FFXIV’s Next Patch Is Genuinely MASSIVE

Hey, you want a new type of dungeon? How about TWO? Yoshi-P's team sure are a different bunch. Crazy good news and just so, so much content - 6.2 is looking wonderful.
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[@bellulargaming9515]

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[@idminister]

it is not savage being dropped from 2 weeks to 1 week, it is a change from 0 days to 1 week. the x.2 and x.4 patches have had savage released with the patch and not delayed like there is with expansion x.0 release

[@Link0402]

You're misunderstanding the change to the Savage release schedule: On .2 and .4 patches Savage would release simultaneous with all the other stuff, so anyone wanting to get ahead of the curve had to basically blast through all the rest and jump straight into Savage. People have been asking them to delay Savage similarly to how it works at the expansion launch, so that they could take their time to play all the other new content yet without feeling a need to rush anything.

[@nickh4354]

yep, mrhappy has been a huge advocate of this, because someone in his position basically has to skip through all cutscenes and speedrun the story to be in the cutting edge groups doing savage content, while still loving the story and game world. So i'm very happy this is happening.

[@silverancient7840]

He doesnt really understand XIV cus he is too busy covering other games.

[@darthilli]

What do you expect, he’s a former wow player… his knowledge of 14 is shit

[@jordany1955]

Yeah no offense to bellular but I think I'll pass on most of his 14 news coverage as I basically always find a few mistakes/misunderstandings and wonder why I'm watching him instead of someone else more in tune with the game that will do more than read off patch notes and likely offer more original insight/commentary.

[@shinkicker404]

@@jordany1955 tbh, most of those guys that cover news have a mistake or two. Even someone like MrHappy.

[@DoctorPlato]

So for Savage, aside from the X.0 patch, it releases at the exact same time as the normal mode. So they're adding a week for the first time ever. The two week thing is only for expansion release.

[@EverianKalim]

Quick Note: Savage for For No Expansion Release was out Same day as normal so people would have to Speed through normal sotry to start Savage Race. THis now gives people a week to clear Normal at a normal pace before Savage is out.

[@DameonStarflame]

For people wondering what lore Hildy brings to the table: the ARR quest chain is how we learned about what happened to Sil'dih and Ul'dah's part in it. That's pretty huge in terms of lore and world building, especially with 6.2 focusing so heavily on Sil'dih with the variant/criterion dungeons.

[@vgpowerlord]

It makes perfect sense to have the relic questline tie into the Variant/Criterion dungeons since it's the feature that replaced Eureka/Bozja for Endwalker.

[@miqotesoulia8620]

even a free trial player can dip their toes into that juicy side quest bonanza. Cant wait to see where this leads to

[@Boyzby]

Ah, I was trying to remember where I learned about Sil'dih and the necromancy they used. It makes perfect sense it was Hildibrand, now that I think about it.

[@Ashtari]

The Ishgard Hildy quests also lead into and open up the post Dragonsong war drama which exposes some super dark secrets of the Halonic church, through the Scholastic questline.

[@Zoeila]

thats why i get mad when people tell me to skip the cutscenes if i dont like hildebrand humor

[@geekwars3998]

2:15 You got it backwards. They didn't "drop" the wait from 2 weeks to 1. They increased it from 0 to 1. Normally, the X.2 and X.4 Savage tiers drops on the same day the major patch releases without any wait at all (with the exception of a new expansion launch where Savage is pushed to the X.05 patch). Players are concerned about this not because of market impact, but because of how it would impact the race to world first.

[@MrGoesBoom]

Just getting into FFXIV myself...but damn, imagine if the people at Acti-Blizz had the same kind of communication and involvement with their fans that the Yoshi P and his team has with their fanbase...suppose there's a damn good reason so many of us are jumping ship in droves

[@kutlumzrak2689]

" if the people at Acti-Blizz had the same kind of communication and involvement with their fans that the Yoshi P and his team has with their fanbase" They would be FIRED on day 2 of that initiative. Activision is a soulless machine ran by lawyers and PR people for the sole benefit of shareholder dividend.

[@AwesomeXavy]

Welcome and pls enjoy yourself, it's about the journey and not the destination.

[@MrGoesBoom]

@@AwesomeXavy you're the third or so person to give that exact advice. No worries, never been one to rush to the end game

[@matthewmay6806]

Happy journey, hope you have all the fun in the world! Mind the content you look up, though -- spoilers are everywhere!

[@SexycuteStudios]

Took me a full year of gameplay to go from start to finish. The only thing you have to follow linearly, is the MSQ. I remember being so overleveled compared to MSQ in the base game, because I was trying out everything that I had access to. While friends and streamers said, "don't worry about all that just do the story first". The great thing about this game is that you can do anything you want, without any FOMO aside from the special events. And even those are designed in such a way that you don't have to spend days on them. We're talking maybe an hour. Hands down, this is the best MMO experience I have ever had, and I have played a lot of MMOs! It's not a perfect game, but enough of it compels me to keep coming back. And the devs don't make you feel bad about playing other games. In fact they tell you that you *should* take breaks and play other games.

