New Dawntrail Abilities & Graphics Showcase - FFXIV Live Letter Summary 

"It might be high thunder?" Thunder: Hi o/

I think they gave healer gcd heals job specific animations. Both astro and WHM seems to be casting their aoe gcd heal but instead of generic green heal-y effects they have job-themed ones. Neat overall

I feel that during Phoenix, SMN might get a new set of primals, Ramuh, Shiva, and Leviathan.

ty for going through each spells shown in the trailer!

Job action trailer hype Job action trailer hype Job action trailer hype I love the cinematic trailers, but it's the skills trailer that gets me really excited for the expansion release

So pleased to see the graphics overhaul in engine finally, knowing that it will be even better in game without youtube compression is just getting me so excited! Thanks Jolsn!

So DRK used both the regular hard slash and syphon strike earlier in the benchmark (the first part you skipped over at 12:39). Those three abilities we've seen are entirely new. Currently, there's buzz going around that, since they share visual similarities with Delirium, it's possible that they've reworked delirium to allow access to this enhanced combo rather than free bloodspillers.

Some timestamps for the traile breakdown by class: 06:37 : Gunbreaker 07:00 : Dragoon 07:18 : Sage 07:38 : Black Mage 07:55 : Summoner 08:30 : Monk 09:12 : Dancer 09:29 : Tricky part to analyze 09:36 : Paladin 09:55 : Red Mage 10:19 : Samurai 11:13 : Machinist 11:44 : Astrologian 12:23 : Ninja 12:38 : Ability B-roll with Pictomancer stuff and previously discussed abilities 12:53 : Pictomancer 13:01 : White Mage 13:27 : Dark Knight 13:41 : Scholar 13:53 : Reaper 14:14 : Bard 14:38 : Viper 14:41 : Warrior

Staring to get hyped! Thanks for the recap!

I beyond hyped for dawntrail , it will be my 1st dlc release as brand new player , while I choose black mage to start , I will be going into dawntrail as a summoner. Amazing video keep up the great content

Usually I dont comment any Videos. But I have to give you credits to your insane Videos and Content around FFXIV. I enjoy your videos most on FFXIV content. Keep up the great work!

I'M SO HYPED FOR THE SKILLS THAT'S THE THING I WANT THE MOST FROM THE XPAC

Thanks so much for the breakdown!

I think the Dancer move in the background looks pretty cool. As does the chainsaw attack.

As people have already pointed out, DRK showcase seems to be a 3 part combo. The swings also happens to look really similar to "Resolution" from FFXI which also uses greatswords

when talking about the red mage that is them throwing their focus (the thing in their hand floating) at the enemy and controlling it to go where they want

Look at the bottom of the animation for that Monk. It shows a tiger head. And towards the top where you see the black paint stroke, it also resembles Byakko weapon glows! I think this has something to do with Byakko of the four lords?! Hmm

If you want to know wether something falls into a weaponskill/spell/skill just look at whoosh effect around the character as the ability is triggered. Weaponskills are GCDs and they trigger a yellow/golden whoosh around the character. Spells have different effects, usually depending on their associated element. Healing spells also have associated colours: Green whoosh for WHM and SCH. Blue whoosh for AST. Pale blue for SGE. Skills are oGCDs and they have a marked teal coloured whoosh around the character. Notably, GBN, RDM, SAM and SCH use a skill in this video. You can see the teal effect before they use their abilities. Something to note. SMN's Fester is a skill, so it has a teal whoosh. But the animation of the attack we see from SMN doesn't have said effect. Though it is possible its not shown.

Important to note about Dark Knight: they snuck in a second ability during the Scholar part where the Dark Knight does a follow-up downward slash with loads of darkness spikes coming off of it. I do think it's an upgraded 1, 2, 3 combo. Also important to note about White Mage: Holy III has a lily animation but isn't a lily ability. But the new spell is probably "Medica III" or something.

13:27 during drk, you can see some kinda pictomancer move in the back, looked like akh morn 😮

Man I so can't waittttt

I love how the Dragoon's new skill looks like a mix of Nidhogg's Design and Dragon's Crest, the "strongest" attack of FF9's Freya. Seeing how this expansion uses some of FF9's enemies/monsters, this is really fitting and absolutely satisfying to watch♥.

For the SAM move at 11:00, it looks like a new fan AoE (you can see fan animation on the ground after it hits). Probably shared ability with Ogi Namakiri.

So for the black mage skill it looks very similar to its pvp ability called burst. Burst creates and aoe of thunder around the black mage for high damage, this appears to be similar but centered around the target

Been taking a break, coming back in August for 7.0 when I can renew my sub! Excited to jump into Viper and relearn the entire game again XD

5;30.. Filter out chat messages containing specific terms? So, if I enter an RMT bot's URL, it'll block all it's messages entirely I hope, and not just the filtered text?

