Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Hands-on Preview and Gameplay Footage

Practiced morn everyone, this is Kai Powell from Wccftech, coming to you with a brief dungeon preview of the upcoming content in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. During this cursory dungeon run, I'll exist playing the part of a Viera Dancer, both of which are soon to exist added with the latest upcoming expansion. I just wanted to give a quick thanks to Foursquare Enix for providing the travel and bringing me out there to see the new content immediate and run across Yoshi-P himself final week.

This is Terminal Fantasy XIV's third expansion, to be released on July 2nd, 2019. Shadowbringers introduces a whole new globe, the First, where players must fight to restore darkness to the realm with enough content to make full a complete single player RPG. Inside this new globe are six massive new areas as well equally a new cardinal city is known as the Crystarium.

Players volition be able to explore Eorzea as two new classes, a new tanking classic is known as the Gunbreaker as well as a melee and medium-range focused Dancer. At present, it's about more than than only playing ane of the two new roles, every bit every existing job volition run across a level cap increase from Stormblood's 70 all the way up to fourscore.

For all of the Disciples of the Mitt and Land classes that experience like they're given the curt stick on content, new recipes and items will be added to their repertoire in addition to what Yoshida-san mentioned equally 'Stop-game Content'. Peradventure this will be the addition of new alternative gearsets to become item levels up loftier enough to tackle these new raids and alternatives to what new Antiquity sets are on the manner.

Shadowbringers offers two new races to play around with. The male-just Hrothgar and female-sectional Viera. Now, information technology's interesting to note that players from other Ivalice adventures similar Final Fantasy XII should be well familiar with the likes of Fran and the long-legged Viera types, but what about Hrothgar? Well, much like the like likes of Hume and Hyur differ in namesake depending on the world you lot're in, so too do the Hrothgar alter. I knew these beastmen best as Ronso and spent many hours with Kimahri dorsum during my adventures in Final Fantasy X.

For players that have some disfavor to grouping together to reach a dungeon run, the trust system makes its return from Final Fantasy 11. Select NPC'south are summoned to the call of boxing to join alongside the Warrior of Light to fill out a full party. Of course, you'll still be forced to abide by the same party limerick as every other Warrior of Lite. You won't be able to exercise much proper adventuring without a pair of DPS, a healer and tank to keep the political party live. In the current build, we were allowed to play during the Shadowbringers preview result, only five different characters were allowed to join. Two healers, ii damage dealers, and one tank. Well-nigh curious of all was the function of Minfilia. Somehow she was permitted to join the Trust system despite never earning her advanced job class. Given her younger appearance, possibly at that place is some time travel at play in the background and there volition be a story explaining why this electric current version of Minfilia is little more than a Rogue.

System-wise, Terminal Fantasy 14 Shadowbringers will characteristic a number of system upgrades that may end support if you oasis't upgraded your system in quite some time. This leads to the finish of 32-scrap Bone back up on PC (PS3 support was already phased out with the Stormblood expansion) merely likewise the improver of 64-Bit Mac back up. Perchance this tin see Final Fantasy Fourteen brand its way to other competing platforms like the Xbox Ane with the framework in place.

Final Fantasy 14's impromptu quest system will be seeing some new changes in Shadowbringers. Fates, or Full Agile Time Events, will see more resource beyond EXP and the occasional seal. So far, this merely applies to Shadowbringers and the five.0 patch content at large. Performing boosted requirements (these were not discussed, merely I could assume exceeding a certain threshold of healing and harm dealing could be the trigger) will unlock certain rewards. Typically, these boosted rewards will come by way of currencies that can then be exchanged for special items. In the cursory demonstration given, high-quality crafting materials, riding maps, and fifty-fifty an Orchestrion Gyre were amid the named rewards. With the Orchestrion Whorl taking five times equally many tokens equally the riding map, this could exist quite the grind if other areas followed suit.

Side Quests will also receive similar changes in the new regions. For starters, all of the 5.0 side quests tin be undertaken at level seventy with enemies scaling to actor level when accepting the side quests. Yoshi-P mentioned that he was hoping that players would undertake these quests with your other jobs, giving them crucial EXP that would otherwise go to waste material if you were only playing through them on your main job.

With the realm of the Get-go, new role quests will be added beyond four sets. These will retrace the journeys of the Get-go'southward fallen heroes across physical DPS, magical DPS, tank, and healer archetypes depending on your current playstyle. While all four quest lines will be available to the actor, only ane will be required to be completed in gild to advance the main scenario. This should help cut down on the bloat of leveling alternative jobs but to progress through the campaign. Both the Dancer and Gunbreaker will see the majority of their job quests pop up between levels threescore and 70 while all jobs will see a new quest at level 80 later completing the main story campaign. Information technology sounds as though FFXIV volition be trying to shift away from private task quests to focus upon these larger role quests instead.

Not to leave the non-combat roles behind, there will be 5 sets of crafting and gathering quests for the Disciples of the Country and Hand in Terminal Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. These quests are centered upon the Crystarium and a collective of artisans that command the following Facets: Forging, Crafting, Gathering, Fishing, and Nourishment. At that place volition be a separate storyline within a workshop known every bit the Crystalline Mean that's linked to the world and lore of the First. This should be a pretty large modify from previous cities in Eorzea, with the diverse guilds and crafting facilities separated throughout the city. With this central workshop, it should serve as a gathering hub for the diverse crafting types when y'all need to go some handmade upgrades.

