Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVIII! (FFXIV: ARR)

[KurokumoSreyb]

Materia
Is there going to be an implementation of getting a guaranteed Tier IV Materia? The i70 gear+ require large time and money investments and still don't 100% give Tier IV's.

Will melding percentages of materia ever be raised? Will there be food that raises the chances for a successful meld?

Will you please, for the love of all that is holy, get rid of elemental materia? It is quite literally useless as it stands right now. Or how about this. A player can choose to convert a piece of gear before 100% for an elemental materia of the appropriate tier. That way, you can keep the elemental materia in the game but remove them from the painstaking process of Spiritbinding

Novus
Will there be any steps taken to make this part of the relic quest easier? If so, what?

[TheKingSlayer]

With the addition of Ninja there are now 6 DPS jobs. Do you and the dev. team feel those DPS jobs are properly balanced in use of end game content? Are there any changes that you think needs to be done to those DPS jobs? (buffs or nerfs)

[Talaquen]

Will there be player housing wards added to Ishgard when Heavensfall releases?

[Talaquen]

Will a player duel system be added anytime soon? It'd be nice to do something while standing around waiting for a raid to begin.

[Danbo05]

Piggy back emote, {Can I have it?}

[Grey_Cain]

Any plans to increase the effectiveness of tank and healer limit breaks? Currently, the tank LB's don't reduce damage by enough to bother with except in a few specific battles/circumstances, and only the tier 3 healer LB is any use because of the raise effect.

Doubling or even tripling the effectiveness of the tank LB would make it more desirable in more situations. Adding the raise effect to all levels of the healer LB (and also removing 0-2 tiers of weakness based on the level) would see it used more often as well.

[yukimono]

Is there any possibility at all for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn to support other platforms aside windows, such as Mac OS?

[RobinRethiel]

HUNT
I know, that your idea of the hunt came from FF12. The problem in FF14 is, that it's just a rat race, no hunt or challenge at all and the most antisocial elements of community win it.

The situation now:
- linkshells with third party tools
- people got at best 5 minutes after a hunting mark SPAWNED, to reach it.
- all about being in a group, not playing well

So my question:
Do you plan to change anything?

If you want an idea - for example like Chimaera: Monster, dark circle (maybe for 1-2 hours), then you can enter it with your group or raid.

If not enough people are around, NPCs hunter could help.

Or if the group is too big, there could be adds - or other NPCs hunters attack.

I think, this would be much more fun and an actuall fight, than what we got now, rat race and a (sorry) pretty dumb zerg, where even S Ranks are not much more than trash mobs.

[AshuraSolleo]

Bard has the ability to restore a party's TP using Army's Peon, and ROG/NIN has the ability to restore TP to a single party member using Goad. Is there a way for us to see a party member's TP bar so we'll know the proper time to use Army's Peon and Goad instead of having to wait for someone to tell us that they're completely out of TP? If not, could you please add this? It would be most helpful.

[AshuraSolleo]

Final Fantasy XI had job specific emotes once you reached a certain level. Is it possible for us to have this in FFXIV: ARR as well?