Letter from the Producer LIVE LXVIII: Ask Your Endwalker Questions!

We're pleased to announce the sixty-eighth installment of the Letter from the Producer LIVE is scheduled for Friday, February 18, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. (PST) / 9:00 p.m. (EST) / Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 2:00 (GMT) / 13:00 (AEDT)

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The story talks about going to newer places. Will new zones only be left to the next expansion?

Thank you for the chance to ask these questions!

Could you please share both real-world and fictional locations that inspired the Endwalker zones?

Rewards for the Excitatron 6000 currently seem kind of lackluster in my opinion. Also rewards that you can roll on in chests rarely appear in my runs of the treasure dungeon. Can more rewards be created to be added sooner please?

When the new 24-man duty arrives, what kind of story is going to be revolving around the duty?

Can more rewards be added for Jonathas Achievement Certificate exchange please? The last time something was added was a singular item more than two years ago.

When will the King Porxie mount become available for the rest of the world to obtain?

With Zodiark being sundered across multiple reflections, and Hydaelyn mentioning herself being sundered too, are they truly finished? How did it affect them? Is it just like having body parts of theirs spread across the reflections while their main body is on the Source?

It's alluded to that Hythlodaeus and Hades have the capacity to be reborn on Etheirys now. With both being unsundered, would they have the capabilities of the ancients even when reborn?

Will there be an update coming soon where the minions from Ktisis Hyperboriea, The Aitiascope, and Dead Ends dungeons become available for trade and sale on the marketboard? The drop rate is very low.

Do you have any plans to introduce the Mystic Knight as a new job for a future expansion?

Was Amon connected to the creation of Azys Lla and the Ixali, and if so was he influenced in any way by his memories as Hermes?

Are there any plans to add the radio theme from Garlemald to the game as an orchestrion roll in the future?

Will there be new recipes for specially crafted weapons using materials from the SHB extreme trials?

Is there anything about the planned Island Sanctuary you're able and willing to share already with us?

Do you have any concept art of the female Hrothgars, or anything you can share about them yet?

Krile has obtained more screentime in this expansion.
Will we be seeing her to be usable in Trust?

Reaper and Sage had their job quest stories up to lvl 80. Since you mentioned lvl 80 quests were like the finale for all the job stories, will we still get more in the next expansion?

With regards to job balance this expansion, and the buffs that have been implemented so far, is there any feedback from the forums that has been considered when it comes to any possible future adjustments, or if necessary, reworks?

With all of the new housing items, is it possible we may get more storage (and display) slots for housing? I've been having a lot of trouble storing seasonal items and shuffling things around for the various holidays and events because there's so many new things.

Have there been any progress on revamping the Duty Roulette?
My friends felt that rewards for Alliance roulette can be tiered to the length/difficulty/type of alliance raids matched to (currently it's a flat reward).

With the release of the new healer in EW i thought we could have some interesting changes in the way the role plays compared to others. Although Sage is a step in the right direction I feel like we're becoming a spam one offensive button role and occasionally throw a heal. Why can't we have offensive combos like every other role in the game?

Can the UI Team consider to improve the map UI further?
Currently one can only toggle all icons/text on or off. Some of my new player friends were overwhelmed starting the game and can't use the map properly due to so many icons on map. Can the icons be toggled by category (for example, MSQ only, Sidequest only, Vendor types, etc)

Male Viera names

Unlike Female Viera, Male Viera appear to have different naming conventions, but the official post about them wasn't updated. Are there any plans to do so?

Their last names seem to follow strict patterns with only two options before hyphen and six options after hyphen (for Rava Viera). Last names for Male Veena Viera are also different and all seem to have same endings.
So what Male Viera last names actually mean?

Regarding first names, they seem to barely overlap with names given to Female Viera, despite the fact they have a lot of "Forest" names in their generator (especially Rava). We know, however, that until puberty they cannot call girls and boys apart, so it rises the question: do they simply not have names until that point in their life, or they change them once it's clear if it's a boy or a girl?

With the Empyreum housing district coming in 6.1 does that mean we will also get Ishgardian styled furnishing to go along with it such as the furnishings we see in the Fortemps Manor?

Is there any plans to add more vibrant colors to some of the duller ones like Purple and Orange

Do you intend to provide an explanation of the time travel mechanics involved in EW and how they interact with those in SHB, as this plot aspect has left quite a few people confused? Based on this, would there ever be the possibility of travel to an alternate timeline where things ended better for the ancients so we can properly explore their world?

There are still a lot of open questions surrounding Zenos. Him dreaming of the Final Days, the hints that he was an Ascian test subject, how he acquired his reaper avatar etc. Is there anything you can tell us about your plans to resolve them?

Will we explore anything about Dynamis from this point?

Have fan theories ever surprised/worried you when it came to how close they were to being right? Last summer, someone predicted Emet-Selch might be Amon and obviously that wasn't quite right! But I felt very pleased for them when I watched Endwalker's plot unfold.

Why are Meteion, Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus the size of a sundered being when we meet them in Ultima Thule?
Shouldn't Meteion, who is a child by unsundered standards, be taller than us?

First and foremost I want to thank you for your great efforts. My actual question is in regards to previous expansions content, particularly ARR's. To ellaborate: as it is usually said: potency creep and ability prunning have, up to a degree, hurt the experience of those segments of the game. Potency creep means the combats are done with extreme ease and speed (no one gets to see the ultima spell anymore, for example) and ability prunning means that you get a fairly slow experience in the game, as the rotations are by and large backloaded to higher levels.

With that, I want to ask: have you considered further leveraging the potency traits and ability upgrades? as in, those traits that increase the potency of specific and pre-existing skills at a certain level. So, to give an example: put at levels 50, 60, 70 and 80, potency traits that give your rotations the same potency they had back during the 2.55, 3.55, 4.55 and 5.55 patches. And by making further use the ability upgrade system, much like the masterful blitz having a version at level 60 and another at 80-90 or machinist having a complete rotation by 50, you could have more involved rotations at levels 30 to 60, which would greatly improve the early game experience.

Thanks in advance for your patience!

In the Crystal Tower story, people noticed some morse code saying "it's all wrong".
Was that always planned to be a signal from Meteion/Amon/Hermes, or did you have another idea initially?

How has FFXIV's trajectory felt to you and the team? I know everyone talks about 1.0 to now but it does look like a miracle! I hope you all know how proud we are.

Thank you for adding Reaper as a job that draws on darker powers. Would you be open in the future to considering a caster along these lines, like a void mage or necromancer, or even a time mage which uses darkness? The spell in waiting mechanic Gaia uses for example looked like it could be very interesting modelled for a playable job.

Are we getting three Ultimates this time?
Yoshida said we should get 2 Ultimates per expansion. Does this include Dragonsong War that was delayed?

Viera & Hrothgar as Squadron recruits.

At this point we have the choice to make Viera and Hrothgar as our retainers.
Is there any plans to update the recruits to include the new races?

We know that 6.0 was the conclusion of the Hydaelyn and Zodiark arc but will we still continue to see more content related to the Ancients and Ascians in the future beyond Pandaemonium? Such as learning more about Azem and the other sundered Ascians?

Is there a plan to implement more veteran rewards in the foreseeable future? My own personal days subscribed are hitting 1000 with the final reward sitting at 330.

Can you detail your plans for character customisation and graphics engine upgrades now that a new chapter is beginning in the game, given your ambition for it to last another 10 years?