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

[Etoh]

Have there been any progress on revamping the Duty Roulette?
My friends felt that rewards for Alliance roulette can be tiered to the length/difficulty/type of alliance raids matched to (currently it's a flat reward).

[Alexvai]

With the release of the new healer in EW i thought we could have some interesting changes in the way the role plays compared to others. Although Sage is a step in the right direction I feel like we're becoming a spam one offensive button role and occasionally throw a heal. Why can't we have offensive combos like every other role in the game?

[Etoh]

Can the UI Team consider to improve the map UI further?
Currently one can only toggle all icons/text on or off. Some of my new player friends were overwhelmed starting the game and can't use the map properly due to so many icons on map. Can the icons be toggled by category (for example, MSQ only, Sidequest only, Vendor types, etc)

[Halivel]

Male Viera names

Unlike Female Viera, Male Viera appear to have different naming conventions, but the official post about them wasn't updated. Are there any plans to do so?

Their last names seem to follow strict patterns with only two options before hyphen and six options after hyphen (for Rava Viera). Last names for Male Veena Viera are also different and all seem to have same endings.
So what Male Viera last names actually mean?

Regarding first names, they seem to barely overlap with names given to Female Viera, despite the fact they have a lot of "Forest" names in their generator (especially Rava). We know, however, that until puberty they cannot call girls and boys apart, so it rises the question: do they simply not have names until that point in their life, or they change them once it's clear if it's a boy or a girl?

[Roseflare]

With the Empyreum housing district coming in 6.1 does that mean we will also get Ishgardian styled furnishing to go along with it such as the furnishings we see in the Fortemps Manor?

[Duskane]

Is there any plans to add more vibrant colors to some of the duller ones like Purple and Orange

[Lauront]

Do you intend to provide an explanation of the time travel mechanics involved in EW and how they interact with those in SHB, as this plot aspect has left quite a few people confused? Based on this, would there ever be the possibility of travel to an alternate timeline where things ended better for the ancients so we can properly explore their world?

[Ebonwing]

There are still a lot of open questions surrounding Zenos. Him dreaming of the Final Days, the hints that he was an Ascian test subject, how he acquired his reaper avatar etc. Is there anything you can tell us about your plans to resolve them?

[rainbowtoarrow]

Will we explore anything about Dynamis from this point?

[rainbowtoarrow]

Have fan theories ever surprised/worried you when it came to how close they were to being right? Last summer, someone predicted Emet-Selch might be Amon and obviously that wasn't quite right! But I felt very pleased for them when I watched Endwalker's plot unfold.