[@itsteebz484]

Day 1 of Patch 6.2: Hurray, I finally have more space in my glamour dresser! Day 2 of Patch 6.2: I'm at 799/800 in my glamour dresser please help

[@michaelreid5307]

Catering for solo and group players. Just imagine this in WoW - it would never get off the ground because of the baggage that the "community" has over solo players accessing dungeon content.

[@IKIGAIofficial]

Endwalker is looking to be the best expansion content wise already in x.2. Longest MSQ, two ultimates, massive glamour expansion, private islands, adventure plates, pvp massive rework, variant/criterion/savage dungeons, new deep dungeon, data center visit, etc.

[@miqotesoulia8620]

more paying players more money, more focus. SE Flagship game(money maker). Oh btw they are doing FF16 as well. INSANE!

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

@@miqotesoulia8620 I was surprised when I found out YoshiP is also responsible for FF16. I hope the game turns out great!

[@Mimz670]

Big true. Never thought about all this together. Pretty cool

[@ArchieGamez]

If it works out, we might even get 3rd ultimate too haha

[@HolySenpaiii]

Not to mention DC Travel! I've been able to do a lot of content with so many more friends!

[@Kashanta]

I am STOKED for variant dungeons. That kind of thing is right up my alley. Also I'm excited for the Island Sanctuary and curious to see what we get for relic weapons (personally I don't mind if we get something more lighthearted, especially after how heavy Endwalker could be).

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

Kitchen stuff calling it. Giant skillet weapon here we come.

[@Ladywizard]

@@warllockmasterasd9142 well arr Gerolt did give monks a tea kettle...

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

@@Ladywizard I know I recently grinded for it, now working on the HW relic.

[@TheTinyTimmyTimTim]

I’m so excited for criterion dungeons. Im not a hardcore raider (I don’t like the idea of wiping with 8 strangers in discord) but I have 3 friends that are currently leveling in ffxiv and this gives us real content to look forward to.

[@HiIThinkImReal]

Bellular talking about FFXIV will forever be a dream come true.

[@in2it85]

*My only regret in WoW is* *NOT Quitting sooner, for Final Fantasy XIV.* *Final Fantasy XIV IS so much better in almost every way.*

[@itallomarcus137]

its kinda weird to see that prices for sub and expansion in ff its more chip than wow and they manage to have way more patches and content through the year than wow has

[@Goujiki]

@@itallomarcus137 well it doesn't matter, because Asmongold says "Responsive Combat" is the only thing that matters. So WoW can just not give content and to him it will be a better game. So we all need to listen to Asmongold, because he's right and you're wrong, and if you disagree then you'll get banned.

[@itallomarcus137]

@@Goujiki lol, when he starts to actually raiding or ultimate on endwalker he will see the improvement of the speed in the battle, he will quit wow for sure

[@Goujiki]

@@itallomarcus137 You're delusional. He's going to get frustrated at ultimate raids (if he ever does them at all). By then New WoW expansion will be out and he'll be busy playing WoW.

[@royox]

@@itallomarcus137 He will join, expect to be carried, get frustrated because he doesn't understand anything and he doesn't have DBM to tell him what buttons to press and leave the game. FFXIV's end game is a total diferent game from what he's playing now (Stormblood) and he still expects the Endgame will be like WoW easy modes. His little mind cannot process that his ass is going to be destroyed the moment he steps in any lvl90 content with the SAVAGE name on it. Or any ultimate.

[@Varizen87]

A lot of the known Sil'Dih lore originates from the 1st Hildebrand story line... which makes me think the Variant/Criterion dungeons will be related to Hildebrand and Manderville Weapons, and the NPC will be one of the sisters in the original story line.

[@idowhatiwant3557]

Doubtful, if they put the relic quest behind anything with a savage flag on it, casuals would complain to no end. This first part is likely going to be a joke quest to unlock the first step as it usually is, then 8 months later we will get a grindy step.

[@Hawkenwhacker]

​@@idowhatiwant3557 No one said it was being held behind Savage. "But they said Criterion..." and Criterion has two versions of it. I can see the connection where doing the Variant/Criterion dungeons for the relics might be possible.

[@thunder35713]

given the dungeon will have 3 difficulties (Story, ASS, ASS(Savage)) - they could easily tie the relics in and have the Story mode or ASS be that route (given in Bozja we had 3 custom raids and the savage raid). So IMO Hildi, sisters, Gilgamesh etc could all be fair game in the speculation stakes - as well as the view its not hildi/relic related and instead an ul'dah based character accompanies us.

