Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X! (Duty Roulette)

Hey everyone!

We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X focusing on the many exciting updates coming with Patch 2.1! This next Live Letter will take place on Friday, November 22, 2013, from 04:00 a.m. (PST) / Friday, November 22, 2013, from 12:00 (GMT)!

In this thread we'd like you to specifically pose questions regarding the upcoming introduction of the Duty Roulette to the Duty Finder. In addition to collecting your questions in real-time via Twitter, we will also use this thread to gather your questions ahead of time and answer them during the event.

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What is this exactly and what will differentiate this from mvp as far as potential rewards go?

According to community reps, duty roulette is part of a plan to increase Experience Point gain from dungeons. Will this Experience be in the form of a daily quest reward or will we also see an increase in the amount of experience earned through the content itself? (e.g. more experience from mobs defeated in a given instance, etc.)

Will we be locked in to participating in the duty roulette or will we still be able to choose individual instances if we so desire?

How will this work if you join the Daily Roulette as a light party?

Just to clarify, what this question means is, the the roulette is suppose to help lower level dungeons get people into them, so when a tank joins it will look and see what normal que'd dungeons have people waiting and put him/her there, but if you join as a light party (1 tank, 1 healer, 2 dps) where will it place you? still randomly somewhere or since you won't be technically helpping the solo'd que'd people it won't be able to place you anywhere?

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Hello !

Will we see Patch 2.1 before January 2014 ?

It was mentioned that tomestones will be obtainable through the Duty Roulette. Can we get an idea of how many tomestones and of what type will be awarded to high-level players that use this feature?

As a follow-up, do you feel the tomestone rewards will be sufficient enough to encourage players to use the Duty Roulette in the first place (rather than just sticking to more Wanderer's Palace and Amdapor Keep speed runs)?

sorry wrong category.

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Do you have any plans at all to locate some server's to the EU.
If Not then why are we paying more than NA Players?

I like this idea, and also level-synched down.

However, level-synch still has into account level-required skills. As a level 50, having our skills removed has a very negative and unusual feel (at least for me), will this stay the same even in the roulette?

Are there any worries that the "Speed Run" mentality, aka the "Lets finish this as quickly as possibly" philosophy of lvl50 players might spoil the experience of low leveled players when they start running dungeons between them? New players will probably not know what to do, and Im worried the lvl50 players will not be very friendly towards the newer players, as weird as it sounds since the whole point of this feature is to integrate them into one experience.

When playing the 'roulette' can you filter so that a non-relaxed player does not end up in dungeon with relaxed player?

With all the great events and gear can you please tell more about how Vanity Slots will work?

Are there going to be more GuildLeves along with more Dungeons? I am also wondering will we be able to earn G.C. seals in guildleves ?

Previously, you mentioned breaking dungeons into categories. Can you describe these categories and will we be able to filter the roulette by category?

Will there be an option to do additional runs of either the same or a different dungeon with a Duty Finder/Duty Roulette party rather than immediately disbanding the group upon completion of the instance?

Will there be an option to do a random duty when enlisting with a player created group?

Will it be beneficial to carry sets of gear appropriate to the dungeon? Will a player in AF+1/relic who is scaled down be on par with a player in DL/dungeon gear when they are scaled down to, say, Brayflox?

Will there be a update to fix the AoE issues everyone is having with enemies?

In the past, it has been mentioned that more class-specific mounts and class-specific chocobo armor will be released. Is there a timeframe for these features yet?

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Is there any plans on bettering your customer service department?

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Or staffing well enough that they can answer the phone within two hours?

Are there any plans on doing this duty roulette function with GuildHests too?

Guildhests don't reward almost any reasonable amount of xp after the first time they are done. There is no reason to do them again and the queues for this are long.

Second question would be: are there any plans of making the rewards for guildhest first time bonus class specific?

Will duty roulette reward armor too for characters below level 50? or will it reward philosophy and mythology regardless of level?

