Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVIII! (Exploring Patch 3.2)

[Duty Finder / chocobo]

When will we be able to fight alongside our chocobo while registered in duty finder ?

In Patch 3.2, you added Orchestrion Rolls to the Crystal Tower. Do you believe that the attendance in Crystal Tower has increased since the Orchestrion Rolls have been introduced and, if not, do you have any plans to add further incentive to the Crystal Tower trilogy?

Will we have more open world non-solo content soon? I'd like to see large-scale Leves hard enough to require a Full party or maybe even a full Alliance. Force-pop Notorious Monsters would also be fun, Treasure maps are a start but I'd like to see something that doesn't require buying maps off the market.

Can we please have the ability to turn off all of the pop-up notifications in the middle of our screen? (FATE JOINED/FULL PARTY/ your retainer has returned from a venture/ your retainer sold something/ you harvest a sun lemon/ basically any pop-up that shows in the middle of my screen)

These notifications are often redundant (the information is usually already in my chat log) and really takes away from how beautiful the environment is. Imagine strolling through a beautiful forest~.... then BAM! "FULL PARTY" huge, glowing, Las Vegas style billboard. It makes our screen look so much more busy/cluttered than it needs to be.

Please add this option.

Thank you for reading.

Can we please be able to turn off battle music?

Will there be any improvements to the Diadem? I think it has great potential to be something like FFXI's Dynamis.

Can we please be able to change our skin color through the Aesthetician? Like a Tanning Booth :p

Player Inventory

What goes into deciding which items go into the "Key and items bag", "the currency tab" or the player inventory? As patches are deployed more items are introduced into the game that live on the player inventory. Like beast tribe tokens , Alexander normal and savage drops (cranks,gear lens, page etc), relic items, etc. While I understand the limitations and with the understanding that there will be no inventory expansion in the near future is there a reason why these items are not allowed into the key and items bag or used as a currency?

This would be a huge quality of life improvement that would make current inventory management manageable.

Have you thought of adding a Cape/Cloak accessory to the game? Something more so for glamour... i.e... Odin's Cape.

Do you think it would be possible to create a room where people from all worlds from all data centers can interact with each other without DF or Diadem and create a cross server PF in that room only?

I really love the new Alexander Midas Raids. Punching bombs as a Gorilla, playing with a kitty and watching an episode of Power Rangers / Gundam all in one raid was a fun experience. How did you come up with these crazy new mechanics?

PS: Was Yoshi-P involved in the making of Alexander Midas 1 Savage? Those spike bombs reminded me of Bomberman :P

Will crafted i170 gathering gear ever be added to the game? Second when will we see grade V crafting and gathering materia or will you only be buffing the crafting soul crystals to keep up with future crafting? As to gathering grade V materia, it is mostly useless on accessories and would be nice to see i170 crafted gathering gear and main hand to use grade V materia on.

Next, Ct, ST and WoD are more or less dead content. Any plans to add a roulette or weekly challenge to run them again. Maybe rewards like a song, or any type of grade V materia including crafting and gathering. Yes music drops in there but good luck getting in. I have had 2 plus hour waits mid day MST to try and get in as a healer. The roulette would also help as I have players in my friends list and FC that joined after 3.0 HW release and have never seen LoTA.

The state of Dark Knight

Do you have any plans concerning a potential rework or overhaul of Dark Knight's abilities and core mechanics considering the following:

1. Next to no party utility (Especially when there is a monk and/or offtanking).
2. Lackluster DPS to account for the lack of party utility.
3. Some abilities in conjunction with dark arts are mostly useless.
4. No stance dancing involved with Darkside (Unlike what had been said before release).
5. More complex than WAR and PLD to play but isn't really "High risk, high reward".

Also, when are you going to change the UGLY glow on Darkside? It's been asked ever since 3.0 came out!

Before I forget: Why the hell did you make a cleavage window on the Lore male tank gear!? D:

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Originally Posted by ShuKittah

Meow! Avid fisher here just pawing the days away wondering when will Fisher get a secondary tool such as (Tackle Box) for our bait or go ahead and make the stool (just make it bigger and decorative) we sit on a secondary tool since only Fisher uses it?

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Originally (1.0) there was a secondary spear fishing, the tool and alternate fishing style/motions could be added.

When will Tavnasian Tacos or their Eorzean equivalent be added to the game as an ingame food? They were in FF XI, so not lore breaking. Also, we have flying tortoises but no tacos? Who doesn't love tacos?

Would it be possible to implement a system so we know which players have cleared weekly content for that given week? I think it would increase use of the party finder for the Alexander turns and similar content, where you are penalized when players have already received their clear for the week.

Is it possible to have an update on the Egi skins that were mentioned last year? As a Summoner main I've been eagerly awaiting them for a while now, hoping they'll be implemented with each patch release, and the Sephirot Egis were a huge tease! Thank you :)

How soon will you be able to tell us anything about the next expansion?

Will there ever be improvements to the responsiveness of the summoned pets?

I love this game; that being said, it can become grindy really fast after all content released through the current patch has been explored. Can you look at the type of content you are adding with the intent to ensure that it won't become old, or stale, too quickly between patches? Perhaps add content with more of a randomized element involved so that players have a "fresh, or new" experience each time it's challenged...albeit, a dungeon or quest or series of ongoing, meaningful quests with rewards commensurate with the content. Thanks for your consideration.

