Revelations from the Announcement Showcase

[Anonymoose]

I mean...sure, right? This is probably a good idea.


I knew "Moon's haunted" was a good meme lead, but GDI, lmao.

• FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER
• The Final Days are upon us
• Warrior of Light Emblematic Job: PALADIN
• NEW JOB: HEALER - SAGE (Pew Pew Flying Gundam Lasers)
• NEW JOB: MELEE DPS - ???
• The 24 Hour Metaphor Theory was real!

• The MSQ of 6.0 will end in 6.0, not 6.3. Rather, 6.1 will begin a greater post-Hydaelyn/Zodiark world.
• Yoshida will not be leaving Final Fantasy XIV at this point. He doesn't want to graduate; FFXIV is his life's work until Square Enix's president tells him to stop.
• Smaller new town: RADZ-AT-HAN
• Larger new town: Something in the GARLEAN EMPIRE...? (OR...NOT!?) [...Where are the other Scions conspicuously missing from the teaser?]
• New Beast Tribe: Matanga
• New Beast Tribe: Lunar Rabbits?
• New Summon(?): ANIMA featuring a redesign by the original FFX artist, a member of the FFXIV team.
• New Dungeons: A Hannish area in flames, a Mhachi-esque Fandaniel (Telophori?) biomech area, a train station
• HIGH-END RAID: FFXIV Original: PANDAEMONIUM featuring a hint image of Lahabrea with a flaming Ascian glyph
• ALLIANCE RAID: FFXIV Original: ???
• New Trust: Estinien
• New "Slow Life" Content: Island Sanctuary (shades of Harvest Moon?)
• Ishgardian Housing complete
• Downscaling of numerical values in the battle system due to back-end technical issues and bosses reaching hundreds of of millions of HP.
• No more belts. Belts are over. (Sorry, Nomura-san.)
• Data Center Travel! (You'll need to log out and back in.)
• Final Fantasy XIV for PS5 Open Beta coming the same day as 5.5: April 13th
• PS4 license can migrate to PS5 for FREE
• Digital Fan Fest will be May 15th and 16th for FREE.
• If you want to give Square Enix some cash, though, Edge, Rosa, and Rydia minions will be available, as well as a Lunar Whale mount which seats a full freakin' party of eight.
• 6.0 art features the return of traditional artist legend Yoshitaka Anamo, whose take on Hydaelyn is joined by his take on Zodiark

[Cilia]

Official title is "Endwalker."

Showcase Job is PLD.

Final Days FOR REALS, with the Terminus monsters an' everything! Goin' to the Moon as expected! "Review Heavensward" seems to have hinted at Shadow of Mhach, as Danny Boy and Zenos are shown in a place whose architecture resembles what we saw in the Void Ark. Many questions will be answered, like what the reason for the Final Days was!

New Healer Job is Sage, which Alphinaud will be changing to. Starts in Limsa at Lv70. Focuses on "Barrier Healing," and there will be a rebalancing of the Healer Jobs to make an even parity between "pure" and "barrier" healers (WHM / AST - Pure; SCH / Sage - Barrier).

Second Job stated to be melee DPS, to be revealed in Fan Fest. (Shirt hints Necromancer?)

Alisae stays RDM, but will get a new outfit.

Estinien joins the Trust system! (Sorry Ryne, you don't get to come with us.)

Endwalker arc ending in 6.0 instead of 6.3 as usual, and ending the Hydaelyn / Zodiark story arc.

Small hub town (endgame gear vendors) located in Radz-at-Han! Looks like a tropical Lindblum!

Going to Garlemald, but it looks like a smoking crater!

Matanga beast tribe - elephant people.

Anima from X making an appearance!

New raid is Pandaemonium (II or IX flavored?) shown off using Lahabrea with only half of his glyph?!

New Alliance raid is original! Yay!

Island Sanctuary for R&R, free range minions?!

Ishgard housing district now a thing!

Squishing damage stats cuz of bugs and ridiculous HP values (440,000,000 in 5.5!).

RIP belts.

PS5 coming soon!

Fan Fest bonuses include Lunar Whale mount, and Wind-up Edge, Rosa, and Rydia, all from IV.

Amano artwork showing Hydaelyn and Zodiark, and Zodiark don't look so, uhh... nice...

Let's see where this goes!

[JeanneOrnitier]

I feel pretty confident about the city being Sharlayan but beyond that I can't even begin to guess.

I hope there's a pretty snow forest zone.

[JeanneOrnitier]

ENDWALKER

PLD is the posterboy, Alphinaud is a weird new floaty swords job, WoL is on the moon.

Between moon and paladin I expect a fair amount of FF4 references. Hope we ride the Lunar Whale there.

[WhiteArchmage]

Floaty guns, I thought

[JeanneOrnitier]

They were shooting beams like laser guns but looked more like blades to me. No idea what it could be.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Healer and melee DPS are the two new job roles!!!

[JeanneOrnitier]

Ah, it's Sage. New healer.

[WhiteArchmage]

Sage. Interesting, since it's usually an upgraded White Mage

(Wait, I was wrong, mix of Black and White Magic)

[NorthernLadMSP]

Bye Bye Noct Stance Astros.