Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIX! (Exploring Patch 2.45)

With regard to personal houses:

1) When will we be able to share our house with our eternal bond partner (mentioned already in this thread and "Liked" by me) (all amenities, Summoning Bell, NPC's, etc., gardening, etc.)

and/or

2) Set permissions for others (even if it is an "all or nothing access" to use our house amenities)

I am no longer worried much about use of the Mini-Aetheryte by others because the Wedding Ring Teleport will take care of that issue.

With Eternal Bond upon us now, this needs to be added without any further delay.

One of the early themes of FFXIV was that you could play every role and do every thing on one character.

For combat classes, this was true up till the onset of the relic atma questline, which made the process of obtaining any single relic VERY time consuming.

For crafters this was true until the introduction of Supras, and to a lesser extent ingredients being heavily time gated.

The current state of the game seems to be moving in the direction of singular class focus, due to the increasing difficulty and restrictions being placed on obtaining high end equipment. (low desynth chances, desynth in general, time gated materials, "Alex and Light Farming")

Have the devs reconsidered their stance on allowing people to excel in every class over the past year, and shifted the focus to excelling in one role/class, and being "so-so at best" in all others?

*PS*
I understand the catch-22 of making content for a multi-class game. If you make it so a person can get 9 Nexus's in 2-3 months (time between Relic updates), then the person who "exclusively" plays one class will have 1.5 weeks worth of content and be done for 2 months.
But the current system of making high end equipment (of questionable value at TRUE endgame) be a time consuming and/or time gated endeavor does not sit well with those who enjoy more than 1 class.
Perhaps a system where, in general, once your "character" has completed a upgrade-sequence such as the Relic Questline, or Supras, they can now use the knowledge that they (and other associated npc's) attained during that process to GREATLY (5-10x) speed things up next time.
This way the single-class player gets 1-2 months of content. And the multi-class player spends the same 1-2 months on the initial run-through, and can knock out the rest of their classes in a month.

Originally Posted by Mitternacht

Relic Weapon:

With the step added in 2.45 the Relic weapon will take on a new appearance. Will the previous increments become available, perhaps via the Calamity Salvager, for the purposes of use with the Glamour system? I want to continue upgrading my relic weapon, but prefer the appearance of the Sphairai Animus/Novus/Nexus to the Kaiser Knuckle.

To add to this: our relic weapons are very significant and their original designs are recognizable and symbolic of their jobs. I feel partly hesitant to continue to upgrade my weapons, especially my Gae Bolg because its design holds so much meaning for me and I'd hate to lose that. A lot of people would love to have the various designs/glows available for glamor that they worked so hard towards. I was also hoping we would be able to dye the original design. I would love to have a pink Gae Bolg! I loved the glow on the Novus because it was pink and I really miss that version now that I have Nexus. Could you please try to provide these options to us in the future? Thank you.