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

Between removed skills, buffs/debuffs, job guages, combo procs, and ability timers the combat is more complex than it has ever been (in a bad way).

At this point I feel like the combat rework did more harm than good. Are there plans to continue refining the new system and/or allow players to turn the new system off?

Many jobs had skills completely removed from the game and a ton of players are unhappy about it.
A lot jobs lost AoEs and DOTs, was there a specific reason such skills were specifically targeted for removal, and is there any chance that those skills could be added back into the game?

Also, on a more personal level, DRG lost Ring of Thorns as one of those skills removed, but then got Sonic Thrust as its lv62 skill. What was the point of taking away the AoE that we had loved since 2.0 only to replace it with a less versatile AoE instead of giving us an entirely new skill? DRGs essentially only got 4 new skills instead of 5 like every other job (though I shouldn't be surprised since you did that to us in HW with Fang and Claw and Wheeling Thrust too).

If you have no intention in fixing current housing system instead of making it instance, will you be selling a ticket in MOGstation so players can purchase a private ward in their preferred housing zone so they can bring alts, friends, linkshell or free company members?

Any plans to further lower the cost/light grind for 3.0 Relic weapons?

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Do you plan something to avoid we get four! times the same application in a row?

Please add something to avoid rejected applications comes again immediatly. Exclusion of rejected applications for one to three months (real time) would allow us to see all applications and not always the same proc.

Do you have plans such as trying other team format, as 3/5/6/7/12 players rather than always only 4/8/24?

In patch 4.0 we got into small Raen village and dungeon for them, but I'd like to ask that are we going to get more during Stormblood? For example in Wiki it's mentioned that Raen would have settled to mountainous eastern reaches, could we possibly go there during expansion?

"Unlike their sister clan, the Xaela, who bloody the land with their endless tribal conflict, the Raen have embraced a life of tranquility and solitude, long abandoning the nomadic lifestyle of their ancestors to settle the deep valleys of Othard's mountainous eastern reaches."

Sometime ago we had discussion about races and their hairstyles - I remember reading that you would have plans to unlock most of them, but leave some specific ones to those races. What is the status of this and when could we see first shared hairstyles happening?