In early October 2025, MONSTER HUNTER WILDS comes to FFXIV! The fearsome Guardian Arkveld will make its stormy descent into the world of FINAL FANTASY XIV in this action-packed crossover!

FINAL FANTASY XIV celebrates its 12th anniversary on Wednesday, 27 August. Join us for the Rising as the realm commemorates another year of grand adventure!

Read on for details.

This week, we’re completing part two of revising mission rewards by improving the baseline stats of the items you receive when completing some of the original mission chains.

These include Sandworm, Scorpion, Black Wolf and Caveworm Armor, weapons and tools.

We’ve also got a few new Great Hunts freebies from our Art team for you to download and use.

This Week: Better Boss Items

This week, we’re making substantial improvements to a range of mission rewards, specifically the gear you earn for a few missions that have been around since the early days of Icarus.

Through the course of 185 weeks of updates and expansions, new gear has scaled in all applicable categories to leave a lot of the original gear lagging behind and being unviable for use outside of display only.

This, realistically, doesn’t make completing these mission chains very rewarding, something that we wanted to address so that all the in-game content feels enjoyable and worth your investment.

The gear updates are as follows:

Caveworm Gear

• Knife Durability 2500 → 7500
• Spear Durability 5000 → 8000
• Spear Crit Damage 10 → 15%
• Arrow Crit Damage 10 → 15%

Caveworm Gear has received buffs for the Knife, Spear and Arrows. Knife Durability has the most significant improvement, tripling to 7500, making it viable as a multi-purpose tool that won’t wear out as quickly.

Sandworm Gear

• T2 → T3
• Knife Damage 65 → 75
• Knife Yield 175 → 225%
• Knife Durability 5000 → 22000
• Spear Damage 60 → 75
• Spear Durability 15000 → 25000
• Spear Crit Damage 10 → 25%
• Bow Damage 50 → 75%
• Bow Durability 8500 → 15000
• Arrow Damage 60 → 85
• Arrow Break Chance 20 → 15%
• Arrow Crit Damage 10 → 20%

Sandworm Gear was one of the biggest culprits of being severely underpowered for the time investment required to collect it. As such, damage, durability, yield and more have been buffed fo the Knife, Spear, Bow and Arrows.

Blackwolf Gear

• T2 → T3
• Knife Damage 55 → 70
• Knife Yield 175 → 225%
• Knife Durability 2500 → 22000
• Arrow Damage 20 → 75
• Arrow Break Chance 90 → 15%

The Blackwolf Knife was in need of a large durability boost, and it got it. We’ve given it an 8.8x boost to 22,000 durability, and a small increase to damage and yield also. Blackwolf Arrows have also received a massive buff. Damage has increased 3.75x and break chance has decreased 75% from 90% to 15%.

Sandworm and Scorpion Armor

• T2 → T3
• Minor resistance increases across the board
• No longer use fiber
• Sandworm armor uses bone instead
• Scorpion armor uses cured leather instead
• Sandworm armor added 20% poison resist to base armor and 25% health regeneration in the desert to armor set

Sandworm and Scorpion Armor have received improvements, but also some recipe changes to make them more in-line with higher tier armor sets.

Neither set will use fiber in the recipe anymore, replaced by bone for the Sandworm Armor and Cured Leather for the Scorpion Armor.

Extra Content: Great Hunts Concept Art Wallpapers

In the lead up to Great Hunts, we wanted to share some of the amazing work coming out from the team, in a slightly different style than we’ve done before.

We’ve grabbed three high-resolution concept art pieces from our Art Director and formatted them for desktop screensavers, so you can download them and get excited for the expansion alongside us.

If you’d like to see more of this from us in the future, let us know in the comments.

Click here to download the wallpapers

Next Week: Small Pouches

Next week, we’re adding three new variations of our small pouches, in Red, Green and Blue.

These can be crafted at Tier 2, hold six items, and will effectively reduce the amount of inventory space your resources take up.

Get ready for The Unending Journey's next episode on Friday, 27 June! Join the EU Community team as we tackle some brand-new challenges!

For this episode, we'll be doing a recap of the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXXVII before heading to the Occult Crescent for a grand expedition!

Put on your best glamour and join us for some screenshots at the Tuliyollal Aetheryte Plaza on Ragnarok (Chaos DC)!

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The Make It Rain Campaign returns, giving thrill-seekers the chance to earn 50% more MGP, the Overreact emote, and the King Elmer III Triple Triad card! Join the festivities and lay claim to these royal rewards!

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The special site for Patch 7.1─Crossroads is now live! Get a look at the patch artwork, logo, and a tease of the content coming your way!

Be sure to visit regularly as we'll be keeping you updated on the latest information about the patch until its release.

View the special site.

We are pleased to announce that FINAL FANTASY XIV will be at gamescom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, and will welcome adventurers from all over the world! We have some surprises in store, so be sure to pop by!

