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

Ultimately, what is the main factor to deciding to release two dps for the expansion, and will you be trying that again for future releases? The release of two dps classes caused a major upsurge in DPS queue times (that were already bad pre-Stormblood). The reason why this wasn't seen in the release of Heavensward was because there was a release of one of each type (tank, healer, and dps), so even though the tank and healer queues became a little longer, the balance of the release of three types didn't cause a major increase on queue times; whereas, in this expansion release, it became absolutely ridiculous (at least on the Aether data center).

Will you consider adding a beastiary? Some of your character models for enemies are really cool, but you cannot see them well from out of combat or cannot see them well in combat. Would you guys consider adding feature to the in where you can maybe click a book which will pop up all the boss monster models so we can freely look at them in closer detail?

the stuffed fox is super cute, but my friends and many in my fox hunt ls have commented on the always open eyes being creepy and/or sad, is it possible to update the model with closed or slit eyes so it looks like its sleeping and thus infinitely cuter than it already is?

1.) Would you guys revamp warriors? Currently they are extremely boring to play. they have no dots, and their only decent off gcd move is only worth using in tank stance, while thrill of battle is up and you havent taken any damage.

2.) Would you guys allow us to turn off the beast gauges and just display the buffs and stuff on our status bars? to me i already have to look at my status bar when i have buffs and debuffs, but now i have to also look at this beast guage that is just displaying a number for me.

3.) What new things will you be adding to the underwater environment of the game? Currently it felt like underwater was huge selling point for the game, and there isnt really anything to do underwater but gather. You cannot battle down there, or nothing. It would have been a really nice addition to add all sorts of new style of quests, like racing, exploring, underwater fates.

Will there be any new hairstyles that are actually feminine added soon? and can we have the ones shown in the Stormblood artwork countdown.

Can we get an update to crafting to consolidate items? For example, if i need to use spring water in my craft, i should be able to use the newest water source (crescent spring water). If something requires a nugget, of something i should be able to use an ingot. Or could we just get a system that never requires 10 other crafted items to craft an item? My inventory is getting out of control.

are there tweaks coming to the ixion fate soon? 3 times now ive gotten bronze and been denied horns with a full party attacking because people keep getting stuck in lag lock for 3/4 of the fight or outright 90king, and folding the 3 instances into 1 will just make the problem worse because then EVERYONE will flood the zone instead of the 2-300 that do now

What where the thoughts behind reverting Tank DMG scaling back to STR while in the same time locking us out of SB Fending Accsesoires and not locking older HW ones

Is there any plan to rescale/rework Tenacity?

More of a suggestion than a question. I'm really enjoying Stormblood and so far the only thing I would change would be the Lakshmi and Susano extreme drops. I wish that Susano dropped accessories and Lakshmi dropped weapons. However, I realize that may not fit the lore. It would have been a good opportunity to introduce some feminine weapon options across the board though. Is this something that might be kept in mind moving forward?