FINAL FANTASY XIV Online News

Final Fantasy XIV now lets you solo more with an NPC party

A fresh Final Fantasy XIV patch today has made the game friendlier to solo players, with the new Duty Support System letting you go through a load of main scenario duties solo with NPC party members. Oh, but that's a tiny piece of patch 6.1, which also whams in new quests and and new items and a new housing district and new haircuts and... goodness me I'm still a little surprised when I remember how FF14 was initially so awful that Square Enix shut it down for almost a year.

We are proud to present the patch notes for Newfound Adventure, which follows the Warrior of Light's first steps on a new journey after claiming victory in the battle for the fate of the star.

This patch also features the first installment in the new alliance raid series, Myths of the Realm, which delves into the mysteries surrounding the Twelve. A host of other additions includes the new Crystalline Conflict PvP content, the Duty Support system, and more.

* Additional features will be implemented in future updates:

Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) is scheduled to be released in Patch 6.11.
A new custom delivery client (Ameliance), Arkasodara tribal quests, and Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures sidequests are scheduled to be released in Patch 6.15.
Data Center Travel is scheduled to be implemented in Patch 6.18.

Read the full patch notes on the Lodestone and check out the trailer below!

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FFXIV patch 6.1 has massive White Mage, Dark Knight buffs

The FFXIV patch 6.1 release time is nigh, as the MMO has gone down for maintenance ahead of the patch's launch, and the update is set to bring us the promised White Mage buffs and Dark Knight buffs. The full patch notes are here with all the job changes listed in detail, and the improvements to those two classes in particular are even bigger than the community expected.

Dark Knight's Blood Weapon (which still restores MP and increases the Blood Gauge when landing skills) now stacks up to five times, and lasts 15 seconds, up from ten. The Living Dead now restores your HP with every single skill landed, dramatically lifting Dark Knight's survivability - and, likely lifting it out of the status of the game's worst tank class. (Tanks across the board are getting a major quality of life improvement, too, as stance abilities are dropping to three second cooldowns across the board.)

White Mage, meanwhile, has been regarded as the game's worst healer for some time. You'll now get a lily on the Healing Gauge every 20 seconds you're in battle (down from 30), and Afflatus Misery has been dramatically increased in potency. It's no longer a waste to use that DPS ability instead of Glare, so there's more focus on the job gauge, and more healing options as you play.

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Patch 6.1—Newfound Adventure Special Site Updated

The Patch 6.1 special site has been updated with details on the following:

Tataru’s Grand Endeavor
Arkasodara Tribal Quests
Custom Deliveries: Ameliance Leveilleur
Omega: Beyond the Rift
Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures
The Unending Codex
Adventurer Plates (beta version)
Additional New Game+ Chapters
Dreamfitting (Online Store Try-on Feature)
Data Center Travel
New mounts, minions, and emotes

Visit the special site.

There will finally be an FFXIV auto-target option in 6.1

The preliminary patch notes for patch 6.1 live, and it looks like we're finally getting a proper FFXIV auto-target option. That could be a massive quality-of-life upgrade over the current, extremely limited auto-target setting. While the biggest additions to the MMO this patch were already noted in previous Live Letters, there are plenty of notable new tweaks and details in the update details.

When the FFXIV patch 6.1 release date arrives on Tuesday, April 12, you'll find a new 'auto-target settings' section in the target section of the character configuration menu. This will target-based abilities to automatically select an enemy when you have no target specified, and is sure to be a lifesaver when you're spamming AOEs on trash mobs in your dungeon roulettes. You'll be able to choose whether the system prioritises the closest target or the next enemy in your line of sight.

There's far too much in the patch notes to run everything down here, but some of the highlights include the fact that players can now be revived after falling from the arena in duties like The Navel and the Extreme version of Whorleater.