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Get ready to embark on a refreshing new adventure with the FINAL FANTASY XIV x Gong cha partnership, bringing a taste of Eorzea to tea lovers through a limited-time range of FFXIV-inspired teas and a chance to earn the adorable Porxie King Mount.

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We are pleased to present the patch notes for Patch 7.01, which introduces the new raid series, the Arcadion, and an assortment of new items.

* Additional features will be implemented in future updates:
The Arcadion (Savage) and the treasure hunt dungeon Cenote Ja Ja Gural are scheduled to be released in Patch 7.05.

Read the patch notes.

* Updated July 16, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. (PDT)

Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida would like to share an update on the granting of free game time to players that have been affected by ongoing issues since the launch of Dawntrail’s early access.

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Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida would like to share information regarding planned adjustments for a number of jobs.

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We're pleased to announce that the Scions & Sinners: FINAL FANTASY XIV Arrangement Album, originally released in March 2021, is now available on select streaming services! Enjoy these amazing arrangements performed by THE PRIMALS and Keiko!

Available to Stream

• Scions & Sinners: FINAL FANTASY XIV ~ Arrangement Album ~

Learn more about the album on the promotional site.

Other Arrangement Albums Available to Stream

• From Astral to Umbral: FINAL FANTASY XIV ~ Arrangement Album ~
• Duality: FINAL FANTASY XIV ~ Arrangement Album ~
• Journeys: FINAL FANTASY XIV ~ Arrangement Album ~

* Availability may vary depending on region or streaming service.

You will need to register a pre-order bonus code to participate in early access. Please be sure to redeem your code to prepare for the adventures ahead!

* Users who pre-ordered the PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, or Xbox Series X|S versions will not need to register a separate code as they are automatically registered for early access and the full version upon purchasing the expansion.

• Learn how to redeem your pre-order bonus code.
• Learn more about early access.

What is Early Access?

Early access is one of the benefits of pre-ordering FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail. You will be able to play the full version of Dawntrail as early as Friday, 28 June 2024 at around 9:00 (GMT) / 10:00 (BST) / 19:00 (AEST) before its official release on Tuesday, 2 July 2024.

Beginning of Early Access

Friday, 28 June 2024 at 9:00 (GMT) / 10:00 (BST) / 19:00 (AEST)

Early Access Period

Early access will end on Friday, 5 July 2024 at 23:59 with the region of your Square Enix account determining the time zone. North American accounts will adhere to (PDT), European accounts will adhere to (GMT), and Japanese accounts will adhere to (JST). Users on Windows, Mac, or Steam will need to register the full Dawntrail registration code before this time to continue playing after the early access period.

Square Enix Store Customers

Starting Monday, 24 June, we will begin distributing Dawntrail registration codes via email to customers who purchased Dawntrail (standard or digital Collector's Edition) from the Square Enix Store. Code distribution will be performed sequentially, so it might take a bit of time until you receive your code. However, we are beginning the process early to ensure that customers receive their codes ahead of the official launch of Dawntrail.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The ability to enter a Dawntrail registration code (using the "Additional Expansions" option) will not be available on the Mog Station until the game officially launches following early access on Tuesday, 2 July. Attempting to register the code in other areas of the Mog Station before release will simply result in an "invalid code" error being displayed.

Please Be Mindful about Spoilers

During the early access period, there will be no restrictions on what content you can discuss, post, or stream while following the Material Usage License Agreement. However, we ask that early access users please be considerate and do their best to avoid posting spoiler-related content as there are those players who may start at the official launch or play at their own pace.

We are delighted to announce that the 7-inch vinyl single of Dawntrail's main theme is now available!

The record includes two tracks: "Open Sky - The Theme from Dawntrail," an edited version of the Dawntrail theme song, and "Dawntrail," the version featured in the full Dawntrail trailer.

The tracks feature guest vocals from Amanda Achen and compositions by FFXIV's very own THE PRIMALS! Additionally, the album jacket features a brand-new illustration from the FFXIV Art team.

Enjoy the rich, warm sound of a vinyl record and let the gorgeous jacket illustration sweep you away to shores unknown as you prepare for your next adventure!

DAWNTRAIL 7-inch Vinyl Single

Track List

• Open Sky - The Theme from Dawntrail
• Dawntrail

Included

• Download code that features both songs in MP3 format
  * The download code allows for playback of the songs without a record player.
  * This is not a download code for in-game items.

Visit the DAWNTRAIL 7-inch Vinyl Single special site to purchase.
* The DAWNTRAIL 7-inch Vinyl Single will be available for purchase on the European Square Enix Store from 29 June 2024.
[Updated on 6 June 2024 at 15:30 (GMT) / 16:30 (BST) / 7 June at 1:30 (AEST).]

Patch 7.0 will see several changes to Allagan tomestones and scrips, including the removal of Allagan tomestones of astronomy, as well as yellow crafters' and gatherers' scrips.

Players carrying any of these currencies are advised to exchange them before the start of Patch 7.0 maintenance.

Read on for details.