Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE: E3 Edition!

[Altanas]

Any chance of an Alternate Advancement/Merit system given some players have been 50 for nearly 4 years now having played version 1.

[Liolaeus]

Are there any plans to set a turning animation when turning with the right mouse button?

[This was a scheduled fix since Beta p3-4, and there's a turning animation already in the game.]

[Ravenhalfmoon]

Will we ever see Final Fantasy XIV:A Realm Reborn coming to 360 and Xbox One?

[Aldora]

The queue times for older content like the Labyrinth of the Ancients (LotA) have been increasing to an extent that you are sitting in a queue for more than an hour, even with a full party and all available languages selected in the Duty Finder.

This will make it significantly harder for people to get the LotA clear they need to be able to access the next tier of the Crystal Tower (which is scheduled to be released in 2.3).

Will there be changes made to the Duty Finder where we it will first try to create a party based on the Server Group you are in and automatically expand it by including more Server Groups while trying to match/form the party/alliance for the instance?

[Aldora]

Right now, once you’ve capped your Soldiery Tomestones for the week, you won’t be getting the (soldiery) rewards when you clear a Dungeon (Roulette), Treasure Maps, Daily Quests, etc. Instead of mentioning that you’ve capped your Soldiery tomes for the week, could you instead reward a lower tier Tomestone instead (in this case Mythology Tomestones)?

That way you will not be “wasting” the Dungeon, Roulette, Map, etc rewards by finishing the content you are working on and give players the incentive to complete the dungeon or participate in Treasure Hunts / Daily Quests.

[Duuude007]

----E3 LIVE LETTER QUESTIONS COMPILATION----

This is all of the posts in the topic that have 10 or more likes, sorted by category, then by number of likes.

Posts were edited for brevity and clarity, and if common ideas were found in other posts, these were merged into a single question.


Battlecraft

52

What information can you share regarding the status of new jobs/classes?

34

When will we get a second set of jobs for the original 1.0 classes?

23

How do you plan to properly balance skill speed with excessive TP consumption?

14

Is the goal in rebalancing BLM to make it so that no DPS superior to another?

12

What plans do you have for adjustments to cross-class skills?

12

You have greatly buffed Warrior, when will Paladin be granted a boost to ensure balance between the two?

10

What do you think of "Test your mettle against your equal" skill-based content-gating for classes, similar to the Maat fights from FFXI?

10

When will Healers & DPS get their own mounts to earn via achievements?

10

When will Bards be able to toggle view party TP values to assist in Paeon songs?

Crafting & Gathering

39

What do you think of incorporating a relic-like Mainhand Tool upgrade path, for Crafters and Gatherers?

19

Is there anything planned to improve usability / quality of life for crafting, such as indication in the crafting log when required ingredients do exist in the retainers bag?

10

How often should we expect more master crafting recipes?

17

Is there any chance of getting a large-scale craftable vanity update in the future, more than just one or two sets at a time, to help give crafting a bit of a boost?

Relics & Zodiac

40

What was your motivation for gating relic weapons with Atma, a heavily luck-based tier for the weapons, which seemingly does not even offer better chances when completed gold instead of silver or bronze, opening the door to exploiting other players' work?

25

What are the limitations to "Novus stat customization"?

20

I know of a few players on my server and my free company who have farmed since atma weapon release and have yet to even obtain 1 atma from a fate. What are your future plans to ease the rarity of atma drops for those who are doing their first (or 2nd, 3rd etc. atma weapon?

20

Will we see the return of unique stats and enhancements in weapons and armor based on the class/job? Such as Curtana for PLD in FFXIV 1.0 had, Increases Spirits Within damage , Accuracy : +40, Healing Magic Potency : +15, HP : +120, Chance to restore MP.

13

Will the Zodiac weapons in the future see custom cosmetic modifiers specific to that weapon? Such as different animations, sounds or visuals for skills? (Ex of all 3: Black Fire for fire spells with a deeper bass sound and a new casting animation)

Social

47

How long until you would consider adding a hug emote?

