Patch 5.5: Death Unto Dawn (April 13th 2021)

[Kachiko]

Buttard finger was the same nonsense as the FF7 collab. Expect more nonsense.

[Anoat]

Butterfingers get all stuck in my teeth and feel gross.

[Vaspinne]

Here's the mount if anyone is curious. I uh... I think I'm good without it

[Corrderio]

I... yeah... looks like a dingleberry.

[Cantih]

[Prothescar]

First feculent flood and now this.

[Corrderio]

So since I've never been around long enough to experience an expansion do they rework all classes between the final major update and release of the expansion? I know some jobs like NIN have had quite a few changes happen since Heavenward when I last played.

[Scythiroth]

Usually big changes happen with the expansion launch I think. Most updates between now and then are just minor changes/fixes or small additions (and more Bozja/main story stuff).

[Corrderio]

Gotcha. Hoping Gunbreaker/Samurai get some QOLs. They just feel like a cluster of skills compared to what else I've played.

[Xno Kappa]

I'd like one more healing or damage mitigation skill for GNB. I think it's in a dope spot at the moment. RDM is fine too, maybe hook it up with a DoT spell like Dia. BRD needs a complete rework though.

[Anoat]

They will announce in the last live letter before the expansion drops which jobs will be receiving tweaks and adjustments but they won’t give exact details. Some will leak early (as in, the week of the expansion launch) because SE will preview job changes with the gaming media and certain FFXIV content creators. But the full job changes list will not be known until patch notes release on the day the expansion launches.

[Vaspinne]

They'll also do a big job ability preview at the Fanfest in a couple weeks too like they did for ShB, but it won't go over the actual new abilities and whatnot IIRC, just show off the new stuff to look forward to. Here's the ShB clip that I'm referring to



I would expect them to clean up some abilities and rework some stuff as usual to avoid the abilities/icon bloats for hotbars. And I would think every job gets reworked a little at least, but maybe not huge huge changes.

[Lokus]

I hope they keep SAM nice and braindead. If I need to use my brain to do deeps then I'd play SMN.

[Corrderio]

I'd like one more healing or damage mitigation skill for GNB. I think it's in a dope spot at the moment. RDM is fine too, maybe hook it up with a DoT spell like Dia. BRD needs a complete rework though.

I wish they'd do the same for DRK. 60-70 DRK felt like hell until Shadow Veil or w/e that ability was called.

[Anoat]

New Moogle tomestone event beginning May 14th to celebrate fan fest. It looks like one of the biggest and most generous tomestone events so far.

[Scythiroth]

Yeah, lots of great rewards in there this time.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...105/dubrw051tv

[Athas]

Why the heck are the MGP cards so expensive this time around.

[The Stig]

What's with the weird Skallic and Augmented armor in the middle of nowhere? lol

[Anoat]

What's with the weird Skallic and Augmented armor in the middle of nowhere? lol

These were the fan created armor sets for Heavensward and Stormblood respectively. So, they were brought back because this tomestone event is celebrating fan fest.

Why the heck are the MGP cards so expensive this time around.

The MGP cards reward twice as much this time so they cost more tomes.

[The Stig]

Oh, fair enough. I think I am missing one Skallic piece but I don't remember which, but I do like that set in general very much because it looks quite smart.