Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

Could Dragoon be adjusted where Eye stacks are not removed when losing Blood of the Dragon?

Other jobs, such as Black Mage and Summoner, do not lose their respective stacks needed for their level 70 abilities. This is especially irritating on long periods of boss invulnerability, such as Yojimbo, or when preparing for a pull where recasting Blood of the Dragon is simply not enough to prevent them from falling no matter how much time you have on the timer. This places the job at a significant disadvantage compared to others who can keep their stacks indefinitely and prepare them for use.

The new 4.0 sprint animations are great, any chance we can get them as a mount?

Will we ever see such content such as Horde mode where after every 5 rounds we get a boss and it gets harder after each boss has been killed

Are there plans to change the WHM level 70 skill "Plenary Indulgence"?
Because at its current state, its just a back up healing method for the main tank at best, and it fails to do so even at that when you really need it because of the percentage of getting a confession stack is so low its completely meaningless.
It sounds great on paper, making a stack on your party members and giving a AOE heal when needed, but the success rate of making a confession stack (let alone 3 for the max potency) is so low that it can never be so.
Also other than tanks, situation when you need to heal up individual party member is usually do to an AOE attack so you use AOE heal such as Medica 1/2 or Assize, which does not grant the confession stacks.
Most of all I find it most disturbing that Cure 1 and Cure 2 have the same probability of giving confession stack.
You really need to fix/balance this skill because in its current state, its a virtually non-existent skill with very limited use.

Is it possible we can get information about possible PLD changes? Because currently on my side of things a lot of people are saying PLD is OP due to its immense damage output compared to other tanks in the Off Tank Slot, as well as due to the i270 Strength Accessories.

It'd be great if we could get an answer to that since a lot of people seem unhappy about having to wear i270 STR just to have more Attack Power and also an idea of how you can bring DRK and WAR up to PLD's level.

Are there plans to add more features to job gauges?

For example, adding a feature to the Aetherflow gauge to show when it is off cool down? Maybe it could glow a certain color when Aetherflow is off cooldown.

I have a question in regards to Lore. Are there Miqo'te native to Doma? We know that there are Hellsguard who are, and that they have adopted Far Eastern naming conventions. But while there is a lone male Miqo'te in Kugane, there is nothing aside from his Far Eastern garb that tells us if he is from the Far East or if he is a visitor from Eorzea. Can you please confirm if there are Miqo'te living in the Far East - specifically Othard - or not?

Will you consider adding a option to make the information you get from your job guage go back to being a buff on your buff bar? (e.g MCH ammo/heat and SCH aetherflow). I did a straw poll to ask people if they wanted this and got a majority asking for it.
(http://www.strawpoll.me/13365002/r incase you were wondering)

Will swimming be a feature added to the water in Ul'dah's Goblet? Along with other 2.X areas that do not have swimming added?

People are probably wondering about the Lupin. They were first introduced in Final Fantasy V. Kelgar being the first Lupine Hero, or beast hero, introduced to the Final Fantasy series although not being a playable character. And seeing that the raid is reminiscent of FFV, I couldn't help but to wonder if something is planned for them.

Will we be seeing and learning more about them in the future patches?

Also seeing that they are modeled similar to the different playable races, can we look forward to the Lupin being a new playable race in the future for FFXIV?

1. Are there any plans to increase the level/difficulty or method to which you fight older hunts?

2. Are there any plans in the future to add new gathering or crafting classes?

Thank you!

Will we ever get more mustache options for the Mi'qotes?

Greetings
I would like to know if it is still planned to be released the Edda glamour?, because it is something that I am waiting very anxious!

Hello there!

As NA got the Cloud mount through Amazon and Germany got it through Pepsi, how will other countries get it?

thanks in advance~

Hello again! (as I saw earlier they prefer to have one question per post)

For the Garo horses! Not many like to do the PVP or (as me, who is still trying and learning) are good at it haha.
Will they be on the mogstore in the future? Because I will throw my money at you!

Thanks a lot for being amazing and keep it up!

Will NA data center players ever receive an official response regarding the Bad routing,massive packet loss, and near unplayable lag ever since the data center relocation?

WHMs were responsible for the great flood of the Sixth Umbral Era, yet with each expansion our spell list has been nauseatingly predictable: New Stone, New Aero, More heals that we don't need. Why are you constantly pushing this "Pure Healer" vision when it doesn't seem to fit the lore of the game and will we ever see a break from this tired pattern in our spell list?

Hi :P
Will they give us angel/demon and korean outfits soon ?, we still have people waiting for them!

Screenshots in case someone does not remember them.
(Click to see it)
Angel outfit -> http://imgur.com/QrW6T6I
Demon outfit -> http://imgur.com/oDUc4zr

Female korean dress -> http://imgur.com/Y8IlEbn
Male korean costume -> http://imgur.com/l5tyzYK

In many interviews that you have had in both English and Japanese, you have mentioned the desire to 1) Make tanking and healing "Less stressful" 2) Add incentives or "encouragement" for people to play tanks and healers and 3) Completely waved off WHMs concerns about their job most of which are still being voiced now that we are 70.

