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

[Mauuk]

Hello!

It's exciting to hear that Patch 3.0 is intended to introduce flight -- while it may be too early to ask, do you believe that this would be accompanied by a redesign of the world's environments to allow more seamless movement between areas, with fewer transitional spaces and loading times? Will the world feel larger when viewed from an airship?

[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]

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.

[LuppiZenhyde]

As a fan of the glamour system, i would like to see more unique armor and vanity sets. One set from the FFXIV Libra got my attention, the seasonal event yukata and kimono. My question is, will non-legacy players be given the chance to acquire these set through future seasonal event?

Unrelating to glamour, will potions, medicine, and phoenix downs see more use in future patches or expansions? They have been a big use in previous Final Fantasy games and would mean alot if their usefulness also extends to ffxiv arr. Like a new healer/support class that has reduced cooldown time (by alot) to use potions and increases their healing potency. It would be expensive, but a class i would like to master X3!

[wertykelpie]

hi there my questions are:

are we going to see in the future that patch that would have a workbench to build airships and boats, if yes are we going to explore the oceans and the skys by piloting them?

are we going to see a new White mage classic outfit like the devout one with the cat ears? that would be awesome

thank you and best regards

[Titansswrath]

Would you consider making seperate armour for the summoner/scholar so they dont share blm/whm armour and possibly making the summoner/scholar weapon stand out more?

[Rufalus]

Roughly how many new classes can we expect to see introduced in the first expansion?

[Kace_Eisold]

When will we hear more about the Garlean Legatus? In terms of roleplay, I'm doubly interested in knowing all the Legates who are fighting for succession, as previously mentioned in 2.2's plot!!

[Serras]

I have asked this question before and I'm hoping that it can be answered cause I know quite a bit of players are wondering about this

My issue is that all new jobs added in the future that branch off the original 8 classes will already be the same level I feel like one that is too easy and two it doesn't give a player a real chance to experience a job.

Ex. I have bard 50 if you released ranger and it branched from archer i would already have a 50 ranger without doing anything but unlocking it.

[Vashishio]

As a player who is always amazed by the incredible environments in FF games and FFXIV in particular, I would love to see some implementation of VR support for ARR. As the owner of an Oculus Rift DK1(and soon DK2), the immersion that VR allows is quite intense. While I think that normal gameplay would be difficult to adapt to in VR, so I would suggest a non-combat exploration mode that would allow the character to be invisible to the world, possibly like astral projection, to avoid problems with griefing or unfair advantages of this mode.

Short version: Are there any plans for any form of Oculus Rift/Morpheus/VR support in the future of FFXIV: ARR?