking for housing and to get one just for the sake of a garden seems a bit too much. A flower pot, or flower bed, in our room would be nice.

You have added a black listing command to the players names. This is great when trying to stop the RMT spam. Now the problem is the Black list becomes full very quickly. I would request a Report spam selection.
1) Make it so it removes the spam from the log after submitting.
2) Sends the reported message to whom ever needs to be sent to, to be reviewed so that they can be band and blocked immediately.
3) They are automatically blocked without need of filling the black list.

Please stop the annoying RMT spam. Posting that you have band so many accounts for RMT activities and yet we are constantly bombed with advertisements. It really feels and looks like you all are not even trying to do anything but put on a show.

Are you going to rework paladin so it doesn't feel like its a Plain old Shield and sword tank and make it feel more Paladiny with its white magic? Alot of time went into Making DRK i get that and making sure it uses the powers of darkness to tank.. but what about paladin and using the powers of light..?

Leviathan got the mirror to upgrade its weapon. Shiva have the diamond dust. Garuda, Ifrit, Titan and Mog have the craft with primodial semi-materia. What about Ramuh? It's the only primal who can't get an aura on its weapons.

Now about chocobo's barding. Leviathan, Ramuh and Shiva got their. Can we expect to see someday the Ifrit, Garuda, Titan and Mog one?

To finish this, I'm a huge minion collector. And I miss something in my collection : primals minion ! Could you think about this? I wouldn't say to Livia, Rhitatyn, Nero, Gaius, Ultima Arma and Lahabrea minion too.

Is there any chance of there being a Dodo bird mount?

Will the three new jobs share gear with their counterparts, for example Dark Knight with the other tanks, Astrologian with the other healers, and Machinist with Bard? Will they also need to do all of the relic/zodiac weapon steps for their respective weapons or will they start off completely different? It would be nice to have some info in order to prepare in advance for them. :cool:

Will Dark Knight be getting its own style of mount similar to PLD and WAR?

Will we ever be able to search the GC daily craft/gather turn-ins all at once at the MB or will it stay one by one?

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Any chance we will see a similar version of the haunted mansion from FF VII Gold Saucer find it's way into the Manderville Gold Saucer?

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In addition to this May we also add an Ax to the prize vendor? I was very disheartened to find that everybody gets a weapon.... except Warriors.

http://i.imgur.com/qYud1Bp.jpg

Ninja weapons, mind you, the designs on the Susuke's are beautiful but, along with several other weapons like HA daggers, woots and many many others are incredibly gaudy. I suppose it's fine for Rogues since they're more like THF and use knives and daggers. But at least have a selection for ninjas that are smaller and more... ninjaish? Yoshimitsu were dead on perfect in my opinion since they were more closer to tanto or smaller katana. It's just an OCD I have wielding the large Susuke's Blades that would be epically perfect for Blue Mage instead of Ninja.

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Originally Posted by Slirith

Will we ever be able to search the GC daily craft/gather turn-ins all at once at the MB or will it stay one by one?

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You can look at this by viewing your timers which you can bring up while at the MB. Its under Duty (!) Icon --> Timers CTRL+U on PC by default. You can look at both the GC turn ins and the Ixali Turn ins if you have them unlocked.

http://i.imgur.com/AXjN6GL.jpg


Yes My Skills are low.... Don't judge me!!!!

Any plans on easing up on triple triad card drops from npc's who have a 1 in 4 chance of dropping a specific triple triad card (such as the indolent imperial with the gaius card) and trials like the hm primals and dragons neck with the terra card? I'd like to be able to enjoy battling the higher tiered npcs, but I can't get to them because of the low drop rates in npc's and certain trials!

SUBJECT: Repairing Party Members' Equipment in Dungeons

Is it possible to allow party members to repair each other's equipment while in the middle of a dungeon? I can't tell you how many times a party member has had their equipment break in the middle of the dungeon while an experienced crafter can do nothing about it. There is a good feeling when your crafting skills pay off during an emergency.