[@idowhatiwant3557]

@@Hawkenwhacker I still highly doubt this, as that would mean they would have to add a criterion / variant dungeon each patch. And they have already said there would be maybe 3, and lets face it, yoshi P and the gang would never add one each patch.

[@MattBrain9336]

For all we know the "quest centric" progression could mean dailies like beast tribe quests Or quests that involve killing 1,000 somethings in Eureka / Bozja / PotD / HoH The best thing to do is to just wait for it to drop rather than get angry at assumptions and predictions

[@zarakitube]

FF14 is already amazing and it's getting better and better

[@LordMazafeff]

For starters, YoshiP does not pump Copium through the dev team air vents.

[@Xport9]

*sweats in Blizzard*

[@Leife22]

Hildebrand is side content. Relics are side content. Looking at all the previous relic pre-requisites, they are pretty much following the same formula. Not sure on the outrage here.

[@OriginalGames2]

Same. There's plenty of silliness outside of Hildibrand. Also even starting the ShB relic requires a giant bunch of content that some people might not like.

[@AuroDHikoshi]

Part of appreciating the game that you might not at first?

[@CybersteelEx]

There's no content

[@Hawkenwhacker]

People are complaining purely for the sake of complaining. It's nothing deep.

[@WhiteLazuli]

I honestly think that because this patch is so good, people are finding the smallest things to complain about.

[@TrueMeKazik]

There is one thing you misunderstood: Delay between Normal and Savage raid is not down from two to one week. Last time it was two weeks because it was first part of the raid that happened with new expansion release (Yoshi-P does a delay so people can enjoy MSQ in their own pace). Historically second and third part happens without that delay at all. So the experiment is to make a delay with every future patch for Savage raids.

[@MimiMonday]

Whoever edited in Juicy Zenos everytime Michael said A.S.S, bless you.

[@Shiirow]

when the only controversy you have is a non-troversy

[@geekwars3998]

9:35 I don't think it's really a "time limit" per se. You can retry however many times you want without being kicked out of the instance or losing your reward (unlike M+ where the time to completion dictates your chests, forcing you not to wipe _at all_ or forfeit your key). This is more akin to a soft enrage to ensure players have to do decent damage in order to progress further into the dungeon. If enemies enrage because DPS is too low (and they frankly should, like in any other high-end content), you simply die and restart the dungeon run (the same way you would restart an Ultimate from the very beginning when you die to an enrage 15+ minutes into the fight). In short, the way I see it, the whole Savage dungeon would be a single long "encounter" that you would wipe if damage is too low (the same way the gauntlet of bosses that is Ultimate is still considered a single encounter despite lasting almost 20 minutes).

[@amberorion1549]

honestly, the new series of pvp is the thing that i never expected to be so hyped for.

[@vgpowerlord]

Based on the screenshot alone, the Omicron beast tribe will almost certainly require that you do the Stigma Dreamscape dungeon and quest before you can unlock them.

[@hobogray6385]

Story-wise it is 100% a given. Required NPC's simply won't be in the required locations otherwise.

[@Xavien12]

Another big thing that got kind of glossed over. YoshiP said the next ultimate will be coming soon. This is pretty big if you consider the last time in shadowbringer they had to cancel the 2nd ultimate. They also wouldnt announce it if they cant finish it to 6.3. This means they are probably very far in the production of the 6.3 ultimate.

[@Auesis]

Which in turn is a good sign for the tentative 3rd Ultimate in 6.5 (shown in an earlier LL). Being comfortable with announcing the 2nd now tells me they are well on schedule.

[@Vaeltis]

@@Auesis I have doubts on if we'll get a 3rd ultimate for this expansion, I think 2 per expansion is a good rate for players to work towards and devs to work on without feeling like they may be getting overworked. Also I don't think they've ever shown anything about another ultimate coming in 6.5.

[@Xbob42]

@@Vaeltis They hinted pretty strongly at a 3rd ultimate in one of the LL's close to EW's launch. I imagine many many factors will determine whether they'd release it in EW even if it was finished, though. They may save it for early in the next expansion so we get a good content flow. Or maybe their work pipeline has been massively improved with all their success, who knows. In any case the post-Covid drought at the halfway point of Shadowbringers is finally well and truly over. Has been for a while, but seeing the momentum picking up rather than slowing down has been great. And all while giving their team an extra 2 weeks per patch to boot!

[@benoitrousseau4137]

@@Auesis I don't think they want a 3rd ultimate, I think it's more that 6.31 is the other best patch to slot a second ultimate. 6.51 isn't as good because the final relic weapons will be out a few months later and they might have to find a way to discourage statics from requiring their members to grind them to raid ultimate. It's not a deal breaker there's a lot of things they could do (and I think they originally planned Dragonsong for 5.51) but it's not as ideal as 6.31.

