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

[Raintime]

Are there any plans to change Blood Weapon into a stack system like Delirium? with ping the way it is across the west A LOT of people cant get 5 gcds with the current duration due to clipping gcds and how tight it is, its our resource recovery ability so getting 4/5 gcds is very frustrating unless we have 40 ping of course and most of us dont live close to the server.

[leistra]

Language Usage in JP data center

As a bunch of ENG client-based users has moved from the JP to the Oceanic data center, I see that there have been more cases of gate blocking/ discriminatory actions between the remaining non-Japanese speaking players and JP players in normal and high-end content, especially in the Mana and Gaia servers. People chose to remain because they live in other South-East Asia countries and could get better latency. This is upsetting because these non-JP players had to put an extra effort to communicate with the "locals" and are already very much part of the JP gameplay style, and yet need to live in the shadows because the local community does not wish to intact with them. Knowing that there will be server updates/relocation in the future, will the dev be addressing the issue?

[leistra]

Job Identity vs. Mechanics design

As mechanics, in general, are faster, flashier, and required you run a lot more, how do the dev balance for each job regarding their job identity in each fight? Will this be an ongoing trend cuz it seems the adding on more instant cast abilities and reducing GCD in general for the sake to let you do the mechanics in future expansions are damaging the job identity.

[TirMcDohll]

Are there plans to change the S-Rank hunting system in the future. For Endwalker S-Ranks it has changed into a aetherythe camping fast to try and be the first one there when it gets spawned. I feel like the hunt system could use some improvements that would increase the engagement with a lot of the community that is currently lost

[Iscah]

The NieR raids gave us 2B's outfit but not 9S. I recall hearing somewhere that you had planned to have it but saw that people were upset by how hard it was to win the gear coffer and you didn't want to do it again.

Now that the rush has died down, will you reconsider this? The rush for acquiring the costumes was very short term and it seems a pity to permanently not release an outfit just for that reason.

[Raikai]

The Fashion Accessories were generally well received and a good nice addition. There are any plans to make their usage a bit less restricting? Like different idle stances, or being able to sit wearing them?

[Summon3530]

Are there any plans to adjust or remove the current system that is in place for obtaining the latest raid gear or tomestones? For example, if a player is unable to obtain the weapon as a drop, they would need to wait a minimum of 8 weeks to buy it with the books and this is just for one job. Some players, like myself, may find this system disheartening to raid for gear.

[Darkstar88]

Will we we ever get an engine upgrade?

[RenzaRegenlief]

The Paladin's Oath gauge is currently quite limited in what it shows. Are there plans to expand the gauge to include things like Requiescat stacks or similar? also is it possible to revert Cover back to having 20% mitigation as it currently has little utility other than niche uses (in my opinion). Thank you for all that you do!!

[Cerale]

Over the course of new patch releases, new expansions, and hunt trains, I've often found that targeting key quest NPCs or hunt targets when there are several players in range can be quite a frustrating experience. Can higher display priority be given to key NPCs for MSQ and seasonal events, as well as monsters in FATEs or Hunts, where there's bound to be significant player congestion?

Perhaps offering players a System UI setting where they can adjust their individual display priority, much like they can with Targeting settings, so that they are able to more conveniently see and interact with the targets they wish to, rather than having to wade through the sea of players (and their mounts, minions and chocobos) swarming over their display.