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

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...

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).

With certain encounters, mainly Susano, are there any plans to give players control over how intense the weather effects get? There is a point where the particle effects just get to intense to cause unnecessary lag which could be reduced if one had the ability to at least tone down those types of weather effects.

Any chance yoshi p will change his mind set about making content to do it in a single day then go play other game and come back later for the next patch because people are busy playing other games and focus on the existing player base who wants to play the game everyday but they have nothing to do already because there is no real endgame content other than savage ??!!

L60 accessories + best materia > L70 accessories with limitations

Can you please address the fact that a tank's ability to put defense materia into their old attack accessories from L60 is better in most cases than their Stormblood counterparts?

It seems a little ridiculous that min-maxers are foregoing Lakshmi altogether to push for optimal DPS by pulling out their old accessories.

EDIT: For those who don't know, you can put high-powered Vitality materia into the old DPS attack accessories that tanks can wear, but now that tanks can no longer wear attack accessories you can't put Vitality in them any more.

Not sure if this has been asked already, but would be nice to implement the feature to be able to switch between jobs with your retainers with DoM/DoW at the usual fee of a job retainer soul instead of forcing you to grind it up from level 1.

Will ala mhigo become accessible in future updates?

Can it be adjusted that usable items are as easily used such as off-GCD skills? In their current state, items such as a strength potion for example, are difficult to weave in between GCD skills due to the delay in using them and after using them.