Letter from the Producer LIVE 53: Ask Your Shadowbringers Questions!

We're pleased to announce the fifty-third installment of the Letter from the Producer LIVE is scheduled for Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 4:00 a.m. (PDT) / 7:00 a.m. (EDT) / 11:00 (GMT).

In this thread, we'd like to ask adventurers that have been playing Shadowbringers to post questions you may have!

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Will there be in the future of Shadowbringers another HoH or Palace of the Dead type dungeon?

Can male characters please have access to the new facial hair used by the Warrior of Darkness in promotional footage and the benchmark? It looks very stylish!

Is there any chance We can get a Feo Ul Wind-Up Minion during the 5.X patches as I feel really bad when I can't call for Feo Ul in cutscenes because of plot and she gets upset when she is called that we don't call for her and that we're heartless and stuff. Make me wanna cry and hug her. XD

When can I play with you in the game yoshi p?

When is it planned to release for Shadowbringer`s Beast Tribes?

Will Orchestrion Rolls for the Everlasting Light map themes become available for players?

when will we be receiving news regarding the implementation of male viera and female hrothgar?

How do you see EX raiding content with the ever-growing preference of physical ranged over casters? (Over population of BRD, DNC, MCH. VS less BLM, RDM, SUM).

Honestly Shadowbringers is the best expansion balancing wise! All classes are now easily playable as well.

Could you please add(new) or unlock the "Long" dreads style for males? As seen in the countdown series for Shadowbringers.

will there be further improvements to the Retainer UI system like log in notifications when your items have been sold

Is there a ETA on the Shadowbringers Soundtrack cause the Music is so amazing and Soken did a really good job in making them, Also will there be a Stormblood Part 2 Soundtrack for music from 4.4 to 4.5?

QoL: Would it be possible to highlight skills under ACTIONS that are not placed on your hotbar/crossbar? (As is the case in World of Warcraft).

It was my first time playing a new expansion for FFXIV and with all the skills overhauled, it was quite difficult to see what was missing and what was not. Highlighting what is not yet on your bar would make it easier to rearrange skills.

A burning question after an amazing expansion, thank you! :)

Is the Shoebill minion related to Emet-Selch in any way?

Are there any updates to the idea to streamline the ARR (specifically, the end of 2.0 - 2.55) content?

Would it be possible to add an option to automatically remove headgear during cutscenes?

QoL: Would it be possible to have the Scholar faerie skill tooltips changed to include the effect of the faerie skill?
e.g. 'Tells your faerie to execute Fey Union' would include what the skill 'Fey Union' does when hovering the tooltip.

At the moment I am learning Scholar and it is difficult to remember what the faerie skills do because if I want to see their effect I have to open the ACTIONS window to find out instead of checking the tooltip.

If this is an issue with Summoner as well, I would request the same change.

Can we get some Alphinaud/Alisaie items? Wind up versions of their HW/SB/Shb outfits or possibly any of their outfits on the mogstation?

The new Role Play mechanic to play as the Scions is a great addition to the game, but I and many others have found that these instances are not very fun due to so few skills on the hotbar/crossbar and because enemies are extremely tanky/have high defences. Do you think this could be tuned to increase the fun factor? It does not need to be a very complex rotation, but more than 4-5 skills would be appreciated.

With NieR: Automata-inspired raid series coming out over the course of 5.x patch series, would it be possible to include some of NieR-inspired weapons as reward in some form? While there's usually no weapons related to 24-man raids, in ARR, there was a series of crafted weapons designed to go with Syrcus Tower sets. As NieR games have some recognizeable weapons in its arsenal, I'd really like to see some make their way to XIV.

During The Warring Triads, we have been introduced to Unukalhai, Elidibus' student and an Echo bearer from the 13th shard. With more allusions to the the Void (especially in role quests and eden) being made in Shadowbringers' content, can we expect to see more of his character aside from the recent dialogue changes? Or shall the solar remain haunted forevermore?

Could we have a phooka brat minion? I'd really like a pink and green colored paissa brat!

Would you be considering adding gear locks /item level locks on content (i.e levelling dungeons) that people are under geared for. It is highly annoying when people are using items 40 ilevels (maybe more and on multiple pieces) under the recommended ilevel for current content. At the very least, a warning would be nice.

When equipping glamour plates or changing them in town, the chat box will get spammed by all the gear that has been changed. Is it possible to have this so it just says something along the lines of 'Glamour Plate 1 appearance has been applied to your currentbequipped gear' rather than listing every single piece of changed gear.

Two questions:
1) Can we expect an expansion of the current housing districts / a new housing area in 5.x?
2) Is Scholar likely to get some of their damage utility back & Astro getting some buff or will the healer balance rather favour nerfing whm and moving healers further into more of a "raw" healer role?

