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

[Destati]

We have people tanking in bikinis, dancing around in frog suits, and taking down primals wearing nothing but a Namazu mask (just to name a few). Just as you have kindly lifted restrictions on exterior fixtures based on housing wards, could you please lift the restrictions on glamouring gear based on role (except when it comes to weapons and artifact gear)?

[Yuyulu]

What is the reasoning behind the decision to have trusts level back down to 71 and also have them gain experience at a much slower pace than you do?

[PangTong]

With each new expansion, new job actions are added for players to earn while progressing to the new level cap. However the total number of actions remains about the same, which means there are fewer actions to earn in the lower levels. This can make playing at lower levels feel quite slow and tedious as you have very few actions, especially if you are used to playing at max level and get synced. Would you please consider revising the levels at which actions are learned so that players earn new actions more quickly at lower levels, and have more actions to use in synced content such as level 50 dungeons and raids?

[Misutoraru]

First, I really enjoy Shadowbringer, thought I have not complete the MSQ yet.
Now, I am not sure it have been ask before, in stormblood we have entire map of Azim Steppe for Xaela lore, we have similar thing in current expansion for Viera (half the map) and arguably Ishgard for Elezen.
Would we see in the future more map or at least half a map which go deep for lore of other race or even the other clan/tribe, especially ARR race?

[Lagomorph]

While the developers have made it pretty clear that they are against the mentality of healers doing as little healing as possible to try to maximize their dps, it's been quite clear that this hasn't changed at all since the healers have been reworked. Currently after the changes, most healers find themselves pressing one single button over and over in the majority of encounters. Are there any plans to reintroduce previously some previously deleted skills in order to make healer gameplay more engaging like it was before shadowbringers?

5.05 edit: My question still stands after the patch.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Please Implement the 5.X Relic Weapon with the Shared FATE System

Every expansion you add new things to do and it makes older content suffer. FATE leveling is a REALLY GOOD SYSTEM. It's fun, it makes people level. Please do not keep reinventing the wheel and utilize existing content for an option to build up relics.

People didn't like Eureka. You brought Eureka to 5.X already. This could be fun!!

[DDReaper]

We had Dragon Quest, FFXIII and FFXV themed event. We'll soon have a Nier raid, after we got the Ivalice one. Will we ever get a Kingdom Hearts themed event ? Sora actually is one of the only characters in the SE lore to be able to cross between words, so it seems only fitting he would be able to visit our world.

[zeylos]

When is the earliest we can expect the missing genders to be playable? is there any chance they come on the 5.x cycle, is it possible for them to be ready for 6.0?

[DDReaper]

I Know a lot of people have already been asking for this : is there any plan to rework ARR Main Quest content ? Streamline some quests that might not be as needed as they once were. It seems a lot of the quests around lvl 20 and post lvl50 content (until Heavensward) are pushing players away from the game, which so bad considering how great the expansions were.

[Lagomorph]

Many scholars (myself included) are unsatisfied with the restrictions on aetherflow. Are there any plans to give us the ability to use this out of combat again?

5.05 edit: Aetherflow being combat-locked is still a big concern of mine. I removed the part about energy drain.