Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVIII! (Exploring patch 2.4)

Hey everyone!

We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVIII! This next Live Letter will take place on Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 3:00 a.m. (PST) / 11:00 (GMT)!

In this thread we'd like you to specifically pose questions and feedback related to Patch 2.4. 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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Are there any plans to address Dragoons magic defense in light of Final Coil being completely magic based?

Any chance you can lower the amount of Echatahl Sealants needed for Artisan's gear?

In light of the increased demand due to all the new gear using it, are methods to obtain Mastercraft Demimateria being looked at?

A lot of new players have been having issues queueing for content due to the rush of Ninjas, and they require it in order to progress the story - a three hour wait to get into a needed primal or dungeon really does suck. This'll probably repeat as new classes are released in the future as well. Are any changes going to be made to Duties (and specifically Duty Roulette) to ensure that those needing content for progress are prioritized?

The bosses of the three new 4-man dungeons are gaining quite a reputation for being notably harder than most level 50 dungeons. Was this step up of difficulty intentional, and if so, are you satisfied with the results?

Why was Item Level Sync not applied to Praetorium, Castrum Meridanium, or any of the 8-man trials?

Thank you for implementing the books to reset Desynthesis skills. However, because we're still left with a minimum of 1 point in any desynthesis skill we have unlocked, we can't actually have three maxed Desynthesis skills. Will there be any adjustments to account for this in the future?

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Originally Posted by Garlyle

In light of the increased demand due to all the new gear using it, are methods to obtain Mastercraft Demimateria being looked at?

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This. The rarity of Mastercraft Demimateria combined with the new 2.4 demand means a Supra costs more than a Small House. Was this intended?

The boss battles in 2.4 have been both rewarding and very challenging , how does the team go about designing a new boss fight?

Dragoon gained buff in 2.4 and is getting yet another buff in future. Will bard get some improvements too to avoid the job falling too far behind in damage?

An interview with yoshi-p said that hunts will be left untouched in 2.4 but may be adjusted in 2.5 and heavensward. Are we going to expect that hunts will give very minimal rewards in even numbered patch and abundant rewards (2.3 farm) in odd numbered patch from now on?

Even though you have mentioned enhancing dragoons, their utility in raids is not as good as monks in due largely to Dragon Kick. This skill is near mandatory for most turns in final coil especially Turn 13/Turn 4.

Would you please consider giving the -10% int debuff to drg/nin so that raids actually have a choice of which melee class to bring, if they only have one.

BRD's are currently the only physical DPS class that cannot self-buff their own damage. (MNK's have dragon kick / DRG have disembowel / NIN have dancing edge), because of this and the fact that a lot of groups may not run with a DRG, would you please consider giving the -10% piercing resistance debuff to BRD's.

Given that the implementation of Rogue and Ninja can be considered a test to see how the players will react to a new set of playable classes, what feedback has the development team taken on board from it that they will consider for future additions to the playable class selection?

Mudras can be very unresponsive and inconsistent due to the variability of latency and the general design of player abilities, which can make them very difficult to use without error. Will you please do something to make Mudras more responsive and consistent?

Regarding Quality of Life

Will you please consider adding a feature that will allow us to blacklist people who send friend requests?....ya know, rmt.

Could you consider adding a resume craft option, to be used in case of disconnections and/or Duty Finder's Duty Ready?
As suggested in another thread, you could give out a set number of daily "resume-up-tickets" to be used by each players only when a very valuable Synth is being performed (thus not having to track every single Synth performed on the entire server); could as well let only Master Crafters the allowances, to reduce even more the amount of tracked data.

Will crafting requiremenst for earlier tiers be eased?

* On Endgame Crafting *

In the new 3 and 4 star recipes which came with 2.4, there is an emphasis on requiring ingredients from numerous aspects of the game (fishing, gathering, desynth, Ixal dailies).
Although this is good in that it fosters some degree of cooperation, many of the items required are very rare (Mastercraft), or heavily time gated (Sealant).
This, in addition to the continued increases in recipe difficulty, which with 3 stars have noticeably passed our own rate of crafting stat increases, along with the need to HQ everything for it to be useful, has resulted in endgame crafting revolving around RNG based rotations, fishing for good/excellent conditions, and reclaiming if the result did not have a high HQ chance.

The questions (all related to the current and future states of crafting):
- Is the current difficulty of endgame crafting what was desired by the developers?

