Letter From the Producer Live Part LXXVII - Summary - 12 May 2023

[Iscah]

Summarising from the FFXIV Reddit Discord unofficial translation feed:

Patch 6.4 launches on 23 May 2023.

Stuff that we generally knew was coming:
Tataru's Grand Endeavour will continue and requires completion of the Sorrow of Werlyt questline.
New dungeon and trial as previously advertised
Zurvan unreal trial
Pandaemonium: Anabaseios
Variant and Criterion Dungeon: Mount Rokkon - Hancock will be our companion for this.
Duty support for Stormblood MSQ dungeons (not the patches yet)
Ocean fishing
Island Sanctuary
New tomestone type: Comedy (as in Dante's Divine Comedy)
Faerie glamours for scholars, currently including Eos, Selene and Carbuncle
Gearset number increased to 100 and immediately available rather than unlocked when you unlock new jobs
Job icons to be displayed in the chat log and nameplates
Marketboard now can incorporate fees into the purchase total
Fashion accessories - glasses and wings now remain visible in overworld battle
When casting glamours in the inn room, the list can draw from more locations
PVP Series Four and Crystalline Conflict Season Seven, with additional rewards for high-ranking players

Things that will come later in patch 6.45:
Hildibrand story continuation
Manderville weapon upgrades
Splendorous tool upgrades
Blue Mage update to level 80

Job adjustments:
Balance adjustments to damage output but no large-scale changes
Tanks other than DRK will be buffed
Radius of some party buffs extended to 30y
DRG jump will not actually move you back and forth, so you will not jump into AOEs and it can be used when bound
Paladin's Atonement will not interrupt combos

A new reward for Crystalline Conflict players ranking in the top 100 or Diamond tier and above will allow you to apply a special effect to Hellhound weapons:

Frontline adjustments:
New UI
Various adjustments to limit gauge and damage modifiers
Daily Challenge will award Series EXP
Borderland Ruins map temporarily unavailable
A map was shown of an extremely altered PVP field - I am not familiar enough with PVP but I think it is Fields of Glory?
Fields of Glory rules are being adjusted


A demo was given of the new trial and the first tier of Anabaseios, but I'm not going to look at at those.


New tomestone gear is the weapons from the recent Weapon Design Contest (the serious entries, not the joke ones) and gear designed by the FFXIV team.

Meanwhile, BLU gets an umbrella cane (non-opening, just for posing):

Changes to savage loot:
Visually one large coffer instead of two small coffers (actual rewards not affected)
Coffers will not reward duplicate armour pieces for the same slot
Body gear can be earned from P11S
Reduced gear costs
Mythos IV can be swapped for earlier tiers


Raid gear:

[Iscah]

Island Sanctuary can now support up to 90 outdoor furnishings. They are applied as glamours and do not use/store the real item.

New glamours apparently from Island Sanctuary include a steampunk-looking set and yet another set of Hawaiian shirt, plain pants and sandals, if you needed more of those.

New furnishings:

Japanese clothing sets from the variant dungeon:

Crafted sets are new designs with a casual vibe, plus recoloured Ktiseos weapons:

[Iscah]

Mounts and minions

Looks to be a new version of the bed mount:


Giant ambystoma:


Voidsent thing:


Mandragora queen:


Loporrit robot (not sure if new or not):


Monkey minion


Statue minion


Steampunk otter


Ninja dog (probably for completing all variant paths, like the silkie minion?)

Fanfest dates were announced, along with a special battle preview that will apparently be added into the game at a later date.


There will be a patch note reading for 6.4 while the servers are down for the update. Maintenance will not be 24 hours.

Advertisement stuff for Immerse audio and pre-orders for FFXVI

Next PLL will be at NA Fanfest.

[Boblawblah]

I hope it's okay to reply here, don't want to interrupt your post order. Thanks for doing this btw, I didn't really want to post in the argument thread about the live letter, so this is better.

Island Sanctuary can now support up to 90 outdoor furnishings. They are applied as glamours and do not use/store the real item.

I don't have a house and so I'm not sure how outdoor furnishings work. What does 'applied as glamours' mean? Is it basically just a physical copy of something you already have? Also, is 90 a decent amount? Each single piece counts as only 1 item?

[ZephyrMenodora]

Going to need to pick this up for when I'm tabbed into the forums.

[Bunnycake]

New bed and robo mounts, fack now I have to do IS.

[Ath192]

I hope it's okay to reply here, don't want to interrupt your post order. Thanks for doing this btw, I didn't really want to post in the argument thread about the live letter, so this is better.



I don't have a house and so I'm not sure how outdoor furnishings work. What does 'applied as glamours' mean? Is it basically just a physical copy of something you already have? Also, is 90 a decent amount? Each single piece counts as only 1 item?

It means you can clone a furnishing if you want to, as long as you have one in the inventory you can set it over and over again.

[Boblawblah]

It means you can clone a furnishing if you want to, as long as you have one in the inventory you can set it over and over again.

wait, so a single chair can become 4 chairs?? Oh man, this is going to be so fun. Finally I can use outdoor furniture!!

[Kes13a]

thanks Iscah, much appreciated

[Iscah]

I hope it's okay to reply here, don't want to interrupt your post order. Thanks for doing this btw, I didn't really want to post in the argument thread about the live letter, so this is better.

I don't have a house and so I'm not sure how outdoor furnishings work. What does 'applied as glamours' mean? Is it basically just a physical copy of something you already have? Also, is 90 a decent amount? Each single piece counts as only 1 item?

Yeah, I'm done posting now. If I get around to it tomorrow, I'll switch in some better pictures and maybe I can condense down the number of pictures. I was going to put it all in one post, but the forum software objected to me putting more than 20 images in a single post.

They did have a more detailed explanation of the furnishing system but I skimmed over it. I think you have the item in your inventory and create a "glamour" of it as a physical object on your sanctuary, so you only need to own one copy of an item but can place lots of them.

90 is probably decent, depending on just how much space we have to arrange the items in. A small house in a housing district only lets you place 20 items if I remember right, which is not too bad to create a nice small space, but more to play with would be nice.