After the profitable launch of Dawntrail, Final Fantasy 14 is rapidly heading in the direction of the primary main replace to its latest enlargement, patch 7.1, which guarantees new story and raid content material for gamers who’ve completed the enlargement’s fundamental situation quests. Unlike the few updates which have already been added to Dawntrail, patch 7.1 ought to see main content material additions, together with some revisions to current content material, like stability modifications to the sport’s numerous jobs and potential changes to current dungeon or raid content material.

Ahead of patch 7.1, Dawntrail has already obtained a number of small updates shortly after launch — the primary, 7.01, added the primary tier of the enlargement’s Arcadion eight-individual raid collection and made a number of stability modifications to numerous FFXIV jobs, whereas the second, 7.05, was a lot smaller, including a brand new treasure map dungeon, some new furnishings for participant housing, and but extra stability modifications. After the discharge of these two updates, although, there aren’t any extra “in-between” patches deliberate till after the discharge of 7.1, making it the following main addition for FF14 gamers to sit up for.

Everything Announced For FF14 Patch 7.1

Dawntrail’s First Major Update Brings New Story And Raid Content

Currently, there are 4 identified main additions coming in patch 7.1 for Final Fantasy 14 — new fundamental story quests with a brand new dungeon, the Echoes of Vana’diel 24-participant Alliance Raid, the Futures Rewritten Ultimate raid, and, for the primary time in FF14, a Savage-tier 24-participant raid. Alongside these main additions, 7.1 can be set to introduce a brand new Unreal trial, an replace to the sport’s PvP modes, and (presumably) an Extreme model of Dawntrail‘s last boss trial. Currently, the precise launch date of 7.1 is unknown, however from the sport’s normal launch schedule, a November 2024 launch is probably going.

Perhaps probably the most notable addition coming with 7.1, the Echoes of Vana’diel Alliance Raid, shall be a collaboration with Final Fantasy 11, the one different MMO within the Final Fantasy collection. Currently, not a lot is thought about Echoes of Vana’diel apart from its identify, nevertheless it’s potential that the raid collection shall be much like previous Alliance Raids that collaborated or referenced different video games, like Shadowbringer‘s YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse and Stormblood‘s Return to Ivalice. Notably, it is also been said that 7.1 will convey the sport’s first Savage 24-individual content material, which is assumed to be associated to the brand new Alliance Raid.

The different main raid addition coming in 7.1, the Ultimate model of Futures Rewritten, shall be a particularly difficult model of Shadowbringer‘s 8-participant raid collection involving common characters Ryne and Gaia. It’s unlikely that the Ultimate shall be mentioned intimately earlier than its precise launch, as FF14 Ultimate and Savage content material is often left for gamers to find themselves, nevertheless it’s sure that the raid shall be extraordinarily tough, testing the abilities of even the sport’s most expert and properly-coordinated raid teams, and that it’s going to spark a brand new (unofficial) race for a world first clear.

FF14 7.1 Will Be Revealed In More Detail In September

An Upcoming Livestream Will Show Off More Of What’s Coming In Patch 7.1

Unfortunately, till extra FF14 7.1 information is revealed in September, the finer particulars of what the patch will embrace are presently unknown. Numerous high quality-of-life options, equivalent to speech bubbles for participant messages and an in-recreation software for raid strategizing, have been proven, however not particularly introduced for 7.1, and is probably not added to the sport till a later replace. Likewise, the precise contents and rewards of the brand new dungeon, Alliance Raid, Ultimate, and Extreme aren’t presently identified, although some rewards could also be proven off forward of the patch.

In phrases of stability modifications, it is unlikely that the patch will embrace any main reworks of any job and can as a substitute make extra minor changes to courses which can be under- or over-performing. In explicit, the brand new Pictomancer job launched in Dawntrail has been famous by many gamers as being an outlier by way of injury output, and so could have its injury values nerfed barely. Finally, whereas an Extreme model of Dawntrail‘s Queen Eternal trial hasn’t been explicitly introduced, it is more likely to be included within the patch, much like Endsinger Extreme being added in 6.1 for Endwalker.

So far, Dawntrail‘s fight and gameplay content material has been extremely praised by the playerbase, and the upcoming 7.1 patch appears to make additional additions to that facet of the sport. Until the following dwell presentation in September, the precise contents and launch date of the patch stay unknown, nevertheless it’s protected to imagine that the primary main replace for Final Fantasy 14‘s Dawntrail enlargement will launch in comparatively quick order after the presentation takes place.