[@Siul_987]

@@benoitrousseau4137 Agreed with you here, I have seen and read translations of every live letter and what is announced is another ultimate for 6.31 (ultimate duty #5, which can be seen on the 10 year road map live letter) other than that we should not expect a third ultimate on this expansion even if our hearts wants one because a third ultimate for this expansions was never hinted or announced on the 10 years live letter or any other live letter.

[@CNote-lx3ws]

>What is Yoshi-P feeding the dev team Apparently Soken buys out the chicken tenders from a local convenience store every time he gets hungry at work

[@DameonStarflame]

And posts happily about it on his Twitter feed, making everyone who follows him hungry as heck. XD

[@Poldovico]

He's always ready to fry

[@JayRhea]

So every relic weapon prior is a grinding shit show and a half, and completely optional mind you, but people are complaining that it may actually be made fun and engaging and all they have to do is engage in content that they can just as easily speed skip through dialogue to get pasts???

[@jesperjohansson8874]

The 4-5 hours of Hildebrand is just the preq for the relic weapon We know Nothing of the grind to get the actual weapons

[@Alpacalips]

Island Sanctuary is pretty much what I'm most hyped about.

[@eathdemon]

one of the reassons they are able to do such predictable patch cycles is 70% of whats in each patch is latterly set in stone and has been for serval xpacks, which leaves 30% for devs to try new ideas ect.

[@VioletElite4]

I just got back into the game after a break, I played ARR through Shadow bringers and burnt myself out lmao but I love the game and I can't wait for this patch! Before my break though, I loved Pvp so I hope that stays active and healthy too

[@Jennafir]

I think the CC PvP rework was the biggest surprise for me. I haven’t enjoyed any PvP in any game since 2v2 arena in Burning Crusade (the original release). I absolutely adore CC though. I got up to gold 2 ranking while leveling up to get the glam set, and it was just fun. I didn’t feel any pressure to go further and I just genuinely enjoyed the experience. I’ll pick it up again when the next round of glam items go up.

[@InsanityReborn]

... Great, apparently I gotta dust off the AST further, since that's what I tend to use when learning harder content. For some reason. I don't even main healers, man.. not to say I'm not stoked about it, but I am questioning how that happened in hindsight. Anyways, funny fact, the Sil'dih information features in the *Hildibrand* questlines, of all things, so there's a solid chance we've got Godbert pulling us through the dungeon. It's probably not going to be the case and it'll likely just be the girls, but who knows? Also the simple fact that Hildibrand is a primary lore source for content is fucking hilarious in itself. Goddamn.

[@hkoizumi3134]

I've been hearing from ex-wow players that island sanctuary is what garrison should have been in WoW. Let's see how it goes.

[@runped83]

i love hildibrand story , im just worries the relic weapons are gonna be silly looking , like the Golden Saucer weapons.

[@bosinclaire7670]

My guess would be this might be where they put the goofy and serious player made weapons in.

[@cerebralisk]

I read the 'monsters get stronger if you take too long' in the savage criterion as everything having a berserk timer, not a timer on the dungeon itself. It's anti-kite rather than m+ go go go I think.

[@DefenderX]

I think that the criterion savage dungeon should have enrage timers for each boss from start to finish. This will create a threshold of difficulty that groups will need to have as minimum in addition to a minimum completion time. But I don't think soft enragers or mini enrage timers should be added. Because after people has mastered the dungeon, they will most likely not do it again. I think a good thing to implement would be a time trial cup that stretches from one patch to the next. The Time Trial would naturally be the fastest time on a selection of endgame dungeons Could also maby divide the dungeons, trials and raids by difficulty it into bronze (normal), silver (hard), gold (extreme), platinum (Unreal & Savage) and Crystal (Ultimate) cups. The free company that owns the most cups (leaderboards in cities and at entrances to dungeons) at each tier at the end of the season recieves rewards. This would increase replayability of practically all existing dungeons and give endgame players a reason to perfect their gameplay.

[@lhfirex]

One thing I really like is that the FF14 devs already communicate with us a ton, and they see the negative reaction to the 6.1 SAM changes (for good reason, I didn't like the changes either) and they're just like "OK, we'll communicate our ideas for changes a lot more in the future to make sure people aren't blindsided again." I mean, do I know what DRG or AST changes they're going to make? No, and they could be bad, but at least they're going to tell us in detail in a public setting. I know I'm still not used to that, and I've been playing FF14 for over a year at this point.

[@Goujiki]

Well we better get Kaiten back. I literally stopped playing SAM after Kaiten got removed. I want it back so I can play SAM again, it feels horrible to not have Kaiten.

[@IaacT]

@@Goujiki I've been leveling Samurai this week (up to 80 right now) and I haven't really felt the removal of Kaiten. Is it a SAM main only thing?

