Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXIII!

Are there any plans to have retainers capable of the Companion function like with Chocobos?

Is there also any plans to rework the Companion feature and the ability to ride any mount while one is active, so we don't have to withdraw our companion to ride on one of our many different mounts?

Again I'd be very pleased to see my retainers out on the battlefield with me, as I can do with my chocobo.

last question from me.

There is some cool iconic gear in FFXIV sadly you have to use Glamour to use this function. Its quite annoying and unbearable. Can you add a Costume editor like how DC Universe Online? DCUO may not be the best MMO but compared to all MMOs its the one MMO that allows your character to look and feel fresh with ease while also still incorporating new armor styles to unlock. This would also help reduce Inventory space. No longer will we have to hold on to gear for cosmetic change. We could easily change our look on the fly as long as we have the armor Style.

Can you please allow a no minimum limit turn in for projects in que in the workshop? It would be nice for other members that don't have, example: 15 cobalt ingots to turn in at once, to be able to turn in 1 if they have it. That way FC members can all help in some way, even if it's just 1 item to turn in.

Are you going to rebalance astro class to make it useful. Currently with WHM and SCH, AST does not fit in with these they lack the benefits of both classes but have actions like them.

Can you please make it so the race you choose has no stat increase/decrease? EXAMPLE: Some of us healers would like to play Seeker of the Sun because we like the eye slits instead of Keeper of the Moon. Same goes for Au Ra, some may like the black scales compared to white, but we are stuck with choosing features we don't want because they are all stat based.

Could we please have some animation enhancements for MCH?

A kneeling stance for Gauss Barrel, a plasma bolt for Gauss Round, a tracer round for Rook Autoturret, a more impactful Satellite Beam shot (wider, lasts longer)?

I feel very much that they're lacking in the visuals department.

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Originally Posted by Zhaela

Will there be any addressing the fact that you cannot fly straight up on a flying mount by moving forward, but only at an angle? Flying downwards, you can fly completely verticaly, but not upwards.

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Hold down your jump button to fly straight up.

Will you please do something about all the constant cheating in the Triple Triad Tournaments?

Many of the changes you've made since release have actually favored the cheaters more than anything--it's backwards...

I just finished running though the library and was interested in checking the place out more, however being in a dungeon group its not very constructive to focus elsewhere.

My question would be in the future would the dev team be willing to open this place up and have toro/saro roggo act in a similar fashion to the post moogle, giving side quests that open more books on lore within the library ?

With the game moving away from classes and focusing on jobs would it be possible to assign our retainers to jobs rather than classes only? The current system can be an inconvenience for those who want to play jobs without a class counterpart.

Red Mage for 3.4, please?

Will the be more Triple Triad NPCs and cards added into Heavensward and when can we expect them? Will there be an Alexander card?

Will it be possible if the last boss fight in Neverreap can get fixed? That fight is very hard to do with two Casters.

Is there any chance that modifications to the character customization will occur in the 3.x series? If so what kind of changes would be top priority? Is there any chance of making the heights for the men and women of each race match up, such going from the minimum of 4'8 and a maximum of 7'3 for the Au Ra?

First, thanks for an incredible expansion launch experience and story thus far.

Can we look forward to meeting or learning about the fates of Midgardsormr's as-yet-unnamed two brood members?

I really liked the mechanics from the 2nd boss in Neverreap, will you make quests in the field that would involve the picking up and dropping mechanic? :D It was so much fun, I would like to see carry npc missions.

Is it possible for Mages Ballad to have some effect on Darkside? It would really help reinforce Bard as a support class.

Also, would it be possible for us to alter the positions of earrings? Au Ra could get their horns pierced, elezens the tips of their ears, etc. Make them easier to see, less likely to be obscured by hair.

1. Will there be hardware anti-aliasing coming in future updates to the rendering engine? FXAA, while decent, really struggles with certain elements at longer distances.

2. Could you separate Au'Ra horns and face selection in the character creator?

Harassment of players by RMT in this game has been absurd, what are your plans to help combat this problem?

Is it possible to restrict trial accounts, or new accounts in general, from sending friend requests or even private messages until a specific point? Like until they finish their introduction to their starting city, or a pre-set level; something easy to achieve but still requires effort.

Another QoL issue would adress the instancing in HW.
Our FC is steadily consuming the new content at a pace when we can all get together in a party, and EVERY time we've finished a new trial, duty or simply get transported to another zone due to cutscenes, our party is fragmented across several instances and we'll have to spend either numerous trips in and out by Aetheryte to gamble our party back together, or the last few people left have to trek across half a zone to manually move in and select their instance.
Can we at least have a method of switching to whichever instance our party leader is in? Or make sure we all end up in the same instance as the member who starts the teleport?

With the amount of good looking gear, other kind of items (crafting, consumables, etc.) and three new jobs introduced with the expansion, will we ever see an increase to our armory space and/or our retainers without having to pay even more than our monthly sub?

