Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVI! (Exploring patch 2.3)

While the new dungeons are great to play (Tamtara was amazing, big props to the guys behind that story and the bossfights!), imagine the rage when literally every boss chest of our first runs kept dropping stupid crafting mats which are easy to get with seals anyways. It is especially frustrating after the final boss fight. In levelling dungeons there was the tradition of giving a weapon or chest/leg piece and you felt like you achieved something. Why can't you turn off the crafting mats for the final chest at least, so it feels like an actual reward? Getting filtered water after fighting the Kraken is like the game laughing in my face...
Why not keep the mats in the Grand Company store and just have gear drop? Unneeded gear can be handed in and thus you earn extra seals. This feels like a much more rewarding route than the current frustrating state, not to mention with he removal of crafting mats loot tables finally get better chances so that you have a bit of a hope to get a full set of gear BEFORE the next patch. Yes I am still trying to get the full Shikaree and Fistfighter sets, and no I have had no luck at all.

EDIT: So I just got out of a Tamtara run with literally all boss chests dropping crafting mats. Seriously Square Enix, why do you even bother designing new armour sets when you don't want us to get them? I really want this to be answered, this is one of the things severely dampering my enjoyment of the new dungeons, as well designed they may be.

With The Hunt, every time an elite mark appears in a zone it is dead within seconds. Are there any plans to adjust or scale monsters HP, spawn times or spawn locations?

With the implementation of hunts, people who use third party software have again gained another advantage. This is detailed here, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...r-Take-a-look.. Respectfully, Yoshida's response regarding third party tools has been disappointing. This continues to break the game for playstation players, and anyone morally against cheating, making it near impossible to get a claim on a mark. Right now casuals can't really get any marks, they can get about 5 marks for the day, compare to people getting 100-200 a day due to a group of them using radar.

I think the main concern about patch 2.3 has been The Hunt.

Some of what I'm asking has already been asked but I think there's a few other issues that haven't been addressed. I will post them in 3 lines\questions because they are all related.

- People using 3rd party programs to assist with hunting, giving them an unfair advantage (cheating) vs others. What will be done about this?

- People ignore small marks because the reward is too low in comparison to the weekly mark, B, A and S rank rewards. Is something going to be done about this as well?

- B, A and S marks are killed within seconds of their spawn, and people tend to "zerg" them down in big groups, so it's very difficult to get the maximum reward out of it, and honestly it doesn't feel that much like "hunting". On top of that the community is becoming quite toxic because of the hunts. Everyone complaints and sometimes insults others because "they didn't wait" when killing a mark or ranked monster, and it's quite saddening because one of the things that makes FF14 great is the community.