Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

Hien's father is Kaien, his mother is Mina. Gosetsu refers to Hien as Shun. And then, of course, there's the music that plays when first meeting Hien. None of this can be ignored by fans of Final Fantasy VI.

Did the team choo-choo-choose to do this simply as a reference to a few beloved characters or is there a deeper lore connection between these worlds that we might consider training our ever forward looking gaze upon?

Final Fantasy 14 has always done a great job of making NPC dialogue reflect your character and their accomplishments. With that in mind, why are Raen Au Ra considered outsiders in Doma? Xaela get some special dialogue in the Azim Steppes to reflect its status as their racial homeland, and Raen naming conventions make clear reference to the cultural norms of Doma. While it is understandably difficult to guess whether a Hyur or Roegadyn character is from Othard despite the presence of those races there, it was presented as the default assumption for Raen Au Ra in their introduction, and it was disheartening to go through the reclamation of my character's homeland with every NPC treating her as an outsider. Is there any chance this was in error, and can we expect a change?

Originally Posted by vannevar

Final Fantasy 14 has always done a great job of making NPC dialogue reflect your character and their accomplishments. With that in mind, why are Raen Au Ra considered outsiders in Doma? Xaela get some special dialogue in the Azim Steppes to reflect its status as their racial homeland, and Raen naming conventions make clear reference to the cultural norms of Doma. While it is understandably difficult to guess whether a Hyur or Roegadyn character is from Othard despite the presence of those races there, it was presented as the default assumption for Raen Au Ra in their introduction, and it was disheartening to go through the reclamation of my character's homeland with every NPC treating her as an outsider. Is there any chance this was in error, and can we expect a change?

It was particularly jarring to have the origins of the Au Ra explained to me, without the slightest acknowledgement that I am also an Au Ra and might already know about our lore.

Are there any plans to further update unforgiving classes such as summoner or those requiring a lot of actions also such as summoner? I'm sure my peers may have additional examples and feedback regarding severity of missing a action due to mechanics significantly disrupting dps mechanics or frustration of key bloat on limited input methods such as controller.

This game has so many amazing glamour options that you encourage us to attempt to get. You also sell us a lot of glamours. But why is the glamour system so limited when most endgame sets are shared between multiple jobs and we cannot glamour each job separately. Please provide me a way to make my Carpenter look different from my Weaver and my Warrior to look different from my Dark Knight.

I have no issues with DRG damage, but I feel like having to manage Eyes (the buff gained through Mirage Dive), Geirskogul and Blood of the Dragon timer creates too much clipping and makes optimal play really hard to achieve. Eyes fall off when Blood of the Dragon expires, and there are many encounters where, even with BotD extending the timer of 15 seconds, you risk losing the buff and thus the eyes gathered so far.

In general, I also think that the time window required to initiate Life of the Dragoon (65-70 seconds) in trials is a little too long, especially when some bosses have sections of invulnerability/untargetability.

What are your thoughts on DRG gameplay so far (regardless of balance/damage output), and are you planning any quality of life changes, in order to smooth the gameplay a bit?

Can we get any updates on when EU accounts can get the Eastern Journey set and Flying Cumulus mounts please? I really really want that mount.

In regards to the play style changes made to White Mage, will you consider making adjustments to how lilies are procured or how confessions are stacked on party members?

For example, right now there is a 50% chance of obtaining a lily from Cure, a 100% chance of obtaining a lily from Cure 2, and a 20% that a confession will be granted to a player receiving Cure or Cure 2. As stated before, the confession stacks make Plenary Indulgence rather lackluster and almost worthless because most of the time only a main tank (and at most an off tank and maybe some players who don't move out of AoEs) have a slight chance of receiving a confession. Please read: slight chance. 20% isn't even half a chance so it makes Plenary Indulgence unreliable.

So in regards to this, will you ever consider make changes such as regen having a slight (5%-15%) chance of procuring a lily? Or will you ever consider having it so that medica or medica 2 can grant players confession?

With the release of Final Fantasy XIV's second expansion and introduction into the 4.x series, I feel it's appropriate to ask if there will be considerations of adjusting the character creation for an upcoming expansion in the next few years?

The character creation in FFXIV, while good, still has some flaws... Character customization is important to good chunk of people, and it really stems from character creation. While we're able to choose and create our own characters, there's a lot of limitations to how we can create those characters. Hair has always been a problem for me because there is a lack of hairstyles that I actually like the looks of, and while I know it's not possible, maybe to consider in the far future would be where players don't have to choose a single hairstyle, but can customize the front (bangs, etc) and back of the hairstyles...