The first concrete details for the upcoming update to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn have today been revealed by Square Enix.
A complete brake down of what the update will include can be found here, with the main points being:
- The update introduce a new chapter of the main story quest, a new side quest line named Saint Endalim Scholasticate and new Vanu Vanu beast tribe quests.
- There will be two new dungeons, The Saint Mocianne Arboretum and The Pharos Sirius hard mode.
- The update will add a new 24 man raid set in the Void Ark.
- The airship voyage system will allow Free Companies to use their crafted airships to explore uncharted islands and fight powerful monsters, and even those who don’t have a free company will be able to use the feature from Ishgard’s Landing.
- The update will introduce a new weapon upgrade system similar to the Relic weapons.
- There’ll be new updates to The Manderville Gold Saucer; a new battle mini-game called Lord of Verminion, and new cards will be added for Triple Triad, with new NPCs to challenge.
- Private housing will get visitor control.
- The challenge log will get a new category for the Manderville Gold Saucer
- New crafting recipes will be added
- Floating mounts will be given the ability to fly.
- Finally the European servers will be migrated to European data centres in October.
If you want to see the full video of this weekend’s Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXIII, that is available for you below. Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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