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

[Reika]

Will crafters and gatherers ever get any non tradeable rare gear that we must make ourselves? Things like a rare non tradable log or gem which can be made into a rare non tradable piece of crafting/gathering gear? Something that allows a player to really show off their own achievements and puts value on gathering and crafting in conjunction with each other, without introducing combat elements into it.

I REALLY want this, but combat elements should also play a role in items as well. Some rare materials should be obtained through combat like in dungeons or from NMS (Wanted from dungeons in 1.0, but only got NM's, some through gathering.)

Are there plans on continuing the rare-drop from battle used for crafting that was used to make gear like Champions Lance and Dodore Doublet, but instead stronger versions that require the crafter obtain the material him/herself (no-trade items) to craft the no-trade Gear?

[Reika]

are there any plans to to make both a male and female version of AF armor. it might be jusyt me but i feel that at least in AF you should be able to tell if the character is male or female (mainly blm AF). second some AF is suited more for females than males (whm and brd)

In relation to this, when it comes to WHM at least, the 'pants' of it are shorts on male, and a mini-skirt on females. However, the body of the WHM armor covers it all up making the difference meaningless. Will AF armor change so that we can actually see the differences of the the whole armor set on males and females?

[Reika]

Is there any effort being made to make alternate toons meaningful? Aside from looks, gear and starting city storylines, is anything being done to make the experience of these two different?

I will admit, different starting cities and grand companies has a nice appeal in itself but what will make my white mage on one character different from my white mage on another character? If at all?

This reminded me of a developer 'thought' about making it possible to Be a Dark Knight on Gladiator, but lose the ability to become a Paladin as the result of the quest and the change. I don't mind them doing this if it means giving alts more purpose.

[Req]

I am wondering if there will be any "Gated" content in FFXIV. I would like areas that you actually have to work to get into, as well as all the content that that area includes. I understand that accessibility is key and, but I also think that it is important to maintain a level of accomplishment when you are playing a game.

The closest thing we really had to this type of content in 1.0 was Ifrit extreme and Darnus hard, but those were just revamped bosses. I think Aurum Veil had the requirement of doing Darkhold like one time to enter, but that was it, and among those, Ifrit Extreme was the only one that posed any type of challenge to get to.

I would like entire areas in FFXIV where we have to work to get to them. With the way they are doing zones and making them look incredible, it will just make it that much sweeter the first time we step foot in a new zone if there was a large hurdle you had to over come to get into it. The type of zone that when you talk about it to a player that is newer to the game they will get excited about their own journey to get there.

[Reika]

Will we be able to have retainers shared between our characters on a server, so we wont have to mail items to our alts or use-a-friend to transfer items?

[Reinheart]

Is there any possibility of you guys hiring me?

SE's career page hasn't been updated since last December, so might as well ask it here.

[Andreas-Lycaeus]

At what stage in the game will existing players be able to reset their levels? I'd really like to keep my old character for storyline purposes, but start off at level 1 so that I can appreciate all the new content.

[Reika]

When the game launches, can you give the character named "Terumi Sakurai" the title of 'Princess of Eorzia' upon creation?
<3

[NefGP]

We know that Summoner is planned for introduction with the game's relaunch. Looking ahead, what sort of schedule can we expect for future jobs and classes? When XIV was first announced by Tanaka, he stated that there would be new classes added regularly via version updates. Is this still the case? Will it always be a new class, or will existing classes get new jobs by mixing different sub-classes (i.e. RDM could be GLA + THM whereas PLD is GLA + CNJ)?

Finally (and I apologize for the multi-part quesiton) I have to know - FFXI just recently got 2 new mages, Geomancer and Rune Fencer (formerly Mystic Knight from FFV) what are the odds of seeing them appear in XIV in the future? (I'm a huge fan of sword magic ^^ )

[Reika]

So..... Dark Knight..... very first job lined up after summoner right?