Ask Naoki Yoshida Your Questions for the PAX East 2023 Panel

[Aiyakiu]

Yoshida-san, as a healthcare worker, I want to thank you for all your work in the game. I joined FFXIV during the beginning of the pandemic to keep some sanity during hospital rounds and lockdown, and because of the game, have met many new friends and grown even closer with my best friend, who also started playing at the same time I did.

We were wondering if it would ever be possible to update and expand the character creator? Such as more face options, mixing and matching Au Ra horns with faces, just generally more options?

[Lyth]

Up until now, most of the job design within roles has been relatively similar, to the point where equivalent skills are often identical outside of minor differences or animation (i.e. Heart of Light vs. Dark Missionary). Will further job additions allow for more variety within roles (i.e. can we ever expect to see a melee-range healer, or a physical-ranged healer that throws potions instead of spells), or do you think that this is unlikely to be possible?

[Jambo]

Are there any plans to add a fishing adventurer plate/exclusive mount for those of us who have caught every fish in the game?

[AmiraJx]

many players miss some of the removed job actions (for example DRK's power slash, WHM's aero III, and many more...) and the reintroduction of PLD's bulwak and MCH's dismantle has been met with positive responses.

are there any plans to bring back more removed job actions or at least their animations in some form?

[AmiraJx]

having every job to be synergized with each other on 2 minute raid-wide buffs has been mostly met with negative responses due for several reasons such as
- limiting job design
- homogenization (which has been a common criticism for job design since 5.0)
- making recovery from lost dps more unforgiving after dying mid-fight

are you aware of the criticisms and are there any discussions or plans about this?

[Mearlin]

For example any of the flower headgear that are on the left side of my character's head, using the visor emote will switch it to the right side of my character's head so that is looks better with certain hairstyles.

[Rivahn]

Would it be possible for tribe mounts to play the music that plays in their tribe area -- that is, the Cavalry Drake's mount music being Smoulder, the Great Vessel of Ronka's music being Hopl's Dropple, etc.? It would be a really nice way to help us reflect fondly on the quests we did with those tribes no matter where we are when we summon those mounts.

[Kiupolo]

Would it be possible to learn more of the Archons' pasts? I would very much like to know what Yda and Papalymo's fields of study were.

[Kiupolo]

Would it be possible to go into how the concepts and ideas for the Archons- our companions, Sharlayans in general, and historical- have changed over the course of FF14's development?

[Hoshi_Kaito]

as much as I love my Chocobo, I'm wondering if we will we ever get the option of having a retainer as a companion instead of a chocobo?