There is a state of emergency among the fans of Final Fantasy XIV. At the Fan Festival in Las Vegas, the new expansion of the MMORPG named Shadowbringers was announced. This addon fulfills many long-held wishes of the players.
This is the situation before the addon: After Patch 4.4, the story of FFXIV took a dark turn, and the future did not look bright. The release of the trailer for the new expansion Shadowbringers further confirmed this.
The Warrior of Light, the player character, fights alongside the NPCs from the story in the final battle against the Garlean Empire, but things do not look good.
Is a time travel plot coming? In the trailer, scenes from earlier expansions and story parts of FF14 are repeatedly shown. Moreover, the voice in the trailer mentions that “the story must be rewritten.”
There are clear signs that players will likely travel through time in the new expansion.
The new features of expansion 5.0 will be:
- Several new jobs, one of which is the long-awaited Blue Mage. The trailer indicates that the second new job will have a Gunblade as its weapon.
- New playable race. Producer Yoshida strongly hinted that this will be the long-awaited Viera race from FFXII.
- Level cap in Final Fantasy XIV will be raised from 70 to 80 for all jobs, and the jobs will receive new abilities.
- The combat system and old abilities will be adjusted and revised.
- The combat resources TP for physical and MP for magical abilities will all be reduced to MP in 5.0.
- New areas.
- Up to 9 additional dungeons.
- Another hardcore raid for eight players. It is said to convey a strong “Final Fantasy” feeling.
- An additional 24-man raid.
- New Primal bosses as well as beast tribes that worship them. Such as Pixies, Dwarves, and the Nu Mou from FFXII.
- Endgame content for gathering and crafting classes. Players will help rebuild the city of Ishgard.
NPCs as Companions for Dungeons
“Trust-System” for NPCs: The “Trust” system is a special new system in FFXIV: Shadowbringers. Players will be able to build a relationship and gain the trust of well-known and important NPCs from the story of Final Fantasy 14.
These NPCs will then replace group members in dungeons who are normally randomly added to the group.
This feature was originally presented as an April Fool’s joke in FFXIV. However, players found great favor in the idea and long requested it to be actually implemented into the game.
New Game+ is coming
“New Game+” for an MMORPG? FF14 will be the first MMORPG ever to receive a “New Game+” mode. Players will be able to play through the old stories from previous expansions, but at their full strength at maximum level.
However, players will have to start from the beginning. It will not be possible to start in the middle of a story. The system spans the main scenario, job quests, and additional side quests.
This is also a feature that players have long requested. Especially the content of the Heavensward expansion was exceptionally popular, and players wanted to relive the solo battles within it.
Wandering Between Servers
Another new system allows players to teleport between servers. For this, they must go to the teleporter in their hometown that they first touched. From there, they can hop directly to other “worlds,” meaning servers.
This feature, however, is limited to servers within a data center. This means, for example, that players on Ragnarok can only teleport to other servers from the Chaos data center.
This feature will be released before the launch of the Shadowbringers expansion to timely resolve any potential issues and bugs ahead of the launch.
Here, too, players had long requested that the developers implement this option into the game. With the “Crossworld” system, where players from different servers can play together, many new friendships have formed.
However, there was initially no way for these players to meet outside of instances and go exploring. This will change with the World Visit System.
Returning to Ishgard
As a special endgame content for the gathering and crafting classes of FF14, the rebuilding of the nation Ishgard has also been introduced. The capital was severely damaged during the war against dragons and must now be rebuilt by the players.
For this special feature, players will have to cooperate to restore certain areas of Ishgard.
Director Yoshida promised fans a reunion with popular NPCs such as Aymeric and even hinted that a new housing area in Ishgard could be coming.
The Heavensward expansion and the city of Ishgard are extremely popular in the community. Especially after a snowy housing area in Ishgard has been requested countless times.
Here you will find all known information about the new job Blue Mage:
Final Fantasy XIV brings the highly sought-after job Blue Mage
