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

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

As someone who loves raiding, and was very displeased with the lengthy relic grind producing greater results weapon-wise with far less difficulty, do you plan to make adjustments to how relic weapons and their alternatives (raid-based or otherwise) are handled? This will determine whether/how I will pursue either in Heavensward.

[Kemonologist]

How to obtain new extra jobs low-level weapons if it is no drop from primals? Crafting is the best possible choice that sound reasonable but what about token weapons from GC seals or Allied Seals?

[benedict_x]

Can you please make the physical Collector's Edition of Heavensward available in the Australia SE store as we've been promised that retailers would stock it but the only one who has so far was EB Games and it was Au$300 and had sold out.

I would appreciate some effort at marketing the game in Australia and South East Asia where there is a huge Final Fantasy fan-base. Final Fantasy Type 0 is sold in many stores including Target and JB HiFi and I'd like for Heavensward to be available there too.

Failing this, is there a possibility to switch an EU account to an NA one?

[Akiza]

Make a real Summoner
Right now the Summoner in this game is a Summoner in Name Only because it's an Arcanist with Fester
Summoner should be made into its classic image by adapting the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Summoner to this game.
Make 70% of the damage come from the pet and make Summoner a pet based job.

[AreeyaJaidee]

Is SMN going to get fixed? I play smn as my main job and while there is love for the job still, those who play it know personally it's downfalls... Its the laughingstock/joke of endgame damage-wise, its a DPS job that's more like a support job, apart from summoning Egis it doesn't FEEL like a SMN, the summons/Egis are imbalanced ability wise (its annoying to have ppl harass you because you're using any pet other than Garuda-Egi simply because she has Contagion!). These are not just my opinions, check the forums and you'll find many threads addressing these issues by other SMN.

[AreeyaJaidee]

How will stat weights/potency/effect be changed in 3.0? Will stats be more effective/potent?

[AreeyaJaidee]

Why aren't all summoner dots instant cast? (Since you're making SMN do the dirty dot work, applying dots with only one being instant cast because tedious when dealing with 4+ targets.)
Why did you take away summoners cross class dots? We don't have sustainable burst DMG like blm, dots are our staple and you've limited us to 3 SMN dots with an additional aoe dot that's situational/positional.
Bane is a joke and watered down to only 3 targets as well as not differentiating between mobs that already have active dots from the caster resulting in useless overwrites. Why can't SMN spread dots to all targets?! Blm gets to do good aoe DMG but SMN is a joke with silly limitations like Bane.

[AreeyaJaidee]

Can we see Summoner pets play a more vital role in relation to how SMN plays?

From talking to other SMN and seeing various threads on the topic, many feel pidgeon holed to only using Garuda-Egi in party based content while the only utility Titan-Egi sees is solo content with rare occasions where Titan-Egi comes in handy in niche situations.

Ifrit-Egi... Only a few SMN know this Egi actually does good DMG, but still refuse to use him because 1) radiant shield buff is a wasted pet ability slot, 2) ifrit doesn't have contagion, 3) like titan-egi his travel time to target is sloooooooooow, once again making Garuda-Egi more optimal in terms of gap closing and safety.

[Sussis]

Will there be any more quests that will increase our individual standings within the Grand Companies?

[Postcards]

Are there any future plans to have the game use DirectX 12 or Vulkan? I can see some benefits from using these APIs.