25

What restrictions will there be to marry different race/species or gender, and why?

21

Would you consider improving the /doze emote?

20

When can we expect more options for hair and facial hair on all races?

16

Can you give us more information about the marriage system?

15

What can you share so far about Golden Saucer design plans?

Exploration

37

What is the status and future for the other 4 known areas (5 counting Ishgard) of Coerthas (also southern Mor Dhona) from 1.0, all which are currently not accessible?

35

How soon would you consider making swimming possible in Eorzea?

24

To what new regions or continents will the expansion lead us?

18

When can we expect expanded content for airship and ferry transportation?

17

What are the plans for Ship and Airship construction?

16

Would you please remove at least some invisible walls to further expand exploration and photo opportunities?

Instanced Content

33

Are there plans to make the new raids each patch consistently of superior difficulty, so that endgame players aren't fighting lesser content for 3 months (like CT Labyrinth)?

28

Can we get a Minstrel's Ballad trial battle which pits us against the three imperial generals from the end of the story all at once? (I'm referring to Livia, Nero, and Gaius). I know we didn't fight them all at once - but the entire point of the Minstrel's Ballad was "eh, it didn't quite go like that but it's awesomer that way!"

26

What are your thoughts on creating extreme modes of level 50 dungeon and raid content?

21

Can we please see more (always accessable) full-party content, such as Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium?

15

When will the Coil lockout system be reviewed or modified?

15

Would it be possible to implement a minstrels ballad - To Kill a Raven, to re-live an 'interpretation' of the final fight of 1.0?

12

What other (unannounced) Final Fantasy nostalgic bosses/areas are you planning for future patches or expansions, besides Crystal Tower and Gold Saucer?

Open-World Content

30

When can we expect more roaming bosses like Odin, Behemoth or other Primals, which require several parties working together to defeat, for unique rewards?

21

As the game stands now, there's little meaningful content to do with large Free Companies. When can players look forward to actual, large-scale challenging content that they can participate in with their Free Companies (server-side)? Not just content tailored for statics and cliques.

14

In your brief interview with IGN earlier in the month of May, you mentioned that, alongside Company Chocobos, Magitek Armor would also become a type of companion character. Could you elaborate on this?

12

Wil Daily hunts be manually activated like 1.0 Faction levequests, or will they be more open, like FATE content?

12

why is the addition of new Grand Company ranks taking so long?

Housing

28

When will personal plots and new regions for housing be realized?

12

What new cosmetic options will be included in the Chocobo Raising feature?

10

What are your plans for future supplementary storage for gear?

RMT

18

When Linkshells sell Primal or Coil clears for Gil, what risk is to the linkshell, if the buyer secretly earned their Gil via RMT?

13

When will a report option be incorporated into right-click commands?

Inventory

18

What are your thoughts on adding personal expanded storage bags such as ruck sacks seen in the 1.0 opening cutscene?

Misc.

14

What progress has been made in your development of the long anticipated FFXIV bestiary?

10

When will patch 2.3 be released?

[BigBossCL]

We currently have AF1 and myth AF 1.5 armor sets. Will we see AF2 class armors in the future and if so when?

[thiago_fzs]

Will we see Dungeons with PVP?
Example: 2 teams born in oposite sides of the dungeon with an eminent confront at certain point. Only one team win and finish this Dg and have acess to prize...

This can valorize the PVP gears too...

[thiago_fzs]

More questions about PVP...

Will we see open world areas with PVP?

I was a Tibia player and i realy care about pvp things...
Please SE do this for us!!!

[wowbroli]

Can we have master recipes for i90 accessories added? It feels very unfair that i90 armor can be crafted but not jewelry.

Likewise i90 crafted weapons would be nice, but we can live without those given the ease of i90 primal weapons from weekly.