Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part V!

[Molic]

Will Jobs/class be able to use different weapons? For example Ninja can use katana or throwing weapons, sam Great katana, polearm, bow, dark knight can use a wide variety of weapons.

If these jobs came out would they be stuck using only 1 weapon or finally able to use different weapons. Also if they can use multiply weapons would there abilities/weapon skills change based on the weapon?

Do you think the armor/class system might limit this?

[Noddnarb]

You've given mention of various jobs (NINJA, Thief, Samurai, etc.) through surveys, concept art and interviews, but will you give us a clear cut answer on what jobs will be available at launch and which jobs will be implemented later on; also to add to that information on how to obtain certain jobs. (Example: what class would Ninja derive from, or Samurai?)

I'm a Ninja nut and would love to see and play one in FFXIV!!

[Monzcarro]

What are some examples of summons that will be available when the Summoner job releases, and how will they be obtained? If not through leveling up, will there be a solo option for obtaining summons?

[Coombah]

Will there be any more playable races and if so how many and what are they?

[Destinova]

Does the dev team fell limited by the Armoury system? If so in what ways?

[strallaalaa]

will ARR be a mmo where we can live and play in it for years like ffxi or will it be a toss away mmo like most mmo's being released?

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Do you have any plans to give the races and clans more presence in the game world ? Right now there's really nothing in the game environment to define the culture of the individual races/clans such as architecture, clothing, dialect, or nationality.

I'd like to see cities or villages implemented that are considered the native homelands of each race/clan so that I can visit them and experience the culture of each race/clan.

Are there any plans for such places ?

[PEANUT]

I'd like to complement this with another question:

- Will the monsters be real flying monsters in ARR, as opposed to hovering ones as in 1.0?
(I always hated how the monsters were not flying and simply hovering while following the terrain in 1.0...ugh)

I would like to compliment both of your questions. I strongly agree with adding "real flying" monsters into the game, for fun and realistic purposes. If you recall back to FF13, FF13 had monsters just like this. But obviously since 13's battle system is completely different from 14's, it would be great if you could go about it differently. Maybe for the ranged attackers(BLM,WHM,BARD,ETC.) attacking a flying monster to draw it's attention would be no problem, but maybe for the tank and close range attakers(PLD,MNK,ETC.) there could be a "Call" skill that draws their attention so you could bring them down and fight them. Or a simple "Rock throwing" skill to grab their attention?

[Lasada]

When do we get baby chocobos? Are we getting them at launch?

[Xeia]

Can we expect a relic weapon for SMN, or will jobs added after the implementation of relic weapons not get one, like in FFXI?