FFXIV: Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXXI (81) Summary 

0:00 - intro 0:43 - DDoS Feedback 6:46 - Job Adjustments Start 8:24 - Tanks 11:15 - Melee DPS 15:03 - Viper 17:03 - Ranged Phys 18:28 - Magical Ranged DPS 21:43 - Pictomancer 28:25 - Healers 32:19 - PvP 33:32 - Announcements

Big shoutout to the devs! Thank you for listening! amg! Moon cat teeth are back and im excited about this 60 minute timer on fantas- sounds like if you're not satisfied with your changes you can make some adjustments during the cd timer and i LOVE this and find it to be super consumer friendly- PROPS if true!

“End of Heart” is the direct translation of the Japanese. It was corrected to Lionheart, which is the localized name that will show up in-game.

SCH is my main healing job, so that is exciting to get to turn into an angel for a little bit of time! Thanks for going thru all the LL info in short form!

Lorewise it makes sense for SMN to have a rez spell. I really hope they don't get rid of it. I still miss the old carbie pet summons pre Endwalker but looking forward to the new summons and abilities we'll be getting.

VERY glad to have the change to RDM's AoE combo- It always irked me that the indication noise almost lied to you about being able to switch to melee in multi-target scenarios

Also, whm gets icarus, sge gets aero 3. ITs the law of equivalent exchange.

As an astro main since HW, this sounds promising. I vastly preferred when cards had different effects. That said I felt ShB astro was the absolute best version all around, so we’ll see how it plays out. On paper, I’m not disappointed.

Endwalker got me back in XIV seriously during lockdown and now I'm gonna come back after 2 years. Thanks for the amazing summaries as always

I always wait for your videos Meoni, for any kind of XIV news. I just appreciate the way you deliver all the details in an easy to digest way. Starting to get really hyped for Dawntrail! Thanks for the video!

So.... Astrologian returns mid-way to its original glory-days Heavensward self. Woot woot.

I just want SE to fix the damn payment issues.

I'm sort of a casual player aside from getting every class to 90, and so far I've always liked when one ability automatically turns into the next input in the combo, like they do in pvp, I'm using a mouse with 2 extra buttons, and there are so many abilities it's still hard for me to hit all the buttons on some jobs at the moment, so I hope they at least start giving us the option turn some of those main combo's into auto next in the combo chain. Some might find it lazy, but I enjoy it, and I don't see a problem with it if it's a toggle choice ingame.

"... Firray ai-ai-ai, or Fire 3 if you want to pronounce it that way"

Awesome summary always look forward to your videos after live letters.

Thank's for the video Meoni, much appreciated.

Gap-closer for White Mage. That is all.

As a current savage raider that plays smn, I think smn should get to keep their resurrection. I have saved many of runs with a well-timed res. Either with swift cast or dropping my own dps to get a player up. Normally a healer but sometimes a tank or dps for a body check. Outside of that, I am excited to see what this new summon brings to the table.

Hopefully Bard’s songs being more of a casted buff means we can keep songs going without needing a mob nearby.

Great summary. Thank you so much!

DONT TAKE MY REZ

Right? That was a long live letter! Thanks for posting, Meoni, good job as always

Absolutely devastated there is no Shiva or Ramuh for SMN. Pictomancer looks so much better than what they initially showed.

Thank you for doing this!!!

perfect summary of the notes, thank you

FYI, the change at 7:53 is quite literally referring to the opposite of a one-button combo; it's letting you separate one-button combos into their own slots, likely so SE can do things like merge jump and mirage dive without making people unable to double weave it otherwise

I dont want to lose rez on summoner >.

as a whm main, i couldn’t be more happy with what we’re getting in dawntrail; a gap closer, and more dps actions! all the glare!

They mentioned the new sage ability that heals the entire party won't be up all the time like their single target ability. So you still have to raid heal. 😜

Thanks for the summary Meoni! I'm excited for Viper as it's the perfect balance between ninja and reaper for my WoL and I can't wait to use the fantasia to turn back into an Au'ra

Appreciate you. !!

You are doing gods’ own work, thank you!!!

The button replacement things is AMAZING i have wanted that for so long. I fat finger the wrong button in the combo line sometimes on controller and this would help avoid that completely. For combos on tanks, it willl be amazing.