[@KLGChaos]

@@IaacT Not really. The only difference is that you hit an extra Shinten instead of Kaiten. Is it as cool? No. Does it feel quite as fun? No. Does it ruin the class? Not at all. Rotatations are still the same, the only difference is that I'm hitting my 2 key instead of shift+2 before my Iaijutsus. Anyone who isn't playing the class because one skill was removed (Note I'm not a fan of its removal either) is really overreacting imo. If that one ability ruins the entire job for you, you really didn't like it in the first place because it didn't really change the way it plays at all.

[@miqotesoulia8620]

@@Goujiki feels fine, less button to press/worry about before executing. A good SAM player adapts to his changes. weak. Its easy to complain, harder to master and hone the changing world around him.

[@miqotesoulia8620]

@@KLGChaos yep. These malding children about the change are pathetic. One change *stompy feet like a 4 year old* but instead they cry on the forums ha

[@k.vn.k]

FFXIV is just a wholesome RPG. The new expansion patch news fills me with warmth and coziness.

[@jean-sebastienpigeon3307]

Brand new content added to the game is always welcome :D especially when it's during an expansion

[@soulsimplistic]

The Hildy questlines are SO rewarding! Hilarious to boot

[@adamosborne9440]

EW is shaping up to be an S+ tier expac as a whole

[@Mystra]

@Laura UK Bozja wasn't there for 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2. If I'm not mistaken it wasn't added until 5.3. So it's on schedule to be the same for EW. Also deep dungeon is coming too.

[@Mystra]

@Laura UK Hmm maybe it feels that way cuz Endwalker was focus on story even more than the other expansions. I'm not sure. I love the whole game either way tho lol

[@DarkKnightofAnime]

After having finished Endwalker all I’m looking for is a little bit of the same kind of love for Dark Knight they’ve given to Reaper Or just in general one thing I’d like is for our aoe abilities to have actually debuff effects on the target who stand in them

[@dafire9634]

Hey hey calm down, they already fixed living dead, you have to wait 5 more years for more fixes!

[@Coolguysup]

@@dafire9634 Lol yeah

[@Lagzlot]

They're been stripping more and more debuffs that players could put on bosses over the years ie every class used to have at least one dot, even tanks. My wild guess is they strain the servers when you start adding more and more complex ai, mechanics and hitboxes so they have to make room somewhere.

[@frostmagemarii]

They only did what they did with Criterion dungeons because of the severe backlash they got from his "go play ultimate" comment. We were originally just going to get what they called variant. Its good that they're listening, but its taking player backlashes to get them to smarten up about things.

[@idowhatiwant3557]

Not quite, from what they said about dragoon and astro changes, they still have not learned anything from the backlash caused by the job changes in this expansion.

[@Paeddl]

Im really sad that they still wont add a group queue for Crystaline Conflict :(

[@Reve_Hyrulier]

At this point I will go along with ANYTHING Yoshi P and his Deves do. TRUST has been earned. Simply they know what there doing.

[@HiroesX81]

Better get on that Hildy train Bellular, youre in for quite the ride!

[@LethalShadow]

I did love Kaiten as a Samurai. But then I also loved Merciful Eyes. I feel like Samurai was a bit of an unga bunga class already so I did not understand the need to streamline them.

[@TinaNewtonwrites]

I don't know if you'll see this, Bellular, but my husband said about a minute into this video that he could see a difference in you, that you're happy again. I think he's right. I think you are hopeful and enjoying your job again. I'm enjoying the change to FF as well - its inclusiveness of all playertypes plus the positive community are just such a welcome difference.

[@PuppyPizzeria]

you got the savage release backwards , usually its the same day as normal mode with the 2nd and 3rd parts but theyre delaying it by a week

[@Zories97]

I’m so excited for the Island Sanctuary and the new relic weapons. I just hope that since it’s connected to the Manderville quests that they don’t have “joke” designs and actually look cool.

[@FF-tp7qs]

You don't want a frying pan weapon?

[@SoSakashii]

They might add the stuff from the weapon design contest and I can say there are both joke and cool designs.

[@Boyzby]

Just from what we've seen Godbert make, I don't expect them to be joke weapons.

[@FF-tp7qs]

@@Boyzby well, Godbert is capable of being perfectly serious, just think back to the 4.1 patch quests with Nanamo. The weapon quest is locked behind the Hildibrand quest, but it isn't part of it.

