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

Can you fix Warrior mitigation or self-healing scaling and ramp up time in the near future? The math and theory-craft has been done, tons of times over, from all regions. This is very blatant at this point and is very frustrating and at times impedes me and my boyfriends ability to comfortably play and work with the community.

Thank you.

Will Warrior see some changes to Inner Beast, Blood bath and Foresight?

Not having mitigation like a Paladin is fine, but Warrior self heals are completely underwhelming at the moment. The amount of health returned is erratic and unreliable. When compared to a Paladin's raw mitigation, Warrior's are undesirable and a last pick as far as tanks go.

I feel as if the cost of using Inner Beast is far too great because you give up your 15% healing. Perhaps the 15% healing should be on at all times during Defiance and the cost of Inner Beast shouldn't be 5 stacks of Wrath. Warrior is a reactive tank and I feel that we should be able to use Inner Beast to react to bigger attacks whenever we like. If the frequency of how often we can use Inner Beast is increased, I feel as if the amount it heals for is fine. (I guess this was already covered in some manner by Terabyt3)

I'd like to maybe one day be allowed to main tank Titan without people whining before giving me a chance.

Is there a plan to add a side by side comparison of gear stats of our equipped gear and the gear we mouse over? It is pretty annoying to see a quest gear reward and then have to cancel out the quest turn in so I can see if my equipped gear is better or not. Then I have to re initiate the quest turn in.

Is there any plans to allow my DoTS on an enemy be distinguishable from other players DoTs? Right now there is no way to track my DoTs to tell if I need to refresh them or not if there is more than one person casting say... Bio. My DoTs looks like the next guys.

Also can you explain to these people crying about their suspensions and Gil being taken so they will shut up about it already? People don't listen to the little people when we tell them that the Gil needed to be removed because it was generated initially by rtm....at least toss them some crayons and a coloring book :) and tell them be quite and color.

i have a few friends who our color blind are we or will we get a color blind mode for them?

Will the abilities "Jump" and "Spineshatter Dive" for Dragoon ever gain the ability to dodge attacks while airborne?

This was a staple of the previous Final Fantasy titles. Kain Highwind, for example, could use "Jump" and effectively dodge any incoming attacks until after his attack landed and he was back in place. This made "Jump" a very strategic option, and I believe it would make for a very exciting experiance in FFXIV!

what will be the next class or job ?

Not many who take anatomy seriously are happy with the way the character models have been changed in 2.0. If nothing can be done for our current characters, even in the distant future...

Will you consider the butt when creating new races?

Will we see new emotes to coincide with our new housing?

I think it would be great to be able to "/nap" and snooze while waiting for my friends!

After completing "A relic Reborn" quest, you introduced a new concept of upgrading existing unique weapons into a higher Item level: Relic +1.
Will there be plans to upgrade Relic and Artifact armor further in the far future? For example, Relic +2 or Artifact Armor +1?

When the weapon is sheathed, will we ever see the return of the turning and stopping animations present in 1.0?

Subscription Difficulties
Are there any plans to address the issue of setting up subscriptions for those receiving the 401/601 errors?

What changes are on the way for melee classes? As of right now, they are not even remotely close to being on par with ranged DPS. Most raid compisitions are stacking ranged, which usually leaves 1 spot only for a melee class if at all. The server is also constantly doing position checks for AoEs and still players (Mostly melee) are getting smashed even though they're out of the red.

Also, Dragoon Jumps; the bread and butter of the class since the SNES days are mediocre at best, and generally not worth it to use in boss fights as the marginal DPS increase does not offset the higher probability of death because you're essentially stunning yourself inside red circles. Will there be any change to this?

Warriors are paper, and are not viable MTs in coil, is there any chance of a buff?

Any chance we could get any hints about what second Jobs might be released for the current Classes? i.e.- Arcanist has Summoner (DPS) and Scholar (Healer). What second Job will Monk get?

Alternatively, what is a basic time frame on when we might see new Jobs for the current Classes?