Thank you for the summery friend. :)

The theme of the healers apparently is: WINGS! They all get wings (except Astro but they live among the stars…).

I love summoner but not having the ability to rez is a bit of an odd choice. I really hope they don't remove it in 8.0. My hope is that they get enough feedback on it by the time 8.0 comes out that they move away from that choice. I'd also love to see the summoner's heal get some love..atm, it's almost a pointless spell. Healing for 250 HP on a target that has 90,000 or more is pretty bad.

i really like the additions to sch but i also wish seraphism wasn't so angelic and was much more faerie adjacent

I really do like the Dawntrail title screen. I was getting tired of the moonscape. This is much more relaxed and tropical and I expect the new ultimate mount mount you get for collecting all the Extreme Trial mounts to have this song on it. XD

There is a lodestone post about FallGuys now. It is the same rewards as before, as its only up for 2 weeks this time. Not really long enough for much.

They *better* not remove my SMN rezzes, that's half the reason I play the job. Love bring extra rezzes to the fight and summoning is fun!

5:45 Yoshi-P being that friendly neighborhood drugdealer with his "the first one's free."

I am ecstatic about the AST changes.i missed the variety of cards from HW. The damage only cards and Astro signs should never gave been a thing.

NIN main: I really like what I see for Ninja. I like how it feels to play now but the huton-hide-suiton pre-fight prep was busywork for its own sake. I think it makes a lot of sense to rework that piece of the kit. While it does involve some level of skill to keep your buff up, it's not strategic, there's no reason to not have huton active. So making it a permanent trait: - Offers room for a more interesting gauge, this new kunai thing - Gives players more ranged AOE options - Gives us easier access to hide in combat which we were already doing before combat I like what I see, excited to get my hands on the new moves!

I AM SO EXCITED FOR VIPER!!!!

If they remove resurrection from summoner they might as well do it to Red mage too but the whole point was to have a back up person when the healer’s swift cast is on cooldown. I main a reaper but I use Summoner for some roulettes specifically for the resurrection.

ast actually looks good. astrodyne was kinda frustrating when rng was against you and making all the cards not be %damage is at least more interesting than what we have.

*Cast time for the motiefs, even the first ones only doesnt have a cast time when OUTSIDE of combat. So start them before combat, once you enter combat they will have a cast time.

How many mountain dews am I going to have to throw away for that mount…

With live letter stuff I actually really enjoy the fact these are long, but also still a lot shorter than the LL itself.

I passed out during the PLL coz it was soo long and I was soo tired so I really appreciate this summary. Thank you!!

Time to put the copious amounts of Mountain Dew I'm about to buy in storage next to my overstock of Butterfingers

Seems kinda an odd choice to remove res from summoner considering that they start as an arcanist who learn it at level 12...so what....they just forgot how to res people once they became a summoner? I get that scholar also starts as arcanist...still seems weird to have the spell, and lose it as you become a summoner.

Spineshattering Dive will be missed for me. It's on of my favorite actions on Dragoon.

Action change settings very cool

The pictomancer actions like some other have said looked way more interesting to me in this showcase than the initial teasers.

Perfect video! It really sucks not getting the mount in EU, cause I love collecting mounts. As for the jobs, looking forward for viper and pictomancer. For astro, i kind of like getting rid of the rng, but listen, I would rather have the ShB rng astro that the EW one.

Them fixing button bloat is the best change so far!

Lots of talk about SMN. SE sure didn’t poll the SMN mains. All they needed to do was give Shiva, Levithan, Ramuh and fill that one random GCD needed before each big summon. Boom.

I AM SO FREAKING HAPPY WE GOT OUR FANGS BACK AS MOONKEEPERS 😭 But besides that, thanks for the recap! Me and my friend both had to get to bed while they were doing Pictomancer, so we appreciate this info!

I love how every job actions trailer is met with excitement and anticipation for how CBU3 has decided to completely rework AST again

I'd also love global release on events as a Canadian. We're skipped in the "US Only"... which means that we miss out on EVERY collab event XD

I've already started to fill my room with junk food and empty buckets so that I can no life poop sock Dawntrail and not leave my room for an entire week. You can fit a lot more than you think in a bucket, even the watery kind.

