In Final Fantasy XIV (PC, PS4), Patch 4.2 is coming. It brings plenty of new content, but the players’ focus is on a small detail that might be huge.
About every three months, a content patch arrives for Final Fantasy XIV, and the content is usually the same:
Final Fantasy XIV receives new main quests, new side quests, a new dungeon, a hard mode for an existing dungeon, a new trial, and the raid continues. Plus PvP and other goodies.
Final Fantasy XIV – The content machine must be fed
Basically, all systems in Final Fantasy XIV move forward to the next step that players are waiting for. Final Fantasy XIV is a content machine that needs to be fed with new content; otherwise, it will run dry,
This will also happen with 4.2 “Rise of a new Sun”. The highlight here is a new 8-man raid: Omega Sigmascape. In the story, it takes you to Doma for the next chapter of the main quest.
This is all great, and fans of other MMORPGs are enviously looking at the constant content flow of Final Fantasy XIV, but it’s also a bit predictable and more of the same. Therefore, the focus on patches is mostly on the “little things” that subtly change the formula of Final Fantasy XIV.
Nightmare: Inventory
This patch, however, brings some “Quality-of-Life” improvements that are long awaited. Because a major issue with Final Fantasy XIV is the inventory.
Since you can play all classes in the game with the same character and also pursue all crafting professions, the inventory in Final Fantasy XIV is chronically clogged and too small for avid players. When you start collecting and crafting, it becomes a nightmare. The collector has the inventory also full of transmog items! A torture.
With Stormblood there was already relief, made possible by leaving behind the PS3: a larger inventory. Now the problem is supposed to be further addressed:
With Patch 4.2, Square Enix is taking some steps in the right direction:
- The stack size of items is increased tenfold, from 99 to 999.
- Additionally, chocobos will receive saddlebags, providing 70 new inventory slots
Two more “nice-to-have” changes:
- The “Glamour System” is intended as a relief for fashion enthusiasts. A wardrobe will come to the inn room, allowing items to be exchanged for glamour prisms. This is supposed to simplify the “fashion game” of Final Fantasy XIV. According to the site USgamer: Although it’s still not as convenient as WoW’s transmog system, it’s a step in the right direction.
- Bards are also getting some love: Square Enix is giving them a new interface for their newfound composing enthusiasm
When Patch 4.2 will exactly come to Final Fantasy XIV is still unknown. Probably in the first months of 2018. On January 19, more content will be revealed.
Bards have recently been making waves in FF14:
No more cat music in Final Fantasy XIV – These bards rock hard!
