My hopes for Live Letter LXXX

[ThaCa]

Make playing Mahjong reward you tons of MGP because the games take a while, thanks.

[Calysto]

all the new msq dungeons will be variants and either you need a special ending to continue or you can choose any ending and change the msq events

[Kes13a]

Golbez and Zero are classic love at first site story. Remember it Durante asked her to join their group, because he fell for Her the moment he saw her. He was kitten by her courage, and also compassion to help others. Zero was scared at first, and a thousand years of drama caused the two to become lover turned enemy. However after the final defeat of evil (Zeromus fight), they realized they loved each other all along. Otherwise they will go their separate way, because if they actually really hated each other, they will not team together to restore the 13th dimension. So no, it is not a headcanon the story is very clear.

Clearly SE's issue is that they made two completely different games, because my version of the game does not seem to include this "classic love" story.

[Erin1491]

Wow, not the type of requests I usually see from these types of threads usually.

While more dungeons sounds nice on paper, the gap between is nice to let things breathe a bit. One every single level feels like a bit much but I wouldn't mind maybe some optional side quests dungeons along the way as an alternative. Dusk vigil is a great dungeon that isn't on the msq path in heavensward.

As for the WoL speaking, please no. Odds are any delivery or forced dialogue from the WoL wouldn't line up with how a lot of people envision how their character is. Same with romance options. While XIV can lean into some potential relationships from time to time, even with the WoL it's ultimately up to the player to define said relationships. Same with NPC relationships. I certainly never got the vibe Zero and Golbez had any connection in that way. But to each their own and I'd rather it remain up to player interpretation.

[Bonoki]

Question on the Bi part: Do you mean Eren would be of WoL? I’m not big on FF lore and games outside of 14.

Frankly I’d prefer my character not to be (ie: a decline option) but, and I can’t emphasize this enough, if romance is included in the game for WoL I would definitely prefer options for everyone. If you want your WoL to be gay, bi, or anything else it should be an option.

I’d like dungeons every 2 levels but only make the required ones at, say 81, 84, 88. The reason I say that is selfishly I now live 12 hours away from my server time. The only times I can play the queue is dead… and when I’m asleep they are alive.

Agreed on beast master! Excited to see a pet class. After a decade, as balance impossible as it is, still dreaming of a day where we can see retainers adventure with us.

Romance will never happen canonically for the same reason we will never find out who the parents of the WoL are and if we have any siblings. SE might have answers for this internally with their "Meteor" character representative for the WoL, but it's one of those things such as our actual age that they will likely never reveal to us.

[BokoToloko]

My hopes on the Live Letter are they actually touch upon many needed QoL changes across the entire game. Since they were planning to add the second dye option, they might as well give the glamour system some more work and also expand the amount of stored glamour and glamourer plates (they will never be enough and they will always run on scarcity issues as they increase the amount of gear pieces and classes). Also things like the janky menus, housing (as always), rewards systems, social toools like the friend list and the FC list (why can't we assign different visibility and colors to FCs members already?), whatever's going on with fellowships, raiding tools, QoL on world-travel and DC travel.

Yoshi-P giving a sneak peek of DT through his demonstrations lala, some more demonstrations of the graphical update, plans for the DC travel and merchandise are pretty much a given at this point. Wouldn't expect any reveal on what's in store for classes until next LL.

[nukemind]

Romance will never happen canonically for the same reason we will never find out who the parents of the WoL are and if we have any siblings. SE might have answers for this internally with their "Meteor" character representative for the WoL, but it's one of those things such as our actual age that they will likely never reveal to us.

Come now I know who my parents are. My dad left to buy milk right before that big calamity thing! He'll be back anyyyyyyday now.

[Carin-Eri]

On the subject of romance, I'd really rather they avoided it.

So far they've demonstrated that they're happy to hint at or imply attraction between two NPCs but never expand on that. The most blatant example is Urianger and Moenbryda, but even then they drew the line at Moenbryda making a few flirtatious comments.

And I don't think they'd ever indulge the WoL having a romance - it would ruin the shipping fantasies of all those players who refer to, for example, G'raha as their "husbando".

[Bun_Vivant]

On the subject of romance, I'd really rather they avoided it.

So far they've demonstrated that they're happy to hint at or imply attraction between two NPCs but never expand on that. The most blatant example is Urianger and Moenbryda, but even then they drew the line at Moenbryda making a few flirtatious comments.

And I don't think they'd ever indulge the WoL having a romance - ...

The Warrior questline does a lot more than hint at an attraction between two NPCs.

That said, two of my WoL already have official in-game romances -- they are respectively Eternally Bonded to two of my spouse's WoLs. A forced romance as part of DT's storyline would be unthinkable for those characters.

IMO, any WoL romance should be a purely-optional, no-unique-rewards sidequest line.

[Derio]

Romances will never happen to the WOL in the MSQ. There may be hints of interest here or there to make the story interesting but they will never blatantly say it that X person is in love with WOL. The closest thing will be them saying they heavily admire you.

My hopes for the next live letter is going over job balance and how healers will change. Also more explanation on the "More rewards" comment that was made a few weeks back.