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

[Shinkage]

What was the thought process behind removing the differences between Eos and Selene and practically leaving scholars lower than 80 with only one faerie? That totally seems to go against the whole summoning idea of arcanists.

[Beardo5050]

What are your plans to improve the availability of healers in the duty roulette and/or improve the desirability to play healer classes?

Are there plans to add another healing class/job in the future?

[Shadha]

Have you ever considered forgiving behavior strikes after a rolling period of time, say a year or so? The way things are now, your mistakes made nine years ago still matter today.

There's no way this'll get seen, I was too slow to respond unfortunately, lol. Oh well, maybe next time.

[MOZZYSTAR]

Will you be adding skills and complexity back into the classes (e.g. BRD's support)?

[Corosar]

I am a Summoner main. Ever since the removal of main stat materia i have been wondering if there are going to be any modifications for us support summoners to physick. A friend of mine changed their post here recently in order to keep to the One question per post and i wished to expand upon it. I am mostly asking because of the fact that i noticed that Physick is no longer locked to both Scholar and Summoner as the exact same skill (it appears to be programed as Arcanist_Physick (for summoner and Arcanist) and Scholar_Physick (For solely Scholars))

My real question is.. With the splitting of Physick into these now two subspells. Are there any plans to change Arcanist_Physick's Formula to allow Physick to remain effective on Arcanist but still make it viable for Summoners that are alright with losing DPS in order to act as a more flexible class? Since Physick split. I always expected that the Arcanist version would be scaled on Inteligence instead of mind. But i am also wondering if there is a bug in the formula. It did always bother me a bit that Redmage got Vercure and it seemed to scale properly on RDM's stats. But summoner's Physick was never tweeked to get the same treatment.

I have been playing FF14 back since before the removal of Cross-class abilities and Attribute choices. And the loss of the small customizations that those allowed has bothered me. But up till 5.0 I have been able to at least work around the system and get physick to be viable with Mind Materia 6 and the Eureka gear having 5 materia slots. It is one of the few things that bothers me about summoner now that i am unable to do that anymore with the removal of Main stat materia.

I just find it kinda weird that it appears the dev team still wants summoner to have physick. but its not able to be used viably at higher levels due to it scaling off Mind instead of Intelligence. Especially now that its become two seperate spells. I tend to be more towards the survivability of the group in my playstyle over just outright damage output. But i tend to also find being a proper healer is stressful. While i could go to redmage to fill that role. Redmage never felt right to play for me and i always enjoyed the summoner abilities and asthetic far far more. I mostly just like the idea of DPS being able to assist healers and the party while they are recovering from a mistake that caused them to go down.

TL: DR for quickness sakes.
Will Physick be made viable for Summoners. and if not Why is the arcanist version still scaling on mind when it likely be fine as an Inteligence based ability.

[Marionette]

Now that there has been changes to the way pet interaction works, will you consider looking at older Arcanist, Summoner and Scholar quests that for example emphasized Titan-egi tanking for you? The 30% health feels really inadequate and makes those quests a lot harder than they should be.

[Osmond]

As a SMN player, I find that egi are a bit lacking on the damage department. Will there be a buff on ifrit and garuda's potencies?

[MOZZYSTAR]

Considering Scholars only have one fairy (minus the bahamut equivalent at 80), would you be willing to consider Feo Ul as one of Scholar's fairies? It would make sense story-wise since the two have a pact.

[galbsadi]

Given the influx of DDoS attacks more and more in recent years, will you consider making an adjustment to lobby server errors so that we aren't forced to completely restart the client and enter a new OTP and all that jazz again?

(i.e. an option that would just kick us back to the start screen after logging in to the client, for example)

[Voross]

Can Scholars get a "Feo Ul" fairy glamour (only visible in level 80 content to avoid spoilers)?