Final Saturday, FFXIV Fanfest for 2024 was held in Tokyo, and Inventive Enterprise Unit 3 launched the total trailer for the Dawntrail enlargement. Naoki Yoshida, often known as Yoshi-P by followers, has stepped as much as the stage and personally stories on the brand new content material together with his keynote presentation. Very similar to the earlier enlargement reveals, CBU3 first releases a small teaser trailer highlighting half of the accessible zones and lessons then releases an prolonged trailer with extra story beats, and the category is just not revealed within the teaser. In gentle of the brand new data we obtained on the 2024 Tokyo Fanfest, listed below are the brand new issues we are able to anticipate in Dawntrail.
Patch 6.55: Rising Mild Half 2
Because the months strategy the discharge date, Rising Mild Half 2 would be the ultimate patch for Endwalker earlier than heading proper into Dawntrail. Right here, the aforementioned feminine Hrothgar will make her look within the MSQ and kick off the story of Dawntrail. Based on Yoshi-P, she is the daughter of Tural’s royalty and can ask the Warrior of Mild for help in her succession because the nation’s ruler. This patch will launch on January 16, 2024, which is simply across the nook. Count on to see the ultimate phases of Endwalker’s Hildibrand questline and relic weapons, Arkasodara, Omicron, and Loporritt tribe quests, in addition to extra Tataru’s Grand Endeavour quests.
The Path Infernal Crossover Occasion
Teased final 12 months on the London Fanfest, FFXIV will obtain a crossover occasion with Yoshi-P’s different undertaking: Closing Fantasy XVI. Warriors of Mild may have the prospect to battle Eikons (FFXVI’s model of the basic Summons) with FFXVI’s protagonist, Clive Rosfield, and use the identical skills featured in FFXVI. Only in the near past, the discharge date has been slated for early April, just a few months earlier than the Summer time season arrives.
New Class: Pictomancer
A part of the prolonged trailer is the reveal of Dawntrail’s different new job, the Pictomancer, as proven by one of many sport’s predominant characters, Krile. Within the keynote speech Yoshi-P gave throughout the presentation, he mentioned that the Pictomancer is a ranged magical DPS extra just like the Black Mage job and can share the identical Caster gear. This job is implied to be cast-time heavy and also will have assist abilities in its package, functioning nearly like Dancer as a hybrid DPS and assist job, however won’t have a Elevate spell like Pink Mage or all different healer jobs. The job’s quest giver can be present in Gridania as quickly because the enlargement is launched. Just like the Viper class, there isn’t a prerequisite class to play, and gamers will begin the category at degree 80.
New Feminine Possibility for Hrothgar
Again within the Shadowbringers interval of FFXIV, two new races, Viera and Hrothgar, have been launched to the sport, with solely the feminine variant for Viera and male for Hrothgar. Initially, CBU3 said that getting the mannequin skeleton variation for each armor piece to every race is a time consuming effort. Followers have since then clamored for male Viera and feminine Hrothgar. With each Endwalker and Dawntrail, that want has lastly come true as not solely will feminine Hrothgar be accessible quickly, however they can even be represented by a central character within the Dawntrail story. Yoshi-P says that they might probably add extra playable races after including feminine Hrothgar
New Zones
Dawntrail will function many aesthetically numerous zones as gamers will discover the Tural continent that’s separated into two subcontinents, linked by an enormous bridge. As proven in growth footage, this enlargement will see many thematically numerous areas, from the WIld West-styled zone on the northern a part of the continent to the cyberpunk-like zone of Resolution 9, Dawntrail has a theme for everybody. With the graphical replace to FFXIV’s engine, the reveal photographs of those new zones are breathtaking. There can be many extra locations that CBU3 has but to point out, so anticipate much more areas to come back when Dawntrail goes dwell.
Cosmic Exploration
Gamers will quickly discover the ultimate frontier of Closing Fantasy with the brand new way of life exercise, Cosmic Exploration. Like Island Sanctuaries, this exercise may have gamers discover new planets both solo or with associates. Based on the group, gamers can go away their mark on the planets that they go to, giving a visible sense of development. Primarily based on the artwork for this exercise, we might anticipate this mode to contain gathering and crafting job mechanics.
Raids: Alliance, Savage, and Final
Extra endgame content material is coming this Summer time, with the primary one being the Echoes of Vanadiel Alliance. This raid sequence is a crossover between FFXIV and FFXI, with among the outdated MMO’s races returning, as a celebration of FFXI’s twentieth anniversary. FFXI followers will rejoice because the Echoes of Vanadiel raid will make many callbacks to Sq. Enix’s first MMORPG for the Ps 2. Yoshi-P has not revealed any additional particulars in regards to the raid however guarantees that outdated FFXI followers will really get pleasure from what this sequence has to supply. Dawntrail’s predominant raid sequence is named The Arcadion and judging from the important thing artwork for this exercise, will doubtless happen in Resolution 9. This can be certainly one of FFXIV’s raids with a totally unique storyline and theme. The Arcadion can be launched just a few months after the 7.0 launch, so gamers may have time to gear up and degree their jobs to develop into raid-ready. Lastly, the Eden raid sequence from Shadowbringers can be given an Final variant often called Futures Rewritten (Final), so anticipate a brand new thrilling World’s First race after Dawntrail launches.
Beastmaster Restricted Job
CBU3 has been teasing a few new Restricted Job since Endwalker. The Beastmaster job has been round since Closing Fantasy V and can make a return in FFXIV. Beastmasters in older Closing Fantasy video games gather monsters and use them As a Restricted Job, Beastmaster doesn’t achieve its abilities by conventional leveling, as an alternative opting to gather them by exploring the open world and preventing particular mobs. Like Blue Mage, this job will obtain its personal content material, just like the Masked Carnival. Beastmaster will arrive someday in the course of Dawntrail’s cycle, marked as 7.x
Twin Dye System
Fashionistas will get pleasure from this replace because the armor dyeing system will quickly obtain an replace, giving extra accessibility to their customization choice. At present, gamers can dye their armor with just one coloration, and really feel this can be too restrictive. CBU3 has made the system extra intuitive, with the primary dye coloring all the most important components of the armor and the secondary dye coloring smaller material items.
Minimal and Beneficial System Necessities
Because the graphical overhaul to FFXIV’s engine is on its approach, Sq. Enix has revealed FFXIV’s new system necessities forward of time. With new lighting and texturing expertise comes new system calls for. Gamers with lower-end PC specs will wish to learn this and examine to see if their machine meets the up to date necessities.
Minimal System Necessities
OS: Home windows 10 x64 bit or Home windows 11 x64 bitCPU: Intel Core i7-6700 or higherMemory: 8GBAvailable HDD/SSD area: 140GBGraphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 480Screen Decision: 1280×720
Beneficial System Necessities
OS: Home windows 10 x64 bit or Home windows 11 x64 bitCPU: Intel Core i7-9700 or higherMemory: 16GBAvailable HDD/SSD area: 140GBGraphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XTScreen Decision: 1920×1080
CBU3 has solely given a imprecise date for the discharge of Dawntrail as they didn’t need a repeat of Endwalker’s delay announcement. With the launch interval in Summer time, the group is given extra flexibility on when to launch the enlargement as they work to shine the sport and iron out any bugs. Anticipate extra Stay Letters from the builders as we strategy Summer time, so within the meantime, put together your finest gear and make prepared for Dawntrail.
