Players are eagerly awaiting the new Patch 7.3 for the MMORPG Final Fantasy 14. It is titled “Promise of Tomorrow” and is set to be released in early August 2025. Director Naoki Yoshida recently spoke about one of the upcoming features that is supposed to provide a special surprise.
What kind of content is it? With the patch, a new Deep Dungeon called the Pilgrimage Path will be added to the game. In a Deep Dungeon, players begin their exploration at level 1 and fight their way through level by level. It’s basically like a roguelike mode, where the levels change every time you enter.
Over time, players will need to acquire better equipment. There are set save points where players can temporarily pause their exploration and resume later.
Starting from level 101, the monsters become so tough that players can only enter the levels in predefined groups. To ensure that the new Deep Dungeon remains a special challenge, the development team has come up with something for hardcore players.
After the end of the Deep Dungeon, a challenge awaits players
What kind of surprise is there going to be? Yoshida spoke with RPG Site about how challenging it is to satisfy both casual players and hardcore gamers. However, for the Deep Dungeon, they have come up with something, as he revealed at Anime Expo 2025:
We believe that this [Deep Dungeon] appeals to a more relaxed playstyle, but we also assume that hardcore players, who find it less challenging, will see it as a shortcoming. Therefore, we are adding an additional hard boss that you can fight against when you reach level 99.
With the additional boss, the team wants to ensure that hardcore players do not find the content too easy. Casual players, on the other hand, will hardly be able to bypass it, as it will be the end for them at level 99.
Why add an extra boss at all? In the past, players have frequently complained about the content being either too easy or too hard. The recent Patch 7.2 was also not spared from this.
Some fans found that the grind at Kreszentia was too hard. Hardcore players opposed this. With the additional boss, the development team likely wants to ensure that this time there are hardly any reasons to complain – at least regarding the difficulty level.
In addition to the Deep Dungeon, Patch 7.3 has more content in store, which will come after Final Fantasy 14. This includes new story content, dungeons, and trials. You can find all the information about the upcoming update on MeinMMO: Final Fantasy XIV: Patch 7.3 aims to finally solve the annoying problem with bunny ears, but not quite as you might think
