Letter from the Producer, XV (07/27/2011)

[LuxLex]

Thank you very much for this letter.

I would be very grateful if you acknowledged how overboard your development team went in increasing the MP cost of cures. Although some increase was to be expected, you have made it so I either

a) Can't solo my mages at all
b) have to change all of my stats so I am useless at everything but mage

I always played with fairly balanced stats because I like to play CON, THM, ALC, CUL, and FSH. This means I don't have a large MP pool. Having to take all my points out of Dex so I can manage to play mages really sucks, cause I also like fishing.

I realize that changes to point assignments are coming, but I am very saddened that your development team went ahead with changes which make it impossible for me to enjoy all of my classes, before fixing stat point assignment. Now I can only play 1 or 2 jobs effectively.

If you're dead set on not revisiting the MP changes, please consider increasing the MP restored by ethers and/or removing the medicated effect delay. 50 MP is nothing when cures cost so much. You could make this change into a good thing for alchemists (which like all crafting classes could use some more love) by making ethers less useless.

Similarly, please add refresh food like the "yagudo drink" and food that enlarges our MP pools significantly - this would, again, make it more reasonable to solo play on MP using classes without sacrificing the stats I use for every other class, while making culinarian (which is perhaps the biggest loljob in XIV) more beneficial to other players.

I appreciate the time you took to communicate with us and I hope you are serious about listening to player feedback.