(Red Mages have got a nice little buff too, which I’m happy to see.) Most classes have been buffed, but the biggest changes are for Rogue/Ninja and Arcanist/Summoner, which have been pretty heavily reworked and buffed. There are also a load of changes to the battle system. The new crafting log with a recipe tree and raw materials list looks neat, too. That alone has too many changes to go into here, but the short version is that it should be quicker and simpler to level, with most of the redundant or useless chaff removed. Gathering and crafting have been massively overhauled and simplified, with a slew of abilities reworked and removed.
5.1 NEW GEAR FFXIV FOR FREE
Right now these are for Free Company purchase only, though the wards do also have apartment buildings. There’s also an extreme difficulty version of the Shadowbringers end boss for the truly skilled.įor those not necessarily at the endgame, new housing wards have opened up in all residential districts.
There’s New Game +, letting you redo previous quests and cutscenes from Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers, with class quests, side stories, and A Realm Reborn to be added in the future. There are new daily Beast Tribes quests letting you make friends with the pixies of Il Mheg. You can get all the Eden’s Gate gear you like now (except weapon tokens, but the number you need to exchange for a weapon has been reduced).Īlso, fancy new PvP gear lets you dress up like Raiden from Metal Gear Rising. The addition of the new raid also means that the previous highest-tier content, Eden’s Gate, no longer has a weekly restriction on rewards. I’m very much looking forward to diving headfirst into that. Its music was done by Keiichi Okabe, also of NieR: Automata fame. The Copied Factory was developed by Yoko Taro and Yosuke Saito of NieR: Automata fame and is based on NieR: Automata. Speaking of which: There’s the Copied Factory 24-man Alliance Raid and the Grand Cosmos 4-man dungeon. It looks like there are 10 Main Scenario Quests, a side story quest, plus the quests leading up to the Copied Factory. Not here, though.)įor endgame players, the most important additions will likely be the new content. (Be warned: spoilers lurk within that link.
5.1 NEW GEAR FFXIV PATCH
And I do mean “all sorts.” The full patch notes dropped last night, and they’re gigantic. Final Fantasy XIV‘s patch 5.1, titled Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty, has launched at long last, bringing all sorts of new content (including NieR!) and changes to Square Enix’s MMO.