[@SolPhantasmagoria]

_"And Lo, behold over yonder our brave Champions o' Light and Darkness both, as they make progression into thine dungeon. Please be narrated by our favourite commentator._

[@Letham316]

Island sanctuary ... I love how they're essentially adding their own version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a content patch. 😊

[@brialyncroi]

What I find interesting in hindsight is that after Heavensward released CB3 announced that they wouldn't be adding 3 new jobs per expansion (especially one of each role) and were dropping hard mode dungeons. Basically it sounded like we would be losing content overall. Some people groused, some people were sort of waiting to see what it meant overall, but just as many were hopeful it would mean positive changes to what the devs could do with their time. I would say the latter turned out to be true. We're getting such a wide array of content and all of it looks like they put in a ton of effort. I personally can't wait to try it all. ♥

[@danielknight2535]

I mean the hardmode dungeons wersnt really hardmode even when they released. I guess they relalized that decided to stop doing them as they wasnt worth it! hopefully this fills that hard mode hole with something actually hard mode

[@Rasolisu]

Pay attention in ARR's Hildibrand questline on Sil'dih. 😄

[@Voxrar]

Oooo, that new 4 player stuff sounds delightful. I am on break from it just cause I don't have something smaller scale but harder. This does sound like something I would come back for.

[@ArmoredPandaa]

As someone who plays since end of HW it is really nice to see how much they are doing in this expansion. Back in stormblood they cut down on some stuff like reducing the amount of dungeons per patch from 2 to 1 and Shadowbringer, while having a great MSQ, had quite the lacking patch content imo. You can really see how they use the new resources they got from the boom last year to make this game bigger and better than ever before.

[@EverianKalim]

SHB suffered on content due to Covid striking in the middle of its life. Think we were stuck in 4.2 for about 7-8 months due to this.

[@BaithNa]

@@EverianKalim it was unfortunate but the game grew a lot in that period too so I guess that's the silver lining for the patch delay.

[@Goujiki]

Regular dungeons were not good content. They're too easy and not enough variation to keep them interesting. Im glad they stopped doing regular dungeons outside of MSQ, so they can focus on different styles of content. Stormblood was when they started making good decisions about the game.

[@Siul_987]

@@EverianKalim 100% agreed, it was 6 months though for 5.3 (2 months delay, 5.2 was release on February and 5.3 August), but you can see all around how shb suffered from the covid general delays (that was happening in almost every entertainment industry to be fair) and well we had a bigger wait for Endwalker to release.

[@DameonStarflame]

@@Goujiki I will admit I do miss the (Hard) dungeons that allowed you to go back to places you've already dealt with to see what has happened to them (or see other areas), but I do agree that moving away from dungeons has allowed them to poke at other things for the game.

[@Teletha]

Oh u found the bozjan soundtrack. I manged to extract it from the game files. Funny it's in 5.1 weirdly enough

[@frelancer8640]

They should make the glam dresser unlimited.

[@craigwilde2162]

I don't see a good reason for the relic weapon being locked behind Hildibrand mainly as I thought Hildibrand was best when it was entirely it's own thing divorced from the rest of the game, an occasional amusement for when you're sick of the grind. Turning Hildibrand from "oh, this is fun to do!" to "oh, I need to do this to get the EW relic weapons" doesn't make sense to me and kinda undermines it.

[@RasnerG]

relics are still optional content, now You get a shinny weapon for doing it

[@thatguy-dh1qh]

Relic weapons aren't a requirement. You can get by just fine grinding savage for a top ilvl weapon or methodically upgrading one with tomestones/materials

[@CureSapphire]

I'm perfectly fine with the relics being tied to hildebrand so long as the weapons look cool, that's really all I care about. I mean a good story accompanying it is nice too, but the weapon aesthetics are my main concern

[@kidneystone699]

I'm sorry (in advance) to tell you,l that, the weapons probably gonna look quite silly, maybe even those weapons from recent design contest (the quirky one like ladle & lid, cutlery etc). At least that's my prediction, how else would they incorporate those weapons design contest?

[@SRFAA]

@@kidneystone699 By putting them into an event? That's how Monster Hunter World did it.

[@kidneystone699]

@@SRFAA that would a create some kind of FOMO. To be fair, GARO got a really long window and worked quite well, but still.

[@SRFAA]

@@kidneystone699 Not everything needs to be available 24/7. People are able to accept several seasonal events already.

[@kidneystone699]

True. But maybe the dev feel it would be a waste (and maybe disrespectful to the designers) if they implemented the weapons for limited time only. Just my speculation tho

[@zaelheimricht4978]

Ff team: drops quality content Blizz: *Hector Salamanca noises*

[@Goujiki]

well it doesn't matter, because Asmongold says "Responsive Combat" is the only thing that matters. So WoW can just not give content and to him it will be a better game. So we all need to listen to Asmongold, because he's right and you're wrong, and if you disagree then you'll get banned.

[@rodrigobogado8756]

@@Goujiki honestly is better if WoW keeps Asmongold and his army of idiots as a contaiment space

[@ezaike335]

I believe the 6.2 title is referring to Elidibus, the story of pandemonium

[@lyconxero457]

The only point that I'll disagree with Bellular on is the idea that having a timer that urges you to be efficient is lazy design. ALL difficult content in the game has enrage timers to make sure that players are doing what they're supposed to be doing to progress. These are balanced around the minimum amount of gear to get into the instance and are made easier with more gear in everything but Ultimate (until you get to the next expansion, at least) so I expect that these dungeons may be very challenging at first just like Savage fights but once you get more gear they will become more manageable with more room for error. The coolest thing about the Savage version, though, is the fact that you can't resurrect AT ALL which means that even if you do become more geared and it becomes easier if someone makes a big enough mistake and dies (especially the healer) then it's still likely going to be a wipe that sends you back to the start.

