Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIII! (Item Levels)

[Phafi]

Can we get equipment (not specifically weapons) that has effects activate under certain conditions like latent effect items in ffxi? eg: take a hit for 75% of your max hp, 25% chance of getting a 15% defense boost or cure effect received for 5 seconds.

[Phafi]

will the sub weapon slot be utilized in the future? maybe to do things like poison tip your weapons

[Mirakumi]

Right now there are some people who wear wrong "class" itemized gear to surpass the ilvl limit, is there any plans to implement a way to stop this from occurring in the future?
Ex: ilvl 80 healer wearing - i90 tanking accessories.

[XSkeithX]

Can we ever expect primal gear? like a ifrit armor that's on fire for instance If so what item level would it be?

[Cortana-]

Why have you decided not to raise the ilvl every major content patch? With how the release of Crystal tower is vs The binding coil of bahamut there is a huge amount of time with zero progression. Right now I find myself having a hard time to log on the game outside of monday because there is nothing to do that will make my character better. How is this being addressed?

[KirakunAUS]

Why have you decided not to raise the ilvl every major content patch? With how the release of Crystal tower is vs The binding coil of bahamut there is a huge amount of time with zero progression. Right now I find myself having a hard time to log on the game outside of monday because there is nothing to do that will make my character better. How is this being addressed?

My question is somewhat related to the above.

With the binding Coil of Bahamut (CoB) Turn 6-9 being introduced in patch 2.2, will we be expecting a huge gap in ilvl (like prior to the introduction of Crystal Tower) and that the next phase of Crystal Tower to fill in the gap?
I hope that the development team will continue to increase the ilvl for every major patch or at least be on par (i.e. the next phase of Crystal Tower ilvl gear to be higher or on par with CoB Turn 6-9)

[iBerserker]

Can you Increase the success percentage for each over melding materia fail for at least 2 or 3 turns!

[Veritas-Ancora]

What hints can you give us on your plans for the Relic Reborn Weapon?

Should we keep leveling all of our class relics in the hopes of a tempered, improved version (Zenith +2)? Or, will completely new weapons come out to make them all obsolete?

[Aleo]

Materia does not currently scale according to stat increases with increased item level, where ilvl70 stat caps could be reached with 2 materia it may now take three or more materia to cap stats on a greater ilvl piece of gear. (even with using rank IV materia)

Will higher ilvl crafted gear be able to hold more than 5 materia melds? Or have you considered increasing the power of materia for rank III and IV.

[Giantbane]

Early dungeons have level caps to prevent them from becoming too easy. It also prevents high level DPS classes from doing so much damage it's impossible for newer tanks to tank for them.

Contrary to this, when we hit 50, we can get increasingly powerful gear which can make the high level dungeons very easy. It also makes tanking very difficult for new tanks that just hit 50 and don't have very good gear. Will there ever be an ilvl cap implemented to prevent this?