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

[Rakshazi]

2 questions actualy.
1. Is there any possibility of giving back to the MCH his reload mechanick? The job is works smooth and simple now, but it's lacking the gunslinger feel to it without the reload. Now it just plays like ANY other ranged DPS without it's charm.

2. Can we somehow recieve a full beard facial hair for Lalafell race instead of just whiskers? Or full beard facial hair through Aestetician for all races?

[Entwysswyn]

Do you ever see FFXIV doing away with dungeon level sync? With running old content being such a large part of daily FFXIV play, having most of your skills removed when synced down to lower level content does not feel great to play. (Particularly as many jobs in FFXIV change their gameplay dramatically from 1-50/50-60/60-70/70-80). This problem will only get worse as we have more expansions.

[Veritas-Ancora]

The Story in Shadowbringers was THE Greatest Storytelling in Final Fantasy History.

And I've played every single Final Fantasy since their release.

Stormblood story line was really awful, but Shadowbringers was a miracle. Will you maintain this direction in future expansions?

Seriously, congrats on this storytelling. I've never felt so many feels in a game since Undertale.

[PangTong]

There are many jobs which seem to be designed with the intention of using two off-GCD abilities in between GCD weaponskills/spells, particularly Machinist and casters like Summoner. But doing this is not really possible for players with higher latency because the latency extends the animation lock of actions, meaning you won't be able to use your next weaponskill/spell right away, commonly referred to as "clipping". This makes certain jobs extremely difficult to play for players further from the servers, and gives players with lower latency a distinct advantage in potential damage output. While it might not be possible to reduce players' latency, could you potentially make changes to the game's coding or server architecture to make it easier to use abilities in between weaponskills/spells?

[Ashennae]

When is New Game+ coming out?

[Zanmato]

Recently the servers have been acting weirdly, and many of my friends experience connection issues, and often are disconnected. Furthermore, more and more banks now blacklist SE (mine included), making players lose access to both retainers, the ability to use the mogstation, and loss of renewing subscriptions. While there are timecards to fix the subscription issue, there isn't one for retainers, making us unable to get back material and rare/seasonal items that simply are stuck on the retainer. Any plans on addressing these extremely inconvenient issues?

[raelee]

1. Did you expect popularity for Emet-selch to blow up the way it did?
2. Are they any plans to bring in a minion and/or portrait of him? I know many people who would be happy even throwing their real money at it.

[Lyth]

Living Dead's design has been repeatedly flagged as a problem for the past four years by both Dark Knight players and their healers; but we're yet to see an official response from this.

1. It's the only ability in the game which requires someone else, playing another job, to understand how it works in advance to ensure your survival. Not only does your healer's actions determine whether the death penalty is removed, but their healing also determines how long the ability mitigates damage.
2. The English tooltips are incorrect and have lead to a lot of confusion on how the ability actually works.
3. There is a lack of feedback to your healers in the UI that the effect is active and on how much additional healing is required to cleanse the effect. Newer healers don't understand what they are supposed to do and how to remove the effect safely. Veteran healers don't know how much additional healing they need, and are forced to burn resources on it until the effect disappears.
4. Tank HP has increased significantly this expansion, making this ability progressively more challenging to heal, especially in the absence of Benediction.
5. The removal of Convalescence (due to it's addition on to Thrill of Battle as a WAR only effect) in Shadowbringers now places an increased reliance on healer cooldowns and forces them to burn their resources to clear the effect.
6. Benediction itself is on a 3 minute recast to Living Dead's 5 minutes, which means that reserving Benediction for Living Dead nearly costs you a recast of Benediction every time that you do.
7. Unlike every other tank invulnerability in the game, your tank has no ability to heal themselves up from this ability after it has been activated. Every other invulnerability in the game can be used in solo content. Living Dead cannot.
8. Most detrimental effects fall off when a fight has been completed. Walking Dead still kills you even if you've won the battle.

Recently, you removed the drawback on Holmgang, which was widely regarded as the most powerful tank invulnerability in the game, while preserving its status as the shortest recast invulnerability. When are you going to address the immense amount of community feedback on one of the most reviled tank abilities in the game? When are you going to fix Living Dead?

EDIT: Newest thread discussing Living Dead: Link

[LemonadeCandy]

Hello, and thank you for an amazing expansion!
I have a housing-related question: Would it be possible to place our minions and let them roam free inside our houses/rooms/apartments, much like they do within the Minion Square in the Gold Saucer? Just one or two would be enough, I'm not picky! I just need cats in my house ^^'

[Atreus]

What exactly is the vision for PvP right now and is the Feast going to be the only "competitive" mode we're ever going to get?