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

[Ferth]

Can you please allow all REST zone to be allow to swap classes without need for waiting the skills cooldown?

Better yet just remove the weapon skill cooldown on class changes entirely. If we switch classes our buffs are already stripped. Just leave abilities on cool down and let us use our weapon skills after one gcd cycle.

[Mizuhoe]

Will we possible get a companion that is not a chocobo. One that you can create the looks for like your retainer.

These End game lock outs are ridiculous. 1 Item a week from Crystal Tower is silly. you can gear faster in i90 then i80? like really.

Please increase amount of items received daily. not weekly

[Cegiana]

Some of us have made questionable choices when we first named our Free Company, are there plans to give us the ability to change the name of our Free Company so we can have a more respectable name without having to delete and remake the FC and lose all of our Ranks? It could cost a lot of gil to avoid FCs abusing the system or better yet have it cost FC points.

[Vrumpt]

What plans are there for FFXIV in regard to horizontal progression? The thing that made FFXI so great and gave it so much depth was because of the amount of content that came together to form this incredible horizontal progression system. I understand that FFXIV is more modern and is currently on track to follow a more common vertical progression model, however I am hoping FFXI's amazing horizontal progression is not forgotten. What can you tell us about horizontal progression in the future of FFXIV?

[Epherus]

I understand that any changes to classes/jobs other then certain adjustments will mostly likely not be added in 2.? patches, so we will not see a pet being added to the Dragoon class, but would it be possible to get a minion that resembles the Wyvern from FFXI?

I know several things have already been said about what is coming in patch 2.2, such as 1.5x more story quests then in 2.1, etc. but how big can we expect this next patch to be, in terms of 2.1?

Regarding AF2 armor: How can we obtain these? Will they be from a quest (allbeit a difficult quest I hope) or will they be purchasable with a new Tomestone currency?

Gear in FFXIV for the most part has been part of a set. Full Darklight, Full Artifact, etc. Will we eventually see a stand alone piece of gear? Gear like Leaping Boots and Emperor Hairpin from FFXI come to mind.

[Anapingofness]

Can we also have more content like Besieged and Campaign?
Perhaps if players did enough quests and gained enough rep, the city leaders and other important NPCs could fight alongside us- and naturally they would be pretty awesome in their own right.


Also, can we have the ability to set titles upon fc members that are separate from the fc ranks?

[SorriorDragneel]

Would you be able to make it so our action bar/cross bar and armor sets could be saved server side....I use a laptop when with my GF on dates a desktop at home and on occasion my PS3(Soon to be PS4) to play and having to set it all up every time does get kind of old.

[abzoluut]

Can we expect information about classes being a base to jobs in the future? Like how Arcanist has two jobs coming out of it, do you intend to give other classes the same behavior?

[Nova_Dresden]

Any possibility to turn in blue quality items, such as Darklight to the grand company for seals or give it some resale value instead of having to drop the piece of armor?

tomb

TOME!
The word is Tomestones. It's best to actually use the correct words since they do need to be translated to Japanese to be answered and the word tomb might throw them off.

Can we expect AF2 to be released before or with the first official Expansion Pack

AF2 already exists, it's the Mythology JSE gear such as Valor gear for Paladins. That's likely AF3, not AF2.

What plans are there for FFXIV in regard to horizontal progression?

There's not likely to be any horizontal progression, and it only worked in FFXI because of gear swapping which doesn't exist in this game.

[Dovah]

AF2 already exists, it's the Mythology JSE gear such as Valor gear for Paladins. That's likely AF3, not AF2.

You are actually incorrect. Myth gear is in fact called AF1. Officially, the two pictures released of DRG and BRD armor are called AF2.