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

[Hendo]

when will we be able to respec our chocobos

[Tetsaru]

When will the Odin/Behemoth FATE's be worth participating in? Aside from the infrequency at which they spawn and the lag involved, I have yet to earn a single mantle or horn despite participating multiple times for the majority of the fights. Seeing how all the item rewards associated with these FATE's are either ilvl50 or vanity/housing related, would you consider at least a 1 mantle/horn minimum reward for anyone who participates so we don't feel like we're wasting our time? If they were handled better (such as in Guild Wars 2), I would enjoy seeing more world boss FATE's, but as of right now, there isn't much point in doing them.

[Tetsaru]

What are your plans for offering more open-world, non-instanced content? Some of us like actually exploring the world and doing random things as we encounter them, instead of 4 or 8-man dungeons and fights all the time for better gear. I miss some of the 1.0 areas such as Shposhae, the Beastmen camps (when they were difficult to get through), and the old Copperbell/Nanawa Mines.

[Tetsaru]

Do you have any plans to let us use our other, non-chocobo mounts as battle companions, and have us level them up and obtain barding for them? I always thought it would be fun to have my Legacy goobbue fight alongside me. Also, will you let us ride another mount if we have called one out to fight?

[Tetsaru]

Do you have any plans for content that would require crafters and/or gatherers to join a party and cooperate together, with or without the aid of battle classes/jobs, such as 1.0's hamlet defense?

[Maxthunder]

Seeing how the economy and the ilvl is broken, when and/or do you plan on fixing it. The ilvl as in myth is on par with the coil drops and thats should not be, considering the hardest content in the game is coil. The economy is broken due to everyone can make anything and or gather very easily, this is killing the markets fast and it has continued to go down hill since patch 2.1.

[GerrikKnoll]

When is Musketeer/Corsair going to be added? The guild already exists in Coral Tower, so whats the big deal? Do we really need to wait for this in some money grubbing expansion pack that may not be around for years?

[geostatic]

Is there a workaround for those affected by a Relic Quest that has been abandoned?

[wdrekx]

Are there any plans to make crafting useful at all or will you finally get rid of it and with it, the materia system? Will there be any steps taken to make FFXIV actually have an economy? Right now there's nothing for anybody to buy, there's housing but nobody's aiming for it due to the prices and nothing crafted is really worth anything. I find myself not caring much about how much gil I actually have on my person as I only ever really spend gil on repairs, there's nowhere else I'd even want to put money towards.

[GerrikKnoll]

Why can't the Chimera and Hydra fights be in the Duty Finder? Why should anyone need to use shouts or the party finder to do these fights? It's just a boss fight, no different than the primal fights. SO, why not just que in and do it?