If they get Mountain Zu, we should get Irn Zu. D:

The sage change to add more damage abilities as well as a party-wide buff acting as a mini-kardia for everyone is absolute 🔥 But ultimately it’s all about mch getting a proper saw 👀

I see a lot of people saying the 1-2-3 combo of jobs can be merged into one button, but I don't see that being mentioned anywhere in the Live letter, and they didn't show any examples of it either. All I got from what they showed is that some buttons that already DO change have the option to NOT change. Am I misunderstanding something?

No joke. 50% of my fun of summoners is being able to help with resurrection. Take it away and that's half the reason I play that class. Keep summoner ress.

cant believe theyre taking the gambling out of Astro 😭

Well, look forward to playing. Though end up being a month or so late. Did preorder the expansion. Just enjoying a break from the game. Even if I will miss a few events. Doesn't bother me. Just had no heart in playing after a while and maxed out all jobs. Plus, really do not care about most of the End Game stuff. Also, hopefully sever issues will be sorted out by the time I get around playing lol.

NIN is gonna be badass❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Pictomancer will be my new caster main. Also interested in Scholar. Prolly gonna stay White mage as my main job.

Healer main. WHM seems to be getting what people have been asking for - a movement tool (forward dash), an AOE shield (looks like) for party mitigation, and a Fell Cleave/Inner Release Presence of Mind phase. These are things people have been asking for in some way, so...cool? SGE on the other end now has an AOE DoT (Miasma 2) and an AOE Kardia. These are two low hanging fruits people have been suggesting and promoting for 2 years now, so SGE is basically getting (most) everything people have wanted. SCH and AST are more complicated. SCH seems to be getting another Expedience-moment where people are complaining about the aesthetics of an ability that will likely prove extremely strong and overall useful, and SCH will likely continue to be the meta pick. It's also getting something more akin to old Shadowflare than Miasma 2, but as that WAS something some people had been asking for...they're still going to complain about it. I already looked at the official forums and they are complaining about it, but they complain about everything and mass report people who disagree to get them banned. I suspect this will be one of those things people complain about, but then turns out to be really strong, then everyone will say they knew it would be and were hyping it during this period when they certainly were not. For my part, I think it's neat, and I think this along with the (maybe?) WHM change may be the pure/barrier split going away, which I think would be a positive. AST I don't really understand now and never have really enjoyed, so I have no idea if this is good or bad. As always, its animations are gorgeous, but I'm not sure if this helps or hurts the APM. I feel like it will make using cards less hectic in burst since you will only have one offensive one, and people have been suggesting having different types but also with the fear of Balance fishing returning, and this avoids that. It remains to be seen if this will be taken as good or not. Not sure how people are taking that one yet, honestly.

I don't think the 60 minutes on the Fanta has anything to do with where you will see your character in the character creator. I think its just letting you use it, edit your character, log in and play around, and if you don't like how it looks in the real world, go back in to character creation and change it within 60minutes.

I am a bit worried about pictomancer for console players. Will we have to use the touchpad or buttonroulette to access the special attacks? x.x looks fun for PC players atleast. I hope summoners get to keep rebirth. So many times they keep partys from vipe

Being a summoner is basically the one who should be resing; it gives healers a breather and the ability to quickly heal downed players to full. But why remove it from Summoner but leave Red Mage?

I started playing monk to wake up, looks like im going to be playing viper to never sleep again.

Yay fangs are back!

I would love for them to do an EU only collaboration too at some point instead of US and JP exclusive.

yes. i am looking forward to. also, who would want SHORTER videos?! i want MORE!!! some of the class changes look wild, and others completely meh... watched the job actions trailer before this, and felt much the same way... like some classes got INSANE looking abilities (dragoon, im looking at YOU) while dancer got... i dunno, the teleporter from stargate? actually, that had been weaponized in the show, so maybe i'm kinda into that... viper and pictomancer look incredibly fun to play. yep. thats it. thats what im most excited for!

As a samurai main with plans to try out viper i’m pretty happy. Also, as a person who prefers simplicity, i like combos each having one button that rotates through the abilities as needed. I disagree with the idea that it takes some kind of skill to do something as basic as executing a combo in a game where the next ability in the combo lights up like a christmas tree. I also just appreciate having less buttons to press. Less buttons isn’t always better. Having only a few buttons would be boring, but don’t think we’re anywhere near that point yet. Also having 1 button that rotates through 1 combo’s abilities doesn’t have to mean less complexity. Freeing up all those buttons could also give them the ability to add more combos to the game for more varied situations if they wanted to which would actually give players more options and increase the skill cap.

