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

[Lauront]

While we will undoubtedly see more damage spells in the future (Ultima?), will BLM get some interesting master-of-magic type spells, like being able to summon mirror images of the caster, as well as upgrades to spells like Aetherial Manipulation and Manaward? How about re-purposing spells which are pure bloat, like Scathe?

[vanitasunverse]

When belts were removed, the speed belt was changed into a ring. This is still a very rare and niche item drop that only a small percentage of the players will see. How often does the developer team encounter these types of old items and gameplay, that is only done by a very small part of the playerbase, and how often are you forced to make compromises during updates for these types of rare content?

[Lauront]

Would it be possible to design a job along the lines of the Spell in Waiting mechanic we saw Gaia use? Maybe a time mage focused on darkness with tools to expand and contract spells?

[Desert_Despoina]

Replaying an Alliance Raid for "The Ridorana Lighthouse;" with the final Boss being Ba'Gamnan who is emotionally upset over what the Empire has done- transforms into a monster. Was this the first hint of Dynamis energy, being able to change people into monsters?

[Rayne6665]

Hi thank you Yoshi and the dev teams for doing a such an amazing job!
I have a question. Will we be able to see more relic weapons in the future?

[283leis]

Hermes, Meteion and Dynamis played a large role in the story of Endwalker. When did the idea of these two characters, and the concept of Dynamis, first originate?

[Gaddes]

Throughout the story we've seen a lot of Ishgardian and Wildwood Elezen, but to this day Duskwights have barely been featured, with many of them either being bad-guy characters, or having very minimal backstories to the Duskwight lore. Will we actually get some proper important POSITIVE Duskwight characters moving forward, as well as some better acknowledgment of their mistreatment by Gridania? It would also help towards more diverse characters that aren't just fair skinned, white haired characters, to add some more diverse skintones like Duskwights anyway.
Adding to this, there is still a lot of mystery and not much known about Gelmorra... perhaps this would be a good time to also revisit expanding that lore as well?

[Vesplume]

Can we get more emotes that involve weapons somehow? Battle stance and victory pose are some of my most often used emotes when using Gpose. Being able to use attacks in explorer mode is a nice bonus, but certain animations (especially for dragoon) are almost impossible to get good shots of. Can there be some expansion of weapon use in non-combat settings?

[Theox]

Can you say for certain if viera and hrothgar are going to be limited in terms of hats forever? The lack of hats for recent seasonal events for these races suggest a pattern, but many people would like to hear it from the devs directly.

[EgoCollective]

Why is the tower of Babil still emitting a red aetheric energy if Fandaniel supposedly drained it entirely? Should it not have stopped when the other towers disappeared?