Letter from the Producer LXII

[SorceressVal]

personally i want to say thank you to all the devs and staff that put it together and worked so hard your effort is beloved. also i want to offer a solution to the healer balancing issues you have i suggest majoring whm= as you have with large healing spells with hefty mp cost and mid sized regen with reasonable mp cost - for sch = add durability to their shielding as they are not large heal proficient and don't focus on damage equaling their healing their shielding should be on par with whm magnitude of heal - so one majors healing the other majors shielding = now for ast = since it does both its magnitude should be less then whm but more then sch for healing and less durable shields faster cast time - that will make it equal to both as a jack of all trades master of none - the next healer job could center around damage to heal =Example : lets say you name it sorcerer/sorceress = a rendition of the ffviii boss damage out would be converted to healing in by stance - this way in stance the healer can help by adding small damage and giving large heals and out of stance focus on dps - the healer would complement any of the 3 without overshadowing them as they would require the stance to heal others outside itself . Since you already have sorceress gear templates from ffviii im sure creating male ones wouldn't be as big a issue and you can simply re-purpose modified ffviii concepts to get a look for it . hopefully that helps and takes some of the stress off with developing and balancing the current - of course the particulars are under your per-view this is just a general direction idea .

[Shougun]

Even with it being around just 270 actual items (270 adjusted for Hrothgar, 270 adjusted for Viera), that's still quite a good number of items that fit the head slot.

For sure, if it wasnt clear I was sincere that I meant thanks and 540 sounds huge. Although I didn't know what that translated to in terms of in game. Not sure if that's 540 split against both races and split against the multiple face types, but yeah I am happy to hear the news .

[AnnaRosa]

Puts to rest some of the stuff people have been complaining about, plus some goodies for us.

And people say the devs are lazy....

Thank God and thank to Dev team and Director for this letter!

[DarkMasamune]

This makes me so happy. I never thought one sec the devs were lazy or what, but the letter really puts the cherry on the cake.
Thank you Yoshi-P for all the explanations, and /salute to the devs team for modeling the accessories for Hrothgars and Vieras! I never put a helmet or whatnot on my characters, but I do enjoy the occasional flower in the hair, glasses or small, delicate accessories. Since I intended to go Viera, this really is a nice surprise!

That being said, that's a real nice Hrothgar... and one classy Viera!

[Nalfein]

Good read and thanks for your hard work. I'm eager to play through Shadowbringers in few months, holidays well deserved devs!

[xbahax92]

Ah, finally. The entitlement can settle down.

Thank you for your hard work devs! Please, have a long rest/vacation soon.

[zeylos]

to be honest a lot more are pleased then un pleased. Give them time and they will work it out. Demanding they do it now will not fix it. I played both 11 and the original 1.0 i dont care about gender locked races. You can still be all the jobs. They cant pull an unknown gender of a race the original makers have not even made yet without consulting them and getting their consent. Till there are males in the ivalice worlds i wouldn't count on them.

Matsuno, creator of the race, said he had nothing to do with genderlocking

[Alucard135]

Matsuno, creator of the race, said he had nothing to do with genderlocking

But Yoshi P did say they had no reference for male Viera to work with. And if they were to make it, they would still have to consult with Matsuno, since it's going to be an official design of male Viera.

[zeylos]

But Yoshi P did say they had no reference for male Viera to work with. And if they were to make it, they would still have to consult with Matsuno, since it's going to be an official design of male Viera.

Female viera were changed a lot too, and I don't really think SE cares about that kind of things. Also, au rain also didn't have any reference yet we have them. Same with hrotgar (arguably Ronson, but that's just one face)

[Dualblade]

I've had a rather large dislike for people using "yikes" these days. Then I read Morbolv's posts and it suddenly disappeared.

insert a "Ethics and Morals for XIV" picket sign here.