Ask Yoshi-P and Banri Oda Your Questions for the gamescom 2019 Q&A

[Sabrenn]

The AST skill Divination was recently buffed with a reduced cooldown, and some card effects were also buffed.

However, the buffs were given to bad decision gameplay, and we're back to just as much a mess as we were in 4.0 having to fish for balance in a short amount of time again, because we have to quickly fish for seals now since the Divination window is much shorter.

Because of the shorter duration, it's better to now throw whatever card to whoever just to make sure Divination is always used on cooldown.

Why did you decide to reward bad gameplay? Why was only the wrong cards buffed? The AST who played correctly received NO buff, only the ones who were playing badly by giving the wrong cards to people.

The Divination skill being shorter is NOT a buff, it's just making us struggle in between casts in the party list (especially on controller, and I know you play on a controller Yoshida, so I'm SURE you understand and it's probably why you removed mana shift because it's a pain to use as BLM when you have to scroll through the list on a controller)

If you're going to give Divination such a short cooldown, Malefic and Benefic have to be instant as well, otherwise there just isn't enough time to plan card distribution properly and it doesn't even matter because of the buff anyway.

Does anyone on the team actually main a healer that has tested this? Can we get an explanation to bad gameplay reward system instead of rewarding people playing properly who barely got anything at all?

[Lauront]

Do you expect to be able to give us an update on your plans for male Viera and female Hrothgar once you have a clearer picture of your plans for the next expansion and also for how well ShB is performing in terms of new players, sales etc?

[Grimoire-M]

The hardcore Savage/Ultimate raiding community appears to be in near universal agreement that Healers are not in a good place right now in 5.05. To many, it feels that there is a large mismatch between how the development team engages with healer design and raiding content at these levels, and what the healing community finds engaging.

My question is this: How do the FFXIV Raid and Class Design teams intend to engage healers seeking to master their role in any battle content that they are already familiar with regardless of its difficulty? The answer to this question should help the playerbase identify all of discrepancies they would like to see addressed.

[official_coconut]

When can we expect to have the Lightning hairstyle available for Viera?

[Njorn]

Was there ever a consideration about adding solo challenges ? For example a "mistrel's Ballad"-Version about our solo showdown with Zenos near the end of Stormblood. Maybe rewarding weapon glamour as reward.

[Greyhawk]

As someone who has just begun to leveling all of the crafting jobs (starting in Shadowbringers), I find myself spending more time going through retainers to locate materials to craft one thing at a time. Several other games have implemented a great crafting system that allows you to craft, using your bank/storage and inventory as well on your character to draw from and be able to craft items. Is this something that can be implemented for crafting as a whole? With the added classes, items, materials, and lack of any expansion of inventory makes this process an extreme burden. Please allow us to be able to craft using our stored materials on retainers without having to actually take anything from them,and it automatically deducts it from their inventories.

[Lauront]

Will we ever learn more about Emperor Varis, since his role in the story appears to have been cut short?

[relhsur]

Would we be able to have a clear explanation on your intentions with the healer role? Are you planning on adding back our damage skills once you consider them balanced enough healing wise? Quite a lot of us are feeling stressed since we don't know what's going on with the jobs we love and we would really really appreciate an acknowledgement that we're not being left out of the agenda. Thank you.

[Lauront]

Banri Oda had previously hinted at the current split of the Source and the Reflections as being “unstable” at the JP Fanfest Q&A – is this specific to allowing for the possibility of the Rejoinings or is there something more to it that we will learn of?

[Jaywalker]

Elidibus once described Lahabrea as "unique" after taking a long pause to choose his words. Did he, like Emet-Selch, have less favorable judgment of their colleague in recent years while being too polite to say so?