I sincerely hope the Warrior's bit implies that tanking will have a more active role where there will be more mechanics that the tank needs to physically step in front of in order to protect allies. I think that'd be peak tanking for me. Otherwise, looks like some decent moves. I think I agree with what you've said for the most part. My only concern is combat isn't going to feel different enough when most of the skills look like they'll just be upgrades of older versions. I lean quite heavily on combat for my fun, so it wouldn't be ideal.

You missed a very sneaky DRK skill right after WHM on the right. It appears to be a double swing then a downward slash. Also, at the end, that WAR in question is Wuk Lamat so that might be an NPC skill exclusive to her. Kinda like Engravement was for Zero.

11:00 The ground effect seems like an upgraded version of Tenka Goken/Kaeshi: Goken, their AoE Iaijutsu.

I think what you were saying about ogi namikiri is more like 2 sen namikiri but an upgraded version. You can see the aoe underneath looks kinda the same

People severly underestimate the appeal of some guy just punching his way through gods and despair

I think that these might all be upgraded abilities and they’re saving the new abilities for the media tour.

I wonder if that ast move will be an upgraded aspected helios or even helios II

with the summoner, it almost looks likes a leviathan summon, you can see a small leviathan on the back side of the enemy. at least that would be my guess

Really hoping we can get that holmgang rescue from the instance at the end of Endwalker, just has me oddly excited

Definitely Toxikon (probably IV) on Sage and (an updated) Saber Dance on Dancer, I know them sounds anywhere lol

the monk spawns a tiger up looks cool

the WAR will have sort of TBN in DT because they did exactly this during ShB benchmark in which we as the DRK jumped out and protected the DNC with TBN before she did the LB3.

the cone ability the PLD uses seems similar to the ones Ser Adelphel and Ser Janlenoux use during thordan EX

I just realized that warrior protection Meteor is Wuk Lamat

I just hope I can still run this flawlessly on my Legion Go

honestly monk stole the whole scene with that Rising dragon punch and that tiger skill

Is the graphics update game-wide ? Besides things like area-specific updates like those ocean waves. Asking; If I buy the expansion will it effect all expansions plus A Realm Reborn. I remember when they added swimming and it was game-wide i.e.

That mch skill feels very similar to drill, so it might be an upgrade to drill.

7:03 because of the ring im assuming it'll be an ability to use with/will share a cooldown with Stardiver

A Vengeance that gives a defense buff to other players ala that Paladin rear cone ability would be amazing

Whm/Astro: WE ARE BEAUTIFUL LOVE US 💕

I have been playing since release but somehow I've forgotten this. When can we expect all the tooltips for the new jobs to be available? Because in all other expansions we had access to most of them before release Actually when can we expect the job action trailers to drop? For endwalker we had them 28th of september, so 3 months before release. We are way past the usual timeline with dawntrail. It's creeping up on 2 months soon

Samurai is either a upgrade of guren or senai. Uses kenki hence ikoshoten

THATS HUGE i like it 4:22

They finally brought the back flip back for Bard !!

Nice recap! Can't wait to see all the old areas anew. Now if they'd fix Mor Dhona, that'd be swell. That ground pattern is sooo bad.

I wonder if they may are developing a new way to cast "limit breaks" of sorts with all these flashy techniques. Like you said in the earlier part, the dancer technique looked a bit like dancer L3 a bit. Ofcourse it could be just new combos so that's that as well 😂. All and all, the abilities look rather big for sure, and makes me wanna jump back to ff once the new expansion is out. I mostly enjoy dungeons and I would really love to try pictomancer and later one beastmaster once it comes out ^3^

That astro aoe ability kinda looks like the old time dilation ability

You can see the AST aoe get applied to the surrounding players, though it could just be a new Divination. Then again, we know ASTpocalypse is coming so who knows? 🤷

reason im maining the paintbrush, moogles

For those aren't familiar with AA. FXAA just blurries your screen, but with less impact in your system, CMAA seems more clean and sharp, but it isn't so graphic power demanding like MSAA.

My benchmark results: 9330 (High results) Maxed everything possible and used the NVIDIA overlay to get a rough idea of FPS. Averaging about high 50's in high character areas. Spells and everything else going off I got about high 60s to low 70s in certain points of the benchmark. Most likely will average around 50s at all times. Desktop: R5 5600X 32GB RAM RTX 3060 (8GB version) 1TB NVMe drive.

I really hope they increase the inventory space for the armor chest. Im running out of room for full sets. Im only missing astrologian

10:11 it’s a thorny rose vine. Roses are incorporated in a lot of RDM animations.

