Letter from the Producer LIVE 53: Ask Your Shadowbringers Questions!

What are your future plans for Summoner now that you've ruined the job?

So my wife and I had an interesting idea we were hoping you might consider. You have so many amazing little subsystems in the game already, like airship voyages, orchestrion rolls, treasure maps, housing, etc. We were wondering if you might ever consider adding another little subsystem for us lore nerds who are heavily invested in the world of Eorzea, in the form of a bookcase and collectible lore books for your house? Similar to that of say, Skyrim, where you can have a bookcase in your house, and you can collect short little couple page books with lore or short stories relevant to the world! They could function almost identicallly to the orchestrion and the orchestrion rolls!

Could be possible to remove the battle voice from Dancer while they are dancing? They yell so angrily while making step dance (specially Viera) and don't fit at all. Even the NPC in the job quest don't yell while dancing, so please consider it.

Do you have any plans to prune the 7th Astral Era campaign (Level 50 quests) and cut out the filler? While the 7AE campaign contains a lot of important story, it also contains a lot of low-quality filler quests that serve little purpose other than to drag out the campaign without adding any real value. I think probably a good half of those quests could be cut without negatively impacting the overall 7AE story. Some of those quests range from having questionable value at best to being completely inane, utterly ridiculous, and a complete waste of time. Here are some examples, *just* from Patch 2.1 (A Realm Awoken):

- The quests where you have to track down F'lhaminn and persuade her to return could be cut out and replaced with her just showing up. (Moving On, Flowers for One, All Things in Time, The Resolute)
- There is a quest where you have to go out and kill 2 morbols just for the heck of it. (Welcome to Morbol Country)
- There is a quest where you have to rerun Sunken Temple of Qarn, a level 35 dungeon. Seriously, why are you making us rerun an old level 35 dungeon!? (Rock-solid Protection)
- You have to go to Coerthas and collect a bunch of tea leaves. That one was utterly ridiculous and seriously infuriating. (The Things We Do for Tea)

I think the unnecessarily dragged out 7AE campaign, along with classes/jobs taking too long to get enough skills to be fun and interesting, is a major cause of new player dropoff, and rectifying those problems should be a high priority.

Are there any plans to retell some of the story that occurred during the 1.x patch cycles in game perhaps using the role system (whatever its called when you control NPCs) as a means for new players who missed that time to experience the saga?

My question is extremely simple.
1) As so far into ShB, Samurai and Ninja is probably and most likely completely ruined, what would be SE's future plan to revive these 2 jobs?

I really want to play with my low level friends without having to create a new character. My lowest job level is 70, meaning they won't get any exp when I'm in their party. Kinda defeats the purpose of the mentor exp bonus for sprouts.

Is it possible to implement a manual level sync for the overworld? It'd be pretty neat to decide which level I'd like to play on. Of course it'd be just a minor feature, so I can understand that it's not worth spending production time one that, but it would definitely make life a little easier.

any plans for removing mentor system too many bad players that don't know anything with the crown that act like they know everything and ruin the fun for others

Hey there,

Will be any kind of DoH/DoL job lvl boost in Mogstation? Similiar to the DoW/DoM job boost.
Thanks!

For nearly a few years now I've mostly played healer since I started as conjurer, but I'm much more inclined towards the magical ranged DPS gear designs. I've always been on an endless struggle to find a healer-useable appearance that I can be at peace with. Could roles with similar gear be allowed to glamour each other's role gear? (Not job-specific gear)

Thank you