Last Fantasy XIV Fan Pageant in Tokyo is at the moment underway and its keynote revealed such thrilling issues as the total 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 be taught extra about Dawntrail as an entire, you’ll be able to take a look at the almost 6-minute trailer of the enlargement above that’s supposed to be the “easiest summer season 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 identified alongside the beforehand introduced Viper. Pictomancer is a magical ranged DPS that makes use of a paintbrush and a wide selection of colours to take down its foes. It seems like a really enjoyable job that has gamers portray landscapes, shapes, and different kinds of artwork as expertise to trigger harm, create weapons, summon creatures, and extra.
To turn into 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 get pleasure from like the key graphical replace, system updates, and Gold Saucer updates.
One of many different largest additions is for individuals who no less than have the Shadowbringers enlargement, and that’s the new playable race often called the Feminine Hrothgar. The Male Hrothgar was added in the course of the Shadowbringers enlargement, and shortly, the extra uncommon Feminine Hrothgar will be part of the battle.
The Feminine Hrothgar are “recognized by their lithe, muscular types” 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 alter their minds sooner or later.
As reported by Nova Crystallis, there have been a ton of different new updates given in the course of the keynote, together with among the new areas we shall be visiting. The brand new area gamers shall be visiting known as Tural and a Feminine Hrothgar shall be aiding gamers and can introduce them to what they’ll 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 cut up your group of Scions, doubtlessly inflicting battle or arguments between associates.
We additionally obtained a glimpse of a brand new city known as Resolution 9, a “metropolis of towering facades constructed by a completely completely different civilization than of Tuliyollal.” There may even 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 night time.”
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 Resolution 9. A brand new Alliance Raid – Echoes of Vana’Diel – is a collaboration with Last 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 can convey gamers again to Eden and see completely different “what-if” situations with Ryne and Gaia.
Followers of Island Sanctuary shall be completely satisfied to know a brand new kind of “life-style content material” known as Cosmic Exploration that shall 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 beautiful art work for Dawntrail and you may examine it and the Official Dungeon Crawl trailer beneath.
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