Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVI! (The Future of FFXIV: ARR)

[HeavenlyArmed]

Are there currently any plans for a (Savage) version of Crystal Tower, or any plans for some other kind of hardcore content for groups of more than 8 people?

[HeavenlyArmed]

Please balance potions so that potions are more useful and Alchemist is more needed. Currently most if not all potions are useless. Potions meaning potions, elixers, ethers, attribute potions, etc. these potions lasting 15 seconds does not do much. Especially for MP/VIT potions. By the time the stat fills the new gap from the raised max the effect wears off and you go right back down.most potions are ignored by players.

This is just flat-out wrong. Attribute potions and mana potions see plenty of use in endgame content.

[Nekodar]

When you make it possible to pre-form alliance to enter crystal tower/syrcus tower, could you please please pretty please make it so that it's only fully premade alliance that can enter? No partial?
If partial alliance can enter, there's going to be much more trolling than there is today, and we certainly don't need more of that.

[Nekodar]

In order to keep the Savage versions of coil relevant going into the future, will you make it so that the savage version have ilevel sync? For Second Coil savage, that ilevel sync would be i115 for weapon and i110 for gear/accessories.
That's to ensure that people can't just wait for next tier of gear and then proceed to cheese through it for the achievement titles.

Note to others: No, I haven't reached that far myself, and I'm not likely to ever enter Savage, but if I see people in the future with the titles gained from beating Savage, I want to be reasonably certain that they did get their win under the right conditions.

[Jonasan999]

when will 2.4 be released?

Some where around late September to mid-October

Will ninja be a strength or dexterity class?
Will ninja share the same gear as monk/bard? Or will it be a different classification of its own?

Yoshi-P said that NIN will be STR based and has the possibility of sharing with MNK gears.

[PrinceLoke]

I love the idea of glamour, but will there be any added equipment so players can have a more custom character? Maybe items for aesthetic purposes only?

[MysticGamer]

Is there any chance to increase garden patches for small (and medium) houses? We want to plant more!

[ShiroSteve]

Has the Dev team considered introducing taxidermy as a new set of crafts?

Would be great to show off our favorite mobs in our houses and rooms.

[Thiji]

Will we be able to purchase Ventures using Allagan Tomestones?

[DakotaBlacky]

Are there plans to add a job in the future that is a shapeshifter?