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

[GawainCross]

Can fashion accessories be used in battle please? Not all of them like the umbrellas or anything occupying hands, just the wings and glasses etc.

[GawainCross]

If you ever let some fashion items be used in combat, an we please have a paid of headphones like for portable orchestration rolls, just the headphones would be cool.

[GawainCross]

Can we have the original FFVIII Squall Jacket and pants? The Dissidia version we have in game is kinda lame.

[GawainCross]

For Eden's raid, Yoshida said there wouldnt be much FFVIII stuff in it because this is FFXIV, but we had an entire raid tier dedicated to FFV, FFVI and some FFI at the end, faithfully and almost 1 for 1 retold. Why couldn't we have a few FFVIII bosses like Greiver? I feel this is really unfair and bias, specialy with all the other FF suff in game like WoL from FF1, FFII's battle theme, FFIII's crystal tower and Amon aswell as FFVI's Xande being crucial for the main plot of the game, FFIV themes like going to the moon, magus sisters etc, the FFV and VI raids, the FFVII trial bosses, FFIX bosses like Ozma and ViVi, Anima/magus sisters from FFX being involved, FFXI references in Eureka, FFXII alliance raids and Bozja, FFXIII Lightning and Snow attire, FFXV event with gear, mounts, bosses etc. even Final Fantasy Tactics stuff which is great, but no respect or representation for FFVIII besides Gunbreaker and some allusions to Draw and Junctioning.

More FFVIII Respect and representation please.

[GawainCross]

Will there be any enhancements to the way people access Duels in Bozja or future duel content? It is so frustrating and time consuming just to get in one that I gave up on the Zadnor duels though I know I an clear them, spending 3 hours to get in once or having other people zone in unprepared and not even wanting to do it is frustrating.

My suggestion would to give each player 1 Notoriety every single time they complete any Critical Engagement with a Gold rating, and after completing a Critical Engagement that gives access to a Duel if you arent hit, let people choose how much of their Notoriety they want to put up to get in, the winner loosing all their notoriety while everyone else who bet notoriety and didnt get in, keeping their notoriety.

[GawainCross]

Can you give anyone who does Zadnor or Lacus Latoire a entire level for completing it so people actually run them again? BTW Lacus Latoire is my favorite instance in the game, its great.

[Wrey]

Lately, FF14 has been following a worrying trend of over-simplifying jobs. Jobs like Dark Knight, Astrologian, Machinist, and now Summoner all turned from fairly complex and skill based jobs to very simplistic and overly easy jobs to play. I don't think this is a good direction for the game and is reminiscent of some poor design choices that Blizzard made with World of Warcraft. I'm scared what this could mean for FF14 7 years from now.

Are there any plans to bring back some of the complexity in job design that was present in previous expansions?

[GawainCross]

Can we get more non combat things to do in the new exploration modes similar to bunny chests in eureka, something to break up the monotony, Bozja and Zadnor are gret but feel liek big empty mas and there nothing to do while you wait for Critical Engagements to spawn.

[GawainCross]

Can you please let Male Viera wear Lyons hair like most every other race?

[GawainCross]

I would like to know what sparked the collaboration with Mr. Matsuno, specially after all this time, he is one of my favorite writers and directors right next to Yoshida and Tetsuya Nomura, and I am happy to see him working on Ivalice again.