Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part V!

[Feta]

I post on behalf of a friend, who is unable to join us on the forums:

1) For gearsets, will there be an option to 'share' a given piece of equipment across multiple gear sets? In the past, to use the same piece of armor or accessory between two gear sets, you had to have two of the item. One for each set. Will you be able to now only have one item to share between multiple sets?

2) In the past, it was mentioned that there would be slots for vanity/appearance gear. Does this include "vanity weapons" as well?

[Lucke]

Question:

What exactly are Guildhests/how are they different than behests?

[Allistar]

A while back you instructed your staff to play other mmorpgs, have any of them or you tried FFXI reccently?

[Allistar]

If it proves impossible to create a menu style UI for XIV, will it be possible to use a gamepad for the mouse and keyboard UI as opposed to the PS3 UI.

[NecridRagnarok]

Will the Linkshell system have an option for removing players even if they are not logged in to the game?

I know this was an issue on several of the Linkshells I was on since some members got tiered of the game and quit with no word to others, all the wile there spot could have been given to a dedicated player and the only option was to break and remake the Linkshell

[HopeOnArope]

Will we be seeing any in game sports soon? Such as Ballista or Blitzball! And if so would we be able to customize our own team uniforms and banners?

[Lasada]

Will we be seeing any in game sports soon? Such as Ballista or Blitzball! And if so would we be able to customize our own team uniforms and banners?

I see this question and wonder if the dev team may have considered doing something like blitz ball as a pvp event. Allowing pvp teams to join up with pre determined stats based on positions or units and create a pvp experience that would go beyond simply killing each other.

[Celia]

At what stage of completion are shaders for the new engine?

[Yrusama]

Will we see any improvement with the download client, or will I still need to monitor my connection all day downloading the beta?

[Yrusama]

Will the main story line been more epic and awe-inspiring than that of 1.0?

One thing I hated in 1.0 was that the main story was entirely solo and mostly underwhelming. No epic shadowlord style battles or even low level dragons in giddeus style fights. Just a great big solo walk in the park that felt like you hadnt really done much at the end of it.

You finished the main story in 1.0 and felt kinda dissapointed or "is that it? surely there must be more" Will ARRs main story be something more challenging and gripping. (dare i say something like CoP standards, one of the best ff storylines both online and off)

I know this question can't be answered yet because that would spoil the story, but I'd like to see this, too. I want the writers to find a complex way to make us question not only or purpose, but our very existence. Chains of Promathia and Wings of the Goddess did that very well.

....OH! Right. A Question. Um....

Can we expect to see the full cutscenes in the beta? I mostly want to know if my computer can handle that aspect. Will this be thoroughly tested in the benchmark?