Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XI! (Various Other 2.1 Content)

[Ryndo]

My question is regarding Grand Companies.

I love the idea of them, but they currently seem fairly pointless. The gear you can get is outdone by just doing a couple dungeons, (not saying I don't like the Twin Adder coat, snazzy! )

The keepers hymn is the only worthwhile thing currently.

Is there any plans to introduce more ranks and bring in gear that could be a viable option?

My 2nd question is one I ask often but never get answered.

Will more ways of levelling be introduced? After a while, doing the same leves, FATE's and dungeons can get tiring and dull.

<3

[Kimzark]

I was wondering if and... if yes, when... will we see open map bosses (AKA World Bosses) that might drop some special kind of item or whatsoever... (not counting bosses from FATEs)?

[Aexrael]

Can you please consider letting us dye any and all armor pieces in 2.1? Visual Player diversity and uniqueness is important, and there isn't much of it between players of the same level.

[Iona]

Is the ilvl90 weapon from killing all three Extreme Mode Primals a one time only deal or is it reset every week with the lockout?

[MarzWraith]

Will there be any changes to the dropped crafting materials?

As a Weaver, my biggest point of frustration has come from trying to obtain materials like Fleece or Diremite Web, when these enemies are always completely locked down by other people.

I agree completely, it wouldn't be so bad if the prices to buy these items on the AH were cheap, but they are not due to bots, heavy farming, and the NEED for them for crafting. things wouldn't be as locked down if:

A) there were more mobs that dropped the item in more then just one area thus giving option to 2 farming areas versus being able to gather it all up in 1 spot burn it down and wait...
B) there was a quicker spawn rate attached so that more are available to fight over instead of 3 people sitting around for 3-4 mins waiting for 1 monster to spawn...
C) they dropped in bigger quantities so that farm time is reduced

anyway you look at it there is a problem that needs a fix...

[VidulaSaix]

Even though the Crystal Tower was covered in the last Live Letter, recent information has made us aware that loot drops from the Crystal Tower will be once per week. Would it be possible to make this 1 drop per week per Job instead of per character? This would give us more of a reason to run it more after we've already gotten our 1 item for the week.

If Tomes are considered an answer to this, I bring to your attention that we can simply run Dungeons of Beastmen dailies to do those instead. We aren't running Crystal Tower for Tomes. We're running it to gear up our alts.

[Kallera]

Dungeon drops for content often require success in the dungeon, or at least getting lucky once when looting for equipment, they also are the location for gear in the hardest content. Whereas with crafted gear, one has to get lucky multiple times with HQ and melding, for gear not as valued. We are seeing more and more the marginalization of DoH classes in terms of content and economics.

Other than furniture, Will there be any expansion to the DoH content that crafters can look forward to in the future that will pertain to the cutting edge of content?

[Romikemi]

While I fully acknowledge the number of GC posts in this thread, speaking for the second lieutenants with 50/50k seals and zero demand for what the GC currently offers, when will grand company seals have a purpose again?

Like the AoE latency because subtracting 0.3 plus ping time from client action is somehow calculus, some things need to be said to the beat of a drum.

[shadowmane]

With 3 month subscriptions coming to an end in a few weeks and 6 month subscriptions up in a few months, you have this time to sort a EU datacentre in the EU.

It really doesn't matter if your servers check a players position every 0.3 or every 0.01 seconds if Transatlantic ping is anything from 1 to 5 seconds with an average of 2 seconds.

so my question is WHEN are we as EU players and subscribers going to get a datacentre in the EU?

[WildSnipe]

I agree completely, it wouldn't be so bad if the prices to buy these items on the AH were cheap, but they are not due to bots, heavy farming, and the NEED for them for crafting. things wouldn't be as locked down if:

A) there were more mobs that dropped the item in more then just one area thus giving option to 2 farming areas versus being able to gather it all up in 1 spot burn it down and wait...
B) there was a quicker spawn rate attached so that more are available to fight over instead of 3 people sitting around for 3-4 mins waiting for 1 monster to spawn...
C) they dropped in bigger quantities so that farm time is reduced

anyway you look at it there is a problem that needs a fix...

You don't have to compete with other players for Diremite Web. There are Levequests that rotate between 10 webs and lightning shards.