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

Will we ever see our characters actually 'act' like the heroes of the story, instead of simply being 'present' for all the cutscenes, with only minor references to our 'power'?

I'd be really happy to see my character actually co-ordinating the efforts of the campaign, missions etc. with teh other main characters. It would be wonderful to be seen giving orders and commands to other characters once our character has reached a certain level of proficiency (Eg.) Lvl 50+ job quests, High Lvl beastman quests and of course the main story.

I like the fact that NPCs appreciate and comment on our achievements, but I'd rather see my own character doing stuff and talking (Yes, I would not at all mind seeing my character actually say some words, instead of making motions and simple mouth-movements or fade-outs) in order to achieve objectives.

Any chance of getting something, like a different colour to distinguish the friendly shadowflares, flaming arrows, sacred soils, sacred prisms etc. aoes from foes' in PvP?

1) Will PLDs get a tp based aoe?
2) Will abilities eventually sync to dungeons? i.e 30 potency flare in sastasha normal per say?
3) Will there be other means of leveling alts? Fates and battle leves only last so long and 50+min dungeon queues.....yuck

Okay I noticed that there are some enemies that orginated from XII (Zippercrocs, Aevises, Mimics/Clockwork Bugs, Mantises and Snakes, and Mirrorknights) I also noticed that the Aevises, Mimics, Snakes and Mantises had a lot of palette swaps.

I was wondering if you have any plans on using these pallettes for current or future dungeons

Related, several locations, seem to use the same coloring for Manistes and Snakes Hullbreaker Isle, far from Mor Dhona and Halatali, is an egregious case having their mobs look exactly like mobs in those zones) I was wondering if you could change the colors of some of the mobs there to make them look more distinct from the mobs in other zones

Finnaly back to the Aevises, in XII there were teal and purple variants. respectively named Twintania and Deathgaze, yet the XIV version, Twintania especialy are imfamonous different (and had sort of reversed roles) I was wondering if you are willing to used the Aevis models for different mobs?

An offshoot of the above post; Why DID you make the mobs different form the Aevises (Twintnia is a giant dragon with a ring on her neck, the Deathgazes are black dragons and both can fly)

Are there any plans to implement quests which actually have interesting objectives and methods of completion such as -

1. Actually helping a man chop a tough tree (for botanist) at the sight itself, during the quest.
2. Repairing a special item an npc requires or perhaps crafting a special item by specifically interacting with a piece of equipment or workbench in their house/workshop/dungeon etc. instead of it being 'A Simple Hand-In Quest'.

These make it feel like you're actually performing the task instead of simply making/buying something and handing it over. This would also bring much needed variety to these quests and allow for a greater variety of more interesting objectives instead of 'Craft X HQ item'

Will you be implementing quests which have more depth to them rather than simply battle/craft/gather instead using multiple Classes/Jobs -

An NPC needs an item because he can't reach it, you agree to help.
a. This area is challenging and requires the player to fight a boss to safely reach the rare material.
b. Upon reaching the location, the rare material must be extracted by using a specific Gathering skill (eg. Botany).
c. Following this, the player takes the item back to their 'friend npc' only to find out that they have been abducted and that their house has been raided.
d. Now, you change to a specific Crafting Class (eg. Carpentry) using the Special Workbench at the NPC House because only that place is suitable to craft it.
e. Once you Craft it, you then speak with other npcs and search for the hideout. When you reach it, you use this special item (Food/bomb/usable item) in order to weaken your enemies and fight with a Battle class to finish the quest.

Will there be more options for personal housing? Like having your eternal bond partner be able to have master access to the house as well? Also maybe something thought about for guest access as well?

Are there any plans for personal housing access options anytime soon?

Regarding the incoming gun class: will we have access to both one-handed and two-handed guns (similar to how THM and CNJ have access to both 1-handed and 2-handed weapons), or will it be just one type?

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I would like to see something similar to what another game(we all know who) has that I feel would be a great addition to this game. Since so much of the games story is tied behind the coil raids I'd like to see a more casual friendly mode added so everyone can experience to raid and story w/o having to deal with the stress of finding a good group to do it with. It doesn't even have to drop raid level gear in this mode, but being able to experience the story is a pretty big part of this game.

I feel like the job system in FFXI was far superior to the system this game currently has, will we ever see it loosened up where we can have better hybrid classes? I don't like being forced into a set role, set talents etc, and most of all set weapon. DRK was my favorite class in 11, and seeing it now coming with a great sword over the iconic scythe is very sad to me. I'd like the option to use whatever type weapon I want with any class within reason, changing the class change to the soul gem over the weapon would be an ideal and seemingly easy change.

Can we please get better vanity gear, ffxi had some of the best looking gear, and I'm seeing some of it implemented but still missing my wyvern helm and other beastmen helmets, the ffxiv goblin helmet is pretty ugly imo, unless you visor that horrid nose piece off. Also, sets of gear like the chocobo suit, odins armor, even my crafting gear I love my blacksmith apron and would love to use it on my tank. Can we change the glamour restrictions to allow body pieces that override more than just the chest to be allowable.

Since Ninja has traits like reduced falling damage and increased movement speed, is it possible to see traits that might make your character jump higher or even jump twice? maybe a future job trait for Dragoon???

