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Early this morning, the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Japan kicked off with the 3rd, final and full trailer for the upcoming expansion Dawntrail.
A new ranged, magical DPS job called Pictomancer was revealed (to go alongside the already revealed Viper that was announced at the London Fan Fest) and will be used by Krile in the upcoming expansion/story
Pictomancer was introduced in Final Fantasy VI (1994) by the character Relm and has been featured in other Final Fantasy games such as ‘Record Keeper’ and Brave Exvius. The job will be available on Dawntrail launch from Gridania and will begin at Level 80.
They also revealed the final race to be added to the game (for now), Female Hrothgar.
Male Hrothgar was introduced in Shadowbringers in 2019, but due to the pandemic, they couldn’t get the female variant out until now.
They also announced new areas, but didn’t delve too much into them, including the new futuristic/cyberpunk ‘Solution Nine’
They also touched upon some information about travelling to other planets in the future for content, similar to Ishgard restoration and possibly Island Sanctuary but we’ll find out closer to its release.
Beastmaster was also announced as the new Limited Job (Blue Mage) but it won’t be releasing until the latter part of the expansion.
As part of the new graphics update that they are carrying out, they had comparison shots of the races in the game. This is just one mere example.
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This weekend will be the 4th in-person Fan Festival for Final Fantasy XIV Online in Europe and the 3rd that I attend (I didn’t attend the Germany event in 2017)
Additionally, I’ll be celebrating my 32nd birthday on Saturday, so I might have a couple of drinks to celebrate.
The event is being held in the ExCeL, London. Tickets for the event are sold out. If you are going to be there, let me know!
Just like the 2019 Fan Festival, I’ll be taking lots of photos and sharing them here once I am back!
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This past Tuesday, Patch 6.5 for Final Fantasy XIV Online was released titled Growing Light
While I won’t be spoiling anything story-wise, there was an entry into the patch notes that is quite good for new players.
The following additions and adjustments have been made to the free trial:
The level cap has been raised to 70. Players will now have access to the expansion data of Stormblood.
* Ultimate raids are not included in the free trial.
This is huge. That means new players will have access to 16 battle classes including 2 new classes introduced in Stormblood, Samurai and Red Mage.
And on top of that, you get access to another 2 years worth of content for free. That is 6 years’ worth of stories, side stories, battles and more.
The only minor downside is that no Ultimate tier is available, which is understandable. They are for the very upper echelon of FFXIV players and require a high degree of organisation which wouldn’t be available via the Free Trial.
If you want to try out the free trial, go to https://freetrial.finalfantasyxiv.com/gb/
(I am not paid for this shilling, but if Square Enix is reading this… Hi 👋)
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About a month ago, Square Enix finally released the soundtrack for Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers on Spotify and other streaming services.
This time, we are listening to the theme of Akadaemia Anyder titled: “Shadows Withal”
A jazzy piece that reflects a time that once was.
SPOILERS! – Skip below to the song.
A time of peace and prosperity before it fell due to its ‘Final Days’.
The dungeon is set in a recreation of the city, Amaurot, which was destroyed over 12,000 years ago (from the end of ‘Endwalker’) that was once the home of the now-extinct ancients. The city is at the bottom of the sea underneath The Tempest in ‘The First’
When the city of Amaurot was destroyed, the world of Etheirys was sundered, or split, by Hydaelyn (The Mothercrystal) into 14 different ‘reflections’ which were identical copies of each other’s world but are vastly different now with their own locale, races, monsters, etc.
[There is a lot more I can talk about the sundering and the ‘rejoining’ of the shards, but this post is already long enough]
The dungeon reminds me of Bioshock and its setting. Underwater, in the 50s/60s and having a charming score.
I have covered Masayoshi Soken’s song 6 times now (including this post)
Check out the last 5:
On Monday, Square Enix released a post on the Lodestone addressing third party plugins/addons/mods, etc in Final Fantasy XIV.
In their post, they details that all third party tools are against the Terms of Service, which is not new but has been reiterated to players over the last few years but more so within the last 6 months.
Up until now, the ‘ruling’ from Naoki Yoshida (Director and Producer of Final Fantasy XIV) was that you can use them, as long as you are not being toxic or harassing other players and using it for your own benefit.
What these plugins/tools/addons/mods do is enhance the gameplay of Final Fantasy XIV, mostly using Quality of Life (QoL) enhancements, like a different UI, bigger numbers, alerts, etc. The scope of this is endless, but it has come at a cost.
It has been revealed that certain players were able to get to the last phase of the Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate) map earlier than it was supposed to be intended. It, along with the weapon rewards from that fight were datamined and leaked online weeks before it was available to players.
In addition, the community believes that certain groups that did not livestream the progression of the Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate) World First Race (Which is an unofficial race that is held by the community to see who can complete the raid the fastest), which gets a mere nod from Square Enix at the end, believe that they were using third party tools to either: Complete the fight quicker, practise on a different server, skip mechanics due to plugins/addons/tools.
This has let to certain streamers both in North America and Japan receiving 10-day bans from Final Fantasy XIV for streaming on Twitch with Advanced Combat Tracker (ACT) being displayed. Neither player was cheating nor being toxic towards anyone else. It turned out that streamers on 4Chan and Japan’s 5Ch has been involving themselves in report brigading and were causing these streamers to get banned.
Now, everyone (Including myself 😛 ) have a opinion on what Square Enix should and shouldn’t do.
Here is my take on it:
Square Enix can obviously make the rules that they want to set out. They are imposed to protect not only the players, but Square Enix legally.
Could the rules be changed? Yes. It can be. But Square Enix won’t because it is not an issue on their side but it would be on the mod authors side to make the change.
Where there should be rules is with the guys like Dalamud or XIVAlexander and other tools.
Dalamud had already released a statement where Patch 6.1 was released about plugins for PvP
This is the right way to go about it. Mod authors can stop anything going through their official repositories but unable to very 3rd party repositories which is all they can do.
The likes of Cactpot (which displays callouts for raids), should look about adding a delay to the release of some World First races fights (Savages, Ultimates) for the first week or two or until most of the World First teams have cleared the fight.
Streamers should be allowed to display ACT as before but again, they can’t be toxic about it. The report brigading from 4/5chan should end within the next week or two when the dust settles but I just hope that Square Enix doesn’t make any further changes to the ruling or the Terms of Service to change this.
Hopefully the community can get their act together and stop throwing their toys out of their pram when it comes to the world first race. Just because you and your group were not the first to kill DSR, doesn’t mean that you throw abuse to others.
Be kind.