Dawntrail is now live for everyone! We hope you're enjoying your time in Tural ❤️
Surprising no one, the final day of countdown illustrations is the newest melee class added in Dawntrail, the Viper! They totally got this piece commissioned and are now negotiating to slay some local vidraal to try and pay for it, so if you have some work, please, let them know 🙏🏻
Someone crunched the numbers and worked out this was cheaper than dealing with people wanting refunds of their DLC content when the main game was delisted.
I can't speak to the Xbox stuff but for the most part I feel the Dawntrail launch has gone really well. Yes, there's some bugs, that's usually inevitable for a launch of this size, but the only game breaking one I've seen was Syrcus Tower which was fixed in under 24 hours without bringing the game down for maintenance.
But I don't think there's been anywhere near as many queuing issues as there was in Endwalker, and while I'm only just past the first dungeon in the MSQ the only issues I've seen (other than ST) have been cosmetic.
They pushed a hotfix out for it.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/4a5c69b15c1f8712b9a2e113e6487347d605ffbb
Rounding up the last of our pre Dawntrail jobs, it's the tank with the knife you can still bring to a gunfight, Gunbreaker! Also known as "three DPS in a trenchcoat" the Gunbreaker gives everyone the chance to act out their favourite scenes from Final Fantasy VIII and gives you plenty of buttons to keep you busy while you take the hits for the rest of the party.
Nice, that's good to know. Problem of course is can you coordinate that in alliance roulette instead of people just voting abandon as more people discover the problem.
The job listing in question. With all the new Vipers out there, demand can only go up.
Due to a huge increase in demand for today's illustration the White Mage from the massive uptake of new hires into the Viper Blade Sharpening industry that the Deputy Directory of Turalism has promised includes White Mage Insurance, it is now required that anyone coming across from Eorzea to Tural does so as a White Mage. Thank you for your understanding.
Correct. The countdown is to the official release, not the early access.
You can also cheese it with resurrection, the raise invul blocks curtain call damage. But since everyone else is then dead you need a strategy to revive people afterwards.
Few things are as important fell cleave as the bond between a warrior fell cleave and their Chocobo fell cleave. Standing on the front line fell cleave they are more than capable of taking fell cleave whatever the enemy has to give fell cleave, with plenty left in the tank for another 10 rounds fell cleave.
Also a lot of the potency increases aren't just always there, they're based on new traits you get in the level 91-100 range, so you won't see those increases immediately in most cases, you have to level up and get the new job trait.
The full patch notes for Dawntrail are now available? Are you excited with what's coming?
It's based on the new AF gear I think! Marked it as a spoiler if you don't want to see it but I'm pretty sure they demoed this during the live letter.
Bard DT AF Gear
Same here! I want to know what gear pieces they've based it on so I can turn this into a glam!
🎶 The bard opened up their case and said "I'll start this show", and fire blew from their fingertips as they rosined up their bow 🎶 And they pulled an arrow across the string and it gave an evil hiss 🎶 Then a band of voidsent joined in, and it sounded something like this 🎶
Honestly probably just watch some TV or get some extra work done, although if you're looking for a game to play, the remastered version of Beyond Good & Evil came out this week. Been probably 20 years since I played it originally but I remember it being a fun game with a great cast and musical score.
For honor. For Doma. For Eorzea. For those we have lost. For those we can yet save. Today's illustration is the Samurai, and they feel right at home when the odds are against them. Don't let their light robes fool you, a quick flick of their wrist and you'll be out before you know what's happened!
I'm hoping the queuing isn't as bad this time. People forget that since Endwalker they've actually done some work on the queuing stuff and the disconnects during queuing (admittedly after a network engineer who played the game was able to comprehensively demonstrate there was issues in the game's netcode causing the disconnects, but still). And they've added in the extra servers as well to help with the initial surge that you'd expect will happen.
That's not to say there won't be queues of course but I'm not expecting it to be as bad as EW was.
