Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X! (General Questions)

[Altanas]

I am jealous that NPCs in crafting guilds appear to be using lots of different fancy equipment and workstations. Will you allow DOH get access to these and revitalise DOH gameplay?

[Altanas]

I feel that current abilities and traits are too restrictive and force me to play my role in only one way, but that one way does not actually suit my playstyle. Will we see any way to customise our abilities and traits further?, eg choosing to specialise in either increase buff effect times v potencies etc. Even if it was limited so you would have to pick and choose which abilities/traits to focus on at the expense of others would go a long way to helping individual playstyles.

[Parrow89]

Are there any changes planned for spell speed?

[Anapingofness]

My question is in regards to Frontlines large scale PvP.

It is my understanding that Frontlines is zone based and that so as long as you're in that zone you are open to attack. The current lore in the game makes it seem like Frontlines will be closer to "friendly" skirmishes than anything else.
My question is how will you address the fact that you will have the one guy who is going to spawn camp people as they zone into the match?
If you are the type of player who loads into a zone even somewhat slowly this can be a huge problem. It will deter players from participating in PvP content.

I think looking at Ballista's sign ups for a match is much more friendly. If people were late to sign up it meant that they didn't participate in that match but it also prevented people from being spawn camped. It also allowed people to see how a match is run which was really helpful if a player was hesitant to try PvP and the other half of why Ballista was fun.
That being said, are there any plans to make Frontlines more Ballista-esque in certain respects?

[Lunavi]

Will there be more quests? Alot of people (including myself) thinks there is very few quests in the 35-50 range. Is this something you will fix?

[Lunavi]

Will there be crafting quests beside the class quests? Like a story mode for crafters?

[abela_s]

Hello team,

Are there any plans to be able to save your button/macro/HUD display settings to the server? We had this option in FFXI, and it was very useful.

[Kamishiku]

Will FFXIV be using Mantle in the future? as they are adding DX11 support in the future, also when is that support coming?

[Ravij]

Dear Yoshi-P... Where is the Blue Bird Minion?!

[Tygari]

Will there be any additions and expansions to Crafting Classes?

Crafting Fates for players to enjoy and maybe acquire unique items and clothing?

New Recipes for crafters to play with?

Quests and Adventures for crafters outside the Level quest line?

Crafting is so easily to level that most people are just buying their way up through others. Any chance of Leves being changed to the player having to actually make the item instead of just buying it from others?

Combat players can achieve gear up to lvl 90, Crafters are limited to only lvl 55. When will crafters be given the same degree of accomplishment as Combatters?

What future plans does the FFXIV Dev staff have in general for Crafters?