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

[Elia_Kasaineko]

With the addition of 3.0, there are now a whole lot of dungeon added to the roulette pool and the majority of them give not only tomes but gear as well. However The Aetherochemical Research Facility is the only dungeon that has no gear. Is there any plan to add old 3.0 gear to this that players can get, or if not can it please be relocated into the Main Scenario with the 2.0 Main Scenario roulette. It is aggravating when farming for gear to turn into Grand Company seals to get a dungeon that doesn't give gear, and to get it quite often as a duty just can make people mad for this reason.

[TorchicEX]

With Red Mage having some melee attacks will it have attacks that require positioning like most melee DPS or will it not need to position at all like the typical caster?

[Elia_Kasaineko]

Final Fantasy 14 has had an elemental resistance and debuff resistance tab on the character menus since way back in ARR 2.0. However those stats mean absolutely nothing currently and play little to no role in the current style of game play. As far as I know no one uses elemental nor debuff resistance potions nor materia as it is all about personal DPS which gets old fast. Can we see an implementation of more elemental based attacks, or weaknesses and strengths for either the bosses or players, and have make it for players not only have to worry about damage output but also protecting against elemental attacks like other final fantasy games. It would really give the game more depth if we had to use spells as healers to protect the party from elements as well as boost elemental and debuff resistance stats.

[Arcadius_Rex]

New Class Starting Level

With it confirmed that Samurai and Red Mage will be starting at Level 50, will their beginning quests start us at Level 50, like Heavensward started us with DRK/MCH/AST at level 30? I ask this because it was a little confusing starting Machinist at level 30, and having a myriad of abilities that we didn't understand just yet. Is the team looking at introducing abilities in smaller chunks, for instance, a quest that gets us to 15, then to 30, then 40/50, introducing new abilities and class mechanics along the way, before starting the actual leveling process from 50 beyond?

[Airget]

Are there any plans to expand on the FC Workshop/Airship System, it feels like what was promised with Airship such as ability to board your custom-made airship and actual influence on Diadem never saw the light of day. Is there any hope that Airships will serve some purpose in Eureka or are there no plans to add on to the Airship system?

[JedahJohnny]

Have you planned any kind of improvement in the inventory organization, such as a bait bag for fishermen or something like that?

[ffchampion]

Sun Wu-Kong EU

Are the EU getting an event for this? Currently both JP and US have had an event for this and the EU has been left out. If we get this please don't make it magazines again! Even having the same offer as US does would be ideal

[Antwan]

The current raid meta for hardcore raiders looks at having a strong defensive tank as a "Main Tank" a strong offensive tank as a "Off Tank". A Main Healer whose primary job is to heal, an Off Healer whose primary job is to mitigate and support the main heals. Two strong offense melee DPS classes with some useful utility, a caster class, and a physical ranged class.

My question regarding the above configuration is, where would you place Samurai and Red Mage into that paradigm? We don't have a lot of information regarding how the two classes fit into the larger picture, and what their overall role is, can you elaborate more on them?

[Arkfrost]

An important question for me and my Free Company: Will the prices for plots in Shirogane be the same as for the plots in housing areas or will the plots in Shirogane cost more/less?

[Yasuhiro]

Jumping ahead a bit but any chance of the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy IV being considered as Trial bosses or a raid maybe?