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

[Tiia]

Will the old legacy mounts (Chocobo and Goobbue) be released to everyone at some point, maybe even through Mog Station shop?

[Garrick]

Are we going to get new companions in the future? I would like to battle with a moogle companion.

[KoutaAtaire]

Are there any plans to adjust cooldowns after a wipe in current or future raids/Coil-style dungeons?

As it currently stands, when a group wipes during progression they sometimes have to wait for long cooldowns (Battle Voice on Bard being a prime example) to come back up due to its long recast (and how critical it may be) limiting how many times it can be used throughout the duration of a fight. When you wipe to a boss just shortly after using cooldowns like these, it leads to periods of times where you're just sitting in front of a boss for 3-4+ minutes doing nothing, and if the next attempt ends up going sour fast, that's another 3-4+ minutes instantly that they're waiting. This is a problem that exists across the entire community, and is not something only a select few groups experience.

Sitting around waiting serves very little purpose and is just generally considered boring and counter-intuitive to groups who want to spend their time efficiently in coil, especially when said time is limited. We already know it's possible to implement based on the fact that it happens every time you die and resurrect back at your base in Frontlines; why can't we have it in dungeons too?

[PotatoTree]

Can we get a fishing tackle box? Half of my inventory is taken up by fishing lures.

[Sekdatend]

We can customize everything in this game from how we laugh to how our eyes look but not how we fight. Every though about adding in a way to personalize our we fight. Just adding some ancient masters to the game that for a small fee will show you how to do apply the same effect with different moves or even change the spell animation itself.

[PotatoTree]

Can we get a service to output a 3D model of our character? That way we can send it off to be 3D printed? Maybe allow us to do some poses, pick gear, etc. I don't care if it's the full service (game->model shipped at my door) or partial service (game->3D model->find 3rd party to 3D print it), I just want a figurine.

[PotatoTree]

Can you expand on gardening with something like a gardening log (similar to sightseeing log, fishing log, minion log, etc). With the addition of personal housing, and you mentioned potted plants in the future for indoors, a lot more people have access to gardening now, so maybe gardening can become very complex. Some of the hardest fish to get require a lot of gear, luck, patience, time, but isn't required so people can do it just for achievements. I would like gardening to have something similar.

[1magicman]

Will you ever allow people to change jobs while in a duty?

[1magicman]

When are we getting the ability to have chocobos summoned while in a duty finder? The issue has not been brought up in some time. It would be nice to solo with the choco while queued up just for my character(I'm not looking to queue with my choco in the duty so we do the content together(trials, dungeons), just to be able to solo queue to be part of the standard 4/8 person group while having the choco out in the world).

[1magicman]

You probably can't answer this yet.. but is there any point to gearing up any battle/gather/craft class before the expansion? Will all the gear be easily better in the expansion, such as merchant bought equipment and such?