Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2021 – Around the World – Opening Keynote

Naoki Yoshida, Director and Producer of Final Fantasy XIV, took to stage in a closed location and revealed information regarding the new Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Endwalker.

Opening with Trailer
Scythes confirmed!
- Fall 2021 release

Yoshida is dressed as the new job wielding a Scythe

New Jobs

Zenos has changed jobs to the new job
New Job: Reaper
New Job original to FFXIV

Showing a trailer demonstrating job abilities

About Reaper

Role: Melee DPS
Shares gear with DRG
Weapon: Scythe (Two-handed)
No required class
Must have Endwalker and have 1 job at Level 70.
Starting: Level 70

Concept

Welds a scythe for dynamic close-quarter combat
Calls upon an avatar from the void to join the battle
Can serve as a host for their avatar
Job Quests are planned to start in Ul’dah
- More information about Reaper RPR(?) at a later date

Story

The story will wrap up in Patch 6.0
There is a LOT of content in Patch 6.0
6.1 will start a brand new story

We will be going to the Moon… but before that, we will be going to Old Sharlayan
- This will serve as the ‘Hub city’ simialar Crystarium, Idyllshire, Rhalgr’s Reach.
- They show a trailer of Old Sharlayan

This city has VERY important since the early days of Final Fantasy XIV developement
There was supposed to be 6 starting cities in FFXIV 1.0 – (The other 3 were Ishgard, Ala Mhigo and Sharlayan)
This was cut to 3 and the ARR rebuild retained this.
Very important to the story.

Main theme for Endwalker

About 3 to 4 days to come up with the lyrics for the Endwalker theme.
Sophia theme (Containment Bay P1T6) was created in 2 hours.
Amanda Achen also sang the ‘Tomorrow & Tomorrow’ song
The main vocals were by Sam Carter from Architects
Song contains elements from the Stormblood theme and the Heavensward theme
The trailer is already available on YouTube.

Characters from the trailer

Estinen

He will appear in the Main Story and can be used as a Trust in dunegons.

Vydra

Name Unknown

Very important role in the Endwalker story
You will find out more about him in Patch 5.5 – Death Until Dawn – Part 2
- Readers of the Encycolopedia Eorzea books may know who he knows.

Massive New Areas

Same amount of areas being added as previous expansions
Shows trailer

Labyrinthos

It’s an underground area with a domain lit by an artifical light.
Why you need to go there will be uncovered in the expansion.

Thavnair area & Radz-at-Han city

Shows trailer of Thavnair
Very colourful
Showing trailer of Radz-at-Han city
The sky may not be blue in-game
New area – No information about it at this time

Garlemald

The Moon – Mare Lamentorum

Will not say how you will get to the Moon.
Music is very simialar to The Tempest
Air and gravity present (This will be explained in the story)
Mare Lamentorum is just one area of The Moon, not the entire Moon itself.
Find out more when Endwalker is released.

New Encounetrs

The Magus Sisters

Loporrits

You will find Loporrits on The Moon

Also Coming in Version 6.0

(Most of this info was announced at the Announcement Showcase )

New Healer: Sage
A Higher Level Cap – Level 80 -> 90
5 New Role Questlines
Trust System Update
Downscaled Values in Battle Calculations
No More Belts
New Small-scale PvP Mode
New Raid – Pandæmonium
Island Sanctuary (Mostly solo content and will be updated throughout 6.x)
- Not locked to DoH/DoL
New Residental District: Ishgard
Viewing only in 6.0
Plots available in 6.1
- Making adjustments to housing to prevent ‘house cheaters’ and RMT
- Investing in new servers for the housing.
- Looking into a ‘Lot System’
Data Center Travel System
- Releasing before 6.0 Patch
Challenging New Dungeons
- Video showing new dungeons – No names or anything

New Alliance Raid

Name: Myths of the Realm

New original story to FFXIV. No cross-over.

Collectors Edition

In-game items
Arion mount

No discs included
85% of players bought a digital version of FFXIV: Shadowbringers hence the decision to switch to digital only
FFXIV Endwalker: Collectors Edition for PC / Mac Only [This includes the game]
FFXIV Endwalker: Collectors Box for PS4/PS5/Steam Only [This does not contain the game]
FFXIV Endwalker: Digital Collectors Edition for all platforms.
FFXIV Endwalker: Standard Edition for all platforms.
Pre-order Bonuses – "Wind-up Palon Minion" & "Menphina Earring"
EXP earring like ShB
Pre-order also grants "Early Access"