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

[Bissani]

Tank Balancing and adjustments:

Are there any plans to adjust the balance between the three tanks?
-PLD has the highest damage output with the simplest rotation, while bringing party utility and nice mitigation cooldowns.
-DRK has a lower damage output compared to PLD but the easy rotation and the party utility gives a reason to bring him along.
-WAR on the other hand has a lower damage output than PLD (similar to the DRK) but has no utility for the party, a more complex rotation, a too much punishing gauge mechanic and many skils are almost never used (e.g. Unchained or Shake it Off)

[Doctorhoo]

Are there any plans to expand Armoire Chest so more Glamour Clothing options may be held within?

[DawnCheadle]

In addition, Scholar's Eye For An Eye has been put in the cross-role list yet it has synergy with Scholar specifically (Deployment Tactics) and is a signature Scholar ability in PVP. Do you plan to rework the healer cross-role abilities? There's a lot more shuffling needed with the healers than any other role, and I'm finding it tiresome.

In line with this - I feel like it's really inefficient for a healer to have to cross skill a disspell. That cross skill slot could easily be free'd up for something that makes more sense to be shared. Basic healers know to do 2 things, Heal people and remove harmful effects. It does not make sense to have one of those things be optional.

[JLW]

The Dataqi Chronicles fate chain usually falls apart around the first or second pause. Would you remove the pauses and just make the fate less common to balance it out?

[Ariochie9771]

providing a method to potentially make some gil while benefiting SE.

WoW Reported a 20% increase in profits.

As far as the in game time token value, that would be community based and would have highs and lows.

This is why i have issues against this - When the WoW Token first came out Blizz expected it to be selling in game at about 500K gold and above - It has yet to ever reached that gold value, and in fact when it first came out so many people bought it that it was reported to only be worth about 30K gold - if we were only able to buy gil from SE I feel this would be better as then our received gil does not fluctuate depending on the market. For Example the Eastern Cherry Tree - we could buy it now and go to sell it in game and it be so cheap it wasn't worth buying it - at the moment on my server they sell for 15mil - but add about 100 and they will be at the most 1 or 2 mil.

[Alleo]

@Ariochie9771: The OP stated that this is no place to discuss points of other players, only for questions.

My question: Is there a way to take another look at the entry restrictions for PotD 101+? If you are a solo player and have a DC you are kicked out from the instance and lose all the progress at the same time since it counts as death? So is there any way that maybe you limit the death to like 3 times or let us relogg into PotD instances when we are kicked? With the servers being so unstable its nearly impossible to do this solo!

[Exiled_Tonberry]

WHM has been stated multiple times to be Pure Healer.
Yet most WHMs don't necessarily feel stronger as a healer compared to AST.
What exactly is your view on what a pure healer is, and it's strengths?

[Vasala]

Is there any chance of an increase in the number of free retainers in the 4.0 cycle? Those of us that craft and like glamour have serious space issues currently and not all of us can afford to keep renting extra retainers.

[VenMoonwall]

Since we can now swim and dive with the implementation of 4.0. Would it be possible to make the throw emote do a splash animation or a splash emote when used in the water while swimming/diving?

[DawnCheadle]

Would it be possible to make the "Repair All" button at the repair NPCs to actually repair ALL reparable items in inventory and armory chest. Would it also be possible to have buttons "Repair Equipped", "Repair Stored Gearsets", "Repair Armory Chest Items" and/or "Repair Inventory Items"?

The "repair all" function i whole heartedly agree with and want this as well. As far as the other options i believe the current setup already does most of that.