Patch 7.5: Trail to the Heavens (Part 1 4/28/26; Part 2 Early September 2026)

[Anoat]

Yes, FIVE MONTHS between part 1 and part 2 of the patch, holy shit.

7.5 Content

MSQ part 1, new dungeons "The Clyteum", new trial boss "Enuo"

Conclusion of FFXI Alliance raid series "The Third Walk: Windurst", screenshots show Windurst Walls, Shantotto, and also Aht Urghan Whitegate

New Unreal Trial: Shinryu

New Crystalline Conflict map and new PVP series & rewards

Upgrades to Housing, Armoire, and Dye systems

Duty support added for Dusk Vigil and Shisui of the Violet Tides. That will complete all dungeons to now include duty support.

7.5X "A few weeks after patch"

New Ultimate, name is being withheld for now but it will be announced at NA Fanfest

7.51 release early June

7.55 release 7/28

7.56 release 9/1 OR 9/8

Includes part 2 of MSQ and solo duty

Confirmed for 7.5x but no release date given:

Beastmaster launch, fully new solo designed job that will be capped at 50. BSTs will be a melee dps with a one-handed axe as their primary weapon and can call forth up to 3 monster pets at a time for instanced content to fill other job roles. Will have it's own solo instance duty called Crucible of the Unbroken, and is hinted to have rogue-like qualities.

Final Cosmic Exploration planet "Auxesia", final steps of crafter/gatherer relic

OC North Horn with more Phantom Jobs, Forked Tower Magic raid will have both normal and extreme version on launch

Conclusion of Hildibrand DT story (and possibly a trial)

Capstone quest for DT Beast tribe series

New custom delivery NPC Tiisol Ja

New ocean fishing route around Thavnair

New multiplayer Gold Saucer content to be revealed at a future Fan Fest

There will NOT be a BLU update in Dawntrail. They said they used all their resources allotted working on BST. BLU update has been pushed back to sometime in 8.0

[Madeline]

real mismanagement of this game lol

a lot of it is the amount of time they're taking for 8.0, they're dragging this way the fuck out but without actually adding any content to the cycle at all which is just disappointing and telling of how stuck they are to the formula that they can't break it even when they need to.

atp there should just be another patch to add blu stuff and some other small stuff to hold us for this huge wait.

[6souls]

Yes, FIVE MONTHS between part 1 and part 2 of the patch, holy shit.

Trying so hard to be Destiny 2

[arus2001]

This is the inevitable fate of the subscription model. Build up your addict base, then just get lazier on development until you can announce maintenance mode and they'll still keep paying anyway. Frankly, those who pop in and out at expansion launches are the real winners because imagine paying like $300 for an incomplete experience strung out over 2.5+ years.

[Lucavi]

I won't go so far as to call it a parasocial relationship, but its goddamn close. The value proposition drops significantly over time, but sunk-cost fallacy and nostalgia comfort reign supreme...

...until they don't. 8.X better knock it out of the park. I don't even know what I'd need to see to be legitimately impressed at the time and effort they claim to be putting in.

[Gokulo]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/dawntrail/patch_7_5/

Al Zahbi???

[Madeline]

nice to see the old home city given some love

heavens tower was one of my favorite places

[The Stig]

BESIEGED?????????

C'mon Yoshi it's your chance to do something hilarious.
Don't give us a 1 boss raid in a square room.
Make waves of mobs spawn. Keep all 3 tanks on their toes. Sneak in occasional elite type mobs, followed by a half serious boss. Bonus if they add quirky mobs.
All 3 parties can be anywhere on the map, no desiginated positions. Temp items (Duty Action buttons?) and slight but manageable chaos.
Sprinkle the 5 Skyserpent generals there with cool moves to show off for extra bonus. Maybe keep them alive for extra loot.

Who am I kidding. Probably gonna be a dumb reskinned mounted Mamool Ja dude as a boss.

edit: fuck, upon linking the image, it enlarged and I noticed 2 things:
I see an teleport crystal. So it's a boss room.
What's that building in the background/distance?

[Anoat]

These were already shown during the live letter everyone acting like it’s new information lol

[Gokulo]

Live letters are too frigging long for the amount of interesting information they actually provide - I stopped watching them ages ago, now I just skim the translations after and must have missed this

[Anoat]

Live letters are too frigging long for the amount of interesting information they actually provide - I stopped watching them ages ago, now I just skim the translations after and must have missed this

The live letter recap is literally the first post in this thread DO MY EFFORTS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU PEOPLE

[Gokulo]

I've got no defense for that ;(

[The Stig]

The live letter recap is literally the first post in this thread DO MY EFFORTS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU PEOPLE

I've got no defense for that ;(

I have lol, when people ask me why I don't like reading, I tell them I can only read pictures haha (it half stems from the fact I read more manga than books and sometimes when it occasionally enters conversation people would also like to ask if I like to read books rather than manga)

[Shenrien]

Get a TTS that'll read whatever you highlight on a page while you go and masturbate to your favorite yuri foot fetish doujin

[Anoat]

Well that took a turn

[Vaspinne]

Aside from the fucking rad gear from the Nier raids, most alliance raid gear is all sorts of meh as we all know. But holy shit did they drop the ball with the XI sets and what they could have used. I mean, these are great for their respective jobs, but wtf? Why repeat 3 jobs and use them on completely unrelated job types? We get 21 gear sets from these raids, there are 22 XI jobs, an AF set from each one would have been a stupid easy choice and the last one could have just been a FFA lot gear crate . Or even one of the many many other cool gearsets from XI.

But instead we got a lot of lame stuff that you can't even mix and match with other glamour +_+

[Gokulo]

Wth is that selection of gear

[Anoat]

Now that glam is unlocked for all I hope they give us straight up glams for all the ff11 job gear but they will probably end up making it cash shop stuff

[Anoat]

Bunch of new Yoshi P interviews dropped today before the live letter, the most interesting tidbit I think was that they got FFXI’s composer Naoshi Mizuta to create an all new original song for the finale of the FFXI raid, and he says if players really enjoy it they will incorporate it into FFXI as well.

[Ragns]

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