Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXIII!

[Kirhs]

Any plans to make better and more interesting side quests?

IE not always find the lost moogle or kill X amount of monsters.

[Kazrah]

Dark Knight damage mitigation

After levelling my Dark Knight to 50 and running low level and endgame content from ARR, I've noticed how I have more difficulty with mitigating damage on dark knight compared to paladin and warrior at level 50 at roughly the same item level (ilvl 125). I have also noticed similar issues with Dark Knights suffering from major damage spikes while performing in Heavensward content and even into Alexander, and although this is a new job, I still feel there is something else making the job feel rather squishy.

Is it possible to provide Dark Knight with some other means of damage mitigation other than through parry and evasion? I know those avoidance stats are supposed to be the focal points for dark knight tanking in addition to some self-healing, but parry/evasion tanks have been historically hard to balance as well as hard to heal, which is why I think I've been seeing this dilemma arise consistently throughout all content.

[sucht]

Is there an ETA for fixing the Directx11 crashes, as discussed in 164968-Consistent-Game-Crashing-Exception-code-0xc0000005 and 242433-dx11-crashing ?

edit: and also this thread 241177-DX11-Crashing

oh and please don't add a DPS meter or parsing for that matter, and if you do please do it only on/for Training Dummies, because i've seen it in WoW and it is really bad and will only be used for flaming others.

[Niumu]

Are we going to see any additional housing wards anytime soon?

[JustRion]

Will there be any attemps at fixing the EXP-Gain from completing weekly Challenge Log Entries?
They used to be a percentage of your currently needed EXP to Level up, but now they are fixed to the EXP you need from Level 50 to 51.
Seeing that you need 864.000 EXP from 50 to 51 and 3.888.000 from 59 to 60 (thats more then 4-times as much) the EXP gain from Challenge Logs is currently not really worth the effort in the later Levels.

On the same note the EXP Gain from Battlecraft-Levequests and Fates hardly compare to what is needed to Level up, and the new 10-Leve-Levequests are useless if you are not farming for the Encased Vilekin (wich is useless by itself).
You said that the reward for completing them would be better wich they currently aren't.

[KoolAidPitcher]

Do you think the tome bonus message displayed for first time completion of a duty is being abused by the community?

In North America, it is common for players who have already cleared content to create 'no law bonus' parties and intentionally not help others. I think a feature which was designed to encourage players to help others is having an inverse effect, making it more difficult for people who are otherwise capable from finding a party.

Should the tome bonus message be removed?

[Maxwell654]

Is there ever going to be a way to use mousewheel scroll up + down as keybinds instead of using it to adjust the camera?

[ShadowHavoc]

Linkshell Limitations

Will there ever be an option to re-order linkshells and have more than 128 players in one? Currently, I have 4 linkshells dedicated to one particular thing with 128 people each. It would be nice if there was not a 128 limit, because FCs can go past 500 members, but linkshells are limited to 128. Also, will there be any changes to being able to see the last time players have logged in a linkshell? It can be difficult to decipher who has logged in recently and it would be nice to be able to remove people from a linkshell when they go inactive and be able to add new people to a linkshell that are active.

[Najara]

Is Fester supposed to ignore Warlord Shell during Ravana EX? All sources of damage seems to deal 0 damage during this, except for my Summoner ability Fester.

[Hakucat]

Are there plans to return tanks to their roles as tanks by class locking accessories so they are not "required" to wear Slaying Accessories to push DPS?

Due to this new standard of STR tank builds, A VIT build tank is shunned and looked down upon and treated like they are "bad' at their job (even if they are very good!!!). This isn't true for every server but is very true for Sargatanus server.