Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXV! (Patch 4.0 "Stormblood")

hi there, are summoners getting new egis summons and a revamp on the looks of the existing ones in stormblood?

Will retainer ventures be upgraded to represent sensible values? Sending out a DoW/DoM ilvl270 retainer should return more than 10 items. Similarly, DoL need to be changed to include more realistic quantities of materials compared to what a player could get in an hour, eg 240 shards, 120 crystals or 60 clusters.

Final Fantasy games are known for having bosses with insanely high HP, many times in the millions and multimillion. Is it possible to get an open world or cross server boss raid fight similar to how Final Fantasy Brave Exivus has that is non- FATE and lasts a week long where people have to work together across servers to finally take down the boss with in the week, and each time he dies gains more HP? Even use a registration and ranking system to keep track of people doing the most damage for rewards. Or even other similar random server game events to keep the game interesting when not a holiday and prevent veteran players from getting easily bored?

There is a lot of special rare story gear and also special limited event and mog store bought gear such as the High summoner gear, Monkey king gear, and Maid gear that we can only get once and only use as glamour. Can we be allowed to finally store those in the Armoire along with other event and specialty gear and weapons?

There have been a lot of lore released about Final Fantasy 14 and the lore books go into detail about it and the races, However only so many people buy the lore books and many are hardcore veteran players, but the new players don't know much about the races they select when playing the game. Is it possible to make lore based in game quests for the different races so the players can really get immersed in their race and get a better understanding of race based issues in the Lore, as well as unlock exclusive race based dances like the Miqo'te dancers in Uldah or Easter La Noscea?

Back in 2.0 we had balanced XP for weekly challenges that really helped with leveling, however with the adding of 3.0 that XP scaling was finally added to crafting and gathering but was never touched for battle classes. So at level 58 got as much XP as a low level FATE around lv 51. Will the Challenge Log XP be scaled up to meet the higher battle class levels of 3.0 and 4.0?

In previous patches, we have gotten the ability to search for different items stored in our retainers' inventories. Many crafters have multiple additional retainers to store materials for crafting items, and sometimes finding items can be time consuming. With the upcoming server upgrades and inventory changes planned, will we be able to craft recipes with materials while they are still in a retainer's inventory? Thank you.

Is it possible for you to go in depth with the new skills added to the old jobs, as well as the AF3 gear? We have seen concept art for some, but I'm interested in seeing more, as well as how they look in game.