Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part IX!

[Zirael_Foxfire]

When will you introduce Add-on capability?

[Zirael_Foxfire]

When will you be adding live DPS meter?
Currently we have some programs that can track player's DPS, but they aren't very accurate yet, so we can't objectively measure our strength and skill.

[Gezzer]

When will you be adding live DPS meter?
Currently we have some programs that can track player's DPS, but they aren't very accurate yet, so we can't objectively measure our strength and skill.

I've never been a big fan of DPS meters, or meters of any kind, because they don't show the whole picture. Say I'm a Summoner if I ever use any heals it penalizes that, but a few extra heals could be the difference between a wipe and killing the boss. Or say a support/damage class, the same thing might happen. Why use support or debuffs spells when it penalizes your DPS rank? When you start relying on those meters too much you end up with classes like WoW currently has, no hybrids of any kind just the holy trinity of tank, heal, and DPS, and it makes for boring classes IMHO. Another problem I've seen with relying heavily on meters is the old one of a Rogue exclaiming he does 15K crits, but when the tank keeps telling him he's pulling aggro he blames the tank because he can't hold the aggro, which he could easily do if the Rogue wasn't criting 15K all the time.

I guess my opinion about meters is that it makes personal performance more important than team performance, which though not always a bad thing can be very frustrating and skew the development of the game's classes to single purpose classes.

[Zirael_Foxfire]

Do you plan fixing pet pathing AI or pet aggro mechanic?
When I try to sneak around enemies, my pet notoriously gets aggro on everything due to bad pathing mechanics. If I fail to sneak around and get aggro, it's my fault, but if I keep succeeding in sneaking and pet keeps getting me killed, that's your fault and needs be fixed.

[Ezarel]

Hello!

I just wonder when in-game marriage will be implented cause me and my wife are waiting for it very eagerly?

Best wishes
Ezarel

[Protocol7]

Armory Chest
Will you add more tabs per gear slots? Today there is "only" one tab per gear slots, it would be great to have several tabs.

[DarkHades]

Q1: Will you be putting Bahamuts Coil into the duty finder? me and my friend don't have a party to go so we have basically stopped playing until Crystal Tower gets released

Q2: Will you be moving the EU servers to the EU?

Q3: Can you add silence to the dragoons stun skill as we are basically useless for Bahamuts Coil

Thanks Naoki

[dustbunny]

Does the previously stated "one house per person" mean one house per character or one house per account on a server?

[Mizukaru]

I'd like to see the Armor obtained from Odin with its cape. It shows it on his model, and on the XIVDB, but not on the armor we can obtain. Will we eventually get the cape added to the armor? if so, it will make a wonderful armor piece for reskinning.

Also, I'd like to see some adjustments to balancing crafts. Being a 50 alchemist myself... our ways of making money are pretty pathetic compared to other crafts like GSM and Weaving

[Jayani]

I think it was mentioned somewhere about the vanity slots. Are we going to be seeing these in 2.1 or 2.2? Since right now every sort of looks the same at the end game, there is really no customization unless you're just sitting around and looking pretty.

Will there be new hairstyles as well? Or fixing the mesh issues with some of the female hairs, where you can see through the hairline to view the world.

Also, are the EXP for dungeons and the drops ever going to change? FATE's are the best way to gain EXP at the moment and it would be awesome if four-man's would give the same amount (or at least near the same amount). Also the drops for end games so that killing monsters actually makes it worth my while to kill the mobs instead of the 1 gil they give now.