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

[Kiara]

Will you consider a better Raiding and Loot System that allows Free Companies / LS groups to do Alexander (and any End Game Raid) each week if there are more than 8 players? The current penalty for No Treasure Chests is too punitive.

It doesn't allow groups of players beyond 8 to play regularly together.

[Kiara]

Will you consider more Unique Stats on Items in 3.0, with more Horizontal Progression, to reduce the speed of Item Level Inflation? Stuff like "Enhances Rampart" etc.

[ChexMix]

This question is more of a quality of life thing, but sometimes when I'm mining unspoiled nodes I forget to put up stealth and when I instinctively go to do so the node disappears before I even hit it. Will there be plans it so the node doesn't disappear until you actually uncover the item (spoiling it)? Please and thanks

[Devtek]

Will the Dark Knight get his own special mount similar to the Warlion and Warbear?

I think a better question would be: why don't all classes have a unique mount like the warrior, paladin and white mage?

[OMEGA_HACK]

With the coming release of Airship "ventures" and increases in FC sizes due to an increase in players, are there any plans to increase the Company Chest Storage with an additional tab or two?

[Sousoulsu]

Client/server communication question

There is a client/server technology used in many MMOs where the server keeps track of the state of the Client, and uses that state if the Client's and Server's states disagree with eachother.

Would it be possible to implement something similar in FFXIV to deal with the hit-delay many Western players are experiencing?

[Rabla]

With the ARR Primals having a set of elemental horses, will the Primals we fight across the 3.X series have their own set of themed flying mounts? (eg elemental falcons or something)

[Sousoulsu]

When Addons are available to be made and used with FFXIV, will we be able to substitute music (like Battle musics)?

[HReincarnate]

Will the voice acting and animation be improved?

The voice acting in many cases is too stiff, although the new voice actors in 2.3 onwards have been fairly good. Minfillia in particular is horribly voiced - I cannot take her seriously as the Scion's leader.

And worse, our characters stand there like useless lumps half the time. It would be nice to have more action, like the cutscene at the end of the Praetorium.

Also, can we have more choice options in the game? It's nice to be able to pick what our character says, even if it has no bearing on what happens.

[Selli]

I am worried that, with the current system, Scholars and Astrologins will have to fight for raid positions. As it currently stands, White Mage is mandatory in every raid group because of the enhanced Protect and Stoneskin (and Stoneskin II is very nice!). I have seen parties complain about double Scholar (even though 1 Eos and 1 Selene work very well together) simply because their buffs were lacking/slower. I would like to see parties willing to do end-game content with SCH/AST or WHM/SCH or AST/WHM, this would allow more flexibility and strategies, especially for pugs and statics wanting to try something new.

So my question, put simply is: to allow maximum party composition opportunities between the three healers, at level 60 will Astrologin and/or Scholar be able to use Stoneskin and Protect at the same strength as a White Mage?