Remaining Fantasy XIV Fan Pageant in Tokyo is at present 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 growth past Summer time 2024, the glimpse of the way forward for FF14 shared by director Naoki Yoshida and the workforce was fairly promising.
To study extra about Dawntrail as a complete, you may try the almost 6-minute trailer of the growth above that’s supposed to be the “best summer time trip a hero might probably have.” It would 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 be capable 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 seems like a really enjoyable job that has gamers portray landscapes, shapes, and different varieties of artwork as expertise to trigger injury, create weapons, summon creatures, and extra.
To change into a Viper or Pictomancer, gamers might want to buy Dawntrail. If they are not prepared to start the brand new growth, there’ll nonetheless be updates to get pleasure from like the most important graphical replace, system updates, and Gold Saucer updates.
One of many different greatest additions is for many who at the very least have the Shadowbringers growth, and that’s the new playable race often called the Feminine Hrothgar. The Male Hrothgar was added throughout the Shadowbringers growth, and shortly, the extra uncommon Feminine Hrothgar will be part of the combat.
The Feminine Hrothgar are “recognized by their lithe, muscular kinds” and their “predisposition for management.”
Yoshi-P stated 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 is named Tural and a Feminine Hrothgar can be aiding gamers and can introduce them to what they’ll count on. 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 workforce of Scions, probably inflicting battle or arguments between buddies.
We additionally bought a glimpse of a brand new city referred to as Answer 9, a “metropolis of towering facades constructed by a wholly completely different civilization than of Tuliyollal.” There may even be one other space referred to 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 night time.”
New challenges will put gamers face-to-face with Valigarmanda, The Eliminator, and the Barreltender. A brand new 8-player raid referred to 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 Remaining Fantasy XI and can take a look at gamers with a battle in opposition to the Shadow Lord from FFXI. There may even be an Final Raid name Eden – Futures Rewritten that may carry gamers again to Eden and see completely different “what-if” eventualities with Ryne and Gaia.
Followers of Island Sanctuary can be completely happy to know a brand new kind of “life-style content material” referred to 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 data.
Lastly, Akihito Yoshida created attractive paintings for Dawntrail and you may verify it and the Official Dungeon Crawl trailer beneath.
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