Are there any future plans for allowing us to redeem "Trigger" items required during 1.xx gameplay to access Primal Fights, Vortex Headdress, Unmarked Keystones, etc which many player's still have lots of sitting around collecting dust, for Philosophy/Mythology tomes or any uses towards upgrading existing weapons/armor with these items?

If you get married and your spouse uses a Potion of Fantasia to switch genders, is your marriage made invalid?

There are many amazing unused songs from FFXIV 1.0. Will they ever return in A Realm Reborn?

Are you going to address the packet loss issue for the NA/EU server that a lot of people are having?

A lot of people have unsubscribed or chose not to subscribe because of this issue.

Square-Enix does not have a very good history customer service, we need more official statement on forums about the state of the game and what are being worked on. Square-Enix need to be more vocal about their game. Learn a thing or two from World of Warcraft, they are the #1 MMORPG for many reason, customer service is one of them.

There is a popular demand for Oceanic / Australian / New Zealand servers, what is the possibility of this?

When will you introduce Add-on capability?

Melee DPS is harder to play than ranged dps and there's not enough incentive to be one. No difference in damage, higher risk, positioning issues and being phased out by ranged dps end game.

Are dragoons and monks getting a buff anytime soon?

When will you be adding live DPS meter?
Currently we have some programs that can track player's DPS, but they aren't very accurate yet, so we can't objectively measure our strength and skill.

Black mages end game spells are 90% usless, Flare is useless because it takes away all MP and the damage it does and slow cast time do not reflect in any shape good dps or even a use. Seems like 90% of the class was an after though past level 30.

As for game issues, players on PS3 still get de synced from other party members and mobs, this happens to atleast 50% of the ps3 population, and I know it has been brought up to you guys before but you have made no attempt to fix this. for instance, If I am fighting Garuda hard mode and she will teleport, and come back, she wont show up till she does it again. Players will also have issues where it shows them at some point in the dungeon but you will not see them moving, you have to look at you map to see where they are. which is just a bad coding issue. you should have the ps3 and servers ping consistently to make sure data is write, and the fact that this does not happen with an mmo, is novice coding at best.

Lots of gil is going to be sent via Mog Mail from Free Company members to make Guild Housing possible. I worry that our accounts might be considered gil sellers if that much money is moved.

Will the Free Company Bank allow "Deposit Only" by the time housing is released, and will we finally be able to see who takes items/money out of the bank?

Just a few things I'm wondering about.

1. Will the chat engine have a right mouse button ability added so we can quickly blacklist gil farmer spam?

2. Will there be a reworking of how hotkey targeting currently works? For example say I'm a Summoner/Scholar and I've hotkeyed the ability to target my pet for an extra heal, then when I hit a key to retarget the Mob I was targeting it seems to target ones that are either the furthest away and/or have no aggro towards me. This can make FATEs a major PITA. Could we have a setting for "always target attacking Mob first" or "always target closest Mob first"

3. Will there be an expansion on the number of non repeatable quests? While farming FATEs are fine and Levequests help, but when you consider how much potential leveling all the JOB and classes add both can start to feel grindy after a while. More story based quests would be great. As well increasing the exp rewarded for Levequests would help.

4. Will there be more single Mob FATEs added? As it stands class/JOBs that don't have too many instant or AoE abilities can't really do much when a FATE has attracted a large group. With my Sum, Sch, or Arc I just spam my instant DoTs, which isn't really any fun and does seem to PO some other players.

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Originally Posted by Zirael_Foxfire

When will you be adding live DPS meter?
Currently we have some programs that can track player's DPS, but they aren't very accurate yet, so we can't objectively measure our strength and skill.

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I've never been a big fan of DPS meters, or meters of any kind, because they don't show the whole picture. Say I'm a Summoner if I ever use any heals it penalizes that, but a few extra heals could be the difference between a wipe and killing the boss. Or say a support/damage class, the same thing might happen. Why use support or debuffs spells when it penalizes your DPS rank? When you start relying on those meters too much you end up with classes like WoW currently has, no hybrids of any kind just the holy trinity of tank, heal, and DPS, and it makes for boring classes IMHO. Another problem I've seen with relying heavily on meters is the old one of a Rogue exclaiming he does 15K crits, but when the tank keeps telling him he's pulling aggro he blames the tank because he can't hold the aggro, which he could easily do if the Rogue wasn't criting 15K all the time.

