FFXIV Patch 5.2 Promotional Site Released!

Yes indeed good ladies and gentlemen, the promotional site for patch 5.2 has just been unleashed with new promotional art as well!

Looks spiffy innit?  Three elements strike me as very important with that image-- the crystal shard, the image of Dalamud at the top (yes, I was there in November 2012 when it fell on all our heads in-game); and most importantly, the chap in the center with the Ascian-like glyph.

By the way.... when I think carefully about this new guy's red glyph on his face, it gave me great pause and I'm reminded of the Zodiark Glyph from Final Fantasy XII:

Intriguing yes?

We can expect release in mid-February and until then, happy gaming!

Happy New Year... 2020!

Happy New Year good ladies and gentlemen -- very best wishes for prosperity, peace and unity in 2020!

The FFXIV Developer's Blog gives a wonderful introduction for the Heavensturn 2020 event

As always, Yoshi and the Dev team have once more given us this year's cryptic poem that they traditionally release every year.   This time around, we have:


For what are Warriors of Light
But earnest souls of good intent
Resolved to do that which is right
Regardless of the consequence

-Marginalia scribbled upon a history tome in the Cabinet of Curiosity.


By the way, the Bhuj in Dubai looked like the Crystal Tower for a few moments during the fireworks display... it was truly truly phenomenal!

Be well everyone!

FINAL FANTASY XIV Special 14-Hour Broadcast Commences!

Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen... ongoing right now on You Tube, Nico Nico and Twitch!

And of course Soken!!!

Patch 5.11 released... and Ishgard Restoration unleashed!

Yes indeed, and the official patch notes can be found HERE.  As many of you regular readers know, I'm a massive fan of Ishgard  --the very name of this blog underlines my sentiments towards this wonderful city.

Thus, you all understand my excitement for this new event... it has great experience points for your DoL and DoH job classes, it encourages competition between the servers and it generally gives players a sense of direct involvement in rebuilding the residential area.

However, (and this is a huge problem), the dynamics involved with players being able to hop around all the servers to perform the FATE related to the event sometimes sours the ease and flow of players trying to actually invest time and effort in the rebuilding efforts for their own respective servers.  This is because when the fate starts, there is a massive congestion issue which essentially locks out players from the Firmanent area and even their own servers (with incredibly long queue times).

Goes without saying that the Devs will have to develop an alternative for this issue.

But seriously... the experience points gain is truly epic... I was getting 25 million exp on my level 74 fisher for less than 10 minutes of participating in the FATE

All aside though, I really enjoy the foundation of this event and it brings back an aspect of Hamlet from 1.0

Patch 5.1 released... and it is magnificent!

I got my hands on my lovely winged-lion which finally made its debut...

We now have the superb option to engage in New Game+...

It doesn't end there... the excitement continues with the new Nier dungeon -- YorHa Apocalypse...

The music, the battle dynamics, the sequencing, the story... all AAA+.  And the gear is just divine and shown below is the body piece for the caster set (dyed pure white)...

Plus the the brilliant MSQ continues...

And more Zenos...

Patch 5.1 notes released today...

Yes indeed.

Patch notes for 5.1 have finally been released (HERE)... and I'm also stoked for the addition of this mount because I had jokingly requested it on the official forums just a couple weeks before Shadowbringers was released.

Thank you Dev team... arigatou gozaimassssssss!

Then of course, here we have the mount from the next savage battles...

Plus, the "Raiden" gear...

And more spiffy pics from the upcoming 24-man Nier dungeon...
 

Beautiful times ahead.

Finally... Patch 5.01 unleashes on October 29th 2019

Yep.

Yes indeed.

Letter From the Producer live letter number 55 was performed today and as a few of us predicted, the trailer for 5.01 was unleashed today... and it is glorious.



Meoni also does a wonderful summary of the live letter on his You Tube Channel which helps to exhibit what we can expect in this new patch.

The whole Nier Automata x FFXIV raid is going to be truly memorable and it is also amazing how this fan-made artwork posted up by Bobbin Threadbare (Masamune server) TWO years ago on the official FFXIV blog pages -- HERE -- has not only become reality but has some ideas that are astonishingly similar to what we see in the trailer.  Below is a copy of the artwork:

And it will be truly brilliant if we can get these mounts from the Nier dungeon...

Spiffy innit...?