Final Saturday, FFXIV Fanfest for 2024 was held in Tokyo, and Inventive Enterprise Unit 3 launched the complete trailer for the Dawntrail growth. Naoki Yoshida, often known as Yoshi-P by followers, has stepped as much as the stage and personally experiences on the brand new content material along with his keynote presentation. Very like the earlier growth reveals, CBU3 first releases a small teaser trailer highlighting half of the obtainable zones and courses then releases an prolonged trailer with extra story beats, and the category isn’t revealed within the teaser. In mild of the brand new data we obtained on the 2024 Tokyo Fanfest, listed here 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 remaining 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. Anticipate 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 yr on the London Fanfest, FFXIV will obtain a crossover occasion with Yoshi-P’s different challenge: Last Fantasy XVI. Warriors of Mild could have the possibility to struggle Eikons (FFXVI’s model of the basic Summons) with FFXVI’s protagonist, Clive Rosfield, and use the identical talents featured in FFXVI. Only in the near past, the discharge date has been slated for early April, a couple of 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 important characters, Krile. Within the keynote speech Yoshi-P gave through the presentation, he mentioned that the Pictomancer is a ranged magical DPS extra much 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 virtually like Dancer as a hybrid DPS and assist job, however won’t have a Elevate spell like Crimson Mage or all different healer jobs. The job’s quest giver will probably be present in Gridania as quickly because the growth is launched. Just like the Viper class, there isn’t any 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, had 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 obtainable quickly, however they will 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 various zones as gamers will discover the Tural continent that’s separated into two subcontinents, linked by a large bridge. As proven in growth footage, this growth will see many thematically various areas, from the WIld West-styled zone on the northern a part of the continent to the cyberpunk-like zone of Answer 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 will probably be many extra locations that CBU3 has but to point out, so anticipate much more areas to return when Dawntrail goes stay.
Cosmic Exploration
Gamers will quickly discover the ultimate frontier of Last Fantasy with the brand new life-style exercise, Cosmic Exploration. Like Island Sanctuaries, this exercise could have gamers discover new planets both solo or with associates. Based on the group, gamers can depart their mark on the planets that they go to, giving a visible sense of development. Based mostly on the artwork for this exercise, we could 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 a few of 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 important raid sequence is named The Arcadion and judging from the important thing artwork for this exercise, will possible happen in Answer 9. This will probably be certainly one of FFXIV’s raids with a very unique storyline and theme. The Arcadion will probably be launched a couple of months after the 7.0 launch, so gamers could have time to gear up and degree their jobs to turn out to be raid-ready. Lastly, the Eden raid sequence from Shadowbringers will probably 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 couple of new Restricted Job since Endwalker. The Beastmaster job has been round since Last Fantasy V and can make a return in FFXIV. Beastmasters in older Last Fantasy video games gather monsters and use them As a Restricted Job, Beastmaster doesn’t achieve its abilities by means of 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, much 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 possibility. 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 foremost elements of the armor and the secondary dye coloring smaller material items.
Minimal and Advisable System Necessities
Because the graphical overhaul to FFXIV’s engine is on its method, 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 need to learn this and evaluate 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 bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 or larger
- Reminiscence: 8GB
- Out there HDD/SSD area: 140GB
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 480
- Display Decision: 1280×720
Advisable System Necessities
- OS: Home windows 10 x64 bit or Home windows 11 x64 bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 or larger
- Reminiscence: 16GB
- Out there HDD/SSD area: 140GB
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
- Display Decision: 1920×1080
CBU3 has solely given a imprecise date for the discharge of Dawntrail as they didn’t desire 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 growth as they work to shine the sport and iron out any bugs. Anticipate extra Dwell Letters from the builders as we strategy Summer time, so within the meantime, put together your greatest gear and make prepared for Dawntrail.