Letter From the Producer Live Part LXXIX - 24 September 2023 - Summary and Discussion

[Yegu]

Here's your new raid gear bro

[Winterfang]

Here's your new raid gear bro

*Angry Ver noises about robes intensifies*

[CidHeiral]

I hear that for sure, especially with sets where there is no obvious reason why another job couldn’t be wearing it. Some restrictions are nonsense all around lol.

I'm not on board with removing restrictions from everything but they could certainly do it for all of the crafting/gathering sets. The devs spend so much time and effort making all those great looking unique sets that nobody ever uses because all crafters share the same gear and nobody is going to eat up all their glam plates for crafter looks.

Here's your new raid gear bro

I am so tired of Maiming just being a dupe of Fending. I thought that would change when Reaper was added to the gear but nope. I would love more light and flowy sets for DRG.

[aveyond-dreams]

Here's your new raid gear bro

The raid gear this expansion has been as imaginative as the patch MSQ.

[Allegor]

Here's your new raid gear bro

This is 100% accurate and what I personally find extra annoying about this pattern is that at the very least there are some aesthetic differences between fending and maiming, and striking, scouting and aiming....but casting and healing? literally copy-paste and call it a day, not even "add more frills on the healer" or "give the BLM a bigger hat" - that's how little they matter.

[Deceptus]

Here's your new raid gear bro

This is gloriously accurate, and sad at the same time.

[XianRo]

This is 100% accurate and what I personally find extra annoying about this pattern is that at the very least there are some aesthetic differences between fending and maiming, and striking, scouting and aiming....but casting and healing? literally copy-paste and call it a day, not even "add more frills on the healer" or "give the BLM a bigger hat" - that's how little they matter.

8.0 will have another new melee or tank because god forbid they ever make meteor a healer for an expac.
I was hoping the 7.0 stuff would show whm meteor. Like I really expected them to give meteor a HEALING easy break after saving the whole breadth of existence in endwalker but no...melee-teor again.

[Supersnow845]

8.0 will have another new melee or tank because god forbid they ever make meteor a healer for an expac.
I was hoping the 7.0 stuff would show whm meteor. Like I really expected them to give meteor a HEALING easy break after saving the whole breadth of existence in endwalker but no...melee-teor again.

At the very least at least let him be a caster or a phys ranged

I know somewhere along the way they said that “casters weren’t dynamic enough” but it would be really nice to have us ranged mains represented with meteor as well rather than just 3 tanks out of 4 and 3 melee out of 5 (1.0 ARC doesn’t count)

[LioJen]

Healers can't be the main character, sorry. Heroes don't hide on the back row.

[Aldath]

Healers can't be the main character, sorry. Heroes don't hide on the back row.

An anime tried it once. Never again, please.