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

With combat and hotbars now being different for PvE and PvP, how frequently will balancing adjustments be made for jobs in both categories going forward?

Any plans to make housing permits account wide? Not only will this allow the player to access their house on all their alt characters on the same account, but this also gives people a fair chance to own a personal or FC house to those who don't have one already. There are numerous FC's and people who make it their sole purpose to buy out multiple houses and multiple wards to upsell them for extremely high prices. This should not be allowed. Is this not considered griefing?

In one of the new Summoner job quests in Stormblood, we see a new type of Egi being used by the enemy. I really like the looks of this new egi and was wondering if we will be able to use this in the future as a new egi glamour ?

Is there anything you can tell us about new egi-glamour in general ?

If someone hasn't already asked, who was behind the jump puzzles for the two Kugane sightseeing logs of the Shiokaze Hostelry and Bokairo Inn? The path up there was a journey full of many curses and wind-up suns and moons dotting it like a Christmas tree from various players to see the planks better at night, but the view from the top of the hostelry is amazing. So many screenshots during the varying times of day and weather conditions was worth it :D

Opinions on the current state of Scholar and Summoner? A lot of us feel as if they're under-performing with their counterparts (ie: SCH with WHM/AST and SMN with RDM/BLM).

Are we really comfortable with the speed at which raids are being released? Omega seemed very rushed, only two weeks into the expansion. I think a lot of us would be comfortable with 3-weeks to a month for the new raid and then perhaps another week or two for Savage. A lot of us are still leveling jobs and gearing our primary roles.

Will your writers be improving on Lyse and the Scions? So far the only good ones are Alphinaud and Alisaie, the rest are just so bland and the focus on Lyse throughout 4.0's story just dragged it down so hard. The Doma arc is the real highlight and everything about Ala Mhigo was just so awful.

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Any plans to make housing permits account wide? Not only will this allow the player to access their house on all their alt characters on the same account, but this also gives people a fair chance to own a personal or FC house to those who don't have one already. There are numerous FC's and people who make it their sole purpose to buy out multiple houses and multiple wards to upsell them for extremely high prices. This should not be allowed. Is this not considered griefing?

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check out my long post on this on page 31

What made you decide to not add Battlecraft levequests in Stormblood this time?

Will we be seeing Ascian in game glamour added to the game like Ingeyorhm?

please please PLEASE add a cycle party member keybind like we have for alliances or up on dpad for party? i use keyboard almost entirely and having 4-8 different keybinds to target my party is something i could easily replace with tab and shift+tab if the keybinds allowed it

Sorry if this was already posted, big thread.

Are there any plans to bring the combo buttons from PvP over to PvE? They are extremely convenient for classes like Dragoon and Samurai, especially when using a controller. It would make it a lot easier to make a comfortable hotbar layout and wouldn't reduce actual gameplay complexity at all. I would love to see this change implemented.

Will there ever be a possibility of adding in an Alliance Roulette? Now that we have plenty of 24 man runs they seem to be wasted as nobody runs them. Perhaps give them a reward almost equal to Leveling Roulette.

Nobody are doing fates anymore because the experience is too low and there is no good way for DPS players to level up at the moment because of this. Can you please buff fate experience?

All the healers are currently viable in content, but viable is very different from balanced. Do you think you've struck a decent balance amongst them right now?

Simple request, can you add mute music only as an assignable button similar to mute all? Sometimes I want to listen to my own music but then miss out on cutscenes. Can't be fixed without forcibly closing the client to go back to it with it turned on.

None of the red dyes available in game are the same hue that is used on all the gear in the game. Since Stormblood is heavily represented by the colour red, could we please have this dye implemented so our dyed armour pieces can finally match?

Compared to the Xaela, it seems like the Raen are lacking in lore. The Xaela have the Azim Steppe, and some of their tribes received quite a bit of love. By contrast, the only location that has a lot of Raen was a small underwater town in the Ruby Sea. I expected to encounter a lot more Raen during this expansion, but it seems like the Hyur make up most of Othard's population (outside of the Azim Steppe). Are there plans for the Raen to receive more love in terms of lore?

This isn't specific to 4.0, but... Are we ever going to have the ability to wear the outfits of female protagonists from other Final Fantasy titles? I know we have Yuna and Lightning's outfits, but I would love to have Terra (FF6), Rinoa (FF8), or even Rydia's (FF4) outfit!

Are longer kimono ever going to be added? I like Yotsuyu's outfit, for example, and I'm disappointed we don't have similar options available.

On PVP can we have the main rotation moves back as an option instead of being put together in one button? Also, will we ever be able to do a PVP Roulette with our friends?

Can we update the retainer ventures? I have max gear and they are still bringing me lvl 1 crafting items. The RNG for ventures needs to be adjusted. Also new items need to be added as well.

When Daddy Raubahn lost his arm, was it his dominant spanking arm?