[@Thavleifrim]

the thornmarch changes are not related to duty support, you might need to find a new translation source for the next live letter whoever you were using this time got several things wrong, including the savage delay that everyone else already mentioned.

[@sevxone]

Think you forgot to mention that there will also be a new regular dungeon as well on top of the new criterion dungeon.

[@SnarkyLesbian]

Our own little Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley! Wooohoooo!!! Farmer Cat here we go!

[@wadehensley5005]

I seriously hope the narrator for those criterion dungeons is Emet Selch...

[@vadagget]

Their dungeon approach seems to be taking a good idea from GW2

[@semiramisubw4864]

Gigachad Yoship basically diverting FF14 Endwalker into the best expansion yet while also beeing game director for FF16. I swear he will die to overwork if he keeps going. Even on the liveletter he was coughing alot bcs he smoked more than normal due to stress.

[@Auesis]

FF's jobs' DPS across the board is very tightly controlled. I imagine the timers in Criterion Savage will be the same as any other Savage/Ultimate - just beating mechanics without deaths while pressing your buttons reasonably well should get you over the finish line, regardless of what you play. I don't think we'll be bumping in to a M+ problem, especially since it seems to be just one difficulty setting and not something scaling, with no signs of any borrowed power/modifiers.

[@Zlei.]

So much content, team is one of a kind. Island Sanctuary being a completely separate game seems so crazy

[@MugiwarasNakama]

Savage is never delayed aside from the first tier. The one week delay is a new thing not a reduction of wait time.

[@BigCowProductions]

1:18 Sounds about right 🤣

[@DefenderX]

The move for making the next relic weapons dependent to manderville questline is brilliant. What villian is heavily focused on weapons? Gilgamesh!

[@sovest555]

Still waiting for the plot twist that Gerolt is secretly a Manderville.

[@Xadaj127]

@@sovest555 Waiting to see if Gerolt gets more or less in debt dealing with Godbert. I'm not making any bets, I don't wanna be in debt like Gerolt.

[@vanslanzerdefanel]

Greg is not a villain!

[@royox]

Since when GREG is a Villain?

[@DelSolstice]

Minor correction: the change isn't from 2 weeks to 1 week. It's from 0 weeks to 1 week. Yes the first tier of the 8-man raid series had a 2 week delay, as is the norm, but in the past every second and third tier of savage raid has released concurrently with the normal raid. Some pure raiders actually like it that way, but there are relatively few people raider who also don't love (or at least really like) the MSQ too, and there are unfortunately some hardcore statics with a mix of both where this can create toxicity, not to mention the first 72 hours is often the only time you can easily do the new Savages blind in a PUG without judgment. This is actually a great change, since it allows people to focus on all the other new content in peace. The affect on casual players is nil. But this allows raiders of all types to focus on the MSQ and all the new side content in peace for a week, while midcore and hardcore raiders still have an Ex trial to beat. And then in week two, more than a few people might actually pay attention to the new Savage World First Race for once, which is usually ignored by all but a few hardcore raiders since it usually gets done before most people even finish the normal raid. There will be a few ultra hardcore raiders who care, and a few RMT carrying raiders who will be furious, but I really don't think the latter group's opinion should matter at all. The crafting things sounds like a JP complaint as I've never seen a Western crafter object to the idea of postponing Savage for this reason (and it's an idea that's been tossed around for a few years now).

[@Jesicca31]

All I need is sanctuary to allow me to grow stuff. I need some items from plants that u need to grow to craft other stuff and I don't really wanna bother with housing for it. But if it's anything like animal crossing, sth tells me I will spend a lot of time there

[@reshypoo9447]

Earlier in the year they held a contest for weapon designs, half serious, half comical. I wonder if they will be used for the hildibrand artifacts.

[@duncek2892]

Rejoice in the glory of new patch !!! 🐢

[@kireacts6026]

Man I cant wait for the graphics update.

[@deathpresent101]

Timers aren't a big deal in this game, Savage has a timer once you hit it, it activates an enrage. I wouldn't be surprised if they did something similar.

[@mooxart64]

Editor deserves a medal for the ASS meme on screen.

[@UmatsuObossa]

The criterion dungeons sound like what 1.0 dungeons were SUPPOSED to be. And the Sil'dih subterraine was secretly beneath Uldah even in 1.0. There's a whole video series about unused 1.0 dungeons.