I would love to keep my res but usual as smn were like i'm the back up res for a healer in raid if something gose wrong to so I if they remove one less class to res by then that means the attack healer better know how to frenk res an heal to besides just attacking only.

it's tough to gauge how fun these will be based on promo material, but damn if all of these don't look cool as hell visually. SMN, i welcome our new mecha bahamut overlord. i'm not dissatisfied with current SMN so i'm completely content with more of similar with a bit extra. WHM gap closer being real was so startling i had to rewind the livestream this morning cause i didn't believe my eyes, it's not the damage ability Seraph Strike that i wanted, but it's more useful to have it workable on allies. RDM is probably the toughest for me to gauge, i'll really have to get a feel for it, i enjoy EW RDM so i'm hoping whatever it is they've done will help with some of the awkwardness. i do kinda wish it didn't feel like i'm sandbagging a DF group by running it though, i can /feel/ how little damage i'm doing even when performing my best, RDM just lacks output in a noticeable way but i suppose that's the cost of being a support caster. AST is a job I've wanted to like for years now, so hopefully this makes it work better for me, especially on controller. fingers crossed my AST main buddies like it too cause that'd really suck for them :/ Pictomancer looks way cooler than i expected, and unlike the melees it isn't stealing flavor from the rest of the role like RPR from SAM (cone aoe) or VPR and MNK (if i'm reading the LL right) and i'm very excited to sink my teeth into it properly!

Im so happy about the monk changes. I hated the 15second buff window.

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removing res from SMN idk how to feel about as i have prevented plenty of wipes with it

yayyy so glad they listened to our feedback on the mooncat teef. I was going to be so sad if they defanged her xD

Moon theeth are back!

I do prefer to have res as a SMN main, it can be a game changer in difficult situation.

They need to add an in-game calendar to this game. For fucks sakes, it is 2024 and FFXIV is supposedly a AAA MMO. They could cut and paste WoW's in game map and that would be fine.

Idk why we would need an aoe attack after Chain Stratagem when it is use mostly on bosses ? I guess to motivate us to use it more x) And no more Astrodyn ? Man it's so sad :(

Also I feel we'll see even more sawge and whm. Which I'm ok with as a healer main those are my mains.

I miss the AoE DoT Aero on WHM. When will we get that back, now that SGE has one?

I just miss HW/StB AST. It was fun, it was engaging. I felt like I was doing some Pro Gamer Moves when I got exactly the right cards to the right people and popped off Royal Road and King/Queen and all. Now it just feels like "oh, I need mana, draw a card. Heal heal dps dps heal heal..." If they can bring that back with these changes I'll be a bit mollified, but it feels like AST keeps getting watered down And I'm a RDM main, but I'm glad to see my SMN cousins keep their rez. Having that backup spatula when both healers eat it has saved sooooo many runs. *High five!* Further, I'm LOVING the color theory playstyle for Picto, that's clever as hell and I already feel like I'm gonna kick ass at it, even if the aesthetic isn't really my thing. Unsure if I want an Okami glam, or if I'm gonna go techwear and look for a tablet and stylus as weapons >:P

I don't often go to the forums and comment, but as a SMN main, I'm worried about the Res situation. At least give us a dot back or some other buff so we can remain viable for when metas swing around. :) Otherwise, as a WHM (secondary main), that gap closer has me salivating.

Bards want to do more dps. Yoshi, nah, we are gonna take dps away. :(

As a SMN main I cannot count the number of times SMN res as undone a Raid wipe because both healers died. I think removing it is something that should they do there will be enough outcry they will restore it.

did they address the payment issues? still cant purchase crysta due to their ridiculous address rule until now..

I hope the sch wings get some life... they were so static. Match us and seraph's wings a bit more, some glow or moving maybe.

Static adjust!

Ahhh PIC will now join the memes of RDM and DRG but I am mainig PIC anyway

Oh boy... After the Job Action Trailer I already feared for something like this to happen to AST, but damn.. this sounds absolutely horrible and I can't really imagine right now how they will not mess up the button bloat - a toppic they seemed to care so much about with all the other jobs.