Final Fantasy 14 Gives Players A Tease of Dawntrail’s Future Content

Highlights

• Producers unveiled a first look at new Final Fantasy 14 content during the 2024 China FanFest keynote.
• Highlights included the Futures Rewritten raid, Cosmic Exploration feature, and Shades’ Triangle exploration.
• Patch 7.05 update introduced AAC Light-Heavyweight Tier (Savage) and Cenote Ja Ja Gural treasure dungeon.

During the keynote of the 2024 China FanFest, Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida showed attendees a first look at some content arriving in Dawntrail’s future patches. The Final Fantasy 14 lead revealed screenshots from the upcoming Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) raid, the Cosmic Exploration feature, and showed the name of the first part of the Shades’ Triangle exploration foray.

The news came days after Final Fantasy 14 launched Patch 7.05, which brought a bevy of content for Dawntrail players to enjoy. The content update introduced the AAC Light-Heavyweight Tier (Savage), the first of the Arcadion’s toughest challenges. Completing the new Savage tier will be a prerequisite for players looking to take on the aforementioned Ultimate raid. Patch 7.05 also included the Cenote Ja Ja Gural treasure dungeon that can be accessed via Br’aaxskin Treasure Maps, and changed Jobs such as Viper, Paladin, and Black Mage via potency buffs and bug fixes.

Though each of these features discussed at the 2024 China FanFest was mentioned previously, Yoshida gave Final Fantasy 14 players a first look at what to expect. Some screenshots from both attendees and a Bilibili livestream of Yoshida’s keynote were posted on the r/ffxiv subreddit for all to see. Among the new reveals, Occult’s Crescent was confirmed to be the first zone of the Shades’ Triangle adventuring foray that will begin in Patch 7.2x. Yoshida reiterated that the best parts of the Bozja and Eureka exploration zones were taken into consideration with Shades’ Triangle and Occult’s Crescent, but did not specify what they were.

Final Fantasy 14 Reveals New Screenshots of Ultimate Raid and Cosmic Exploration

Yoshida also showed a screenshot from Final Fantasy 14‘s upcoming Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) raid. This challenge is based on the Eden raid series from Shadowbringers, and the screenshot showed Fatebreaker from the raid’s 11th encounter would be part of the upcoming gauntlet. Yoshida did not state which part of the battle players would fight Fatebreaker but confirmed that Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) would arrive in Patch 7.11. In addition, two pieces of concept art from the Cosmic Exploration feature were shown as examples of some of the sights that crafters and gatherers will explore. The first picture depicted a lunar base with a monorail, and the second showed a colorful, vibrant planet with mysterious flora and fauna. However, no release window was given for Cosmic Exploration.

Between these reveals and the return of the Moonfire Faire, Final Fantasy 14 players looking for things to do will have no shortage of options. Only time will tell when Yoshida and the development team will reveal more details about upcoming content patches.