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

Will DRK see any change regarding their lack of mitigation skills? Shadow Wall being exceptionally weaker than Vengeance due to the 5 less second duration and 60 second longer cooldown compared to a class with a few more defensive skills is somewhat unfair. Buffs to Shadow Wall? Maybe change Quietus to something useful?

Also the immaturity of many people and the harassment they resort to is shocking. Do people even get punished?

Recently it was mentioned that the "ability to influence the party's damage" is a determining factor in a job's balance.

Has the development team ever visited the idea of focusing on this concept when designing a job, to create a play style that would be primarily supporting their party (for example, FFXI bard)? If so, are there any key points of that discussion that you'd be willing to share?

The topic of a "Glamour Log" is a matter of frequent discussion, having come up during numerous Live Letters and events. Every time it is shot down as impractical for FFXIV's infrastructure. So I would instead ask if the dev team has any ideas or plans for some form of glamour-storing subsystem to alleviate inventory and item bloat which does work for FFXIV's systems?

Going as far back as 2.1 Live Letters, developers have sporadically mentioned the possible concept of a Hybrid Role over the years.

In March, an interview with Yoshida was posted on a gaming news site (Twinfinite.net) where the concept was once again mentioned, this time in the context of deciding what direction to take when designing Red Mage. Does this mean the possibility is still in consideration in some form or another, and have there been any developments on the topic you'd be willing to discuss?

I would like to echo some of the Scholar question already posted here as I feel the current state of the class is an important issue to the scholar community. I've made several post in the healer forums about my thoughts on where Scholar is today and I feel like at some point during the Stormblood development cycle Scholar lost its identity. The changes to the class seemed to be overly harsh and punitive in response to the state of the class during Hevanswards. Many of the abilities introduced in Stormblood like Fey Union directly go against other abilities such as Dissipation creating a clunky system where key abilities are rarely if ever used. What is being done to restore the class's identity and bring its competitiveness back in line with the other healers?

Please implement a proper relinquish system for housing plots.
Say the owner get back 80% of the value. This might help with the "black market" of housing where players ask a higher value just to relinquish it.