Hi I'm relatively new to this but my big concern and or question is will the loot timers be adjusted in the future?
See problem is that many have taken to not rolling on loot at the end of the Dungeons/Raids untill the last second they do this in an atempt to make people leave so they have a better chance at the loot especially if there is a pet drop and frankly it's extremely vexing, I also know I am not the only one concerned about this as I have heard alot about similar instances of this occuring and it's starting to deter people from even doing Dungeons/Raids that drop any kind of loot, now I know I typed alot and I apologise but this is a major issue going around I have tried repeatedly to report such people but only got that it doesn't violate the ToS from the GM's I have even left several messages about it in the feed back but it feels as though this important issue is being ignored so this is my hope that this concern will actually reach you Yoshi-P and can hopefully get addressesed

Does the development team have any plans to implement crafted primal weapons for Dancer and Gunbreaker? I would love to see some crafted Sophia DNC weapons for my character!
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It is quite common to refer to FFXIV's story as a 'single player game with multiplayer elements' due to the large amount of solo-instances as you progress through the story (e.g. solo combat instances or zones like The Waking Sands/Rising Stones/The Parrock). Would it be possible to allow parties to enter these instances together to enhance the multiplayer aspect of the game?

I am levelling an alt with a friend new to the game and it is awkward because we have to keep forming a party and then disbanding every time we have instanced fights to beat.
Additionally, my favourite zone is the Parrock from the Shadow of Mhach raids but I cannot hang out with any of my friends there. ;_;

Hello Yoshi-P and dev team! <3 I hope you have gotten some well-deserved rest!

Would you consider changing the Materia Melder menu, so that Equipped is displayed on top of the list, and Inventory at the bottom?

Thank you so much for all your hard work on Shadowbringers! <3

Regarding Dark Knight. While most of the changes I feel as a drk main are a vast improvement from the atrocity that was Stormblood Drk; there are still some skills that underperform when compared to the other tanks. Its self sustain for one is a major point of contention for it has the weakest of the three tanks. Abyssal Drain in particular is far inferior to things like Clemency which can be spammed if the pld were to choose to. I have a friend who reportedly had a 69k clemency heal. Now compare this to Abyssal Drain which is a cooldown and hits for maybe 2-3k on a single target making it just mostly added damage in boss fight. This is before we even get to the issue of how the new cd on it weakens drk's pulling potential in dungeons. Now in to the second if not the biggest issue: Living Dead, which out of all the drk cds that could use a retooling this is the one everyone would agree needs an overhaul. It is considered the worst for a few reasons: 1) It is a healer cd more than it is a tank cd. 2) It has no application in solo content like the other three tanks do, because you lack the self-sustain to save yourself from death. 3) You need to be topped up while still taking damage or else you die. Dark mind, salted earth, and Living Shadow are also needed to be looked at. Dark mind an all around inferior cooldown to most other tanks cds since it blocks so little of only one damage type. Salted Earth requires placement which means when a boss becomes untargetable or flies off for divebombs or something the damage is lost versus other dots that remain on and continue to tick, all while it has a long cd for what it does. Finally Living Shadow takes 7 seconds of its duration before it does anything and doesn't feel good to use.

Just finished the main quest week before, the story is far more than impressive. Best expansion ever.
Sorry for spoiler but if there any possible for we to have the minions of Emet-Selch and Aldbert?
Also those Amaurot citizen are so cute for me, may we have their plush toys?
Thank a lot!

Are there any plans to add glamourable versions of the Disciple of Hand/Land outfits from Shadowbringers?

Is it possible to move raid tokens into currency one day? They take up a lot of space!

Regarding hairstyles on Hrothgar, to change hairstyle we currently have to use a Fantasia Potion to do this. Will this be changed in the future so we can go to the Aesthetican to change our hairstyles / and or faces as the hairstyles are tied to the face?

Is it possible to get a new retainer venture for gatherer to gain more crystals? We currently have one at lv 25 that gives 30 crystals after 40 min and with the current amount of crystals we use in crafting it is not worth to use

Question regarding to Hrothgar race

Will the team consider to lets Hrothgar change the face via aesthetician (or at least the hairstyles across the same face) as of now if you are a Hrothgar the only way to change hairstyle is to use Fantasia which is to be fair this is unfair to Hrothgar race, if I recall correctly in the past live letter that the team will add more unique hairstyle to Hrothgar but as of now you have to pay for Fantasia each time you want to change the hair, this is not a good move for the players.

It has become more and more common for people to purposely unequip gear or wear gear below a certain ilvl to avoid higher level dungeons, raids and etc when queuing into roulettles (i.e. a level 80 player removing everything but their weapon to ensure they can only get Labyrinth of the Ancients). This, unfortunately, makes queues much longer for say, Dun Scaith. Would it be possible to prevent this in some capacity?

Any plans to add more rewards for Wolf Collars (including gunbreaker and dancer weapons)?

Now that the trust system has been implemented with Shadowbringers, has there been any thoughts about making lvl 50 duties with cutscene locks (The Praetorium, Castrum Meridianum etc.) instanced dungeons to run with trusts?

This could perhaps make it more immersive for new players when the encounters aren't over within few seconds, and it would give the new players time to enjoy the cutscenes and in turn, the MSQ roulette would not be necessary. The adventurers you enter the duty with can be replaced with "adventurer looking NPC's" or MSQ characters that you know.

Shadowbringers was an excellent story, but I found my enjoyment was hampered by regular level blocks (ie. too low a level to progress the story) and would have to spend a long time doing sidequests or roulettes to continue on, which made the pacing quite awkward.

Would it be possible to make the MSQ give enough EXP to avoid any story blocking and leave the sidequests/roulettes for levelling other jobs?