Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLII! (Exploring Patch 4.2)

**Aniya_Estlihn** · 02-06-2018 02:33 PM

After the removal of the storage placement glitch that allowed for the infamous; and highly popular, loft and out of bounds placement for houses would the dev team consider creating an actual loft type of furnishing? Houses as they currently are, seem to be lacking a lot in terms of how we can decorate them and the storage glitch allowed for much more creativity than previously seen.

**KariArisu** · 02-06-2018 02:42 PM

Samurai needs attention. It has no place, anywhere. Some party finders are even outright excluding the job from joining.

It's identity was supposed to be that of a job that deals the highest DPS, to the point that it is worth bringing over a job that brings party buffs. This is not the case.
Currently, Black Mage is better, while Summoner and Monk have similar DPS but bring utility. Even then, Black Mage is in a relatively similar spot where Summoner outshines it, and casters in general are not that good.

It either needs redesigned so that it brings some sort of utility to make it worth bringing to endgame content, or buffed hard enough that it doesn't need to have utility to be worth the party slot.
A lot of groups in the World First Race for Sigmascape (including the winners) got a Samurai weapon from the last fight, and were noticeably disappointed by it. That feels really bad.

**KariArisu** · 02-06-2018 02:52 PM

Can we get a new UI for Gardening? The current state of gardening is awful.

Gardening requires a lot of steps:

Clicking the garden bed. (1 Click)
Clicking the option to plant seeds. (1 Click)
Selecting the soil and seeds. (5 Clicks)
Repeat this 7 more times. (Total: 56 Clicks for one deluxe bed.)

This is not counting the fact that a lot of us will probably be making a lot of extra clicks for our own reasons. Also, most of us remove the first seed, only to replant it -- because cross-breeding is poorly designed and requires a seed to be planted next to the bed before you plant it. Which, is impossible from a fresh garden with nothing planted.

Then, you also need to water all of them daily, or you lose all of your time and effort.
My biggest complaint is that all of this takes a LOT of clicking, and I don't want carpal tunnel.
When the plants are finished growing, harvesting them is also a bunch of unnecessary clicking, before going back to all of the clicks to set it all up again.

A simple UI that lets us plant 8 seeds at once, water 8 beds at once, and harvest 8 beds at once would be a huge improvement.
We already invest a lot of time and Gil into the seeds and soils, the fact that gardening is mostly ignored for the physical effort required is upsetting.

**Miziliti** · 02-06-2018 02:54 PM

Is there any change to RDM in the future? I noticed sometimes it takes too long to finish the entire Verflare/Verholy rotation because of boss mechanics and phase changing, so it end up feeling that I wasted my white/black manas just to finish Enchanted Redoublement but don't have enough time for Verflare/Verholy. Damage wise, everyone knows RDM's dps is quite low. Are there any plans for buff?

Also I would like to talk about Embolden: Can you remove the part where it says "Effects are reduced by 20% every 4s" ?

Embolden to me is like a small unimportant party buff already. The buff itself have to even be reduced gradually makes it even more insignificant.

**KariArisu** · 02-06-2018 02:59 PM

Please let us have personal Airships and Submarines in non-FC houses.

All of the content involved in Airships/Submarines are not very accessible, or fun.
All of the work involved is commonly done by one or two people in the FC, and the rewards are reaped for those individuals with occasional handouts of random things.
The content is not set up to reward enough items for an FC to share. FC Crafting requiring 4 people is a chore, and does not actually encourage people to tackle the content together.

I think it makes far more sense to, instead, allow individuals to do this content in their own houses. Maybe allow less total airships than an FC?
If obtaining housing becomes more doable for the average player with new housing wards, and these systems are changed to allow individuals to participate, I think the content will be revived slightly and you could possibly expand more.

**DreamAngel-Ren** · 02-06-2018 03:05 PM

Will the favorable Lord Commander of Temple Knights ever get his portrait painting??

I would really like to have one for my apartment wall, please.

**Sousoulsu** · 02-06-2018 03:07 PM

With the current Camera, we can not look straight upwards.
This is somewhat irritating because we can not look at architecture above our characters.

Can the camera be changed so that we can look directly upwards?

**Metsonm** · 02-06-2018 03:57 PM

Are there any plans to create a more magic-centric party balance in the future? Right now every job that plays off the others seems to heavily favour physical DPS. Monks buff physical damage, Warriors buff slashing, Dragoons buff piercing, Red Mages even only buff physical damage. Everything else is just general crit or raw damage buffs. The only class that really seems to do anything is Summoner, but it doesn't feel that there's enough reason to take a party of mages over a party of physicals.

**Dustytome** · 02-06-2018 04:44 PM

Could we have most of the interactive items like flower vases, picture frames and blank walls changed so they aren't interactive but instead can be altered only in the housing menu, so we can make more use of furniture without it disappearing?

**Dustytome** · 02-06-2018 04:47 PM

Can we please have advanced placement controls for furniture allowing us to adjust the x, y, z coordinates as well as the angle since this information is stored by the server anyway?

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