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The July 29, 2023 Letter from the Producer Live Part LXXVIII featured Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida and Global Community Producer Toshio “Foxclon” Murouchi primarily focusing on additions and changes in FFXIV patch 6.5. The goal was to discuss things that would come up in “part 1” of it. As a reminder, this next major update is divided into two, with part showing up in early October 2023 and the other debuting in mid-January 2024.
What will we see in FFXIV patch 6.5?
Here’s the full overview list of various additions and changes we’ll see in FFXIV patch 6.5 parts 1 and 2.
- Ability to Store Optional Items in the Armoire
- Crystalline Conflict Update: Minimap and UI Adjustments and The Red Sands arena
- Duty Support for Stormblood: The Burn, The Drowned City of Skalla, The Ghimlyt Dark
- Endwalker Tribal Alliance Quests – Patch 6.55, requires you to finish “Dreams Come True,” “The Hippo Riders,” and “Life, the Universe, and Coffee Beans” from Arkasodara, Loporrit, and Omicron.
- Fall Guys Collaboration at Gold Saucer – Patch 6.5x
- Free Trial Expanded to Include Stormblood
- Further Manderville Weapons – Patch 6.55
- Green Dot Indicators on Newly Logged Fish in Fish Guide
- IL Restrictions for Duty Roulette: Alliance Raid Based on Level
- Island Sanctuary Updates: New Animals, Craftable Items, Crops, Felicitous Favors handicraft requests from Felicitous Furball unlocked via 6.5 progress, Isleworks Handicrafts, Materials, Ranks, Structures, Visions, and Wilds Gathering Area
- Job Adjustments (PvE/PvP)
- Main Scenario Quests – Part 1 in early-October 2023 and part 2 in mid-January 2024
- New Alliance Raid: Myths of the Realm Part 3 – Thaleia
- New Consecutive Aetherial Reduction Function for Collectables
- New Custom Deliveries: Margrat
- New Dungeon: The Lunar Subterrane
- New Reward for Obtaining all trial Mounts in 6.x Patch Series
- New Trials: Zeromus The Abyssal Fracture and The Abyssal Fracture (Extreme)
- New Unreal Trial: The Singularity Reactor (Unreal)
- Option to Sort Teleport Destinations by Expansion
- PvP Updates: PvP Series 5 Begins and Season 8 Runs from 6.48 on August 8, 2023 until 6.51.
- Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures – Patch 6.55
- Splendorous Tools – Patch 6.51
- Tataru’s Grand Endeavor Continues – Patch 6.55
- Variant & Criterion Dungeon #3: Aloalo Island at Normal, Criterion, and Criterion (Savage) Difficulty with Matsya – Patch 6.51, unlock doesn’t require finishing Sil’dihn Subterrane and Mount Rokkon
Final Fantasy XIV is available for the PS4, PS5, and PC, and the release window for patch 6.5 part 1 is early October 2023. The free trial will be extended when 6.5 appears. The Dawntrail expansion is in development for a Summer 2024 release. The 2023 Fan Festival will be held in Las Vegas between July 28-29, 2023. The full schedule for the event is online.
