FFXIV’s Next Patch Is Genuinely MASSIVE 

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You're misunderstanding the change to the Savage release schedule: On .2 and .4 patches Savage would release simultaneous with all the other stuff, so anyone wanting to get ahead of the curve had to basically blast through all the rest and jump straight into Savage. People have been asking them to delay Savage similarly to how it works at the expansion launch, so that they could take their time to play all the other new content yet without feeling a need to rush anything.

So for Savage, aside from the X.0 patch, it releases at the exact same time as the normal mode. So they're adding a week for the first time ever. The two week thing is only for expansion release.

Quick Note: Savage for For No Expansion Release was out Same day as normal so people would have to Speed through normal sotry to start Savage Race. THis now gives people a week to clear Normal at a normal pace before Savage is out.

For people wondering what lore Hildy brings to the table: the ARR quest chain is how we learned about what happened to Sil'dih and Ul'dah's part in it. That's pretty huge in terms of lore and world building, especially with 6.2 focusing so heavily on Sil'dih with the variant/criterion dungeons.

2:15 You got it backwards. They didn't "drop" the wait from 2 weeks to 1. They increased it from 0 to 1. Normally, the X.2 and X.4 Savage tiers drops on the same day the major patch releases without any wait at all (with the exception of a new expansion launch where Savage is pushed to the X.05 patch). Players are concerned about this not because of market impact, but because of how it would impact the race to world first.

Just getting into FFXIV myself...but damn, imagine if the people at Acti-Blizz had the same kind of communication and involvement with their fans that the Yoshi P and his team has with their fanbase...suppose there's a damn good reason so many of us are jumping ship in droves

Day 1 of Patch 6.2: Hurray, I finally have more space in my glamour dresser! Day 2 of Patch 6.2: I'm at 799/800 in my glamour dresser please help

Endwalker is looking to be the best expansion content wise already in x.2. Longest MSQ, two ultimates, massive glamour expansion, private islands, adventure plates, pvp massive rework, variant/criterion/savage dungeons, new deep dungeon, data center visit, etc.

Catering for solo and group players. Just imagine this in WoW - it would never get off the ground because of the baggage that the "community" has over solo players accessing dungeon content.

I am STOKED for variant dungeons. That kind of thing is right up my alley. Also I'm excited for the Island Sanctuary and curious to see what we get for relic weapons (personally I don't mind if we get something more lighthearted, especially after how heavy Endwalker could be).

Bellular talking about FFXIV will forever be a dream come true.

A lot of the known Sil'Dih lore originates from the 1st Hildebrand story line... which makes me think the Variant/Criterion dungeons will be related to Hildebrand and Manderville Weapons, and the NPC will be one of the sisters in the original story line.

Hildebrand is side content. Relics are side content. Looking at all the previous relic pre-requisites, they are pretty much following the same formula. Not sure on the outrage here.

For all we know the "quest centric" progression could mean dailies like beast tribe quests Or quests that involve killing 1,000 somethings in Eureka / Bozja / PotD / HoH The best thing to do is to just wait for it to drop rather than get angry at assumptions and predictions

FF14 is already amazing and it's getting better and better

For starters, YoshiP does not pump Copium through the dev team air vents.

9:35 I don't think it's really a "time limit" per se. You can retry however many times you want without being kicked out of the instance or losing your reward (unlike M+ where the time to completion dictates your chests, forcing you not to wipe _at all_ or forfeit your key). This is more akin to a soft enrage to ensure players have to do decent damage in order to progress further into the dungeon. If enemies enrage because DPS is too low (and they frankly should, like in any other high-end content), you simply die and restart the dungeon run (the same way you would restart an Ultimate from the very beginning when you die to an enrage 15+ minutes into the fight). In short, the way I see it, the whole Savage dungeon would be a single long "encounter" that you would wipe if damage is too low (the same way the gauntlet of bosses that is Ultimate is still considered a single encounter despite lasting almost 20 minutes).

There is one thing you misunderstood: Delay between Normal and Savage raid is not down from two to one week. Last time it was two weeks because it was first part of the raid that happened with new expansion release (Yoshi-P does a delay so people can enjoy MSQ in their own pace). Historically second and third part happens without that delay at all. So the experiment is to make a delay with every future patch for Savage raids.

Whoever edited in Juicy Zenos everytime Michael said A.S.S, bless you.

Brand new content added to the game is always welcome :D especially when it's during an expansion

when the only controversy you have is a non-troversy

Based on the screenshot alone, the Omicron beast tribe will almost certainly require that you do the Stigma Dreamscape dungeon and quest before you can unlock them.

