Letter From the Producer Live XXIII

[Ratatapa]

[Alexander: Gordias (Savage) Loot Rules]

It will be possible to complete each area once per week, and in addition to obtaining equipment directly from treasure coffers, everyone will receive a token that can be used to exchange for gear.

In the event that players who already completed an area for the week are present, similar to Coil, the number of chests that appear will change based on the amount of these players; however, you will still be able to obtain the token item if you have yet to do so for the week.

Additionally, in regards to the normal mode of Alexander, we've been seeing feedback mentioning that the lotting battles are rough, so we may look into increasing the amount of rewards.

[Carth]

What they could do is just give us our own loot pool instead of having us fight over it...

[Sigmakan]

Did I miss the part about the DRG buffs? Not seeing it. If true, its quite odd since they appear to be highest DPS.

I'm actually enjoying DRK quite a bit. The only thing I would fix is the TP issue

[Voyage1970]

What they could do is just give us our own loot pool instead of having us fight over it...

Or just copy the Savage system over to Normal since that is infinitely superior, assuming the tokens you get are just generic tokens you can use to buy any piece of gear with the same costs (4 for Body/Legs, etc.)

[SamanosukeShiva]

You'd probably still want to do Alex NM the first week of Savage to help out with the gear checks.

[avelle]

I'm a little shocked, or maybe I shouldn't be, that there wasn't a single question about the grind from 50-60 and the FATE exp. Do they really expect people to FATE grind in N.Than / Dungeon run all the way to 60 on alternate jobs?

[lilbubbles]

There was a mention on the forums that they planned to increase fate exp.

[avelle]

There was a mention on the forums that they planned to increase fate exp.

Ah thanks, that would be helpful.

[Carth]

The EXP for the level 51-55 zones will need to be boosted a very high amount for it to be worth it. 3x or 4x of what it currently is. Probably the same for the other zones too but I have no idea how much they give because no one ever does them. Boosting exp from hunts would be very helpful too, but doubt they thought that far ahead.

But yeah, everyone has been complaining about the lack of EXP once you exhausted all your quests so it isn't a surprise they're already addressing this. Only alternative from N-Thanalan FATEs is Grinding Library, but you can't do that until level 59.

[layoneil]

Who drafts these questions? Serious query because they are terrible. I would love someone to ask something about the extreme homogenization of progression, both from a gear and content perspective.

there's a thread on the OF that's like 100 pages long with a billion questions. nearly every good question has been asked, they simply pluck out the ones that they want to give answers to.

[Lucavi]

there's a thread on the OF that's like 100 pages long with a billion questions. nearly every good question has been asked, they simply pluck out the ones that they want to give answers to.

Yep. Its called Cherry Picking. Everyone does it at times, lol. SE is no different.

[Kelenae]

Obviously they couldn't answer all the questions... it would of taken 10 times longer to answer all of them.

[Cutriss]

Cheese Sandwiches.

Also people have been complaining about the dumbass difficulty adjustment system for FATEs but who knows if they'll ever do anything about that.

[layoneil]

Obviously they couldn't answer all the questions... it would of taken 10 times longer to answer all of them.

the issue wasn't answering all the questions, some people think good questions aren't asked but they are. they just get skipped over because the very obvious answers they have to give will either be no comment or completely maddening because lots of the playerbase are too simple to care.

[Sigmakan]

The EXP for the level 51-55 zones will need to be boosted a very high amount for it to be worth it. 3x or 4x of what it currently is. Probably the same for the other zones too but I have no idea how much they give because no one ever does them. Boosting exp from hunts would be very helpful too, but doubt they thought that far ahead.

But yeah, everyone has been complaining about the lack of EXP once you exhausted all your quests so it isn't a surprise they're already addressing this. Only alternative from N-Thanalan FATEs is Grinding Library, but you can't do that until level 59.

agree that they would have to make the FATEs 3x more xp. Biggest thing working against FATEs in these new zones is how large the zones are. N. than is great because its so small that it keeps the herd focused on one FATE to the next. This results in FATEs being completed extremely quick and in an organized manner.

[Adajer]

Did I miss the part about the DRG buffs? Not seeing it. If true, its quite odd since they appear to be highest DPS.

I'm actually enjoying DRK quite a bit. The only thing I would fix is the TP issue

A lot of people just dont know how to play their classes. DRG is actually pretty easy once you break away from 2.0 rotation muscle memory. The only downside to drg is directionals sucking ass. Two weaponskills that do the same thing is stupid too. Jumps still cause deaths.

As a drg, I pretty much outdps everyone except my static monk. He is the only monk that dps more than me. People just need to get good like Yoshi P is saying for the most part.

[gaira]

the game doesn't make it necessary to git gud, though. mediocre is fine for anything but progression, and bad will get you carried in duty finder a fair amount of the time.

[Voyage1970]

A lot of people just dont know how to play their classes. DRG is actually pretty easy once you break away from 2.0 rotation muscle memory. The only downside to drg is directionals sucking ass. Two weaponskills that do the same thing is stupid too. Jumps still cause deaths.

As a drg, I pretty much outdps everyone except my static monk. He is the only monk that dps more than me. People just need to get good like Yoshi P is saying for the most part.

Honestly I think that wasn't even a question a lot of people were asking. The only major concern I've seen people having with DRG was Wheeling/Fang being random instead of tied to Chaos/Thrust respectively. Other than that most people feel it's fine and are happy about the surge in power they got. Only thing I can think of is Yoshida is super pandering to the lowest of the lowest common denominator or someone on the dev team plays DRG (like Yoshida BLM) and felt he wanted buffs since a MNK in his static beat him in a parse once or some nonsense. /tinfoilhat

[Detzu]

My favourite :

Q76. Do you have plans to introduce an afro hairstyle?

A76. We're going to add this in Patch 3.1. We actually had it nearly ready to release, but the number of polygons were too high. We're currently making adjustments to this, so please look forward to it.

[Sho]

What the fuck, Fang & Claw and Wheeling Thrust are random? Who's idea was that? I figure they wanted it to be a bit of a challenge in landing the final hit of an extended combo, but that's rediculous.