- Will there later be recipes with "variable ingredients", such as 1 Mastercraft OR 10 Fieldcraft 3 for instance, or replacing 1 Sealant with 5 Terminus Putty?

- Will there potentially be more recipes which CANNOT be made HQ? Presently it is HQ or Restart, as NQ is typically inferior to drops or HQ's of significantly easier recipes. This could be alleviated by having recipes where you must simply meet the stat requirements to make the item, and the result would be equivalent to similar tiered items.

- If the above cannot be done, perhaps introduce a (NON-RNG-BASED) way to take a HQ-able item, and via a generic crafter process using "mostly common" ingredients, make the item into HQ, or partway HQ, such that it takes several (no more than 10) iterations to complete.

As a fun survey kind of question for the development team, if you had to pick one set of gear and one weapon from all of the items introduced in Patch 2.4, which would you choose for a glamour?

Summoner has gotten a silent nerf in 2.2 with spell speed and crit gear because they share tome gear with Black Mage. The Summoner runs out of mp doing their optimal rotation doing fights that require dps checks and end up twitling their thumbs until the next Aetherflow stack for Energy drain which is a massive Dps loss or wait till the White Mage needs mp so the Bard plays Mp song. So will Summoner see a buff?

Is it possible to have a increase in Mana return from the abilities energy drain and aetherflow for the Summoner job?

Theres not enough content to do in this patch. Please add more casual content that isn't gated by weekly lockouts/weekly rewards.

This is technicality related to 2.4 but the release and hype of Ninja has resulting in the DF being nonviable for DPS and by extentions low level dungeons are rendered inaccessible for PUGs. Are you taking steps to ensure something like that dosne;t happen next time you add a new DPS class (like maybe adding a tank and healer class to go with a DPS class)?

Also Yoshi-P apparently said that he wants all players to be able to see all of coil. Does this mean that the FCoB will get a storymode in heavensward, or will we just see an Echo buff an it added to DF by Heavesnward?

How do you feel about Lucrezia and Collision managing to burn through Final Coil in under a week?

Hello,
Its great the artifact gear is dye-able, making it more personal.
However some parts on it arent able to dye and it ruins it a bit, could you make it fully dye-able anytime soon?
Thank you :)

Since the addition of the Ninja class the DF for low level roulette or any related individual dungeon has been terrible for DPS given how little Tanks and Healers are around and how so much many more DPS are lurking in wait.

In a previous commentary was mentioned the possibility of looking into ways of creating Solo, Duo or Trio dungeon instances in place of a forced 4-man.

This is something that really pokes on my interest, so does this still have a chance of being looked into?

Can we please get a tackle box for fishing baits and lures?

With more and more items coming with each patch, will we see an increase in our inventory space, along with an increase in space for our retainers?

Can you please give us details on when we can expect the buff to Dragoons and what these buffs will be?

Considering how fast some groups managed to clear Final Coil, when can we expect Savage mode for it to be implemented?

Many people believe Ninja's damage output is too strong considering how much utility it brings. What are your thoughts on this and if you agree do you plan on giving the job some kind of nerf?

In the expansion we will be getting new jobs and content. How accessible are these things? Will all the old main (or any) content need to be played through and completed to acquire upon Heavenswards release?

Or will the jobs and other contents of the expansion be completely open to both veteran and those who just start playing through Heavenswards?

There appears to be little to no incentive to do any other Beastmen daily quests except the Ixali Ehcatl's once achieving max reputation due to the Oaknots and the useful items players can acquire (more so now with Ehcatl Sealant). Will there ever be a incentive to repeat the other tribes' quests, or adjust the maximum amount of daily quests accepted?

Will Disciples of the Hand ever get recipes that produce items and equipment that stand on par with raid gear to better prepare those going into raids and to just give give DoH more to do.

Will 1 versus 1 PvP ever be a thing in 3.0 or the near future?

I know a lot people who really would like this kind of dueling format.

Could SMN get a buff or more Mana since most of the Caster gear is focused on BLM?
The spellspeed is horrible.

Not saying I Hate the Limit Break animations, but do you think it possible to give them more variety and or make them more identifiable with the actual class doing it and not its simply its role.

Small example(s):Monk
Limit Break Lv.1 - Burning Rave
Limit Break Lv.2 - Repeating Fist
Limit Break Lv.3 - Final Heaven

Funny story while fighting Garuda EX one of the tanks used the LB thus wasting it. Everyone was so busy dodging we didn't see which tank did it and both tank denied doing it. (checked combat data after but you know what I mean)