With less than a year before the launch of Final Fantasy XIV's new Dawntrail expansion, players are chomping at the bit to get story details that will lead Warriors of Light to a new location and a new epic tale. With Patch 6.5, that story will begin.
Along with Main Scenario Quests, there is a plethora of new content coming, including new Dungeons, Trials, Custom Deliveries, Island Sanctuary improvements, a new PvP Series, and more. The preliminary patch notes were released this morning, giving players more insight as to what is coming after the Live Letter from the Producers showed off most of it last week.
In case the patch notes seem a bit overwhelming, here is a summary of the most important bits of the Patch 6.5 preliminary notes. This article will be updated when the final patch notes are posted.
FFXIV Patch 6.5 notes summary
- New Main Scenario quests
- New Dungeon: The Lunar Subeterrane
- New Trials
- The Abyssal Fracture
- The Abyssal Fracture (Extreme)
- New Myths of the Realm Alliance Raid
- Thaleia
- New quest to obtain the final mount when all Lynx's are collected
- Players must complete The Abyssal Fracture Trial and obtain the Lynx of Eternal Darkness, Lynx of Devine Light, Bluefeather Lynx, Lynx of Imperious Wind, Lynx of Righteous Fighre, Lynx of Fallen Shadow and Lynx of Abyssal Grief
- New Custom Deliveries: Margarat
- A plethora of new housing designs have been added
- Four new Triple Triad cards were added
- Island Sanctuary updates
- The felicitous furball will now offer 'felicitous favors', which will be based on handicrafts and offer a new currency to spend on rewards
- Island Sanctuary Rank has been raised from 16 to 20
- A new gathering area was added
- Landmarks can now be rotated in 90 or 180 degree increments
- New handicrafts, rewards, animals, crops, mining nodes, and more have been added
- Workshop agenda can now be copied and pasted into multiple workshops
- New hairstyles for Viera and Hrothgar were added
- A new Unreal Trial has been added
- New items are available in exchange for Faux Leaves
- New prizes are available in exchange for Khloe's Gold, Silver and Bronze Certificates
- A new /slump emote was added
- Experience and tomestones were increased/changed for certain Alliance Raids
- Allegan Tomestones of Causality and Allegan Tomestones of Comedy were added for older Alliance Raids, and adjusted for current-tier Raids
- Gear can now be upgraded to 660.
- Item level restrictions based on class or job level at the time of Duty registration will now be applied for Alliance Raids
- Level 50-59 required ilvl: 70
- Level 60-69 required ilvl: 175
- Level 70-79 required ilvl: 305
- Level 80-89 required ilvl: 435
- Level 90 required ilvl: 565
- PvP Series Five begins
- Series EXP can be obtained for Series Five until 7.0 is released
- Crystalline Conflict changes were made
- New armor and outfits have been added
- Items purchased from the Online Store can now be stored in the armoire
- Aetherial Reduction now has an automatic reduce button, allowing players to reduce an entire stack at once
- New mounts, minions, fashion accessories and bardings have been added
- A 'show only recently added items' and class/job icon filters have been added to shops
- If you don't have enough currency for an item, it will now be greyed out in the menu
- Buttons have been added to more easily filter through items in several gear menus
- Glamour Dresser
- Materia Melding
- Materia Creation
- Repairs
- Dyeing
- Glamours
- Desynthesis
- Amoire
- Teleport destination tabs are now able to be sorted by expansion rather than location
- Free Trial accounts now have access to Stormblood and had their level cap raised to 70
- Ultimate trials are unavailable to Free Trial players
