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

[Mitton87]

Any plans for a free trial? I have many friends who want to try the game, but don't want to pay to get it. They would appreciate a free trial period of even a week! A chance to level to maybe 20, experience the first zones and dungeons. Anything to pull in more players and allow my friends to join me in the game!

[Moonscrowl]

1) Are there plans to implement a new tier of gear with this patch? This would obviously be gear better than allagan or AF+1.

In our current progression most of our guild has one class with an entire set of AF+1 and working on allagan sets to mix match. Our main concern is with new content will us end gamers still have something to work toward like a new set of gear that is better than what we have. I think it's pointless to grind CT for worse gear than we already have.

2) Are there plans to allow us end game players who have nothing left to do, to get a test server to test this content for bugs and exploits before official patch releases. Other mmo's usually have a test server that allows end game guilds the chance to test new content and submit feedback on issues or exploits before content is officially released. Does SE have similar plans for this?

[Nesanieru]

Please, after the Lightning event please be adding a vanity system in 2.1 so we can wear our cool gear and not be gimped in raids and high level content.

[Shadow_Novus]

Please, after the Lightning event please be adding a vanity system in 2.1 so we can wear our cool gear and not be gimped in raids and high level content.

What he said, yo

[Saboro]

Any plans for a full scale invasion's where everyone from the highest level to the lowest level can take place? It could be separated by different "front's" so that a level 1 character doesn't get taken out by say a level 40 enemy.

[Kakeh]

My questions is probably a repeat, but what will Crystal Tower offer besides gearing secondary classes? On that note it is also not as hard as Coil? I dunno it just seems that releasing a new level of Crystal Tower after a harder dungeon with better loot does not seem like the best thing to do.

Everyone is just going to go right for Coil 2 when it comes out and once again Crystal tower 2 will just be there for the heck of it. Unless two levels of tower get released so we have something harder to do than coil, then that would be great. We haven't beat Turn 5 in my FC, but all our raid groups will soon before 2.1 comes out and I don't feel like Tower will be worth their time.

[Kakeh]

Also with crafting. Once everyone starts getting coil loot and mythology tome gear, crafting is going to come to a big halt. People who want to do crafting are already maxing the classes out and now almost have nothing to do besides do HQ Leve Quest items for their friends o they can get to 50 as well. Will we be seeing new recipes soon? Maybe requiring special items from the Tower?

I don't know but there's not much to do. I am leveling a second battle class, but I get bored at the speed and am tired of Fate Grinding or Dungeon Farming. There needs to be more to do. I know PVP is coming out but I know for a while that's going to be tweaked constantly because of certain advantages. (You healers are going to be targeted first and foremost, then the DPS, and then the Tank. Who should go in there with DPS gear because you can't aggro a human player lol) Daily quests and treasure hunts are all well and good, but really they don't solve the concerns of end game players

[soir]

Are there any plans to have inertia animations return in later patches?

[Nullo]

Are there plans in the future for other pet classes, such as Beastmaster, or Puppetmaster?

[Bixby]

Why are your patch notes always so vague? "The effect/cost/recast time/ingredients/color of X have/has been adjusted." Is it an intentional strategy to make players discover the specifics on their own (within three minutes of logging in)? Or do you just not allocate enough resources to the task of writing and translating patch notes to make them clear and specific?