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

[Dragotani]

As Final Fantasy XIV makes strides to remove gender-locking on certain aspects of the game, players have been wondering if the gender-locking on the weapon-drawn poses could be removed or adjusted? For example Female Dragoons are locked out of doing Kain's iconic pose, with their current pose resulting in certain spears not fully touching the ground. Fordola actually even uses the Male Paladin pose in a cutscene during Stormblood.

Would it be possible for the option of alternative CPoses be extended to players?

Thank you.

[Dragotani]

At the end of the Crystal Tower storyline, Nero drops a device into the Syrcus Trench, during which it's possible to hear a beeping that in Morse code seems to read "It's all wrong." Was this intended to lead into anything at the time of release? And is Meteion's repeated mantra of "It's all wrong." in reference to this? Or merely coincidence?

[Hellstorm]

The endwalker story had elements of Dancer and Bard story quest yet neither was acknowledged was this a oversite?

[Grimoire-M]

A lot of players are notably frustrated with the state of design around content surrounding the core combat loop (Specifically Class and Encounter Design) becoming too stale and similar. There's a feeling that there is a lack of diversity within subsections of this content (Tanks, Healers, Savage/Ultimate) and that many examples of skill tests (Resource Management/Attrition, Utility, Crowd Control) are being eroded away due to a need to keep up with homogeneity and power creep. Otherwise well intended Quality of Life improvements ultimately cause harm to their roles as a whole as the jobs that get them become 'unbalanced', which forces other classes to be amped up in response. As encounters are added they tend to be more and more strict and less mechanically diverse in spite of their visual aesthetics. And otherwise harmless and enjoyable mechanics (Positionals, Cast Times, Non-Healer sustain) become problems under that stress, and over time are dropped entirely (MP/TP sustain on Ranged DPS). Simply put, it feels like your team is painting themselves into a hole. Given the size of the Class and Encounter Design teams in particular is roughly half that of other MMO competitors, it becomes clear that juggling the burden of these tasks risks burnout. Knowing full well how dedicated your current teams are and how COVID is exasperating this issue in particular makes this a difficult question to ask, but it must be asked as such. When are you going to hire more designers? Not if, when. We know full well you need and deserve the space to treat yourselves better, and that is the only available solution in the long run.

[Bobsmiaw]

I have question as former AST player. Will there be a change on AST card system?
Current system hurt controller player. We need to press so many button to play the card correctly compared to keyboard+mouse player.
This create a disadvantages for controller player compared to keyboard+mouse player.

[Sinclairin1]

Any plans on implementing/putting Yotsuyu's clothing to the game for players to use?

[Joseph_Dirticious]

Are there any plans on changing Dark knight's Living dead and Blood weapon? Living dead is in an especially bad spot as due to it putting you in a debuff state upon dying, some healing jobs have a very hard time healing a tank back up to full from 1HP, especially with the fact that the DRK needs to be fully healed to 100% HP to purge walking dead.

[Hellstorm]

Endwalker rng role quest bothers me, we know Kurenai and her wishes to open up to the above world. We know Yugiri parents wishes to reunite with there daughter, and we know Yugiri yearn to speak to them Yet we sit there like there and watch yugiri suffer. I felt like we did not act very warrior of light why do that?

[Zeeningg]

Sometimes when you are playing a dps or tank and the healer NPC dies and you do not have alisaie(or she dies too, looking at the snowmen in ktsis lol), if you do not have a phoenix down in your inventory you have to go run into the boss & get killed to revive at the beginning and run all the way back, it is not super common occurence of course but it is definitely quite an annoyance when it does happen.

Perhaps it would be possibly to just add a universal duty button that rezzes them X amount of times out of combat? or maybe an ability in the Ability Log somewhere, like where the treasure map abilities are... or even an item, phoenix downs do work but unfortunately they are still unique so if you use one and forget to restock, you are out of luck.
Thank you for the great game!

[iKeaira]

Hello! I know you probably can't answer directly, but.....will Blitzball ever be added into the game? (Blink Twice if Yes) Or, on another note, will a Ball wielding job like Wakka's from FFX ever be added into XIV? Limited Job?