[@MysticLuka]

I'm so excited for them too cuz I literally have 3 friends that I've constantly wanted to do savage level stuff with and we struggle to get a full 8 xd

[@Zkid531]

Kaiten, may you never be forgotten.. and may your return SHAKE THE WORLD

[@dijondastardly]

Haven't played since Sept. Really been hard trying to find something to play, might be time to go back.

[@donimmortal7692]

What is interesting about the Omicron tribe quest is you can see the Freedom Fighter and the Global Citizen drinking together in the background.

[@LotusVincent]

yo dope video keep it up! Also I love the way you presented the info. I will definitely be subbing for more

[@aaronalbertson8670]

Do combat rotations get more in depth later on? Been going through the Reborn msq and it seems like rotations are just a string of a few spells in order rinsed and repeated. Like 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3. With little to no variation. The story is enjoyable enough to keep me playing, just curious because I can't find answers to this specific question online. and when asking in game (very politely), I get told to "stop crying", which, didn't know I was still playing with the WoW community, but yeah lol.

[@krisbarraca8813]

Yeah, they do. Google up the level 90 rotation of the job you play.

[@ibzharris884]

Yea gets way more complex, differs job to job. There's toxic a holes everywhere be it ff14, gw, wow etc.. doesn't matter. Don't let it get to ya. Ultimately you end up trying to optimise rotation in a mechanic heavy environment. Gets quite fun, even more so if you play multiple jobs.

[@royox]

Some jobs at later levels feel like playing a piano and other jobs include a lot of mental gimnastics and fast second to second choizes to perform the ideal dps. The "1-2-3" will always be there as the "basic combo" but you will get a LOT of other buttons to throw between 1 2 and 3. Also all the melee dps have a 4-5-6 combo or variants of the 1-2-X/Y combo plus positionals.

[@jvdach4652]

23rd or 30th of August release.

[@Zantetsudex]

Players who started FFXIV purely to do endgame raids: "What, they make content for everyone to enjoy? Now I'm gonna STARVE!"

[@AoiKaze2000]

So we're basically building the restaurant at the end of the universe, eh?

[@MegaKaims]

I dont really understand why people are complaining about Hildibrand requirement for the relic weapon, sounds like a piece of cake even if you havent done it. ShB relic weapons first step was like to buy something for Tomestones and do some Bozjan (which before entering required all Ivalice raid completions) so sounds about the same level of annoying to me as someone who doesnt like Hildibrand and skipped it all mostly. Remember Relic weapon has always been a grind, and we should all embrace for a massive grind for the rest of the expansion as it is tradition.

[@inuclearpickle8628]

You ask someone to do something of course you’ll have people harp at the slightest inconvenience. Look at Americans for example we’re great at making issues out of nothing

[@hkoizumi3134]

It's nothing new either. In order to get the rare mount and the title for Blue Mage, you need Hildebrand quest done as well.

[@BaithNa]

I personally don't like the Hildebrand quests but it was very easy for me to skip through all the cutscenes over the weekend in preparation for the patch. Plus I unlocked a few remotes and trials in the process so it was definitely worth it IMO.

[@chiekokurokumo]

If Bellular is right, then maybe we'll have our Hildi grind for relic but then get another Bozja-like zone to grind out as well for something else (maybe to do with the player weapon design contest?). That being said, I'm still working on my ShB relic... at the part where I have to gather something like 180 items or whatever. So, taking on the Hildi story while also grinding out certain dungeons doesn't faze me at this point. I will say that unlocking Bozja and figuring out PF for Delubrum Reg and stuff has made me feel kinda demotivated about pushing the quest further since I heard that Dalraida is a whole THING. v.v I figure I'll get around to finishing it sometime. Haha.

[@Fighter600]

@Laura UK Citation needed.

[@AuroDHikoshi]

Is island sanctuary going to be a house type or will that always be the current system at the end of the day?

[@xXSolValcranXx]

did we ever recover minphilia's body to bury? memories foggy

[@mrokhaos8269]

Just when I thought Endwalker is the final phase of FF14........This comes...A PRIVAT ISLAND!?!!?? Holy😂😂😂

[@xtremefurrycat]

What if the variant dungeon is part of the relic grind. Also the handicraft stuff is not to other players but to be sold for island currency, they want this not to be affected by other players as a complete solo play but have your friends and fc over to visit thing.

[@teresoflores8318]

Tbh, i tried ff14 last year didn't like it, then i tried it again 3 days ago just with different job pugilist and I absolutely love it.

[@Swordhunter0817]

I needed a kick in the pants to get back on the Hildi quest chain.

[@lastk1ngs636]

great video. thanks!

[@DeGallery]

hildibrand is one of the best content in ffxiv

[@obamaorb7426]

I genuinely cannot wait for harder 4 person content

[@rikou1986]

The new dungeon sounds interesting and savage should be fun.