Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXIII!

[soulreach]

Will there be any adjustments to BLM's current style of play?

Keeping Enochian's duration up while managing Astral Fire/Umbral Ice is pretty much the key for us to keep up with the rest of the DPS. However since Heavensward has shown that fights will be heavy in movement so far, chances of a player ever gaining its full benefit is low. We would either lose Enochian or sacrifice Astral Fire III for Umbral Ice III just so we can reset its duration early, both resulting in big DPS loss, and even more likely when we are too late to cast Blizzard IV. It should also be mentioned that Thunder I-III and any procs triggered by their DoTs would never take priority before any other skill while a BLM is under the effects of Enochian because it results in a DPS loss, thus rendering all three spells and the thunderproc passive currently useless in the game.

[Axiom]

Are there any thoughts or plans on the Beastmaster job being introduced? It would be great to tame some of the beautiful creatures throughout Eorzea and have them fight by your side.

[KingXRay]

many new ability on Ninja have long cooldown (90sec,90sec,120sec,180sec), will these ability cooldown reduce in the future to balance the overall melee DPS classes? (since Monk ability are all under 30 sec)

[Axiom]

Are there any new plans on developing the character customization mechanics? For example, being able to toggle earrings to both ears, only left or only right.

[EorzeaHero69]

Can you give us an option to give players in certain worlds with field instances still active to select one instance BEFORE we teleport? I'm asking because it can be a huge headache when we have to teleport to a certain zone when an A or S Rank in the field instanced zone is found and it teleports us to a random instance when the hunt is not in that specific field instance.

[RottenTheWizard]

Could we some day soon see the Onion Armor's glamour restrictions lifted as well as making the set and helmets dyeable?

[sonicnknuckels]

Can you please add a way to discard items in the retainer storage. It takes a long time to withdraw items into my inventory or armory chest and then discard instead of just discarding them in the retainer's storage menu. Also, are you going to add more slots to the armory chest? I like to play a lot of the classes low and high level and their need their own equipment and that fills up my armory chest real quick.

[Axiom]

Will we ever be able to fly in Ishgard?

[Axiom]

Will Ishgard have it's own grand company?

[Baxtalo]

What kind of deliberation went into the early track of the Heavensward Main Quest's story?

I mean, you leave Eorzea under such depressing and stressing circumstances, but there's a clear effort to make certain that the events of that "one day" don't become who you are as the Warrior of Light. That was a really subtle note that went into shaping the story, but made it easier to focus and fall in love with Ishgard rather than constantly worry about the state things were left in at the end of ARR. I'd be curious to know how you decided to balance respecting the past events while launching into these new ones!