Another big thing that got kind of glossed over. YoshiP said the next ultimate will be coming soon. This is pretty big if you consider the last time in shadowbringer they had to cancel the 2nd ultimate. They also wouldnt announce it if they cant finish it to 6.3. This means they are probably very far in the production of the 6.3 ultimate.

>What is Yoshi-P feeding the dev team Apparently Soken buys out the chicken tenders from a local convenience store every time he gets hungry at work

honestly, the new series of pvp is the thing that i never expected to be so hyped for.

I believe the 6.2 title is referring to Elidibus, the story of pandemonium

I just got back into the game after a break, I played ARR through Shadow bringers and burnt myself out lmao but I love the game and I can't wait for this patch! Before my break though, I loved Pvp so I hope that stays active and healthy too

*My only regret in WoW is* *NOT Quitting sooner, for Final Fantasy XIV.* *Final Fantasy XIV IS so much better in almost every way.*

Is island sanctuary going to be a house type or will that always be the current system at the end of the day?

... Great, apparently I gotta dust off the AST further, since that's what I tend to use when learning harder content. For some reason. I don't even main healers, man.. not to say I'm not stoked about it, but I am questioning how that happened in hindsight. Anyways, funny fact, the Sil'dih information features in the *Hildibrand* questlines, of all things, so there's a solid chance we've got Godbert pulling us through the dungeon. It's probably not going to be the case and it'll likely just be the girls, but who knows? Also the simple fact that Hildibrand is a primary lore source for content is fucking hilarious in itself. Goddamn.

Better get on that Hildy train Bellular, youre in for quite the ride!

one of the reassons they are able to do such predictable patch cycles is 70% of whats in each patch is latterly set in stone and has been for serval xpacks, which leaves 30% for devs to try new ideas ect.

I read the 'monsters get stronger if you take too long' in the savage criterion as everything having a berserk timer, not a timer on the dungeon itself. It's anti-kite rather than m+ go go go I think.

yo dope video keep it up! Also I love the way you presented the info. I will definitely be subbing for more

So every relic weapon prior is a grinding shit show and a half, and completely optional mind you, but people are complaining that it may actually be made fun and engaging and all they have to do is engage in content that they can just as easily speed skip through dialogue to get pasts???

Think you forgot to mention that there will also be a new regular dungeon as well on top of the new criterion dungeon.

Oh u found the bozjan soundtrack. I manged to extract it from the game files. Funny it's in 5.1 weirdly enough

One thing I really like is that the FF14 devs already communicate with us a ton, and they see the negative reaction to the 6.1 SAM changes (for good reason, I didn't like the changes either) and they're just like "OK, we'll communicate our ideas for changes a lot more in the future to make sure people aren't blindsided again." I mean, do I know what DRG or AST changes they're going to make? No, and they could be bad, but at least they're going to tell us in detail in a public setting. I know I'm still not used to that, and I've been playing FF14 for over a year at this point.

Island Sanctuary is pretty much what I'm most hyped about.

I've been hearing from ex-wow players that island sanctuary is what garrison should have been in WoW. Let's see how it goes.

The Hildy questlines are SO rewarding! Hilarious to boot

Pay attention in ARR's Hildibrand questline on Sil'dih. 😄

Good content as always Bell!

Oooo, that new 4 player stuff sounds delightful. I am on break from it just cause I don't have something smaller scale but harder. This does sound like something I would come back for.

you got the savage release backwards , usually its the same day as normal mode with the 2nd and 3rd parts but theyre delaying it by a week

After having finished Endwalker all I’m looking for is a little bit of the same kind of love for Dark Knight they’ve given to Reaper Or just in general one thing I’d like is for our aoe abilities to have actually debuff effects on the target who stand in them

Im really sad that they still wont add a group queue for Crystaline Conflict :(

FF's jobs' DPS across the board is very tightly controlled. I imagine the timers in Criterion Savage will be the same as any other Savage/Ultimate - just beating mechanics without deaths while pressing your buttons reasonably well should get you over the finish line, regardless of what you play. I don't think we'll be bumping in to a M+ problem, especially since it seems to be just one difficulty setting and not something scaling, with no signs of any borrowed power/modifiers.

the thornmarch changes are not related to duty support, you might need to find a new translation source for the next live letter whoever you were using this time got several things wrong, including the savage delay that everyone else already mentioned.

Rejoice in the glory of new patch !!! 🐢

i love hildibrand story , im just worries the relic weapons are gonna be silly looking , like the Golden Saucer weapons.

