Patch 7.1
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Introduction
Patch 7.1: Crossroads is the first major content update introduced for Dawntrail.
Notable Features, Additions, and Changes
New Content
- Main Story: Crossroads (?? quests)
- Alliance Raid:
Jeuno: The First Walk, the first part of the Echoes of Vana'diel story and raid series - Side Story: Additional Dawntrail Role Quests (?? quests, 7.16)
- Side Story: Additional Wachumeqimeqi Quests (?? quests, 7.15)
- Side Story: Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures (7.15) (?? quests)
- Side Story: Pandæmonium Quests epilogue (?? quests)
- Savage-difficulty 24-player raid ("Chaotic Alliance Raid"): The Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) (1 week after 7.15)
- Ultimate Raid:
Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) (7.11) - Dungeon:
Yuweyawata Field Station - Trial:
The Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden - Unreal: The Jade Stoa (Unreal)
- Allied Society Quests and Reputation: Pelupelu
Custom Deliveries: Nitowikwe (7.15)
System Changes and Additions
- PvP update
- Extensive update to PvP action execution and hit detection
- New PvP job actions and adjustments to existing actions (excluding viper and pictomancer)
- Arena improvements for the Red Sands and Cloud Nine
- Balance adjustments for Frontline and Rival Wings, including damage dealt/taken, limit break charge time, and machina functionality
- PvP Series 7 begins
- Crystalline Conflict ranked match adjustments:
- Starting with Season 12, rankings will be determined by region rather than by data center
- Ranked matches will only be held in one data center per region (Primal for North America, Chaos for Europe, Gaia for Japan, Materia for Oceania)
- Only the best performing character in the player's account will be counted for rankings
- Due to the consolidation, the number of placements for 2nd and 3rd place rewards will be increased (2nd place = #2-100 previously #2-30; 3rd place = #101-300 previously #31-100)
- New Game+ support for patch 7.0 (Main Scenario Quests, Viper/Pictomancer Job Quests, Role Quests)
- Initial Duty Support implementation for non-main scenario dungeons: Halatali
- Hall of the Novice updates: training for specific battle mechanics, such as stack markers and spread markers (level 49)
- Has three rounds of training
- Doman Mahjong update: voiced reaction and commentary from the Scions
- Player Housing update: selection of interior designs regardless of estate location, new interior designs added
- Adjustment for all Ultimate raids: party must be comprised of 8 unique jobs for passive LB generation to occur
- Outfit glamours:
- A new way to store glamour gear in the Glamour Dresser in sets (outfits) as opposed to as individual items
- Outfits can be used in glamour plates or projected onto gear
- This system will primarily support level 1 glamour gear to start with
- Player must possess the entire set of gear in order to store those pieces as an outfit glamour
- Previously set dyes will be removed when you store gear as part of an outfit; dye must be reapplied afterwards
- Group Pose updates:
- Added support for Fisher’s fishing animations
- Adjusted camera controls to remain screen-oriented rather than rotate based on roll angle
- UI and graphics:
- Duty List can now display up to 10 quests at a time
- Added feature to show character tilting while turning, similar to mounts (can be enabled or disabled in settings)
- Starting with patch 7.1, character-related feedback on the graphics update will be addressed. Because of this, an additional free vial of
Fantasia will be made available from the Medicine Merchant for a limited time (only during the 7.1 patch sequence).
Note: Not all content listed here will launch on the same day. This article is about the 7.1x season as a whole.