Letter from the Producer LIVE LXVIII: Ask Your Endwalker Questions!

[SpiderriaN]

I'm a relatively new player, played for about 3 months now and just reached Shadowbringers content. I say that I am loving the game so far and am a tank main but I have a few concerns.
Are there any plans to adjust Dark Knight? I love the class but it has some glaring flaws when compared to other tanks. Living Dead is a bad ability as it puts way to much stress on the healers, especially Scholar and Sage. Bloodweapon either needs to have its duration increased or just moved to a stack system like Inner Release. Dark Mind seems like an almost completely useless ability. Abyssal Drain needs to be on a shorter cooldown so that Dark Knights have more self sustain options in dungeon content to help the healers out. TBN needs to either not be tied to damage or have a mana cost to make it a more valuable ability without losing out on damage, perhaps the cooldown gets increased and when the shield breaks it heals you.
I really like Dark Knight but every other tank is better at most content and I don't want to stress my healers out with my lack of self sustain, especially in dungeons, so I hope some changes are planned soon.
Paladin buffs were nice but I still feel that they need to do more base damage so that all tanks are on about the same playing field as its utility is good but doesn't justify the significantly lower damage compared to DRK and GNB. It can still be the lowest damage tank but there shouldn't be such a discrepancy between the top and bottom tanks for damage.
Thank you for all the work you put into the game, I am loving it and its community and hope that these changes go through so that the game becomes even better : )

[Rulakir]

Yoshi-P has said the future storyline will deal with a conflict in values, but those vary per individual. What happens if/when the antagonist embodies what the player believes and the WoL does not? Some have already said after EW they don't feel they're on the same page ethically as the writers.

[Mae_Proet]

Hi!

I have a question about Summoner: are there any considerations to move Summoner's level 86 ruin mastery trait down to lower levels (of course with potency adjustments), particularly ARR? As someone who loves Summoner, my experience with Summoner at lower levels below 86 make garuda and titan feel identical, whereas from level 86 onwards, they become incredibly different from one another.

[Mae_Proet]

Hi!

I have another question about Summoner: are there any considerations to make Summoner's summons dps neutral to one another? As it stands right now, it seems like we have to start with titan, then garuda, and then finally ifrit, and mostly because titan's the strongest. However, I'd prefer if we could just use the summons based on the situation in the fight vs. the potency of the summon. If the summons became dps neutral to one another, I'd start of with ifrit to take advantage of the lack of mechanics happening at the beginning of a fight, then either garuda or titan based on what happens next.

[SpiderriaN]

Are there plans for more character customization options? I think being able to adjust the body and face with more sliders and shaders would be really cool to help ensure that your character looks unique. It would be nice if there were ways to adjust facial features instead of choosing from a select few presets, something like the Dark Souls character creator where there are a lot of sliders for adjusting your nose, cheekbones, jaw, forehead, etc. There is a slider for female chest size why not add a slider for the rump as well for both males and females to have more representation? Also I think getting rid of gender specific clothing as a whole would be awesome so that you can have your character dress any way you possibly want. Making the maid outfit gender neutral was a great step in the right direction, now lets just go all the way please.

[pictureman27]

If there is going to be another deep dungeon. I was thinking it would be awesome if it was on the moon lunarian subterranean levels, like final Fantasy IV

[Tudi20]

As someone who has played through MSQ so far exclusively as a healer, my question is the following: Would it be possible that in solo duties (at least when playing as a healer), friendly NPCs (especially those that are effected by AoE healing) to show up in the party list - or at least for healer job/role quests? I think this would allow more people to learn how to heal in dungeons/trials, and would also make the solo duties easier to clear for healers.

[Bbbutts]

Are there any plans to update 2.0 races to modern standards? Highlanders have very low quality normal maps, Elezen are very unpopular due to their bad animations, Miqo'te suffer from lowres face textures, etc.

[NanoSquid]

Dark Knight had Dark Arts removed during its rework, and the reason given was that it was "too complicated". Yet the new healer job, Sage, has a very similar ability called Eukrasia that is actually even more complicated. Has the job design philosophy changed, and can we hope for a rework to Dark Knight that might bring back this iconic ability?

[KingDragon500]

Will you decrease the number of item turn ins for the ShB relics like you did the HW relics?