Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Bondurant said:

It's getting quite clear they won't.

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I didn't see the translated article, what's the TL;DR version of the bad?

So final predictions for 8.0? We doing some isles somewhere on the Source? Void expansion (13th)? Or some other wildcard loc (not Meracydia)?

Given how important the Key obviously has become, I can't imagine there isn't some shard travel involved one way or the other. Maybe a half Source/half shard expac?

Merrith said:

So final predictions for 8.0? We doing some isles somewhere on the Source? Void expansion (13th)? Or some other wildcard loc (not Meracydia)?

Given how important the Key obviously has become, I can't imagine there isn't some shard travel involved one way or the other. Maybe a half Source/half shard expac?

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Meracydia cause people like dragons in this game. Also I could see them doing the 11th reflection and doing a FFXI crossover. So a split between.

Well we know from the patch trailer we are going back to the 13th for the upcoming patch. Hamarout doesn’t come across as an antagonist either - at the moment anyways.

My prediction: Zodiark and Hydaelyn dying has destabilized the reflections - the “withering” will be the destruction of the reflections. The 13th will be the most at risk of going first. My guess is the 13th is destroyed/partially reabsorbed into the source. New mission is to save the reflections - next expac takes place partially on the source and partially in a reflection

Cybsled said:

Well we know from the patch trailer we are going back to the 13th for the upcoming patch. Hamarout doesn’t come across as an antagonist either - at the moment anyways.

My prediction: Zodiark and Hydaelyn dying has destabilized the reflections - the “withering” will be the destruction of the reflections. The 13th will be the most at risk of going first. My guess is the 13th is destroyed/partially reabsorbed into the source. New mission is to save the reflections - next expac takes place partially on the source and partially in a reflection

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This makes a lot of sense. Also curious if the leftover Zodiark energy on all the shard moons will come into play at some point.

Merrith said:

This makes a lot of sense. Also curious if the leftover Zodiark energy on all the shard moons will come into play at some point.

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Probably. My theory is that to save the reflections, they have to stabilize them by connecting them with the source. Since the moon exists in all the reflections (since it was Zodiark's prison), the portal shit we used to go to the 13th will end up being how we eventually access and connect to all the reflections.

Neat trailer for the new expac. Couldn't hear shit of the voice over though.

Evercold. Jan 2027. Wanderer of the Silver (japanese subtitle). The Fourth is the ice reflection

7.5 is next week

Weekly activities seem similar to how Lost Ark changed it's Weekly Unas to missions that accrue. But in that game you had to manually select quests and could forget this just auto tracks same as their new system.

- Ability to earn capped tomes you miss from 1 week prior.
- "Seasons" they are declaring 8.0 + 8.1 is "Season 1" operates the same as it has but giving a name to the gear tiers in an xpac.
- item level sync: Jobs will now have the highest item level you have applied to all jobs (WIP)
- Character Creation will update/add more facial, hair, and color options
- Extra bits of gear can be turned off (all or nothing) like buckles, shoulderpads, belt attachments, etc
- 3rd raid difficulty: In between Normal and Savage
- Player matching will include all worlds in a Region 7.5X will test in japan then bring to other regions
- 2nd mode for job actions (only existing 21 jobs, new jobs will only have one) - designed for fewer inputs so buff/cooldown usage removed with different rotations
- Treasure maps, Fates, Hunts will get updates along with the overall open world changes - details in later fan fests
- Ultimates and PVP updates will continue in 8.X
- Alliance raid will be Evangelion collab - Ghosts of Desire
- PS4 will still be able to run 8.0, may become too much by 8.3 and forced to upgrade to PS5
- Beastmaster 7.56
- 7.55 July 28 and then 7.56 Sep 8
- Switch 2 version coming August 2026 - requires additional Nintendo payment but no membership required

Bondurant said:

It's getting quite clear they won't.

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This turned out quite incorrect

Next Alliance raid is Evangelion

Eva alliance raid.

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(next week)

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Juvarisx said:

7.5 is next week

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We've known this for awhile I thought?

Pyros said:

Damn September for Beastmaster, I was expecting this summer. Then again I was expecting the expansion to be this year in like November and it's January so still a lot of time.

Datacenters queuing without having to do the whole dance is great, glad they managed the tech for that it was sorely needed. Don't think it'll help Oceania much though but it should be great for NA and EU since these had very lopsided datacenters for stuff like raiding(iirc I saw someone say 90% of raiding is on Light for EU for example which is pretty crazy).

Job simplification thing I'm not sure how I feel about it, guess will need to see how it actually turns out.

The weekly change stuff looks pretty good, and it looks like there will be more ways to progress gear than just savage(especially with the new intermediate difficulty), I'm guessing savage will still have unique rewards but that's kinda nice for a more casual approach without being braindead like normal currently is.

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Most of us given the time between stuff like 6.5 and 6.55/6.56 were thinking expac might not have been until Feb/March '27. January doesn't seem too bad. It's always weird at end of expansion when X.5 and X.55 both act as semi major patches.

Pyros said:

You didn't mention but they said the 2 new jobs would be tank and DPS. I think they didn't actually mention what kind of DPS though. Also Yoshida's T shirt is Rhytahtyn(sp?) which is the MSQ mini boss in ARR with 2 shields, so it should be a big shield tank, either actually 2 shields, or big shield+another weap(typical anime RPG ones are usually Lance/Gunlance but could be something else).

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i think they ended up sayingit would be phys ranged after Koji needled him about specifics.