While far more minor than combat and crafting changes, Shadowbringers will see a number of modest UI enhancements to brand adventuring easier. Cantankerous-earth Linkshells will be expanded to support eight channels across the unmarried aqueduct previously. The UI will at present report HP totals in much more meaningful ways. You'll be able to run into your political party members' statuses without needing to drag out multiple life confined and boss life confined will now accurately stand for down to the decimal percentage, but in instance you needed to know just how close yous got on your first Extreme Primal endeavor before wiping. There will be an add-on of an Amber-themed Low-cal UI if you wanted to brighten upwards your HUD across the standard mix of greys and blacks. And last, but not least, players can finally preview their housing furnishings before placing them down in their mog houses.

The combat organization in Final Fantasy Fourteen: Shadowbringers is quite hands the most substantial gainsay patch since A Realm Reborn. Certain grade actions will exist inverse to support what Yoshi-P called a 'Charged Action Organisation' where actions can proceeds charges and get queued up for subsequently use upward to a maximum limit. I noticed this with Dancer with En Avant, a quick forward dash that I'd use to close the gap during gainsay. These actions that could exist stacked up will gain additional charges each time the recast time cycles and be consumed at the player's request.

Interrupting enemy casting is some other change that I've been wanting for some fourth dimension in Last Fantasy XIV. While you could previously do this in before patches, it wasn't always clear but which moves could exist interrupted beyond simple trial and error. Now, these deportment are made to exist more visible at a quick glance on the enemy casting bar, similar to when players would become struck by an enemy attack and accept their own abilities interrupted. Both Tanks and Ranged DPS types will receive generic role actions that tin can interrupt enemy casting times.

Role actions are a foreign overhaul in version 5.0 but could be the start of normalizing the content betwixt classes. These role actions will automatically be doled out at set levels and each class type volition receive differing function actions depending on the class type. Melee, ranged physical and ranged magical DPS will all receive a different ready or number of part actions to promote synergy betwixt classes and using more than than merely a pair of Blackness Mages to nuke your way through a dungeon. In my personal opinion, these standardized role deportment might hinder the desire to play as unique jobs, particularly if 1 physical DPS tin can practice the same role actions as some other. This could be i instance of seeing normalization reduce the creativity and unique appeal of each class.

Oh, I suppose I should mention that one of the three resource bars that players have struggled to juggle within Final Fantasy XIV volition be flat-out removed in Shadowbringers. TP, long since the scourge of Bards and concrete damage dealers, will exist completely removed in version five.0. Also, the MP system will receive a normalization change and MP will be flat-out capped at a maximum value of 10,000. With that upper limit, it should exist much quicker to realize merely how many casts of a given spell you tin can get from your remaining MP pool. The Piety attribute will be adjusted to reflect this chief change, and as someone that never played a healer type, I am not likewise familiar with what could be changed. Perhaps Piety will serve equally some form of Conserve MP?

Stats will see a similar just far less drastic overhaul in Shadowbringers. Materia that bump up your main attributes like STR and VIT will no longer be meldable and tin't exist obtained in the realm of the First. This means players shouldn't take to worry about seeking out STR gear to boost their raw damage only rather should focus on materia that could increase their skill speed or critical striking. I hope this leads to much more flexibility in gearing now that yous won't have to worry quite as much virtually hitting a hard cap in your main attributes offset and foremost. Certain items similar vicious gear and weekly token gear will accept two materia slots so these should fit the role if you lot need a drastic heave to a particular secondary attribute.

One massive change that players probably won't run into whatsoever time presently in Terminal Fantasy XIV is the increase of the damage limit from 999,999 all the fashion upwardly to 9,999,999. This was purely to account for future damage inflation, similar to how World of Warcraft has moved up to exponential numbers in subsequently expansions. Though, I wouldn't put it past the developers to throw in an otherwise unassuming Sabotender. In that location volition also exist some lesser changes to party bonuses based upon the given roles within the party and limit judge gains that volition exist adapted purely for five.0 and future regions.

Final Fantasy XIV and I take had an extended interruption from 1 another. Since the final time I really saturday down at the command center and played a Bard was nonetheless in the afterward patches of A Realm Reborn, I've missed out on and then much of the content and new classes that have come in the past few years. The Machinist was ane of the classes I caught in preview clips and from watching friends raid on streams. This class received one of the most drastic overhauls in Shadowbringers, transforming the class into somewhat of a summoner-type pet class with guns. The skillset of the Machinist shifted more to exist like that of Final Fantasy 6'south Edgar Figaro, wielding unconventional tools like Bioblasters and Car Crossbows into boxing. All of these new tools in the Machinist skillset work towards filling one of ii gauges. The Rut Gauge works very similarly to the Heavensward version of the grade, unlocking the machinist gun'southward total potential with harm increases and unique skills before information technology overheats. The other is a battery gauge, that in one case filled, tin can be used to summon a combat pet or turret to fight aslope the Machinist for a cursory flow of time.

So many of the new changes to Final Fantasy Xiv: Shadowbringers feel geared to streamlining the experience for new players while helping current players get into the activeness faster and go new gear ready for those farthermost dungeons. The new Trust organisation should alleviate those pangs of having to discover a random group to join you and worrying about whether each course can pull their weight. By focusing upon role quests rather than quests for each individual class, players should finally be able to play the classes they desire to and nonetheless enjoy the story of Shadowbringers and fulfill their role every bit a Warrior of Darkness.

Concluding Fantasy Xiv'due south tertiary expansion, Shadowbringers, volition be bachelor on July 2nd, 2019 for $39.99 on PC and PlayStation iv. Preorders of the new expansion volition come with a Baby Gremlin minion, Aetheryte Earring to boost EXP gain by 30% until you hitting level 70, and early on admission to Shadowbringers content beginning on June 28th, 2019.