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

[Alleluia]

Can we flirt with the Crystal Exarch in future story content?


(I feel a bit embarrassed to be the one to ask, but at the same time, it does have a thread! There's real interest in him. And I do support the idea, so... biting the bullet and asking for the fangirls/fanboys. lol)

[DustyBlue]

Also, I would like to actually be able to play the Feast PVP, but every time I queue for it seems like an endless queue, waaaaay beyond 30 minutes. What am I doing wrong?

[bunnee]

Hello,

Thank you for the amazing expansion!! I noticed a new hyur midlander face preset used by generic NPC's, would you be willing to make this available for us to use for our characters? Attached picture:

[WolfieDeWolf]

Can we please get a potion or something to increase the drop rate of mats dropped by open world enemies, or just increase the drop rate from the enemies? I understand fates makes this easier, but I don't always want to do fates.

[Raikai]

Any plans to give a "Performance" action for Dancers as well? It can work like an interactive dance.

[KingBicket]

Would you ever be open to the idea of doing raids/dungeons where DoH/DoL would be able to be used? So for a raid they could gather materials, make cannon balls and fire cannons at mobs or help provide buffs to the combat classes? It would be really fun to have other content for DoH/DoL. I love crafting in this game and it would be great to see it utilized elsewhere!

[Echoelle]

Can we get more outdoor furnishing like garden plots available indoors as well for people that own apartments/FC rooms? Or give an expanded apartment system like a balcony to allow gardening. Flower pots are nice, but you can't crossbreed with them.

[Eisenhower]

Currently healing potions have little to no use at higher levels, even when engaging in solo play. Are there any plans to adjust potion effects?

[id_fragment]

As a SMN main since 2.0, I commend you and your team on how you're able to thematically separate SCH and SMN with each expansion!
In Shadowbringers, it looks like the two job's bitter divorce is finally coming to a head.

Following this, will we see more Primal based attacks?
The Bio/Miasma seems out of place with SMN, as it derives from the ACN arcanima, which SCH feels closer to in terms of lore.
Changing the Bio/Miasma to something more thematically uniform to SMN like maybe "Frostbite" from a Shiva attack/animation and "Thunderstruck" from a Ramuh attack/animation. Maybe Tri-disaster coming from The Warring Triad?
This way, we get to see more, and use multiple Primals without us having to change our Egi all the time, and you don't have to worry about adding in more Egi glamour in the future!

[MaraD_]

Is this the intended function of Superbolide or is the Dev team addressing a fix?)

HP reduction is the "Cost" like MP is.
Invulnerability is the "effect" after the animation.

They wouldnt have done that, unless there was some issue that came up, preventing it to be otherwise.
(but using your HP to invuln sounds more DRK than GNB. Then living dead seems more WAR, with WARs original healing potency increases, self healing, and refusal to die in the job quests. And Holmgang coulda been GNB. Even more so with the bind, since its meant to be the "anti artillery" job.)

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?

You actually believed them?
They literally made a 4th tank.
They tried to hide behind the idea of 2 Ots and 2 MTs as the reason why, and not only did they not do it, they went ahead and did the very thing they said was impossible, balancing the 4 tanks as both MT and OT. (its why they didnt make a 4th tank in SB they said, and the same thing they said about healers in SB/SHB.)

This is just the cover story for w/e actually happened behind the scenes.

If i were to guess, id say jobs with excessive simplicity were designed with healing or tanking in mind.
As they played around with the idea, they ended up canceling their original idea, either due an unforseen problem, or liking another idea they felt better suited a DSP.
Look at how DNC/RDMs resources arent in a constant state of depleting.
I personally think both were designed with the idea of being DPS or healer, and after some tinkering, decided to make them both DPS based on various factors.
(also, since controller users are taken into account, the amount of buttons a controller presses, to heal between GCDs, can be alot. my hands hurt more on healer, than on NIN. (NIN having the highest 55 APM)
essentially having to press nearly a maximum of 7 presses between GCDs, depending on the situation. (targeting 4 slots away from ur current selection is 4 presses, then 1 to switch back to boss, and possibly 2 more for oGCD uses. Though this isnt the normal)
If you notice DNCs "mudra" is on the GCD, because it would be too hard for controller users to be a healer with mudras.
DNC uses ranged attacks, due to "healers shall not ever be designed as melee!"
Plus the longer dance animation before attacks went off int he original job trailer. (an invisible cast bar animation, that was reworked into the basic animation)
Heck, even a healing mechanic, thats far more thought out than a basic DPS healing ability.

There's no real proof, but looking at it from a design standpoint, they actually did try to make healers, but decided against it, and the reasoning wouldnt sound too good to those upset, so they made a typical corporate response. (that is even more insulting)