Final Fantasy XIV 7.0: Dawntrail - Summer 2024

[Prothescar]

As usual with these trailers the spoilers are misleading and ultimately going to be meaningless

[Anoat]

The Endwalker launch trailer was full of red herrings and misdirection but the Shadowbringers trailer had the Emmet lore bomb about Hydaleyn and Zodiark being primals and that was pretty big

[Lokus]

Overall, the live letter was a nothingburger as expected.

[The Stig]

Hah, I've not touched that trailer. I saw it come up on my feed.

I don't know why maybe it's fatigue but I don't care for DT, but I still am looking forward to playing it. I think it's because I know it's going to be a new new new story so I'm less fussed over it in general, allowing me to be more carefree. More so, as the last 3-4 expansions taught us, the game isn't fundamentally going to drastically change, and rotations and stuff remain samey with an extra button or so.

So it feels nice. I can't wait to play and see what's going to happen haha

[Vaspinne]

It's kind of hard to get hyped when the last expansion had us going to the end of the universe to stop an entity that was going to end all living existence and fighting it on the back of our "fated rival" who transformed himself into a fucking dragon to chase us down to the end of the universe so that after we defeat that entity, he and us can have a 1v1

And then this expansion it's just like... cool... tropical vacation I guess?

I'm looking forward to playing it, don't get me wrong. But yeah, not super super hyped or really keen on rushing through it to get through the story

[Athas]

Yeah I swore off on story trailers after "They are Gods after a fashion" back in Shadowbringers.

[Anoat]

Reminder if you are trying to maximize XP for Dawntrail early access launch, finish this week’s Wondrous Tales but DO NOT turn it in, wait until early access begins and you can cash in this week’s WT and also pick up next week’s.

[Gokulo]

Damn, thanks for that. This week has been pretty crazy for me and I somehow still thought that I have time until next week

[Buffy]

Anyone around from Shiva's Dark Legacy or Heroes of Carpe'diem? can you DM me?

[Prothescar]

Reminder if you are trying to maximize XP for Dawntrail early access launch, finish this week’s Wondrous Tales but DO NOT turn it in, wait until early access begins and you can cash in this week’s WT and also pick up next week’s.

Other tips:

A) pick up 16 leves for botanist and miner (8 and 8). If you care to minmax it check the xp they give because some lower level ones give more xp than higher level ones. You need to do this soon if you want all 99 leves to be back for the expansion.

B) fill out the xp granting battle objectives in your challenge log next Tuesday right up to before they're finished. This will let you log on and redeem them all for a big chunk of xp on whatever job you choose.

C) If you aren't leveling a new job, preload all your combat beast men dailies, can turn them in before reset for a 2nd set almost right away.

D) You can also preload a set of mark bills for easy xp and a second set right away after.

Most of these things benefit PIC and VIP besides the beast dailies.


Other leveling tips for PIC and VIP:

-Preorder earrings only work for dungeon exp and exp from monster kills.

-Best exp is Dungeons (if you have a healer to queue with) > Eureka Orthos > Bozja > Anything else. With fast queues you can go 81 to 90 in about 6 hours. Orthos and Bozja take 8-12.

-If you don't have an FC or your FC is for some reason not using the big XP buff for expansion launch, your Squadron can provide you with personal FC buff books that you can activate on yourself.

[Anoat]

When Endwalker launched I think I took Reaper from 71-80 in Zadnor's northern zone in like, 2-3 hours tops? People were cooking. It was like hunt trains hopping to engagements just gotta be able to tag something before they all die.

[Prothescar]

71-80 is different. XP doesnt scale beyond lv 80 for Bozja FATEs so by the time youre around lv84 you're getting less XP from them than you would by doing fates of an appropriate level in Endwalker zones. The only thing that makes Bozja worth it are the huge gank crews but if you don't get into a good instance that is cycling FATEs properly then youre fucked.

[Anoat]

Reminder if you are gonna front load your challenge log for the XP bump for early access, you gotta do it tonight before maintenance begins on Wednesday

[Gokulo]

Preliminary patch notes:
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...eb0ae8afb8654e

[Lokus]

I'm surprised to see subs level cap being raised.

[Anoat]

The Mexican chocobo lmao

[Kaslo]

"Players may now adjust text auto-advance settings to apply only to voiced dialogue." OMG Awesome

Also, this is a great change: "FATEs that grant a bonus to experience points gained will now also grant a bonus to earned bicolor gemstones."

[carlweathers]

Being able to /bgm in cutscenes is incredible for me.

[Anoat]

I like the Wondrous Tales changes, like how instead of alliance raids individually it’s grouped by expansion. I know some of the earlier 8 man raids were grouped like that too up to Stormblood, looks like Shadowbringers 8 man raids getting that treatment now too

[Prothescar]

Yay easier potion weaving