Questions From Playerbase [Thread For Devs!]

[SaitoHikari]

Since everyone's likely going to get the obvious out of the way...

Character[Stats, Creation, Race, Naming, Titles]:

Do you have any plans to implement the following two things?
- Buff and debuff timers visible on party status bar. As it is now, you can only see timers by focus targeting or hard targeting party members.
- Ability to adjust buff priority on party status bar. Right now, the priority appears to be party defensive CDs > stance buffs > everything else. If there were an option to move, say, Berserk to the front in priority, it'd be a major quality of life change for Bards looking to prevent Pacification through Warden's Paean. As it is now, other buffs usually shove Berserk out of visible range on the party buff bar, and many top Bards have now taken to using third party programs to call out when Warriors activate Berserk without a macro, so that constantly hard targeting the Warrior to check if they're using the buff isn't necessary. I'm sure such an adjustment would help Astrologians too, throwing their offensive cards on whoever has their buffs up.

Playable Content[Dungeons, Raids, Open World, Other Instanced]:

One of the more common observations is that Azys Lla is that... It's quite barren a zone, even though it is the largest of all of the Heavensward zones. Perhaps it is intentionally designed that way to promote the rather desolate feel to it, but I have to wonder... Was Azys Lla originally designed with other content in mind? If so, would you be willing to tell us about what other content was originally planned for that zone, and do you have any plans to revisit them at some point?