Will we see the Primal Doomtrain in the game

Possiilitys would be as a Ride to the World of the Voitsend (dungeon)
A own fight in his Parts (primalfight)
Or from a Beastribe who is actual realy in Technic

Since glamour is a hot topic in the community are there any plans on allowing us to glamour Grand Company gear sets on characters that are not that Grand Company anymore? For example, I really like the looks of the Gridania Hunts Tank armor (make you look like groot/tree) but I absolutely love the look of the Limsa Hunts Mage armor, as it stands now I can never even glamour (just the look not the stats) those at the same time. Not to mention I role-play as a triple agent for Gridania so I need to be able to glamour those Limsa/Ul'dah sets, pretty please? (^_^; )y

When Can Eternally Bonded Couples Actually use the same House together?

I gave my wife the gil to buy a house together and I still can't teleport to it easily nor use the items in the house or the garden. Very disappointed. I'm positive that other Eternally Bonded Couples know what I'm talking about. More Joint House permissions or at least some permissions to use more of the house would be great please and thank you.

Will we get new secondary stats on armor and weapons? Example Double Attack or Enhances X Job Trait/Ability?

Shall we have the possibility of trying several equipments and of dyeing them to see the whole look which we wish to have?

will you be implementing more wards? and will those with eternal bond be able to share houses?

Any possibility we see a Guest feature where you can visit other servers such as the one similar to Guild Wars 2?

Have you ever considered giving players the ability to let their characters walk/run in place and test out every emote for the benchmark? In 1.0's character creation, you were able to see their walk and run animation, but not emotes.

If it's not too late in the process or this can be done in the updated version you plan on releasing later on, considering the one coming out end of April is somewhat incomplete.

Will you be fixing any of the obvious clipping issues in the game?

Could it be possible to put some fun glamour, or lower level accessories weapons in these dungeons much like you did in Moogle mog story mode trial? It seems to take long time to queue these for members of my FC when helping them complete story. There is no reason to go in these dungeons except for light parties and card farming.

When an armor piece is part of a set of gear, can we have a "try on set" function.
For example: Try on the entire "Ironworks set of Casting"

From the Event and Party recruitment guide picture I noticed that a female Miqo'te is wearing a palette-swap of the female Hyur's starting outfit. Should we expect to be able to wear outfits of other races (or at least replicas with the expected palette swap)?

Will the next expansion be released for $500 in Australia? #Notsalty

1. Is there any technical reason for the absence of a "Use Item" macro? If not, when do you plan to add a /item or /useitem macro command?
It'd be really handy to combine Second wind + X-Potion in just one "button" for quick heal every 2 minutes (both skill and potion have a 2min cooldown timer) when tanking as warrior, even more so for us PS4 players.

2. Will the PS4 digital collector's edition for Heavensward be available only through PSN store, or will there be an option to buy it from SquareEnix and get a PSN store code or something?

Hopefully this hasn't been asked yet (pardon if does) since this has been discussed for quite some time in forum (also already using search feature on this thread and finding no similar question, I think):

Are there any plans to introduce some sort of "Glamour book" system? That way, we can glamour any that we have been previously gotten, which usually have to go due to space limitations. I think other MMO like WoW has this system.

I'm borrowing this thread for more detailed explanation.

I would like to know if it would be possible to give housing credit to those looking to upgrade their homes to a larger one. For example, if you already have a small house you paid 4 million gil for, can we have a credit for the amount we paid at the lowest devaluation of the the property to apply toward a medium or large house?

(Sorry if already asked, on break at work with little time)

Is there a plan on how to handle Au'ra with existing 2.xx story content? Will they have their own into story kind of like (I hate to reference it but) the Pandaren in World of Warcraft being introduced in their own area and then integrated with the rest of the story?

Another angle comes from some of the patch content, primarily dealing with Yugiri. Will we just be expected to overlook the obvious contradictions in the current dialogue or will dialogue for some scenes be altered and perhaps Yugiri's unmasked model soon to be shown in 2.52 replace the masked model in those scenes post 3.0?

It's just really been on my mind as there will obviously be Au'ra all over the place after launch, what would Yugiri have to be concerned about then?

Can we please have an aquarium furnishing?

Rock-Paper-Scissors Mini Game

Is it possible to add a game based on luck like: rock-paper-scissors? c:

maybe with a weekly limited score of winning, so that rewards will be fair. Or as a tournament instance with say 8 players.

Has any thought been placed into letting the players dye their respective race's starting clothing? Perhaps the ability to Augment the starting gear, similarly to the Artifact Gear.

Could this be made possible?