Closing Fantasy XIV Fan Competition in Tokyo is presently underway and its keynote revealed such thrilling issues as the complete Dawntrail trailer, a brand new Pictomancer job, and a take a look at the feminine Hrothgar playable race in motion.
Whereas we did not get a launch date for the much-anticipated Dawntrail enlargement past Summer time 2024, the glimpse of the way forward for FF14 shared by director Naoki Yoshida and the group was fairly promising.
To study extra about Dawntrail as a complete, you’ll be able to take a look at the practically 6-minute trailer of the enlargement above that’s supposed to be the “absolute best summer season trip a hero may probably have.” It can even be step one right into a “new story” for the sport and can ship gamers to Tural, a land that lies over the ocean to the far west of Eorzea.
Gamers will have the ability to tackle two new jobs in Dawntrail, and the Pictomancer job is now recognized alongside the beforehand introduced Viper. Pictomancer is a magical ranged DPS that makes use of a paintbrush and a big selection of colours to take down its foes. It appears like a really enjoyable job that has gamers portray landscapes, shapes, and different sorts of artwork as abilities to trigger injury, create weapons, summon creatures, and extra.
To turn out to be a Viper or Pictomancer, gamers might want to buy Dawntrail. If they don’t seem to be prepared to start the brand new enlargement, there’ll nonetheless be updates to take pleasure in like the most important graphical replace, system updates, and Gold Saucer updates.
One of many different greatest additions is for individuals who a minimum of have the Shadowbringers enlargement, and that’s the new playable race often known as the Feminine Hrothgar. The Male Hrothgar was added throughout the Shadowbringers enlargement, and shortly, the extra uncommon Feminine Hrothgar will be part of the struggle.
The Feminine Hrothgar are “recognized by their lithe, muscular kinds” and their “predisposition for management.”
Yoshi-P mentioned the Feminine Hrothgar would be the remaining race to be added to the sport, however he additionally left the door open for them to vary their minds sooner or later.
As reported by Nova Crystallis, there have been a ton of different new updates given throughout the keynote, together with a few of the new areas we can be visiting. The brand new area gamers can be visiting known as Tural and a Feminine Hrothgar can be aiding gamers and can introduce them to what they will anticipate. This features a contest the place the prize is “succession because the ruler of Tuliyollal, an enormous metropolis that sits on the juncture of northern and southern areas of Tural.” This contest might also break up your group of Scions, probably inflicting battle or arguments between buddies.
We additionally bought a glimpse of a brand new city known as Answer 9, a “metropolis of towering facades constructed by a completely completely different civilization than of Tuliyollal.” There may also be one other space known as Heritage Discovered that could be a area “overflowing with lightning energies, thick thunderclouds blot out the solar, whereas streaks of purple levin illuminate the land day and evening.”
New challenges will put gamers face-to-face with Valigarmanda, The Eliminator, and the Barreltender. A brand new 8-player raid known as The Arcadion was mentioned and it’ll happen in Answer 9. A brand new Alliance Raid – Echoes of Vana’Diel – is a collaboration with Closing Fantasy XI and can take a look at gamers with a battle towards the Shadow Lord from FFXI. There may also be an Final Raid name Eden – Futures Rewritten that can deliver gamers again to Eden and see completely different “what-if” eventualities with Ryne and Gaia.
Followers of Island Sanctuary can be comfortable to know a brand new sort of “way of life content material” known as Cosmic Exploration that can be launched after Dawntrail and can let gamers go to different planets.
There are such a lot of different smaller updates coming with Dawntrail and past, and we encourage you to take a look at the official Dawntrail web page for much more information.
Lastly, Akihito Yoshida created attractive art work for Dawntrail and you may test it and the Official Dungeon Crawl trailer beneath.
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