FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida loves videogames, and he desires you to play extra of them. Remaining Fantasy XIV has lengthy been counseled for not demanding your fixed consideration the best way the basic MMORPG grind popularised by the likes of EverQuest and World of Warcraft has executed previously. Now, amongst loads of large releases together with Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, and Diablo 4 headlining the approaching months, ‘Yoshi-P’ says he’s making it simpler to get gear in FFXIV to provide you extra time to play different video games.
Throughout FFXIV Dwell Letter 77, the common livestream geared toward exhibiting off what’s coming to FFXIV within the subsequent few months, Yoshida particulars adjustments being made to the FFXIV 6.4 raid, Pandaemonium: Anabaseios. Loot drops have been boosted, with reward coffers now not giving out duplicate armour items and the flexibility to earn the coveted physique gear added to the third flooring of the raid tier.
The savage raids, sometimes a few of FFXIV’s hardest content material in a given replace, have been given a useful alternate system to will let you extra simply earn their full rewards with much less grinding than earlier than. You’ll be capable of alternate extra reward tomes for different ones, with the best tier capable of be exchanged for any of the others at a beneficiant one-to-one alternate price.
“Since I need everybody to deal with a variety of content material [in FFXIV] and play different video games too I simply didn’t need this to really feel like it’ll take ceaselessly and also you’re certain to raiding in FFXIV,” Yoshida says, having beforehand proven off himself enjoying the most recent Zelda on a Nintendo Swap on the high of the livestream. “There are such a lot of different video games popping out in Might and June.”
It’s value noting that the Remaining Fantasy 16 launch date, for a recreation additionally directed by Yoshida, is in that window (though sadly not but for PC). The dwell chat asks if that was the true consideration for this transformation, however Yoshida emphasises, “No no no, we’ll attempt to maintain it this manner for the longer term.” The dialogue could be seen at 1:56:55 within the above video, though word that it takes place in Japanese.
Selections like this are what have stored me an lively FFXIV participant for thus lengthy. As a result of I do know that it gained’t take up all my time, I really feel like I can afford to leap in and take a look at the brand new stuff because it arrives with out worrying that I’ll lose monitor of different video games. That’s to not say I couldn’t spend all my time in Eorzea if I needed; however I by no means really feel pressured to – and it’s all the time good when video games keep away from feeling like work.
If you need extra on patch 6.4, together with an in depth breakdown of all of the loot adjustments, try our full FFXIV Dwell Letter 77 recap for all the main points. You may also wish to test in on the largest upcoming video games now that you simply’ll have extra time for them, with the Diablo 4 launch date chief amongst them.
