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Dawntrail is the upcoming expansion for Final Fantasy XIV, adding a host of new features and battle content to the game. Discover the new continent of Tural, new dungeons and raids, interesting new zones, and much more!

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Dawntrail - Zones and Battle Content
Final Fantasy XIV's next major expansion is set to launch in summer 2024. Dawntrail will add many new features and content to the game, such as new zones, areas, dungeons, raids, and other battle content. Let's have a look at what Tural has to offer, as well as a glimpse at the new combat updates!

New Zones and Areas:

Dawntrail will introduce a brand-new continent: Tural. A visitor from the far west came to seek the Warrior of Light's help in a Rite of Succession that will determine Tural's next ruler. Our heroes are on their way to the grandest summer vacation they have ever had!

You can see here that Tural will be an extremely vast continent that we will get to explore fully.

As we already know, the brand-new player hub will be Tuliyollal, which will serve as a literal bridge connecting the north and south parts of the continent of Tural.

However, there is one extremely intriguing zone that has been revealed, that has a distinct look compared to the rest of Tural we have seen so far. It is another town that will serve as the second hub for players, and it is called Solution Nine. 

We did not get too much information, as they don't want to spoil us, but we know that it is a city of towering facades constructed by an entirely different civilization than that of Tuliyollal. All the new areas are very intriguing and beautiful, and will be a joy to explore and discover once Dawntrail launches!

New Dungeons and Raids:

Of course, Dawntrail will also add new dungeons and raids, and we got to see a sneak peek of some of them. Yoshida assured us that the progress on the new dungeons is going very well, and that they will be able to show more in the future.

The new alliance raid was also announced. It will be an FFXI collaboration, and it is called Echoes of Vana'Diel. We even got to see the Shadow Lord artwork. More details will be given during future PLLs, but we know that it will be coming for 7.1!

Of course, after the alliance raid, we also got information on the brand new 8-player raid called The Arcadion. It seems to take place in an extremely futuristic new location. New characters will come with the raid, and the story itself will be a complete FFXIV original. Normal mode and savage mode will be available in sequence about one month after 7.0, so players will not feel rushed.

Another good surprise we got during the keynote was the announcement of the new ultimate raid, which will be themed around part of the story of Eden, with Ryne and Gaia from patch 5.4: Futures Rewritten Ultimate. The release is planned for 7.1.

You can take a look at all of the new areas, dungeons and raids through different videos on the official Final Fantasy XIV YouTube channel or by watching the Day 1 + Keynote video.

Other Battle Content:

In addition to the new dungeons and raids, Dawntrail will also offer other types of battle content for players to enjoy. These include:

• New Allies
• Level cap increased to 100, Job updates, New abilities and spells for each existing Job
• Core Battle content for 7.0: New Fates, Hunts, Treasure Hunts, Quest-Synced Sidequests
• New threats: Bosses and New interesting monsters such as the Barreltender

• Duty support updates: Krile will make the duty support debut as Pictomancer. 
• Ongoing content updates: Blue Mage update, Inconceivably Further Hilibrand Adventures, new plans for deep Dungeons, Gold Saucer update, PvP update, new variant Dungeons.
• Field Operations: something similar to Eureka and Bozja will be implemented during 7.x.
• A new Lifestyle Content called The Cosmic Exploration, which should be leading us into various locations. Moreover: we will be able to explore it in multiplayer!

So far, Dawntrail is definitely living up to the hype, and it will bring a lot of new and exciting content to Final Fantasy XIV! Players will get to explore the new continent of Tural and face new challenges, new enemies in new dungeons, raids, and other battle content. The expansion will also introduce new allies, new jobs, new abilities, and new lifestyle content. Summer 2024 can't come quick enough, as we are all eagerly awaiting the start of our next adventure!

[Sreliata 4]

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8 hours ago, Sreliata said:

This banner is everything - and I can't wait to go to bed tonight and dream about stuffing a hefty butterfinger into jacktuars (jacked cactuar's) mouth, whilst sitting on its spikey uber-muscular body. Ah. The dream.

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