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

[MuzakFan]

1. Will gear eventually be added that enhances or augments abilities, similar to certain gear in Final Fantasy XI? For example, gear that lowers recast time, or increases the potency of specific buffs or weaponskills?

2. Please show us how classes and jobs will play in PvP.

[Yumburrito]

Is there anything interesting coming to DOH classes besides the possibility of furniture making (i.e. Any chance of "AF2" or "relic" crafting armor, as gear progression feels particularly limited here)? A follow up suggestion would be some way to show off our crafting abilities with things like Bind on Pickup pieces.

[Samhain]

Are there plans to support Steam OS?

[Quanta]

Are there any plans to revisit the design of the gathering classes so that they have cross-class synergy comparable to the crafting and battle classes?

[Antanias]

After seeing the drastic changes to Fisher, can we expect to see new DoL classes with their own unique mechanics?

[mbncd]

Please remember folks, this is going to be a housing special. So questions for this one should be housing based if you want them to be answered on a housing special.

Now, onto my question:
Will the FC have to be a certain rank (as in 1-5 based on points from members doing quests, FATE's, etc) to unlock housing? Or will certain FC ranks increase access to housing features (like increased storage, similar to the company chest that becomes bigger at a higher rank)?

[Hikozaemon]

Why does monk have to work to do great DPS while other classes can just derp about and hit macros... seriously? The stats on gear is very boring. what happened to the "increases x affects" on old AF armor. Why did u make relic so easily obtainable and primal weapons junk as soon as u get a relic. Why was the primal loot drop system reverted back the the same exact one that people largely disapproved of? Why does monks tool tips still have text from 1.0???? (fist of wind etc) Monks stances are too weak (fire/wind/earth). Monk does the best single target dps but only if they can continually chain. Most bosses have constant actions that make it hard or sometimes not even possible to keep up your rotations leading to BAD DPS. The promise of a token system was greatly exaggerated its not what was promised to us.

[Amarith]

(Not housing, I know, SE can ignore it if they want all housing questions)
Is there a macro/text command to make your pet do things? I've been trying everything I can think of, but I can't get a successful pet macro going.

[Ashren]

Is the barber shop still planned for 2.1 and will we be getting new customization options to go along with it? I want true long hair for my character!

[Tetsaru]

When ARR was released, certain recipes such as Darksteel and Rose Gold Ingots were changed to require 9 of a certain item (Cokes, Peacock Ore, etc.), which can now only be obtained through a large investment of Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy, meaning players must extensively grind dungeons or primal battles in order to obtain these items for crafting. However, it would be much easier to use said Tomestones towards Darklight gear, which has similar stats to HQ Darksteel/Vanya/Gryphonskin gear, aside from materia, which tier IV's are now difficult to obtain or ridiculously expensive. Do you have any plans to address this, such as being able to obtain Cokes, etc. or Tomestones in an alternative method, or reducing the required number of Cokes, etc. per recipe, so that avid crafters such as myself can make their own gear without having to constantly do dungeon/primal runs and end up with better gear anyway?