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

[Correl]

Relic Weapons

Previously you had mentioned that 2.45 will introduce the final phase of the relic quest, and it looks like this results in the relic only being i125. If you compare the amount of work of that went into obtaining this item, this seems lower than it should be, especially considering that i130 Augmented Ironworks weapons can be gotten comparatively easily. What was the thought process behind making the relic a lower item level than Augment Ironworks weapons and are there any future plans for increasing the item level of the relic weapons?

[Squintina]

Back when the eternal bond system was announced, and the only 2 person mount that does not require recruit a friend was announced, there was no hint that these would be cash only. 2.45 finally released this mount...for cash shop only.

What led you to think it was fair to suddenly announce this mount would be cash-only at the last live letter (which by the way was not in the Q&A threads so non-Japanese speaking players who didn't read fan translations of the event, or read forums, actually had NO idea about this sudden cash shop announcement until the patch notes came out), and keep going through with this idea even after all the player blowback regarding having to pay extra for content despite that we already pay a subscription?

And before you say it's just vanity. A 2-mount chocobo is more than just vanity; it's a feature. My husband and I like to go farm together. This means we teleport to the same place, then ride to our nodes. Both of us having 2-person mounts means one of us can get up to fetch drinks, or snacks, etc... without forcing the other one to wait.

The recruit a friend mount, which we'll have next month, is only available for the recruiter, so we couldn't alternate who does the leading. Putting this behind a cash wall hinders our ability to play more efficiently, and thus farm more efficiently. It can therefore be used for more than just vanity.

Edit: and using /follow assumes both people have mounts and that (for chocobo) it's not stabled. Something people who have the 2-person mounts can overcome. So, still a gameplay feature being gated.

[Ozzi]

Where is the Visual fix of Shiva fight?
it is too white and my friend can't play it at all it is hurting her eyes, you need to fix or update or w/e it ASAP
i don't want to finish farming shiva and my friend is still suffering because of the environment of the fight

[SugarBunz]

Thank you Yoshi-P and everyone for the great work, and for communicating with us!

Eternal Bonding and Shared Housing

One of my greatest hopes when I heard about eternal bonding was that my husband and I could buy a house together and share it, however, with the implementation of patch 2.45 this doesn't seem to be an option. Is this something that could be implemented in the future, or should we just buy a house each?

further to this room sharing for couples should also be an option

[Correl]

And before you say it's just vanity. A 2-mount chocobo is more than just vanity; it's a feature. My husband and I like to go farm together. This means we teleport to the same place, then ride to our nodes. Both of us having 2-person mounts means one of us can get up to fetch drinks, or snacks, etc... without forcing the other one to wait.

Just use /follow

[JillyBean]

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.

[Squintina]

Just use /follow

You're not supposed to have a discussion in these live letter threads.

[Kenji1134]

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.

[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.

[ManaKing]

I'm pretty satisfied with the overall balance of jobs for End game with this last patch. The only job that seems to be suffering still is SMN on some content. Do have any insight on if they will be reworked in some way? Is it more difficult to get SMN balanced out because it shares the same class as SCH?