Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE: E3 Edition! (General Q&A)

[Priya]

Macros

Will macros ever be adjusted to allow ability queuing? They're heavily avoided in their current form because they are considered more detrimental than beneficial.

[Empyrean]

Are we ever going to see beast tribe quests featuring Mamool Ja, Qiqirn, Gigas, Tonberries, Zombies, or rogue Allagan creations (Lamia, Reptoids, Shabtis that gained sentience)?

[Yaeria]

Up until a few patches ago, monks were able to dodge themselves by casting Form Shift during Perfect Balance to get a free Haymaker. Since most (if not all) bosses are slow-resistant anyway I always thought of this of a fun and harmless hidden combo. Any insight into why this was removed (and is there any chance of it coming back)?

[Renoiria]

QUESTION 2: Recall that in 2.0, you had both regular and Augmented armor made by crafters. The augmented versions had special light effects along the chest/shoulder area. Is there any reason why the 3.0 2-star crafts could not have had the same treatment? The lighting effects might have been an incentive to craft them, but instead the 1 star and 2 star versions were exactly the same in terms of appearance.

[Cetonis]

Where does Yoshi-P get his feedback about the Bard job?

Not to be bait-y, but it's hard not to want to ask given the long pattern of puzzling decisions and equally puzzling justifications, including:

- The bulk of the 3.3 buff being aimed at Bard's strong points, instead of areas that actually needed help
- Yoshi-P saying that maintaining DoTs is the only potentially hard part of playing the job
- The whole saga of insisting the old Warden's was a good skill
- The well-documented and still not even acknowledged (let alone addressed) anti-synergy between WM and River of Blood

And it arguably goes back to the way the job was handled in 2.x as well. I know there's an example or two of odd SE decisions for every job, but with Bard it's a constant. This at a time when SE otherwise seems to have a good handle on balance matters, save for the Noct-Fairy dilemma that they've at least acknowledged. So how do they end up seeming so badly misinformed / ignorant about Bard?

[Renoiria]

Question 3: I would like to ask about the conclusion to the 2.5 Sultana Assassination scandal and how it was handled in the expansion. Many players feel like it was a cop-out because it was wrapped up too neatly, Lolorito was exonerated in a single cutscene, the Sultana never died (wasn't even harmed!) and everyone forgave each other and moved on. It's almost as if we are encouraged to forget that it ever happened. May I ask what was the thought-process behind concluding this side plot? Had it always been planned this way? Will we ever revisit Lolorito?

[Thyranne]

Will our CDs ever reset after wipes in savage content?

[Thyranne]

Will we ever be able to share our houses with our alts?

[Veritas-Ancora]

I'M BEGGING, PLEADING!!

PLEASE give us an FC Calendar/Bulletin Board! We really need a calendar to retain players.

[Writer]

Will we need to beat 2.0, 2.X, 3.0, and 3.X's content in order to do content in 4.0? Or will there be some content locked behind it and some not?