5 things:

1.) Please make repair damage not incurred in low level dungeons, or make AF (AF1, not relic) never take any damage, or be obscenely cheap to repair.
2.) Please go through the trouble of considering how powerful AF should be at each instance's level. 15, 20, 24, 28, 32, 35, 38, 41, 44. Level Sync obliterates the stats on extremely outleveled gear but AF should be on par with the finest gear of that level.
2a.) Please make the same considerations for relics. I haven't tried a relic in a low level dungeon but I know that Garuda's axe did about 10% less damage than a level 34 axe synced to 34.
3.) Make an additional AF piece that covers belt, neck, ears, ring.
4.) Consider allowing us to just combine all our af into a suit of armor, a single piece which, when worn, no other pieces can be equipped. Would save tremendously on inventory space.

Point is, I'm not interested in wearing i90/70 stuff in Haukke Manor, but also not interested in carrying around level-appropriate gear/weapons.

Can we please have cross-server friend chat and friend instant/quest joining support?

Many of us would like to befriend new friends or play with friends who are currently scattered across multiple servers at some time without migrating to a different server to play or chat with them.

Since this is for patch 2.1 can u show us a live 4v4 battle of PvP since The last trailer did not do it any justice.It can be prerecorded battle if thats easier,just want to see one whole real pvp battle.

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I like this idea, and also level-synched down.

However, level-synch still has into account level-required skills. As a level 50, having our skills removed has a very negative and unusual feel (at least for me), will this stay the same even in the roulette?

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Yeah i know what ya mean....Like i have a harder time in AV then say AK because it just feels wrong not having infuriate....Also probably because i don't outgear it LOL.

Regarding the actual implementation of the Duty Roulette:

Say I queue solo as tank to Duty Roulette. Will I be sent first to the duty that has been waiting for a tank for the longest? Or will I simply to sent to a random duty that may not even have people waiting for tanks?

My question can also be worded from a different viewpoint:

Is the Duty Roulette primarily aimed to help resolve long wait times on duties that are not popular (e.g. leveling dungeons), or is Duty Roulette primarily aimed to provide alternative sources of tomestones?

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Will it be beneficial to carry sets of gear appropriate to the dungeon? Will a player in AF+1/relic who is scaled down be on par with a player in DL/dungeon gear when they are scaled down to, say, Brayflox?

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From what I've seen this happens...Also in AV your 45 AF items are stronger then even AF+1 items due to scaling.

I understand you guys don't want ppl rushing thru content but the amount of time it takes to get the gear it's ridiculous. Can we get a statement if this will be changed or at the very least when we cap can I get myth tombs for other jobs. Plz do something thanks.

can you enter the duty roulette with a party or must you be alone?

Was the decision to segregate the game worlds for Duty Finder purely a technical one (and therefore also reversible), or was it a design decision? When we found out that Legacy world characters couldn't move to non-Legacy ones, my last chance to play along with the 20+ friends on another world was the cross-world match ups of Duty Finder, but sadly Excalibur and Ultros don't link for that sort of thing...

Can the Duty Finder be updated so we could select multiple jobs to queue with and we join with whichever is required first? For example, I could join as both SCH and BLM and will fill whichever role (DPS or Healer) is available first?

will emergency maintenance become rarely after 2.1?

I've seen and experienced a growing trend of players quitting the fight after only two or three attempts (I actually just experienced that as I was writing this post).

Will there be any changes made to the fights to allow players to be replaced when they quit?

We their be an option to vote people out of a group based on disconnection issues on Primal fights?

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Will we be able to have the leader of the duty party, the one who determines if we want to search for other player if someone quits, be able to kick players from the party, if they are annoying, getting disconnected too much or refusing to take some friendly advices so that we could clear the dungeon/instance. For example, if the tank doesn't move out of the poisonpools spitted by the last boss in Brayflox's Longstop, thus making it iimpossible to kill, even if we tell him to move out of them and s/he ignores us, or just throws some comment of "I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING YOU ****** STFU" would make the dungeon/instance experience more enjoyable.

1. Relic weapon +1 colour change

- It'd be nice having the option to change the glow of a relic weapon/switch between glow & no glow
I don't like the pink glow of Bravura

2. Odin/Behemoth Fate is laggy,plz fix this issue