Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVI! (Exploring patch 2.3)

Hey everyone!

We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVI! This next Live Letter will take place on Monday, July 21, 2014, from 4:00 a.m. (PDT) / 11:00 (GMT)!

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With The Hunt, every time an elite mark appears in a zone it is dead within seconds. Are there any plans to adjust or scale monsters HP, spawn times or spawn locations?

(The below I added today 7-12, in the hope of increasing awareness and visibility to our beloved moderators)

With the implementation of hunts, people who use third party software have again gained another advantage. This is detailed here, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ir-Take-a-look. Respectfully, Yoshida's response regarding third party tools has been disappointing. This continues to break the game for playstation players, and anyone morally against cheating, making it near impossible to get a claim on a mark. If you continue to turn a blind eye to these violations of ToS do you think players on these platforms will continue to support the game?

I have been playing since 1.0 CE early release. I felled the white raven and successfully tanked Ifrit extreme in 1.0. This is my favorite pass time. Please stop condoning cheating through inaction. Give add ons to level the playing field or adjust the content.

In regards to personal chambers, it is frustrating getting ejected to the front lawn after every instance. Can you adjust them to function more like the Inn rooms? Being able to log out through our beds like the inn room would be nice too!

The new chocobo stables and training system are great ideas !

But if feels like the xp for training is way too low ! only 3.5k xp for a lvl 6 choco that requires 500k to level up, that's about ~140 trainings needed
-> 140 hours for a level up !

Is there any ajustments planned for the chocobo training system ?
Replacing the training cutscenes by mini games were you could actually interact with your chocobo would also be great !

The implementation of Monster Hunts was a much anticipated system, but seems to have stumbled out of the gate. We either need more rank B marks with reduced rewards or shorter spawn times with reduced rewards. Rank A marks need their difficulty scaled up, spawn times increased and rewards reduced. Rank S marks need to be scaled way up in difficulty.

Are there any plans to make chocobo raising food available through GC seals, gil, ventures, leve's, or some other system to ease the load on gardening. As it is it is exceedingly difficult to produce supply of food to meet demand within an FC much less the server at large. The broom likewise seems to be a huge deterrent requiring 3 star materials and crafting for something that is disposable.

Are the allied seal shops balanced as intended? Seems unreasonable that i70 gear would be more allied marks than the means to get i110 gear. The oportunity cost of what is in effect vanity gear is incredibly high. 200 seals for alexandrite(10 rank A full credit kills) does not seem a bad basis. 1000 allied seals(<19 S rank full credit or 50 A rank full credit) for an i70 chest piece seems excessive.

Hunts are overpopulated. Are there any plans to:

a) Scale the HP of Hunt Mobs based on the people hitting them/near to them?

b) Give a reward to someone finding/spawning them; but still allowing others to take part in killing them?

Crafted Jewelry;

1) Why is the recipe for the Jewelry so much more expensive compared to the armour pieces (in particular, the waist piece which has the same stat caps)

2) Why is there only one secondary stat on the jewelry?

The reward for daily hunts is very low and it seems like players time would be better spent doing elites, are there any plans to adjust the reward for daily hunts?