Dengeki Interview With Naoki Yoshida regarding patch 5.2!

Yes indeed!

Wonderful, wonderful news and information emerged from this new latest interview by Dengeki with Yoshi P (HERE).  In addition, Famitsu and a couple other media sites also interviewed Yoshida and a consolidation of their translations can be found HERE on Reddit.

As mentioned in the interview, patches 5.2 & 5.3 are positioned as Part 1 & Part 2 of the next phase of the Shadowbringers storyline.  Yoshi also warns that the patch will take some considerable time to play and advises to put aside most of a whole day to really focus of the various amount of cutscenes and content that will be revealed in the MSQ.

Finally, below, I've added the link to the last Live letter which gave a couple hints about what we can hope to expect in the story for patch 5.2... can you guys figure them out?



Aaaah yes-- one more element to add.  A few players on the Primal servers have been asking me which job class (and subsequent glam-style) I had been playing while waiting for patch 5.2 to emerge (since I've given my main job Black Mage a brief respite for the time being).

The answer is that I've gone back to playing my level 80 Ninja for the time being and here's the current glam I'm using:

Spiffy innit?  The glam includes:

• Hive Kris
• Althyk's Helm Scouting
• Replica High Allagan's Gauntlets Striking
• Althyk's Cuisses Scouting
• Elemental Boots Scouting

Take care and happy gaming!

FFXIV Letter from Producer Live LVII

Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen, Yoshi-P established several new features incoming for patch 5.2; but first, the new trailer for Patch 5.2 - Echoes of a Fallen Star:



Jade Fantasy has been kind enough to record the entire Live Letter on his You Tube Channel

Really spiffy and wonderful information here and I'm all excited for February 18th to tackle these new challenges.    However, the massive question still remains...

What is Crown Prince-- or shall I now say "Exalted Psychopath" -- Zenos really after...?

Again I ask... Who is Lord Nerva? [Spoilers]

Yep... "Lord Nerva".

[Spoilers therein if you have NOT yet completed the storyline up to Shadowbringers patch 5.1]

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Still here mate?  Very well.   For those of you who are up to speed and completed the main storyline up to patch 5.1-- who do you guys reckon is Lord Nerva?

I'm still in the camp-- for the last six years and counting-- that supports the speculation that the Garlean empire will eventually get it's own "Larsa-like" charcater.  This is a nod to Larsa, the Emperor's fourth son in Final Fantasy XII and the premise is that the Garleans would eventually have a member of the Imperial royal family who is opposed to the empire's current expansionist agenda.

Thus, we circle back to the question afore mentioned-- who is Lord Nerva?

I reckon he is the Larsa-like charcater we have been looking for-- yes indeed, a possible younger brother to our wonderfully psychotic Prince Zenos-- which will essentially make him Nerva Yae Galvus per naming conventions of "Yae" for the heirs in line for the throne from the imperial family of Garlemald.

Or at the very least, he's likely a close relative.   Till date, I'm still a massive fan of this insane House Galvus family, especially their illustrious progenitor (you guys know who he is) and I'd like to think that this Lord Nerva-- or shall I say "Prince Nerva Yae Galvus" being a potentially "sane" scion of the family creates a perfect vein of irony.

For now, due to a lack of any direct official information regarding Varis' other purported children, I'm just going to use "Larsa" -- or "Larsa Wir Galvus" (I made a goof there -- should have been Larsa Yae Galvus) as a placeholder name for the sketches I created back in late 2018 prior to the Fan fest that unleashed information on Shadowbringers (see below):