Fair point. Personally I'd love to see you be able to save a glamour against a gear set as well so you can use your glamour plates for everything else. But with gear sets being stored client side rather than server side that probably won't happen.
Will be interesting if we get something akin to the body snatcher mission from Endwalker. I remember a lot of people struggled with it at the time but I quite enjoyed the change in pace (and I don't mind a stealth game either so sneaking around the ruins avoiding enemies was fun to me).
They've added a new side quest that will give you the Fantasia, it's listed in the patch notes! So once you complete that you'll get it.
Such a simple change but easily one of the better QOL updates.
And if you still have Road to 80 and they update that to 90, you can double that.
Right? I'm not even asking for more glamour chest space! (Yet. Baby steps.)
Sadly didn't see anything about increasing the number of glamour plates. We now have more jobs than glamour plates, so if you have one glam per job, something has to share, and you have no room for casual glams. And that's before you factor in DoH/DoL jobs.
A lot of people will be excited about that to get Viper and Picto to 90 quickly 😊
Patch 7.0 Notes (Preliminary)
They'll likely post an updated version during maintenance but for now this is what's been released about the upcoming changes.
Shields? Check. Nouliths? Check. Kardia? Check. Prognosis? It's time to shoot lasers at the bad guys until they stop moving! Sage is the healer that Square-Enix gave us to demonstrate that yes, healers are in fact supposed to be doing damage as well. So raise a glass to your local Sage, and just remember, if they're busy shooting lasers, they're still healing their tank. Only a week to go now!
Announcing the Chocorpokkur Twitch Viewer Rewards Campaign!
Watch any participating Twitch channel streaming FINAL FANTASY XIV Online with the "Viewer Rewards" tag and receive item codes for the following rewards based on how many accumulative hours watched:
- 1 Hour Watched: EXP Boost Meal Set (Buttery Mogbiscuit & Fat Choco Choco) x10
- 3 Hours Watched: Aetheryte Ticket x10
- 6 Hours Watched: Chocorpokkur Whistle (Mount) x1
Check the Lodestone article for more details!
With the power to call upon avatars of the primals themselves, Summoners can bring awesome destructive power to bare against their foes. But at the end of the day, once that power fades, Carbuncle is always there waiting for you. Such a cute adorable glowing floof ball. Remember to feed your carbuncles everyone!
Big damage. Fancy hats. And the honour of being Yoshi-P's personal job of choice, today's illustration is the Black Mage! Although looking at this picture, it seems less about the mage and more about the Chocobo and the cats, how adorable are they?
Enter the Fray with today's class, the Dark Knight! Enter the night of the living dead as you take the plunge into the blackest night on your journey to Tuliyollal.
Courtesy of @KaiyokoStar from Twitter/X!
https://x.com/kaiyokostar/status/1804129661636477352
Who needs weapons? Certainly not today's class, the monk! The way of the fist is enough for them to take down a god, and no matter what stance they're in, they're always up for a fight! Just please don't let the enemy stand too far away...
Prepare for Dawntrail with a Special Collaboration with MTN DEW!
This is the Mountain Dew promotion that was announced during the live letter a little while back that they've just pushed a Lodestone article out for.
Doesn't explicitly say in the article but I'm pretty sure this was a North American exclusive.
Spare a thought for the reaper. After having spent a little over two years as the new melee on the block, the clock has struck 12, but don't think that things are getting grim, I'm sure that come Dawntrail things will be perfectio.
Whether you need a bit of magic, a rapier wit, or just someone to keep raising you over and over again, your friendly neighbourhood Red Mage has you covered! Only 13 days left until the official launch of Dawntrail!
Doing their best to impersonate a black mage, today's illustration is Astrologian! Whether it's throwing up enough stardust to cover the arena, casting their AoE attack from a safe distance, dropping a big bomb on the boss or just dealing cards from their floating deck, the Astro is one you'd never turn down in a pinch.