I hope they give us abilities with stronger effects and different for each job even if it gets a bit unbalanced

Im guessing drk is delerium being turned into requiescat like. Drg and ast are getting reworked so not touching that with a 20 foot pole, the nidhogryuken looks dope tho. Sam im guessing iaijutsus are getting upgraded, either just animation or new ones that replace current ones, mnk maybe upgrades for weaponskills or some new chakra skills, sch upgrade for chain, gnb im guessing continuation on fated circle, pld requescat is now aoe, sage i dont know well enough to say maybe toxikon, reaper is tricky since its a bit newer maybe a communio combo, ninja upgraded ninki spenders, smn that looked kinda like painflare to me, blm high thunder, rdm new addition to melee combo holy, whatever, resolution. Bard refulgant arrow upgrade. Mch my guess is reassemble getting a kasatsu treatment were drill, chainsaw, maybe air anchor get upgraded with it. Dnc saber dance but bigger. Whm i know nothing about misery 2 with it getting a heal component maybe. War vengeance upgrade possibly, which means all the tanks are probably getting the big mitigation sentinel, nebula, shadowall upgraded as well

Do we think the astro spell could be haste? That seems like it'll be in their wheelhouse lol

That's a gcd and it is a spell from AST. Whm that could be medica 4, because we do need that. Not even talking about reaper, it's just cool. Rdm... That looks like the left hand part of the weapon used as an attack, like a physical magical attack. That could be a skill. Going back to AST, they removed some stuff if you remember. So that is a new spell definitely.

They gotta rework the ability visuals to be 10x less gaudy. It's such a shame you have to turn off your teams ability visuals to see anything.

Ramuh is some sort of a lesser summon, for the next expansion, most probably there will be an upgrade to the existing Phoenix, maybe Leviathan for the final combo (Bahamut > Phoenix > Leviathan)???

8:54 As a Monk main for years, that's the first time im hearing this O_o I always thought they looked cool, especially the Beast Chakra skills. The new skill looks cool though.

Great breakdown. MONK 2024 LET'S GO

FINALLY ANTI ALIASING I AM NGL SCREAMING WITH JOY OMG FK YESSS ....

Are these updates also going to be in the PS5 version? I mean the game is very old at this point, so I'd be very surprised if it wasn't updated on ps5.

cool heals :)

I noticed that most of the attacks are aoe, I really hope they're the desperation attacks from ffVI cause those animations give me that vibe :3

Monk looks like a tiger animation

man i just hope combos get made into a single button so we can get more specialize skills Expect monk since monk uses combo differently

maybe they are not adding new skills but adding a way to modify the current skills?

Im torn between this, eso and wow. But this looks awesome.

So in other words, I need to get myself a Ps5 after this new expansion.

I hope we get a new ffx mmo after this expansion, game needs an upgrade in every aspect

The defiantly don't need to add more spells or attack movies, their are why to many more. Wish they would cut them in half if not only give is like 4 or 6 only all together.

As a black mage main, that black mage's thunder was very... dark.. and part of me wonders if its a DOT that will cost a polyglot charge.

Question is how that going to run on Xbox series X

I tried playing this game on ps5 it was so hard to setup an account

i dont think toxi will get upgraded again as it gets upgraded at level 80, this seems to be something else

The monk is doing some sort of Tiger attack, not a dragon.

As a reaper main I can’t wait to test new abilities out, all jobs look dope though💪🏾

That thunder spell better not be it for BLM. I bet YoshiP just didn't wanna reveal it yet because we're getting something super cool, right?

War new skill: Holmgamg other "I'm too angry for you to die!"

That honestly just looked like dancer lb3

I am mad because still no squall’s lionheart skill, you know the final limit break of his.

cant wait for Gnb triple down and a 4th cartridge

Chat bubbles when

DLSS 3 requires DX12, doesn't it?

A bit sad they didn't add raytracing

Dragoon gets a new spell to cast, like paladin gets a new spell to cast, and gunbreaker gets a new spell to cast. We are all magical girls

Omg they did it. They finally introduced new AA. Thats been my biggest complaint the entire life of this game

Is not AI based upscaling, it's ML...

DLSS 3 is just DLSS 2 with frame generation It's not any better in terms of quality or performance. DLSS 2 is using the same dll version as "DLSS 3" 7.0 is however going to be using FSR 1.0 which is the only out of date upscaler of the two.

The Blacklist changes are MUCH needed but that about it being to hard to make it so you don't get put into groups with people you have blacklisted is kinda Bull... Blizzard have had that in Wow for the last 8 years or so and Swtor have had it build in since the second big update for the game (I think it was patch 1.2) Is they can do that YEARS ago then why can't SQ do it now?

I just hope I get one like, cool skill as scholar (I say, inhaling dangerous amounts of copium)

MNK new skill: dragon kick