Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXIII!

[Rahela]

Are there any plans to implement Joke Weapons for glamour purposes? Like comical, impractical things like food or household objects that no one would utilize as weapons.

There's certainly been precedent for it with Square Enix; like in Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, Zack fights monsters in Costa del Sol with a beach umbrella. And in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, each playable character can equip silly-looking weapons; a sandwich instead of a lexicon, a pot lid instead of a shield, a hair dryer instead of a gun, a broom instead of a lance, and so on.

I've seen firsthand how the playerbase loves to joke around with silly-looking glamours, and implementing joke weapons to match is something that will be sure to delight them.

[PeppinoTuna]

I'd like to see more Gold Saucer additions. I only go to the Gold Saucer for the Mini & Jumbo Cactpots and Chocobo Racing. Have you the desire to add more games, quests, or personal housing? If I want to farm Manderville Points, I find myself doing Triple Triad outside of the Gold Saucer.

[ganstream1]

While this is no question, I would like to suggest changing BRD's Minuet and MCH's Gauss to a buff that increases all weaponskill potency by 1.x (or 2) for 30 seconds with a cooldown of 5 minutes. It will allow both MCH and BRD to retain their mobility while having the ability to burst damage (and prevent players from spamming it mindlessly) when needed. Also, a buff on base damage by at least 5 - 10% would help as well.

Now for my question: Will we have a journal like tab to see the crafting materials we need for fc crafting while we're out in the field? While it's not annoying, it does help with the QoL since we don't have to go back to the house to check what materials we need and how many we need them.

[Asheloux]

Are there any plans to make alternate ways to get the 180 gear upgrade items instead of/in addition to hunts?

[Asheloux]

Are there any plans to adjust laylines so that they move with the player (black mage) or to increase the timer for astral fire/umbral ice so that 52+ Black Mage spells can actually be utilized in upper level content where aoes make them almost unfairly difficult to use?

[lxlWolflxl]

I'm pretty sure someone in the thread already asked this (I haven't read through the questions), so just in case someone didn't bring it up. Will the esoteric gear look like AF gear like when myth gear came out in 2.0?

[Id_Slayer]

Yoshi-P recently made a statement related to bard and their Wanderers' Minuet. However, the Machinist Gauss Barrel Attachment has garnered the same type of animosity from most machinists. It takes a large amount of effort and skill to get the damage output from machinist to be at it's best. This amount of effort feels unbalanced compared to the amount of damage the job can do to the enemy. Are there any plans to make the job require less effort and skill to more appropriately match it's damage output, or possibly increase the damage output of the job to compensate for the difficulty involved?

[NightOfDragons]

Would it be possible to get a mount roulette action that picks only from flying capable mounts?

I love collecting and using mounts, and the included mount roulette button was awesome to see in the game without an addon required. Now there's flying mounts, i would love to see the same thing for flying mounts. Right now I have to use only 1 or manually choose a mount each time i mount up in heavensward zones.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Combining "Stance Buttons"

The tanks are receiving multiple stances, but there's no set button to just easily swap from one stance to another. Can you please make a preset button that quickly swaps between the two? This would reduce our hotbars.

[Balipu]

Last question, promise: Since we are going to the moon anyway (there is no point denying it) can we get the Lunar Depths as a dungeon?
It's the one at the end of Final Fantasy IV The After Years. Filled with sahagin, lamia and morbols, with bosses liiike Lunar Odin, Lunar Leviathan, Ultima Weapon, Shinryu (as Nova Dragon), Ultros(well, Orthros), Ghost Train, Gilgamesh and Bahamut. Just to name a few.