Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXIII!

[iruscom]

What are the chances that run animation for the Au' Ra will be redone so that the avatar does not appear to be running in place. The run animations for taller characters do not match the pace at which they actually move. Can this be fixed by simply increasing or decreasing the speed of the animation based on the height of the avatar?

[OlyverW]

Since we have the ability to have up to 8 retainers inventory management can get a little out of hand as I sometimes get duplicate items taking up space on multiple retainers. Can there be some way we can see a list of what is in our retainers inventory in the lodestone so we can better opitmize where items go?

[Aamaxu]

Could you add more options for the Au Ra, such as removal of random scale blotches on the body, separating horns from the face, and maybe even add those dragon arms / legs?

[Saseal]

In the light of undersized pre-made partying 4-man dungeons - in the future, would we be able to run dungeons with one or two more players (oversized) pre-made parties? Possibly by scaling the enemies HP/Defense/etc to the amount of extra players?
My FC is a group of 5 (active) friends and we're always running into the situations of someone being left out of dungeon runs and having to wait in the dutyfinder by themselves or wait till we get out to run the same dungeon a second time with that person (Expert/High level Roulettes, lvl 60 dungeons for tomes, etc).

[Saseal]

I'd heard a mention of an NPC party option to help run dungeons with (which would greatly help with those that may suffer long queues in certain story-required lower level dungeons). Is this a feature still in planning, or was this just referencing the MSQ (and some Job Quests) instances that are run in Halatali (Alphinaud, Yugiri), etc?

[Saseal]

In further curiousity of 'partying' with character NPCs like Alphinaud in more complex instances than seen in ARR - will we see more of these MSQ NPC party instances in the future?

[ManaKing]

Is there any reason we can't use Blood Weapon with Grit? Possibly it does not grant the Haste Bonus? It seems silly to have such a good tool that can't be used while doing your party role.

[Ranmyaku]

The cross class system in 1.0 allowed for many variations on character and build, the most notable was the days of the Pugilist Tank which with the right cross class allowed it to do something different than simply being a DPS role.

The issue with the system now is it feels more like a leftover than anything as the job systems limit what can be cross classed as well. This creates a feeling that the player has no choice on cross class abilities. For example tanks MUST take Provoke and other cooldowns, there's no choice here making the system redundant as the skills could simply be built into the class.

Is there going to be any plan to change how this works in the future to something with more choice for the player? Is there any plan to introduce some other system of customization? Right now as it stands the game has little to no choice resulting in every character feeling very much the same as even gear has identical progression.

[KuwabaraValefor]

Will Hildibrand Return in Heavensward?

[Dragonfireab]

Will we see new companions such as the Ceourl or Fenrir?

i am an old school final fantasy 11 summoner, i know i wont get my summons such as fenrir, but i be super happy if i can get him as a companion, rather then just a mount.