What are your future plans regarding the item bloating, (example: raid tokens) and proper inventory management? I hope the solution to future xpacs is to simply increase inventory size...

PLD and BRD are outputting significantly higher damage than most other tanks and damage dealer jobs. Their traditionally more supportive, utility-focused roles have seen much needed improvements. In light of this, however, PLD and BRD\\'s damage output is especially troubling, particularly when compared to the currently very underwhelming WAR and MCH respectively.

WAR is no longer the king of tank damage that it once was. The job changes seem aimed to punish their traditionally offensive style of tanking with such things as the loss of Beast Gauge when swapping stances to the dubiously useful abilities Onslaught and Shake it Off. It seems that development of this job suffered from a lack of direction and has subsequently left WAR without a strong identity compared to its cohort jobs.

MCH, on the other hand, seems like it simply needs potency buffs to bring it in line with, or slightly higher than BRD.

Hello, I have been playing this Job for awhile now, and one thing I noticed since Stormblood is that some of the cast times for Fire spells seem longer than before. Can the cast times for Fire 1 and Fire IV be slightly reduced? For example, Fire 1 reduced to 2.0 seconds and Fire IV reduced to 2.5 seconds?

Are there any plans to update gathering logs? I'd like to see information added once you've discovered an item in an Unspoiled or Ephemeral Node with the time it spawns and also the slot number the item appears in for Unspoiled Nodes, rather than displaying ??? even though I've already gathered that item.

On a serious note, why is MP management so god-awful for DRK and PLD at levels they never had issues before? I lose aggro and burn out on level 60 and 50 dungeons when this was never an issue before. Oath gauge takes so long to fill that relying on sheltron to regen is a joke. Alternately you can sacrifice enmity to use riot blade. Blood price might as well not even exist. Can we please address these problems?

Hi Yoshi

I'm wondering if you could please give us information in regards to the Eastern garbs and Cumulus Mount for the UK as i'm really disappointed to not be able to get them atm as only Germany, NA and JP have had access to these very cool items and would love to own them as well..

Kind Regards :)

PLEASE INCREASE FC SIZES

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I'VE ASKED FOR FOUR YEARS PLEASE LET AN FC TRANSFER BE A LITTLE LESS PAINFUL.

...It's been four years of asking, I deserved caps this time. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Myllah_Lyte

Sorry if this was already posted, big thread.

Are there any plans to bring the combo buttons from PvP over to PvE? They are extremely convenient for classes like Dragoon and Samurai, especially when using a controller. It would make it a lot easier to make a comfortable hotbar layout and wouldn't reduce actual gameplay complexity at all. I would love to see this change implemented.

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I'm glad more people are asking for this honestly :D You worded your post much better than I did though ^^

Stepped FC Housing Availability

Can you please allow waves, and high-member-number FCs purchase housing first by making higher member FCs go first?

Example:
500+ member FCs purchase Day 1
400+ member FCs purchase Day 2
300+ member FCs purchase Day 3
etc.

Because how is a mansion to an FC of 2 people even close to being fair when there's 512 people sitting in a medium?

Thank you!!

Can we still expect FC server transfers sometime soon? If so what will become of FC housing and Airships?

Warrior is not fun anymore. Mostly due to rage cost for switching to deliverance from defiance. What are your plans for improving warrior gameplay?

Can you add an option to report Party Finders that purposely use the wrong listing to get seen?(i.e. when the description is not related to the title and used for self promoting like selling clears and stuff).

Can we get at least a rough idea of how long servers flagged as "congested" will be completely closed to new characters and transfers? My main's FC is about to split apart because some people have family members getting into the game that can't get onto Balmung, and they want to play together as a family. They're trying to be patient but they're going to move to be together if there's no word at all after a while.

Why does the job outfit of samurai have two gloves while there is only one wearing on the left hand of the samurai in the trailer？

Are we gonna get Blitzball soon?

How upset for early pull Rank S from ARR, it should be item level sync for Outside anywhere ARR and HW without problem? because few peoples was early pull Rank S till dead in 5 sec to 10 seconds. They are still coming for Rank S till Dead Rank S, They are really very upset. we want be fair for this good idea it should be Item Level Sync for Outside anywhere (ARR and HW) that's good fair? We got too high overgeared so fast killed Rank S in ARR for unfair early pull till die in 5-10 second. that's good idea for item Level Sync, Only Gears ARR iLv 130 and HW iLv270: (outside zones)?

Many players want change to the housing system, will you impose restrictions? Some players take up over 8 plots with 1 service account, meaning it eliminates opportunities for new players and existing players to obtain housing.
Other games have the housing areas instanced and allows all the players to be able to obtain it.

Do you have any plans to change the housing and restrict it to ONE character per world and PER service account? Do you intend to restrict it so individuals can only buy small plots? What are your plans to help other FFXIV players and to allow more to be able to obtain housing?