FFXIV

• Most likely dropping on August 5th
• No Ultimate in 7.3, but another is coming in DT (highly likely 7.5)
• The usual contents:
  • MSQ Dungeon: The Meso Terminal
  • MSQ Trial / Ex: 222
  • Alliance Raid: San d'Oria: The Second Walk
  • Unreal: Seiryu
  • Sidequest: Hildebrand
• Deep Dungeon 4: Pilgrim's Traverse
  • Hard mode boss of some kind once DD is cleared.
• Treasure Dungeon: Vault Oneiron (roulette version)
• PvP Updates: Series 9 begins (battlepass), Next season begins (ranked), Omega and Ultima tier ranks added above Crystal in CC
• Crystal Conflict Map: The Bayside Battlegrounds
• Yok Kuy Beast Tribe (crafter)
• 7.31 Cosmic Exploration: New planet Phaenna added
• 7.31 Cosmo Adjustments:
  • Mounts allowed starting next planet. Time limits on some missions adjusted. Mission report window to automatically open
  • GP used will be restored, cordial cd reset on gathering missions. Retainer bell added. Teleport tickets to Cosmo to be added
  • More incentives to come back after finishing relics. Holograms available from the start
• OC Adjustments:
  • Arriving in 7.4
  • Can queue into Southern Horn in a premade 48man alliance. Forked Tower weather won't appear during an active CE
  • Changing Ul to see amount of players that put in ciphers. Players will be required to submit 1 cipher to enter FT
• Misc:
  • Chat Bubble Feature - players can see chat in bubble above player rather than chat logs.
  • Raid Planner in 7.4
  • Viera/Hrothgar hat fixes
  • Relic step to be added in 7.3

More of a question for the community here, but now that it has been released and we know a lot more about it, is anyone going to play FFXIV Mobile?

Personally I'm probably going to avoid it. It looks interesting and has some nice QOL features we don't have in the main game but it's not something I want to be throwing money at.

Not as drastic as the previous AWM.

[Date & Time]

• Jun. 24, 2025 6:00 to 10:00 (GMT)
• Jun. 24, 2025 7:00 to 11:00 (BST)
• Jun. 24, 2025 16:00 to 20:00 (AEST)

To my fellow players, how do you handle raids with tons of activity? I’m struggling with keeping up with the on-screen action and not over focusing on the casting bar and timers. Does it just take time to figure out the cadence of the actions?

Game, Mog Station, Companion App and forums will all be unavailable during maintenance.

• Jun. 16, 2025 20:00 to Jun. 17, 2025 10:00 (GMT)
• Jun. 16, 2025 21:00 to Jun. 17, 2025 11:00 (BST)
• Jun. 17, 2025 6:00 to 20:00 (AEST) *Completion time is subject to change.

About time^^

Been trying to get shaders working through reshade in the game, no luck so far. I can use the CLI installer from here to "install" reshade, but the only functionality it has is for screenshots, and I get two errors from some things not being able to be read by reshade. Trying out different shader presets and packs just doesn't work.

It should be possible, right? For reference, I've been running the game through XIVlauncher for faster start times and Dalamud plugins.

edit: forgot to mention, on Linux.

OC looks like it's FF V inspired. I really hope the weapons look good (the hildi weapons didn't really do it for me).

Just a few hotfixes

There's maybe one fight that isn't the best, and that's it. In fact the amount of work they put into the effects and presentation is above what we've seen so far.

10/10 hyped for savage

Just sharing some thoughts on this as I procrastinate weekend working.

I am a relatively new player to FFXIV. I started earnestly about a year ago, after getting to around level 35 in the MSQ way back in 2015. Before FFXIV, my main MMO was Guild Wars 2 for around 9 years and prior to that WoW for around a similar amount of time.

As I progressed through the earlier expansions I was assured that the story was fantastic, even if major leaps in logic

were prevalent in all expansions.

I was also lead to believe that Dawntrail was going to be absolutely awful with terrible writing and a slog on the level of post-ARR. But, honestly, that hasn't been my experience so far. I have just finished the level 91 journal and I am finding the story of Dawntrail quite refreshing after how WoL-centric the previous expansions were and I am enjoying the world building being a bit more subtle and delivered via small character interactions rather than being beaten over the head with exposition for cutscene after cutscene.

I have been warned that there are moments where the narrative tension is sapped, but that was also really prevalent in Shadowbringers (as a Viera player, Rak'tika Greatwood was beyond disappointing) and Endwalker

I've also heard so many complaints about the balance and game design that I am just not really understanding. Perhaps I really need to dip my toes into Savage to understand this, but looking at the concerns it seems very quaint compared with the balance issues in other MMOs (looking at you Guild Wars 2)!

Maybe things really will get monumentally worse and I won't enjoy DT by the end of it, but I am enjoying DT considerably more at this stage than the other expansions aside from Shadowbringers.

I will try to remember to come back and share thoughts when I am done!

The patch site is up! One interesting bit info I could already find is that the new relics will be called "Phantom Weapons" 👀