Ask Naoki Yoshida Your Questions for the PAX East 2023 Panel

Is there any way that you could implement the All Saints' Wake transformations into reusable, collectible 'disguise' items that can be used in non-combat areas? Something like an 'Unending Gaelkitten Concoction' or an 'Unending Tonberry Concoction'.

I am a Ninja main and one thing i have ALWAYS wanted even before starting playing FFXIV was the ability to turn 100% completely invisible using the Hide ability so even my friends cannot see me even if we arent 10 levels higher than them. Could you add it, or explain why we can't have it?

As the game expands out in levels and actions get moved around, playing jobs in synced content becomes progressively less interesting because there are so many missing actions. A common request from players across many jobs appears to be reworking the acquisition level of various actions to cover those gaps for the purposes of lower level content.

Do you see any potential benefit in allowing players to use their fully acquired action list when synced down to lower levels, simply just scaled down in terms of stats?

Fall Damage

Many dungeons incorporate what would be fatal falls in their structure for dramatic or aesthetic purposes, without damage to the character.
Whereas in the open world, a similar drop results in 1hp or death if in combat.
There are few instanced events of fall damage: Deltascape v2.0, Crystalline Conflict - The Volcanic Heart, and Frontline - The Borderland Ruins (for the monks camping mid), are the ones that come to mind.
Given its inconsistent use, do you feel that fall damage still has a place in the game?

Thanks! <3

Are there any plans to make achievement data and/or reputation (specifically commendations) account-wide? As a long-time player with several max level characters for different reasons, it feels a bit bad that it isn't already.

Good morning/afternoon/evening/goodnight Mr. Zhexos and team,

Will you consider offering an audio acted version of the final fintasy xiv using voice actors and game audio's to convey the story for folks that would like to hear a great story outloud?

-Meshico

I say that the Tweet on FFXIV Twitter account that someone was trying log in via "Tomestone"? Does this mean someone finally go them working again and does this mean we'll get a "Selphie" Emote?

Hello, Yoshida-san. Thank you for everything you do.

I was wondering if it will ever be possible to wear fashion accessories, like glasses or wings, in instanced content (like dungeons or duties).

Will we see the original Eorzean areas update to reflect the current state of the world, especially Garlemald? Now that the empire has fallen, it's a little strange seeing Garlean solders in the Shroud and elsewhere.

Lore-wise, what is the Heart of Sabik? What is the connection between it and the spell, Ultima, and is there a connection between Ultima the High Seraph from the Ivalice raids?

Yoshida-san, as a healthcare worker, I want to thank you for all your work in the game. I joined FFXIV during the beginning of the pandemic to keep some sanity during hospital rounds and lockdown, and because of the game, have met many new friends and grown even closer with my best friend, who also started playing at the same time I did.

We were wondering if it would ever be possible to update and expand the character creator? Such as more face options, mixing and matching Au Ra horns with faces, just generally more options?

Up until now, most of the job design within roles has been relatively similar, to the point where equivalent skills are often identical outside of minor differences or animation (i.e. Heart of Light vs. Dark Missionary). Will further job additions allow for more variety within roles (i.e. can we ever expect to see a melee-range healer, or a physical-ranged healer that throws potions instead of spells), or do you think that this is unlikely to be possible?

Are there any plans to add a fishing adventurer plate/exclusive mount for those of us who have caught every fish in the game?

many players miss some of the removed job actions (for example DRK's power slash, WHM's aero III, and many more...) and the reintroduction of PLD's bulwak and MCH's dismantle has been met with positive responses.

are there any plans to bring back more removed job actions or at least their animations in some form?

having every job to be synergized with each other on 2 minute raid-wide buffs has been mostly met with negative responses due for several reasons such as
- limiting job design
- homogenization (which has been a common criticism for job design since 5.0)
- making recovery from lost dps more unforgiving after dying mid-fight

are you aware of the criticisms and are there any discussions or plans about this?

For example any of the flower headgear that are on the left side of my character's head, using the visor emote will switch it to the right side of my character's head so that is looks better with certain hairstyles.

Would it be possible for tribe mounts to play the music that plays in their tribe area -- that is, the Cavalry Drake's mount music being Smoulder, the Great Vessel of Ronka's music being Hopl's Dropple, etc.? It would be a really nice way to help us reflect fondly on the quests we did with those tribes no matter where we are when we summon those mounts.

Would it be possible to learn more of the Archons' pasts? I would very much like to know what Yda and Papalymo's fields of study were.

Would it be possible to go into how the concepts and ideas for the Archons- our companions, Sharlayans in general, and historical- have changed over the course of FF14's development?

as much as I love my Chocobo, I'm wondering if we will we ever get the option of having a retainer as a companion instead of a chocobo?

Are there plans to make Unukalhai and Cylva's post-role quests more accessible? Since we're currently dealing with the Void in the main scenario, I hope that they will be able to be included.

When will we get an actual rabbit mount? Yoshi, PLEASE!! :)

Since "Dad of Light" came out on Netflix, has there been a considerable increase in Parent Warriors of Light, ages 50-70, as well as players sharing with you stories about their parent(s) joining them on their adventures? (The show/story encouraged my spouse & I to have my mom try FFXIV when the pandemic hit, and she became a MASSIVE FFXIV fan/player. She & I will hope to be among the ones to see you at PAX!)

Yoshi P & Michael-Christopher, as you each played through FFXIV yourselves, or read scripts of the story, what's a part of the FFXIV story that moved you personally to tears and why?

ENDWALKER & Post-ARR SPOILER

Were the dev teams/writers setting up to kill Krile in the EW story but then changed their minds? It kept building toward it, but then it didn't happen, and that seemed strange. Has it been a conscious choice not to kill any of the scions since, well, ARR?

I am a XI player, who dips into XIV every now & then. As you can tell by my name, the one thing I always liked about Final Fantasy were the monsters. My favorites characters, are monsters. On my adventures in XIV, I noticed a ton of cool creatures. What are your thought on a job which utilizes fauna? In XI, there is Beastmaster & Monstrosity.