Can we please have an option where when you change jobs, you can save UI settings for that specific job? :)

When will we see the Dragoon changes made? And what can we expect?

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Will there be any character progression in the form of an ability tree so can specialize our Jobs 3-4 different ways.

Is there any chance of a user-created content feature being implemented in the future? By this I am referring to a player-made quest content system in particular, such as the "Architect" system in City of Heroes or the "Foundry" in Star Trek Online. Final Fantasy XI also had a very limited version of this in its "Moblin Maze Mongers" system. Any information regarding the opportunity for this type of content would be immensely appreciated!

Are there any plans on making a chocobo barding for when the last of the Hildibrand quest we see in patch 2.5 have a detective theme look.

Are there any plans on improving upon the glamour system so that we don't have to hold on to the pieces of gear we want to use for glamour and give us a catalogue where we can pick the piece we want to use from it, just as long as we obtained it before hand for the catalogue to record it.

Will the Dragoon class be getting buffed to be able to match Ninjas dps?

Could we see a streamlined recipe navigation system. As an example, we could select a sub ingredient and be taken to that ingredient's crafting page.

Another crafting issue I feel needs to be addressed is the amount of shards/crystal/clusters needed for a craft. Could we make it so that clusters can be broken into a number of crystals and crystals broken into a number of shards?

Also since crystals are solidified aether why do we need 5-10 shards to execute a craft? Why couldn't we use 1 crystal assuming that they are equivalent?

When will we see the DX11 client that will take advantage of stronger graphics capabilities?

In Heavensward will we see a penalty for dieing such as lose of exp,gill etc

Will we ever be able to get an Alphinaud & Alisaie size Elezen available for character creation?

Will we ever be able to que for a dungeon with our companion out and/or solo que while in groups with other players? I feel like I can do nothing while waiting on a dungeon.

Will other jobs like Monk and Dragoon be getting special stances and running animations like ninja did?

Can you give us an option to search for a specific Linkshell we want to join if we're doing certain activities like Hunting, Raids, or Trials, and ask the creator of that Linkshell if we can join them?

Will gun wielding class be introduced in patch 2.5 now that we have Milala in Rogue's class quest line?

Is it true Odin will be the primal for 2.5 patch? How will that fit into the main storyline?

With the introduction of ninja and final coil of bahamut, we can all see just how poorly designed Dragoons are; how their dps does not measure up to ninja's or monks, even if they make virtually no mistakes and ninja's/monk's make three or four; how their mdef is so unbelievably low that they can be one shot by magic, unavoidable does while other party members stay alive; and their lack of utility. As rage inducing as all that is, we have been informed that buffs are on their way.

How long before we see these buffs implemented, and how comprehensive are they going to be?

When will the relic weapon quest ends? Before Heavensward? Will we be receiving any relic specific weapon abilities as a reward? Like Bard able to sing 2 songs simultaneously, BlackMage Tornado etc.

So it has been told that the EU servers will have there own data centers placed in EU. How will this effect the none EU players who prefer EU servers for the time difference or perfered times difference to enjoy the game. Or even the players who established a lot in game IE: invest a lot of gil to a FC home, Made a lot of friends or even just beeing happy on that EU server. Will we have heavy lag and be forced to change servers ? or will it be possible to categorize each player who does not live in the EU area to play on a EU server but can be in a different data center for better connection? Or have the option to have our charcters be in the original data center which is in Canada?

Any plans on a time mage job?

With all the nice designs of gear throughout this game, a lot of them are either locked to a class/job, or barred behind an achievement or rank. Would it be possible to add recipes to the game of level 1 whites of these clothes for all classes to glamour? Examples would be like the Elktail Robe from pvp, or what if someone wanted to glamour the Allagan Cuirass of maiming onto their tank or mage just because it looks good? I'm sure it wouldn't be to hard to make such recipes to share amongst all classes, to truly diversify how one should want to look.

You have mentioned buffing the Dragoon job. You did a buff earlier for Black Mage but it was a simple potency change for their skill which ultimately didn't resolve the issue they had, and has become more so an issue with the difficulty of mechanics in Final Coil. Are you planning to do a more major change to the Dragoon job so they will not run into the same issues further down the road?

Any plans to fix some of the glaring clipping issues?

Any plans to readdress the lack of butts in Eorzea?

Any plans to increase armory space?

Any plans to allow us to send mail to our alts that are on the same account and same server?

Any plans for a /sigh emote?

Not related to FFXIV in game but related to FFXIV official forums.
Any plans to allow us to have a way to contact Forum Mods?

Are there any plans to allow small plots to upgrade to medium or large plots of land?
This would be really helpful to FCs or players who have a small Home but would like to upgrade without moving.
The upgrade price could be the current price of houses for that ward. So if a small was to upgrade to a medium, the FC/player would have to save up enough gil to buy a medium plot in that ward.

Are there any plans to increase the amount of furnishings small houses can place both inside and out of the house?

Are there any plans to allow small houses to use two large garden plots and more then two NPCs?

Are there any plans to allow us to mix and match garden plots? For example, two small garden plots instead of one large plot.

Are there any plans to let players have flower pots to garden in their personal rooms or inn room?
If the small houses can have two L garden plots then personal rooms and inn rooms can have 4 flower pots and it would look great. ^^

Any plans to add larger windows to the houses?