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

[PorxiesRCute]

One big issue I had with Endwalker was how long it took to be allowed to attune to Radz-at-Han's aetheryte. Earlier situations like Eulmore and Tertium had good plot reasons to not allow it, but Radz-at-Han is just like "Hey, thanks for destroying the Tower of Zot for us! By the way, because of the Tower of Zot, we're not allowing anyone to use the aetheryte right now." It feels really unnecessary.

[Shougun]

Bard's music system is a really neat gameplay realized element of roleplay, is there interest to add other systems tiny to large (like music) and game reinforced roleplay elements to the game?

Like Dragoons are known to be great jumpers, ... obviously lol, maybe they perhaps be able to hold space bar to jump higher in areas they've already unlocked flying? Like in games where drinking alcohol makes your screen blurry, just because it's fun and fits the role.. doesn't do much besides giving the roleplay experience. Dancer might have choreography, like the Ul'dah dancers (open up the miners guild . . . . ;3), white mage might be able to slowfall, ninja's teleport skill may work in 3d when flight has been unlocked (so you can teleport "up" to something), etc.

In some games this is shown by skills that are just for flavor, like walking on water, gliding because the character has wings, breathing under water, transforming into their mount, etc. I like that we can do everything so I'm not asking for race abilities for role play, and feel forced to have to play a lalafell for magic damage, but if there was more job roleplay I'd love that (even if it was just for goofs/didn't impact combat for balance reasons)!

Thank you~

[Reithomeige]

What was the Inspiration for creating Elpis and the mechanic of how Dynamis works (hopefully its not a top secret kind of information).

[LittleLamb32]

Back in 2017, Koji-San did an interview with people and mentioned that Light and Darkness were not Astral or Umbral, or of the 6 elements: They were a different energy entirely. In Eden's Verse: Iconoclasm, the Light-ish debuff is named "Umbral Aspect" in the English translation, with the Dark-ish being named "Astral Aspect". Conversely, Eden's Promise... Umbra is named as such because it's Cloud of Darkness.

The real question is, to what extent is the interview true in regards to Light and Darkness with those fights in mind?

[FATALSOLACE]

What happened to the rest of the Ascians from A Realm Reborn? Will they reappear in future expansions?

[Dyucrane]

The change of Inner Release to a stack system that came in 6.0 has prematurely ended the additional effect that nullifies Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, and most knockback and draw-in effects when all the stacks are used. Other GCD actions consume inner release, so the only way to prolong the timer is with Primal Rend before the 3rd Fell Cleave/Decimate. I'm sure nobody cares about these additional effects, but it could be useful as a secondary Arm's Length if we are able to fully utilize the 15s. Is it possible to keep the buff up even when there are 0 stacks available or make a separate buff entirely like Bloodwhetting's "Stem the Tide/Flow"?

[Lunalepsy]

When is this game going to be more like 1.0 instead of 2.0+? It seems all classes play out the same, and any sense of originality has been lost because every class is "balanced."

[UngaBunga]

How's Yoshida and the team doing? So much stuff in works it seems that it would be hard not to be burning out at times

[Glacierre]

Will we get a Ysayle housing portrait?

[_forgotten]

Can we get an update on the status of Ultimates for this expansion? My sub hinges on it.