Category: Gaming

  • Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail fully revealed

    Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail fully revealed

    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

    Krile as the new Pictomancer

    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.

    Relm from FFVI

    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.

    Female Hrothgar

    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.

    Female Elezen. Left is the original (currently in the game) and the Updated looks for Dawntrail.
    • ‘The Arcadion’, the new 8-man raid series, was announced that appears to be in the same area/style as Solution Nine.
    • A new Ultimate Raid was announced, ‘Futures Rewritten (Ultimate)’ which is the same title as Patch 5.4 released back in December 2020.
    • New ‘Field Operations’ were confirmed (Similar to Bozja/Eureka) but no details were made available.
    • Xbox Open Beta Test is happening in mid-February.
    • Final Fantasy XIV x Final Fantasy XVI Crossover Questline is planned for early April.
  • The Xbox Series S Toaster

    The Xbox Series S Toaster

    A very real thing that would go well with the Xbox Series X Mini-Fridge

    If you are living in the US, you can buy one from Walmart. It’s not available elsewhere… just yet.

  • Free Trial in Final Fantasy XIV Online Expanded

    Free Trial in Final Fantasy XIV Online Expanded

    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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