It's kinda sad to have to discard those items, that you would use either while levelling to 60 or for glamours, not to mention that it makes kinda difficult to save gearsets for glamouring and to re-use with compatible jobs. The later was easier during 2.0 thanks to shared gear (DoW and DoM specific), but now most of the good gear (green) is restricted to a couple of jobs, thus making our inventories full and us unable to save these gearsets in advance.

Also lets talk about PvP lol ohh PvP.

Get rid of the GC restrictions. This is awful 400 min Q times to get in frontline for 3rd place. You talk about how frontline is more for casual PvP players Lmao 400 min that's more than a casual players in game time they play. Also ur adding new maps and new rules will pretty much make slaughter obsolete similar to secure when slaughter cam out. You will fix the problem but add more problems to the PvP. No one will wanna sit in Q for hrs just to get in 1 PvP and finish 3rd place. Do something with the Q times instead of adding flashy new maps or rules. Do remember you have a community for PvP and not just pve. Plz don't neglect our cries for PvP Qs.

Any chance BLMs can get a little boost in keeping Enochian up? Most of the fights now have a lot of movement and they screws up the rotations big time.

I suggested this in the BLM thread but maybe a change to Scathe?

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Rework Scathe and its trait to something like this:

Scathe
Cast: Instant Recast: 2.50 MP 2120
Deals Unaspected Damage with a potency of 150.

Enhanced Scathe
Scathe now refreshes your current Astral Fire or Umbral Ice.

This would of course have it removed from Sharpcast but like anyone was really using it for that lol. This would allow you to keep up Astral or Umbral during times of movement with a smaller DPS loss and allow for BLMs when not moving to still be encouraged to use Fire instead of Scathe.

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When will the PS4 version of the game get the visual upgrade mentioned several live letters ago, to update its visuals to make it appear with the pseudo-DX11 graphics?

Are there any plans to expand on player storage capacity? Player inventories? Retainer inventories? Maybe allowing more kinds of equipment to be stored in the armoire, or creating some other equipment storage means for use in housing?

With all the various new pieces of equipment from Heavensward, on top of everything from 2.X, there are so many pieces of equipment I like to have around for glamor. When added to crafting materials, this rapidly fills up my inventory, and both my retainers.

Will we get the "you know what last trial" hard\extreme?
It was an amazing fight and it's kind of a "you know what" so can we get an extreme version of that?

Blitzball when? c:

When will we be able to set housing permissions like:

- a guestlist
- kick\ban undesired players from our houses (this is particularly annoying when trolls invade an event)

When will we be able to see TP bar?

Metallic dyes for furniture please, that includes exterior walls etc as well

3% attack speed is a bit low for Selene buff, I understand the reason for removing spellspeed/skillspeed buffs in regards to the changes you made to DoTs but, Selene is almost rendered obsolete at this point

Are there any plans to use the beast tribe currencies (such as Peperoon Fate-die, Gagaroon Luck-die, and Ququroon Doom-die)?

Are there any plans to fix the issues of BLM, and the issues of casters not being competitive compared to triple melee parties?

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...f-life-changes

Astral Fire Duration Increase
Thunder 4 - Thundercloud giving extended Enochian by 5 seconds (so that using Thundercloud doesn't punish you)
Allow finish of B4/T4/F4 cast if the cast has started even if Enochian drops off
Fix of the F3-Gap-F4 bug.
Reduction of the Mana cost of F1 to be the same as F4 (so that using F1 instead of F4 doesn't double punish you)
Enochian skill always fully refreshes Enochian (so only B4 is a diminishing return)

Then give one of the SMN skills a small magic vulnerablity debuff so they have more utility.

What the above will do is bring QoL to BLM, and make casters able to be a viable option in raids where there aren't any "cheese" mechanics that force the use of a caster - and allow caster heavy parties to compete with Melee heavy parties.

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I would like to know this as in Australia the standard PS4 version costs $70* on disc & $76* on PSN
*And this isn't even counting the fact you need to have an active subscription as the expansion doesn't come with any free time

Through out the arr & hw* main story and during class/job quests there are many quest battles and I have been wondering if there will ever be a way to replay these?
*not 100% sure on this one as I don't have Heavensward

At some point will Poetics be removed during the 3.x Allagan Tomestone rotation or will it remain as a permanent currency for Lv50s (who say don't have Heavensward)?

Will we ever get an "Enemy Drops" menu like the loot menu except for enemy drops to prevent that stuff cluttering our inventories?

With the new jobs not having classes it raises the question, will classes be removed from the game? I mean they are pretty pointless since no one uses them past Lv30, or will they become of use at some point?

Will we ever see 1v1 Wolves Den with a random match option in the duty finder and a challenge option to challenge friends?

Currently the Leatherworker class is much more difficult to level up compared to the rest of the crafting classes due to the low drop rates of animal hides and skins in heavensward areas. Most of the supply of Leatherworker materials are currently being obtained through retainer ventures because of the low drop rates.

Are there any plans to adjust the drop rates of animal hides and skins in heavensward areas or take some other measure to ease leveling as a Leatherworker ?

When will you include the class hunt logs for the new jobs? The Exp to be had their could really help us out.