Content creation helps promote this game and giving us the tools to create quality videos, without undermining gameplay, would help improve reception towards FFXIV. One way to help us in this endeavor is to create a setting for UIless recording without actually removing the UI from gameplay. The second way to help is to allow us to choose audio output for various in-game sounds. For example, I may wish to play the BGM through speakers, but have sound effects through headphones.

Patch 3.2 introduced even more ways to obtain the highest tier tomestone; as a result, it is even easier now to cap tomestones for the week without doing expert roulette and so a large section of the patch has become wasted content immediately (the Dungeons). Therefore, in future patches, can we see less Dungeons and instead resources being put into creating more Raid content, and so every patch can introduce 8-man raids and Alliance raids?

Will the game developers remove Machinist's ammunition duration timer in a future patch? It doesn't seem to make sense why ammo can expire after 30 seconds.

Are summoners getting new Egis / summon rework anytime soon?

Summoners were great in XI, we had a lot of summons, so every summoner could look different, but with Garuda/Ifrit/Titan only, it's a letdown to the class =(

Could be awesome to have egis lvling and changing their appearance *-*

What steps are you taking to curtail or remove people who are using cheating tools to increase their DPS in raid environments and to increase their movement speed in PVP areas?

Are you aware that cheating in pvp is starting to become more common? Some people use "speed hacks" which allow them to have sprint-speed all the time.

Another problem is that some people enter pvp, but they do their best to lose as fast as possible. They do this only to farm lore gear.

Has anything been planned or discussed to address these issues?

1. Is there any effort into putting in API support? This was mentioned some time ago, but seems to have fallen off the radar.

2. What other new content are you considering/working on. I know Diadem was made as new content in replacement of making 3 dungeons per patch. What else do you have up your sleeve?

3. Some time ago, you mentioned that ARR was to set the basics and HW was to spice things up. Do you feel you accomplished this goal? From a user perspective, HW has been playing it pretty safe and more of the same ol same ol.

4. Do you have any intention of changing/adding things such as; interesting/unique stats, traits, horizontal gear progression or anything which may help us customize our character, so that an ilvl 220 SMN is not the same as another ilvl 220 SMN?

5. What has been your take-away on many of the controversial/negative reactions for the relic, diadem, 2-dungeon/patch, small amount of raid content and hunts? I have seen you speak to these in the past, but have mostly not addressed any of the feedback. It would be great to know if you've learned anything or taken anything away from these.

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes please yes D:

Why are gil coins not a "real" physical item, yet venture coins are? A lot of us have a whole lot of them, and they clog up our inventory.

[3:22 p.m.]Searching for ventures in player and retainer inventories...
[3:22 p.m.]270 items found in the 1st tab of your inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]891 items found in the 3rd tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]2,376 items found in the 4th tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]2,376 items found in the 5th tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]1,089 items found in the 6th tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]Total: 7002 items found.

Can we get a /fart emote? That would include an animation and sound to go with the emote?

Tanking
With the changes to VIT/STR tanks at high and lower levels are experiencing enmity issues do you plan to address this?

Will there be any chance of us getting Squall Leonhart's outfit from Dissidia as a veteran's reward/loot drop? It'd look great on both males and females, and we need some FF8 love :<

Though it doesn't pertain to 3.2 patch; maybe this question will get answered. I have heard in the past that there is no intention of adding a new job mid expansion via a patch.

I was wondering if this has been reconsidered?

I ask because I feel like adding a new job towards the later half of the expansion really helped the 2.0 series; it helped breath life into the leveling zones as well as just feeling impactful from an MMO standpoint.

What are your thoughts on the recent feedback from players desiring for there to be more open ended dungeons added to the game with a similar layout to one of the earlier instances, 'Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak'? Any plans on making more in that style but a bit larger with optional bosses and routes to take, each containing different rewards, before leading to the final boss. It would be interesting to see dungeons offer more in terms of replay as the current set up could become stale after too much use. That being said all of the instances have still been wonderful in style and design but looking forward to hear what you guys think!

Is the relic upgrade coming out in 3.25? and when will patch 3.25 be released if so?.

With 3.2 here, why do we still have items that get permanently destroyed if people lose their house for any reason?

Request several of my FC members and LS members have talked about, would there be a chance of Japanese style School Uniforms for a Summer Event?!

Since the Dragon Quest series is celebrating its 30th anniversary (and YoshiP had formerly worked on several Dragon Quest titles before), will there be any new Dragon Quest cross-over events planned for FFXIV as part of the anniversary celebration?

I don't usually respond to these, and this is sort of last minute - But I was really, really hoping the other primal ponies would get their wings in 3.2. Instead, the adamantoise got its... whatever the hell that is. Yoshi-P! Xanthos gnaws at the bit. It needs to fly. It. Needs. To. Ah! Doomed to trot its glorious windy hooves in the DIRT when even the primal's minion can hover? Poor, sad, grounded Garuda horsie. It's just not right. Not right at all. So if this question is allowed; Will the next 3.2x (3.25?) patch allow the primal ponies the airborne status they've been waiting for? Hasn't Kirin enjoyed its solitary equine claim on the clouds long enough?

Why does the healer gear from lore tomes and alexander midas not have accuracy?