Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XII! (Assitant Director Takai)

[Exquisite]

I really love all the design graphics and sights in the game. When will get be able to see FFXIV running in DirectX 11?

[ZeroHigh]

Whats been the most enjoyable thing about working on FFXIV? and Whats your favorite class?

[Jubez187]

Going forward, how important is it to start implementing more decision paths for players? As of right now, Jobs blow classes away, dungeon gear is much better than crafted gear, there is very little mixing and matching of any kind of gear (i90 gear will be infinitely better than i80 gear in every slot, and so forth), and there are no talent trees or skill points (although it has snuck its way into PvP). There seems to be a lot of "absolute" decisions where one choice is so much better than the alternative, combined with the lack of character customization, Eorzea starts to feel like an army of clones as you get into the end-game. Do you guys see this as a problem? Skill trees and other things to make players feel unique have become a staple of MMORPG and single player RPGs for a while, and it definitely enhances the "role playing" aspect. If you guys don't see this as a problem, why not?

[Darkricko]

Will crafting ever make armor/weapons viable to endgame content?

Example: Say in coils 2 will there be a item that drops that can be used to craft a ilv85+ meldable piece of armor?

[Vespar]

What kinds of things does Hiroshi Takai want to see implemented ?

[Nusnam]

1. Are there any intentions to add Tertiary stats or class specific stats to the game?
(i.e. Cure Potency, Movement Speed, Enmity +-, Regen Potency up, Song duration +, Impulse Drive cooldown -)

If so, when can players expect to see these stats?

2. Are there any plans to expand the Materia system?
(i.e. Additional/New bonuses, iLvl changes, non-crafted gear)

3. Are there any plans to add Notorious Monsters back into the game?

4. Are there plans to push Bard into more of a singing role? Currently the play style is similar to a Ranger with a song or two and few excuses to choose between them.

[Grey_Cain]

What do you do for FFXIV so I can figure out what questions I should really be asking you?

[Ferth]

Why do we have a section specifically for questions for the assistant director? Is it posted somewhere what sections of the game he is in charge of? Does he have special insight about 2.2 that Yoshi-p doesn't have? Is this entire section just fluff so you can easier dodge pertinent questions about the direction of this game?

[Jubez187]

Why do we have a section specifically for questions for the assistant director? Is it posted somewhere what sections of the game he is in charge of? Does he have special insight about 2.2 that Yoshi-p doesn't have? Is this entire section just fluff so you can easier dodge pertinent questions about the direction of this game?

If you read the announcement then you would know that it's about the game's design. Yoshi-p doesn't necessarily have to design the game, but he's in charge of the games "vision," things such as: "i want casuals and hardcores to be able to enjoy it" "i want lock outs" then there's the people who actually MAKE that stuff happen.

[Sapphic]

Are you happy with how accuracy limits and dictates to a point how players are able to gear up for End game content?

For example BRDs Zenith bow over the EM bow, EM bow has better damage stats overall but Zenith has the Acc. Also most of the ilvl 80 gear from CT has no accuracy making it unviable to use for turn 4+.