Last Fantasy XIV Fan Pageant in Tokyo is presently underway and its keynote revealed such thrilling issues as the complete Dawntrail trailer, a brand new Pictomancer job, and a have a look at the feminine Hrothgar playable race in motion.
Whereas we did not get a launch date for the much-anticipated Dawntrail enlargement past Summer time 2024, the glimpse of the way forward for FF14 shared by director Naoki Yoshida and the staff was fairly promising.
To be taught extra about Dawntrail as an entire, you possibly can take a look at the practically 6-minute trailer of the enlargement above that’s meant to be the “best summer time trip a hero may probably have.” It’s going to even be step one right into a “new story” for the sport and can ship gamers to Tural, a land that lies over the ocean to the far west of Eorzea.
Gamers will have the ability to tackle two new jobs in Dawntrail, and the Pictomancer job is now recognized alongside the beforehand introduced Viper. Pictomancer is a magical ranged DPS that makes use of a paintbrush and a wide selection of colours to take down its foes. It seems to be like a really enjoyable job that has gamers portray landscapes, shapes, and different varieties of artwork as expertise to trigger injury, create weapons, summon creatures, and extra.
To develop into a Viper or Pictomancer, gamers might want to buy Dawntrail. If they don’t seem to be prepared to start the brand new enlargement, there’ll nonetheless be updates to take pleasure in like the key graphical replace, system updates, and Gold Saucer updates.
One of many different greatest additions is for many who at the very least have the Shadowbringers enlargement, and that’s the new playable race often known as the Feminine Hrothgar. The Male Hrothgar was added through the Shadowbringers enlargement, and shortly, the extra uncommon Feminine Hrothgar will be a part of the battle.
The Feminine Hrothgar are “recognized by their lithe, muscular types” and their “predisposition for management.”
Yoshi-P mentioned the Feminine Hrothgar would be the last race to be added to the sport, however he additionally left the door open for them to vary their minds sooner or later.
As reported by Nova Crystallis, there have been a ton of different new updates given through the keynote, together with a number of the new areas we might be visiting. The brand new area gamers might be visiting known as Tural and a Feminine Hrothgar might be aiding gamers and can introduce them to what they will anticipate. This features a contest the place the prize is “succession because the ruler of Tuliyollal, an enormous metropolis that sits on the juncture of northern and southern areas of Tural.” This contest might also cut up your staff of Scions, doubtlessly inflicting battle or arguments between buddies.
We additionally obtained a glimpse of a brand new city referred to as Answer 9, a “metropolis of towering facades constructed by a wholly completely different civilization than of Tuliyollal.” There may even be one other space referred to as Heritage Discovered that could be a area “overflowing with lightning energies, thick thunderclouds blot out the solar, whereas streaks of purple levin illuminate the land day and night time.”
New challenges will put gamers face-to-face with Valigarmanda, The Eliminator, and the Barreltender. A brand new 8-player raid referred to as The Arcadion was mentioned and it’ll happen in Answer 9. A brand new Alliance Raid – Echoes of Vana’Diel – is a collaboration with Last Fantasy XI and can check gamers with a battle in opposition to the Shadow Lord from FFXI. There may even be an Final Raid name Eden – Futures Rewritten that may carry gamers again to Eden and see completely different “what-if” eventualities with Ryne and Gaia.
Followers of Island Sanctuary might be pleased to know a brand new sort of “life-style content material” referred to as Cosmic Exploration that might be launched after Dawntrail and can let gamers go to different planets.
There are such a lot of different smaller updates coming with Dawntrail and past, and we encourage you to take a look at the official Dawntrail web page for much more information.
Lastly, Akihito Yoshida created beautiful art work for Dawntrail and you’ll examine it and the Official Dungeon Crawl trailer under.
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