Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX! (Heavensward)

[JustinHiryu]

A great many people wish for the physical collector's edition Heavensward, however cannot pre-order directly from Square-Enix due to either country limitations or other reasons. Can you make the collector's edition available to pre-order from places such as Gamestop and other retailers? I believe this will help others be able to pre-order the game.

[blackphantom]

Are the Zeta relic's gonna be useful in anyway to proceed with the future relics?

[Rufalus]

Will you introduce higher grades of materia (V, VI, etc) to provide larger stat increases per meld, and what else can you tell us about how you plan to change the materia system?

[crimsontinted]

Please increase the FC Member cap for all of the players coming back to Heavensward. We are in desperate need.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...or-Heavensward

[Malakai]

Inventory upgrade: With 3 new jobs coming out, new armor/synths, new materials to make new crafted gear/glamours will we see an upgrade to our inventories finally? Or will we get another retainer option? Will the FC chest get another page added to it or the armoire be able to store more event/af gear sets?

RNG: Most of everything in the game is locked behind RNG grind. I'm all for difficulty in a game but RNG does not make something 'difficult' it makes it into a time sink that can easily burn people out due to frustration. Instead of casual progression it's almost like being forced to grind on something just in hopes of seeing progression. Will there ever be a 'cap' placement on RNG to where if someone does something x number of times then their RNG increases/they get the items 100%?

[Malakai]

Open world content: Will there be more open world content? It showed people out leveling in parties in the trailer in some area's. Will this be a thing again? Will there be more open world dungeons like in 1.0 to explore? Open world content creates more community, everything currently is locked behind instance dungeons which really just makes people wait around in queue then run the dungeon w/out socializing to get it said and done with. Where as open world EXP parties you chatted and got to form friendships and get to know other players.

Free Company content: Is there going to be more content for Free Companies to do together? As it stands now there is limited content to do with FC's will we ever get missions/leves from our Grand Companies we are affiliated with?

[LoganH]

You mentioned that Disciples of Hand would have additions to make a player "Specialize" in one or 2 of them. Will there be similar structure to that of Disciples of War and Magic? And if so can you provide us with a little "hint" to what these additions might be?

[jssanderson747]

Will the new weapon skills added to current Jobs in the Heavensward effect the way TP has worked up to now? For instance, Bard has two damage over time skills that are used in succession every 16 seconds (or so). Would we be seeing any new abilities akin to this (with higher TP costs that negatively tick the TP down)? If so, would the TP balance be reduced (i.e. 80 TP skill reduces to 70-75) to accommodate for having to use more high TP skills?

[Noxerus]

Relic Weapons
Without revealing anything new about the relic weapon progression in Heavensward, will the current steps for the relic/zodiac/zeta weapon chain/questline remain the same(this is useful to know for anyone currently working on their relic weapons in anticipation of Heavensward)? Also, will Dark Knight, Machinist, and Astrologian's relic weapons also start with "A Relic Reborn" like all the other classes?

Cross-Class Abilities
To help us better prepare for the new Heavensward jobs, can you reveal to us which jobs the new ones will get cross-class abilities/spells from?

[Iromi]

Are we ever going to see any open world non instance dungeons without lockouts and limits on how much gear can lot on?