Patch 6.5: Growing Light (Early October 2023 pt 1, mid January 2024 pt 2)

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The Japanese title has a 0 hidden in the name, they explain this is because Zero will play a significant role

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That’s a hell of a gap between part 1 and 2 but I guess with Dawntrailer being a year out they gotta fill the gap somehow

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Screen shots show Ryne and Zero together in the Crystarium, got a big reaction from fanboys in the crowd

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Extra capstone for tribal quests comes in 6.55. Must have completed all of the Endwalker tribal quest stories to finish.

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Further Manderville weapons in 6.55 as expected

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Splendrous Tools in 6.55 for crafter/gatherers too

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New dungeon, “The Lunar Subterrane”

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New trial and extreme “The Abyssal Fracture” against Zeromus as expected

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New Unreal trial against King Thordan

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Final step of Myths of the Realm alliance raid “Thaleia”

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Yoshi P says he wants to meet the woman that cosplayed as Nophica in the cosplay contest yesterday. ME TOO YOSHI

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Duty support will be added for remaining Stormblood MSQ dungeons. All of MSQ dungeons will now have duty support.

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Third Variant & Criterion dungeon “Alolalo Island”, completion of previous criterion dungeons is not required. Partner NPC is Matsya aka the elephant dude you sell fish to in Endwalker MSQ

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PVP adjustments, new PVP series begins. New weird timing on the season because of Crystalline Conflict tournaments at various fan fests in the coming months

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New CC arena “The Red Sands”

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Island Sanctuary updates. New items, ranks, visions, new gathering areas

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Fall Guys collaboration in the Gold Saucer as mentioned yesterday. It is still in development and they aren’t ready to commit to which series of 6.5X patch it will arrive

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New Custom Deliveries. They show a screenshot of the NPC and nobody knows the name. It is Margrat, a Sharlayan scientist.

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Alliance Raid roulette will now also have character level restrictions in addition to item level restrictions so now you can’t cheese your IL to force a Crystal Tower raid THANK GOD lol this got a standing ovation

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New mount for collecting the 6.X extreme trial mounts. It’s a dragon carrying the PC in a chair. So, not based on a lynx? That’s different lol