Letter from the Producer LIVE 53: Ask Your Shadowbringers Questions!

[Caduagm]

I don't want to be shady or something, but
does the dev. team have anyone who plays healers?
If so, why do you keep promising a balance to this role (you actually didn't give us a new healer for that reason) if you came up with this huge unbalanced mess we have right now?

[tikiwiki]

Scholar changes feel like they go against and have removed what the class has been about since ARR do you have any plans to change this?

[migu6066]

When it comes to upcoming content, there is a usual cycle that is followed and has been the same since Heavensward. Are there any plans to shake things up? Maybe follow a different path towards new content because somethings are becoming so predictable.

[Yamr3]

Will I be able to run Trusts with a friend? The Trust system reminds me of Kingdom Hearts party system. It'd be really cool if I can queue Trusts with my sister.

[NightOfDragons]

Thought of one more question. Lol. As a style request, can we please see caster gear that isn't robes? Especially for as physical and dashing Red Mages are, robes seem out of place, and I'd love to wear some awesome magitek or darklight armor as a spellcaster, rather than just robes and gowns and similar.

[DenzelVilliers]

Can 1x1 PVP Duels outside Wolves Den Arena become real someday?, like be able to invite someone for a Duel in any place or create new Arenas in different places? ( just like it happens about Triple Triad Duels outside Gold Saucer )

[DustyBlue]

Can we apply glamours from glamour plates in any area soon? All my tanks share gear, but are linked to different glamour plates so that they each have their particular job aesthetic. It stinks that when switching between my tanks in the overworld, all but one of them have to stick with the generic Scaevan armor underneath the glamour. I also like my red mage to have its own different look from the other casters.

On that note, isn't it a bit strange that dancers' first two limit breaks use crossbows? I wonder how gear meant for bards and machinists will also look appropriate for dancers going forward. Dragoon and ninja still have endgame gear all to themselves, maybe dancer should be like that too?

Would it be possible to queue for multiple duty roulettes at the same time?

Can dark knights' Plunge be given more than the 200 potency every other tank has, in honor of them being the original gap closers? And, you know, it's a giant sword coming down at you and cleaving you apart. Also, it would seem that warriors' gap closer might need to be adjusted, since it is the only one that uses job gauge and the only one that can't store 2 charges.

When can we expect new blue mage actions and content? Are we gonna be getting all those 100+ actions that have been hinted at all once in the next batch, or will all those actions that are already done be spread piecemeal over the longterm? Do you think blue mage can ever have a unique job HUD?

Do you think crafters and gatherers could have unique job HUDs too? Will fishers ever get a new spear to equip? Could you show the fishers wielding spears instead of fishing rods the entire time they are swimming underwater, instead of switching back and forth from fishing rod? They're only ever gonna be using the spears down there, after all.

Could you restore Apocatastasis and Mana Shift to caster DPS role actions? Those were my favorite. Palisade was also good for physical ranged DPS. I figure it would be nice to differentiate the physical ranged DPS's damage mitigation abilities a little bit, since it seems they are currently exactly the same. And in general, I think instead of taking away certain jobs' utility, you should give EVERY job SOME sort of utility. Bard can have at least a 1% crit gain with their songs, right? Just for the feeling? Please?

And with that, dancers and astrologians having constant damage up buffs is a bit much. What I liked about these jobs was that they had a variety of esoteric effects beyond just flat out damage buffs. Speeding up weaponskill time was cool. Each bard song used to have its own part-wide effect, then it became just flat constant crit buff across the board, and now it would appear that bards are the only ones who can hear their own music. I think we can get a bit more creative with this kind of stuff.

Can red mage one day have Veresuna?

[Alleluia]

Can we have a "Pass All" button added to the loot window?
(With functionality of passing on everything left in the window that you have not rolled Need or Greed on.)

[id_fragment]

The role quests are an amazing addition. I love learning about the WoD from the First!

With that being said, once we returned to the source, the job quests that followed were a bit...lackluster and short.
Though I did enjoy visiting our old friends and seeing what they've been up to since we were kidnapped, I would love to know more about how we got our abilities from this expansion. For example, how did Summoners learn how to summon Phoenix? Does the Card System from AST work differently now since the constellations from the First mean different things?
In summation, will the job quests be continued in the future 5.X patches, like "episodes" of some sort?

[Raikai]

The story line of the First seem to be wrapping up with Eden raid... This means that the rest of the MSQ until the end of the expansion will happen back on the Source to deal with the latest stuff happening there?