I guess my opinion about meters is that it makes personal performance more important than team performance, which though not always a bad thing can be very frustrating and skew the development of the game's classes to single purpose classes.

Can we get an infographic detailing some differences in the economy, particularly including total gil in circulation -- perhaps over time since launch -- between new and legacy servers? I'm curious about the details behind the "economic issues" that are being cited for characters being restricted from transferring off of Legacy servers, and I would be very interested in seeing the data behind such concerns so as to better understand the issues. Showing how the data has changed over time might even allow for an economic forecast so as to estimate an approximate time at which the two different types of servers might fall into sync.

1) Please elaborate why for magic there isn't a difference in resistance any more for the elements, but melee damage is now divided in blunt,piercing & slashing.

2) Is the chat log going to be adjusted so we can actually see what damage is blunt,piercing or slashing?

I'm a Italian player , actually do primals fight , is near impossible with a normal latency near 1200 ms or 2300 ms of lag spikes please fix it or nerf the fight, I also tried to use pingzapper for lower the ping but the problem remains. Everyone in my free company have the same problem

Do you plan fixing pet pathing AI or pet aggro mechanic?
When I try to sneak around enemies, my pet notoriously gets aggro on everything due to bad pathing mechanics. If I fail to sneak around and get aggro, it's my fault, but if I keep succeeding in sneaking and pet keeps getting me killed, that's your fault and needs be fixed.

Any chances of the issue on PS3 where I cant see people moving getting fixed? I cant even play Scholar because I cant see people so I cant heal them. I know other people complained about this but I havent heard anything about it.

I know this will sound abit whine-ish but still need to ask.

i see tons of Gil Sellign spam when in the main towns, to the point i can not see the name since it scrolling by to fast for me to catch now. could you have GMs go beween towns at times and have them "jailed" or temp ban such chars till their logs are look through?

i ask this becuase i report dailt at lest 5-10 poeple spaming, cheating(harvest teleport cheat) and this like that. however town still spammed to hell and makes being in town nearly impossible to enjoy, and when i'm on a laptop, starts to cuase alittle lag to boot.

Are there plans to adjust the animation-lock of Dragoon's Jump?

Will any furniture be interactive? (example: ADS Sanitary Node as a pool toy or ADS Quarantine Node to play "hot potato" with when friends come over)

Mining used to be one of my biggest hobbies. I don't like waiting a full day to gather 5 times. Is there anything to look forward to as a Gathering class?

There isn't much individuality in the game right now. Everyone has +1 relic and AF2. Allagan Gear is also very similar to AF2 and relic +1. When will we see unique stats or strong gear that is difficult to obtain?

Is anything going to be done with Luminary tools? If the stats match the new lvl 50 quest tools, can we get the same work-stations, at least?

I hate to be this blunt, but...

1. Are customer support and services going to get any better?

- Customers who invested much of their time into the economy were punished for RMT activities and had most of their gil taken away for something they had no part in. These players will be discouraged from helping the economy flourish.
- Customers who have had difficulty with their accounts, or whose accounts have been compromised, have little to no hope of getting their characters back.
- The Special Task Force seems to punish legitimate PLAYERS. The RMT still get their money at the end of the day, and there are still players that bought that money, used it, and are unaffected. The RMT can just make a new account and make more money.
- After making a report on a botter, many players still see the botter there, and receive no response on whether or not the issue is going to be addressed.
- It takes weeks to receive an automated response from a GM.

Making them more pleasant levelling DoH and DoL ?
You could put some F.A.T.E. where delivering materials we can do exp and gil, this would make the game more fun instead of spending hours and hours to always push those four keys, or you could make a camp destroyed by mobs and let us repair, arm guards and feed them.

1) Will I ever be able to befriend my alternate characters so I can send items between them?

2) Could you please make a button to repair all the gear I have in one go at the vendor?

3) Please let use be able to blacklist characters by right clicking their names.