And yet, through a combination of mechanics in the game: Harder hitting mobs, Royal Menagerie, Chyb-whatever its called in v1.0 which reduces everyone's hp to 1, etc.; Community influence (Tanks which insist on pulling 3+ packs of mobs each time [I should mention I always seem to get this tank in the DF and I play on a Japanese server]); And removal of abilities/the whole WHM lily system in general, it has been hard to do anything BUT heal in most content. This seems to have had a widely opposite effect from the one you have been hinting at that you desired: making it easier for healers to contribute dps/buffs/etc. If anything, this seems to have increased the skill gap for healers who can heal while keeping these insane tanks up, etc while still finding the time to dps. Furthermore, having to constantly be healing isn't exactly fun. It's one of the key reasons most people don't like to play healers in other games.

What exactly were you aiming for with these changes and do you feel that you achieved that?

The NOC team asked us for our traceroutes and information about our connection quality after the server move and have said nothing since. Can we please have an update about what they're doing to address the problems that players have, such as the South American players having extremely high latency (300+) or people like me who have better connection to EU server than the ones in their own country?

Can we have the option to hide sidequests on the map?
Can there be job balancing in pvp? Brd and Mch are very strong dps compared to others.
Can we have new pvp gear?
Can there be a slaughter pvp mode?
Can we have a new pvp map?
Can you be able to choose the job you want experience for before you enter pvp? That way if you are ahort healers but you want exp on a dps you can heal without having to worry about switching to your main class before match ends.


Thank you.

Sincerely,
Butter Toast on Goblin

Hello. I just played around Yanxia until I was captivating on some NPC characters like Kurobana and Masatsuchi. I really like that Lupin design. I wish a Lupin character was playable like other races the players used. Anyway, I am interesting about Lupins. I want to know more about them, like something epic or unique. Is there planning for that?

Or perhaps a new playable race, Lupin, for the next expansion? ...No? All right. Your call.

Thank you for your hard work and endurance on Final Fantasy XIV! And you're super awesome, Yoshi-P and the dev team!

Would it be possible some time in this expansion to be able to have the character configuration option to change the color of FC member display names in the world? There's already Party, Alliance, and Friend color options, so it would be really convenient to be able to distinguish FC member names in the world.

I live in the north, so please add Ishgard housing !!!!

Yoshida mentioned that he is interested in creating original jobs and that if Samurai was to be a tank, he would make it a Shogun. Is there a possibility to see an XIV original Shogun Job in the future?

Are you really serious with the ability Crutch? Can we have a non-wasted slot ability please?

Will it be possible to be able to craft by having the materials stored on your retainers as opposed to needing to have them in your own inventory?

At some point not long ago a comment about Ishgard housing coming after the zone warms up was made. Was this a hint that the zone might change at some point in the coming story, or a round about way of saying Ishgard housing will never happen?

Hello!! So this is a question of housing, and server/worlds. When the housing is released (hopefully in 4.1 as it was stated earlier this year), there will be the people camping for server maintenance to end. As soon as it is up, there are going to be massive log ins, and an extremely large number of people rushing to Shirogane or logging into Shirogane. (not to mention that every person I have spoken to has stated they are after a medium or a large, because they desire more room to decorate)... It is going to be a madhouse. What is going to be done to protect the servers and the worlds from crashing, due to this high number of people all hitting one spot?

Do you plan on making que timers for solo instances that works in a similar manner as DF/RF in the future so what happened in Early Access doesn't happen again?

Will we be receiving a healer class in the future or nother tank class to balance things?

For Omega Savage, will the weekly system work the same way as Alexander Savage and Bahamut, or have you made some new adjustments to it?

I'd like first say thank you for not forcing the player-base behind finding dozens of "points" in order to actually swim.

While we are all aware of the hard work the development team does; can we actually go into the water without "zoning"? In addition can we also have some nice active time battle events under the water?

GW2 has done a really great job in putting together the water experience as an example.

Hello!

So, I was really excited since the announcement about the prospect of visiting ala mhigo. Although I loved the story portion of the game and visiting othard, by the end of 4.0 I was left a bit disappointed I couldn't go inside Ala Mhigo proper.

Are there any plans for opening Ala Mhigo as an actual city in the future, like Ishgard? It feels a bit wasted, on the players side, to liberate a city-state and not have access to it.



To add to this, it feels like a waste because the portion that we are allowed doesn't even have access to a marketboard or a bell, no diverse merchants or others that would interest a high level player.

Are there any plans to introduce more elaborate jumping puzzles with rewards at the end for time completion/etc?

Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4tV_Vjptzo

We all know Paladin needed some love going into 4.0. However, PLD now has the best physical mitigation, self mitigation, group mitigation, physical dps, magical dps, burst dps, self healing, and the best array of defensive cooldowns. If not for the Limit Break Bar penalty for running two Paladins most all groups would be planning on double PLD for Savage content. If Limit Break isn't necessary (like A12S ultimate) you may see it. During the last 2 years we were told you were not going to introduce a new tank so you could "focus on balancing" the existing ones. According to the current, "balance", this was a complete failure. How do you plan to truly balance the tanks over the next few months, when it appears it was unable to be done in the last two years? WAR feels clunky, DRK has significantly lower dps than both other tanks. How will this be adjusted?

when can we get Lyse's outfit and hair on mogstation?

Are there plans to provide an option for continuous playback of cutscenes on the Endless Journey?

How will moving function? Could an FC with a small house utilize it to upgrade to a large one? Or will we need to instead relinquish our plot?

Are there any plans to expand upon the Achievement Point system? Like adding unique glamours, mount, minions, etc for certain milestones.