The annual Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival is in full swing in Japan, and during the event’s opening keynote, the curtain was fully pulled back on the upcoming Dawntrail update. The fifth major expansion for Square Enix’s MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail will take players to a new tropical island region and offer a full visual revamp and much more.
Coming out of the FF14 Fan Festival, we got a look at Dawntrail’s Pictomancer job that allows you to cast spells and summon creatures with a magic paintbrush, as well as the Female Hrothgar race, new city Solution Nine, and the usual array of dungeons, raids, and other challenges. You can check out the full trailer for Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, below.
Meanwhile, here’s a closer peek at the Pictomancer:
And the new Female Hrothgar race:
And the new town, Solution Nine:
And finally, here’s an overview of some of the dungeons:
Need to know more? Here are the key features for Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail…
- New Job: Pictomancer – This new job works in the medium of mixed aether, wielding a specialized brush to render their imaginings reality. These creations include not only creatures and weapons, but landscapes as well. As evoking such wonders takes time, the Pictomancer also keeps instant-cast abilities and spells at the ready.
- New Playable Race: Female Hrothgar – The Hrothgar people hail from Ilsabard. A Turali people with shared ancestry, The Xbr’aal, call Yak T’el home.Females number relatively few among the population, but are readily identified by their lithe, muscular forms. Equally distinctive is their predisposition for leadership.
- New City: Solution Nine – A city of towering facades constructed by an entirely different civilization than that of Tuliyollal.
- New Area: Heritage Found – In this region overflowing with lightning energies, thick thunderclouds blot out the sun, while streaks of purple levin illuminate the land day and night.
- New Raid Series: The Arcadion
- A New Ultimate Raid: Futures Rewritten (Ultimate)
- New dungeons
- Expansive New Lifestyle Content: Cosmic Exploration
- New Field Operations – New field operations akin to “The Forbidden Land, Eureka” and “Save the Queen” will arrive in Dawntrail.
- A New Limited Job: Beastmaster
Just can’t wait for all those Dawntrail goodies? Well, plenty is happening in the meantime. Final Fantasy XIV 6.5 Part 2 drops next week, continuing some of the stories begun in the first part of the update. After that, a crossover questline with Final Fantasy XVI, entitled “The Path Infernal,” will drop in April. Here’s a teaser trailer for that.
Oh, and are you eager to play Final Fantasy XIV on Xbox Series X/S? Well, an open beta test of the Xbox version will begin sometime in February.
Final Fantasy XIV can be played on PC, PS4, and PS5, and the Xbox Series X/S version arrives sometime this spring. Final Fantasy XIV ver. 6.5 Part 2 drops on January 16, the Final Fantasy XVI crossover arrives in April, and the Dawntrail expansion sails into port sometime in early summer.