I think that the criterion savage dungeon should have enrage timers for each boss from start to finish. This will create a threshold of difficulty that groups will need to have as minimum in addition to a minimum completion time. But I don't think soft enragers or mini enrage timers should be added. Because after people has mastered the dungeon, they will most likely not do it again. I think a good thing to implement would be a time trial cup that stretches from one patch to the next. The Time Trial would naturally be the fastest time on a selection of endgame dungeons Could also maby divide the dungeons, trials and raids by difficulty it into bronze (normal), silver (hard), gold (extreme), platinum (Unreal & Savage) and Crystal (Ultimate) cups. The free company that owns the most cups (leaderboards in cities and at entrances to dungeons) at each tier at the end of the season recieves rewards. This would increase replayability of practically all existing dungeons and give endgame players a reason to perfect their gameplay.

great video. thanks!

FFXIV is just a wholesome RPG. The new expansion patch news fills me with warmth and coziness.

I’m so excited for the Island Sanctuary and the new relic weapons. I just hope that since it’s connected to the Manderville quests that they don’t have “joke” designs and actually look cool.

The new dungeon sounds interesting and savage should be fun.

EW is shaping up to be an S+ tier expac as a whole

So much content, team is one of a kind. Island Sanctuary being a completely separate game seems so crazy

Haven't played since Sept. Really been hard trying to find something to play, might be time to go back.

_"And Lo, behold over yonder our brave Champions o' Light and Darkness both, as they make progression into thine dungeon. Please be narrated by our favourite commentator._

At this point I will go along with ANYTHING Yoshi P and his Deves do. TRUST has been earned. Simply they know what there doing.

Island sanctuary ... I love how they're essentially adding their own version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a content patch. 😊

I needed a kick in the pants to get back on the Hildi quest chain.

I seriously hope the narrator for those criterion dungeons is Emet Selch...

I did love Kaiten as a Samurai. But then I also loved Merciful Eyes. I feel like Samurai was a bit of an unga bunga class already so I did not understand the need to streamline them.

1:18 Sounds about right 🤣

Man I cant wait for the graphics update.

Hurts that they have maintenance the entire holiday but I'm excited

They only did what they did with Criterion dungeons because of the severe backlash they got from his "go play ultimate" comment. We were originally just going to get what they called variant. Its good that they're listening, but its taking player backlashes to get them to smarten up about things.

What if the variant dungeon is part of the relic grind. Also the handicraft stuff is not to other players but to be sold for island currency, they want this not to be affected by other players as a complete solo play but have your friends and fc over to visit thing.

What I find interesting in hindsight is that after Heavensward released CB3 announced that they wouldn't be adding 3 new jobs per expansion (especially one of each role) and were dropping hard mode dungeons. Basically it sounded like we would be losing content overall. Some people groused, some people were sort of waiting to see what it meant overall, but just as many were hopeful it would mean positive changes to what the devs could do with their time. I would say the latter turned out to be true. We're getting such a wide array of content and all of it looks like they put in a ton of effort. I personally can't wait to try it all. ♥

They should make the glam dresser unlimited.

Ff team: drops quality content Blizz: *Hector Salamanca noises*

Just a correction Bell. .2 and .4 savage releases same day normally. This is the first time they are splitting them up.

Savage is never delayed aside from the first tier. The one week delay is a new thing not a reduction of wait time.

I'm perfectly fine with the relics being tied to hildebrand so long as the weapons look cool, that's really all I care about. I mean a good story accompanying it is nice too, but the weapon aesthetics are my main concern

Earlier in the year they held a contest for weapon designs, half serious, half comical. I wonder if they will be used for the hildibrand artifacts.

Do combat rotations get more in depth later on? Been going through the Reborn msq and it seems like rotations are just a string of a few spells in order rinsed and repeated. Like 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3. With little to no variation. The story is enjoyable enough to keep me playing, just curious because I can't find answers to this specific question online. and when asking in game (very politely), I get told to "stop crying", which, didn't know I was still playing with the WoW community, but yeah lol.

I don't know if you'll see this, Bellular, but my husband said about a minute into this video that he could see a difference in you, that you're happy again. I think he's right. I think you are hopeful and enjoying your job again. I'm enjoying the change to FF as well - its inclusiveness of all playertypes plus the positive community are just such a welcome difference.

Our own little Harvest Moon / Stardew Valley! Wooohoooo!!! Farmer Cat here we go!

Their dungeon approach seems to be taking a good idea from GW2

Its so crazy, hes so happy and just full of joy going over FF content and then u watch his wow channel and its all pure depression, copium and absolute madness . Something doesnt add up here :/

Gigachad Yoship basically diverting FF14 Endwalker into the best expansion yet while also beeing game director for FF16. I swear he will die to overwork if he keeps going. Even on the liveletter he was coughing alot bcs he smoked more than normal due to stress.

