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

[PEANUT]

Not sure if there is already a way to fix this(I have looked and not found) nor do I know if this has already been asked or addressed or if this is even the right place to ask BUT, when battling a boss for example(or any enemy) and say I am a White Mage and there is another White Mage in the party and we both used Regen on the Main Tank in our party. It is difficult to distinguish which regen is the one I cast and which one is the one the other White Mage had cast. This goes for any buff or de-buff as well.

Are there any plans to address this so it is easier to distinguish which buff or de-buff is which so we don't waste our MP or TP in battle?

Thank you in advance!

[Sadana]

Will we see the option to dungeon with parties outside the 4/8/24 man set up we have currently?

[Ansemaru]

Will we be getting Ixal beast tribe quests this patch? Is it only going to be the one this time, or should we expect a second tribe (like goblins, mamool ja, or qiqirn?) like in the previous two?

[ThinkPInk]

How many additional FC housing wards will be added? Will their prices start at the current reduced rate that FC houses are selling for now?

[FlanAki]

Will there be an adjustment to the atma drop rate from fates?
Having some people get lucky with all the atmas and already working on their animus within a few hours while most haven't gotten one after days or weeks of grinding fates.
How will people continue with the novus weapon if they're still trying to find their first atma drop?

[BiriKomori]

Are we going to be able to reset our chocobo skills some day?
Could a method be implemented where we can queue duty finder with our chocobos out but not "invited" to the content we queue?
I want to be able to do beastman dailies and gather ATMA with my chocobo along side me, while waiting on duty roulette. And as a DPS duty roulette can take a long time.

[HEC]

While you're constantly avoiding answering this I'd still like to ask anyway:

More than 5 months since the FC housing release the prices are still NOT affordable for the vaste majority FCs out there and all the promises of "re-evaluating" the house prices vanished in the thin air - are you planning to address this finally??

[sylent09]

What are your thoughts on only being able to obtain two different ilvl110 armor sets from coil only? Why can't the casual player have non weathered armor while the hardcore players can have the high allagan armor for appearance.

[dasregal]

Some players are using third party programs to track the behavior of bosses and play custom alert sounds/show countdowns to give them an edge on mechanics. There are plugins out there just for this on certain encounters, such as the "Twintania DBM app." To me, this seems like a clearcut case of cheating. Could you weigh in on this? And if possible, could you give us some idea of how restrictive the "add-on API" players claim you promised is going to be for similar things?

I'm worried about a third party programs "arms race" destroying the game the same way it destroyed WoW for me. Widespread DBM-style plugin usage is the one thing that would make me quit FFXIV right now. I'm afraid we're going in that direction and I'm hoping you'll take a hard line on this.