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

[Veritas-Ancora]

More Story Behind the Dungeons

Lost City of Amdapor almost told us a story, but it told us nothing: how the people lived, how they died, what happened to them, or even how Diabolos was captured. I feel like the story was missing.

Can you please give us sheets of paper, boards to read, images that the character can decipher? Anything to make us feel like we're in a city where people lived and not a dungeon with no meaning.

[Kaze3434]

Will we be getting any 8 man dungeons outside of coil and 24 man CT? Would be nice as apart of the dungeon list and duty roulette to have these as options for bigger groups, etc.

good news! this was answered in a thread in general.
bad news! answer was a "not at this time"

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

I'd love to see more unique, situational/contextual content in dungeons, like the cannons in Castrum Meridianum and the Magitek Armor segment in Praetorium. Also, it might be overkill next to the dailies, but how about beastman presence in dungeons- friend or foe?

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Lately, I've rounded up some friends and started doing No-Tank runs of dungeons, purely for the fun/challenge of it. With 2 or 3 man content in the works, can you offer some kind of added incentive for doing that over Light/Full party content? Perhaps gear drops based on party composition? (i.e. no tank gear if no tank in party, no lancer gear if no lancer, etc.)

[Kaze3434]

Lately, I've rounded up some friends and started doing No-Tank runs of dungeons, purely for the fun/challenge of it. With 2 or 3 man content in the works, can you offer some kind of added incentive for doing that over Light/Full party content? Perhaps gear drops based on party composition? (i.e. no tank gear if no tank in party, no lancer gear if no lancer, etc.)

i forget when, but your second part was also talked about. having certain gear not drop stops someones ability to gear a different class.

[Canadane]

Will we ever see the terribly hard to pronounce Shposhae make a return?
I am aware it was a lot like how Sastasha is now, but I would love to see it return as a non-instanced place to explore like it was before.

[Canadane]

In the same regards, Cassiopeia Hollow was also a cool place to explore. Will we ever see it again?

[Seif]

More Story Behind the Dungeons

Lost City of Amdapor almost told us a story, but it told us nothing: how the people lived, how they died, what happened to them, or even how Diabolos was captured. I feel like the story was missing.

Can you please give us sheets of paper, boards to read, images that the character can decipher? Anything to make us feel like we're in a city where people lived and not a dungeon with no meaning.

This. I play FF for the story but lot of the dungeons you've added don't have any cutscenes just a flavor box and a df que.
Please put more effort into the context of these fights.

[Ramath]

Duty Roulette with a friend

Will the ability to queue for Duty Roulette, with a friend, make it in for patch 2.3?

[Zreck]

Are there any plans for developing more open path raids? trying to stay away from the current defeat boss (1) now you unlock boss (2) defeat boss (2) now unlock boss (3) etc.

This would mean there being a larger number of bosses, and there would be options for groups to pursue in one dungeon. Ideally, there would be 1 "Gatekeeper" boss that you would be required to defeat to enter the full raid, but following that, you would have an option of either pursuing different "wings' or "rooms" before leading to another "Gatekeeper" boss. These "Gatekeeper" bosses would be more difficult and are meant to be gear checks / progression delayer's, but once beaten would allow more fight options for the raid as a whole. An example Boss 1 Gatekeeper ---- opens 3 paths... 2 are wings leading to (1) other boss each and 1 leads to the next gatekeeper boss... etc. and in order to progress to the last boss you have to clear all bosses at least once to obtain a "key" or something to get to the final room.