Minor correction: the change isn't from 2 weeks to 1 week. It's from 0 weeks to 1 week. Yes the first tier of the 8-man raid series had a 2 week delay, as is the norm, but in the past every second and third tier of savage raid has released concurrently with the normal raid. Some pure raiders actually like it that way, but there are relatively few people raider who also don't love (or at least really like) the MSQ too, and there are unfortunately some hardcore statics with a mix of both where this can create toxicity, not to mention the first 72 hours is often the only time you can easily do the new Savages blind in a PUG without judgment. This is actually a great change, since it allows people to focus on all the other new content in peace. The affect on casual players is nil. But this allows raiders of all types to focus on the MSQ and all the new side content in peace for a week, while midcore and hardcore raiders still have an Ex trial to beat. And then in week two, more than a few people might actually pay attention to the new Savage World First Race for once, which is usually ignored by all but a few hardcore raiders since it usually gets done before most people even finish the normal raid. There will be a few ultra hardcore raiders who care, and a few RMT carrying raiders who will be furious, but I really don't think the latter group's opinion should matter at all. The crafting things sounds like a JP complaint as I've never seen a Western crafter object to the idea of postponing Savage for this reason (and it's an idea that's been tossed around for a few years now).

23rd or 30th of August release.

What is interesting about the Omicron tribe quest is you can see the Freedom Fighter and the Global Citizen drinking together in the background.

The criterion dungeons sound like what 1.0 dungeons were SUPPOSED to be. And the Sil'dih subterraine was secretly beneath Uldah even in 1.0. There's a whole video series about unused 1.0 dungeons.

I don't see a good reason for the relic weapon being locked behind Hildibrand mainly as I thought Hildibrand was best when it was entirely it's own thing divorced from the rest of the game, an occasional amusement for when you're sick of the grind. Turning Hildibrand from "oh, this is fun to do!" to "oh, I need to do this to get the EW relic weapons" doesn't make sense to me and kinda undermines it.

So we're basically building the restaurant at the end of the universe, eh?

Timers aren't a big deal in this game, Savage has a timer once you hit it, it activates an enrage. I wouldn't be surprised if they did something similar.

When exactly is the solo play mode coming out or was that not what I'm thinking it is?

All I need is sanctuary to allow me to grow stuff. I need some items from plants that u need to grow to craft other stuff and I don't really wanna bother with housing for it. But if it's anything like animal crossing, sth tells me I will spend a lot of time there

did we ever recover minphilia's body to bury? memories foggy

I feel like this has to be the third time that thornmarch hard has been remade or something, lol. Everytime I get that one it's different from how I remember it.

I really don't get the comparisons to Mythic + and Garrisons. Having experienced those, what they are describing in XIV is nothing like them XD Island sanctuaries are completely solo and feed into themselves for no gil, no power reward, likely nothing besides cosmetics leaving. And if cosemetics make it like garrisons than there are a lot of garrisons in XIV lol And correct me if I'm wrong, the defiing traits of mythic + is the affixs and increasing diffucitly keys. Which as a fixed difficulty crietrion is nothing like it. The only similar is the time limit thing but thats not for score, its an engrage timer which is just to keep people from waiting with every pull, making it more like a long trial/raid fight where your mangingin buffs and cool downs and the like.

Yes, I'll buy your game.

As someone who plays since end of HW it is really nice to see how much they are doing in this expansion. Back in stormblood they cut down on some stuff like reducing the amount of dungeons per patch from 2 to 1 and Shadowbringer, while having a great MSQ, had quite the lacking patch content imo. You can really see how they use the new resources they got from the boom last year to make this game bigger and better than ever before.

Editor deserves a medal for the ASS meme on screen.

The only point that I'll disagree with Bellular on is the idea that having a timer that urges you to be efficient is lazy design. ALL difficult content in the game has enrage timers to make sure that players are doing what they're supposed to be doing to progress. These are balanced around the minimum amount of gear to get into the instance and are made easier with more gear in everything but Ultimate (until you get to the next expansion, at least) so I expect that these dungeons may be very challenging at first just like Savage fights but once you get more gear they will become more manageable with more room for error. The coolest thing about the Savage version, though, is the fact that you can't resurrect AT ALL which means that even if you do become more geared and it becomes easier if someone makes a big enough mistake and dies (especially the healer) then it's still likely going to be a wipe that sends you back to the start.