FFXIV 6.1 release date confirmed in Live Letter 70

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As part of today’s Live Letter 70, Final Fantasy XIV producer Yoshi-P confirmed that the MMORPG’s first major content update for Endwalker, which was initially detailed during the previous Live Letter, will be arriving on April 12. This patch adds new main scenario quests, sidequests, and role quests, alongside a number of other updates to housing, job balance, and more.

Following on from the climactic events of Endwalker’s main story, 6.1’s story quests will see the Warrior of Light and their friends set out looking for new adventures. This will include new role quests and the beginnings of the Tataru’s Grand Endeavour series, which focuses on everyone’s favourite Lalafellin receptionist. You’ll have to wait until patch 6.15 to reconvene with the gentleman inspector Hildibrand Manderville and undertake Tribal Quests for the Arkasodara, however.

We’ll also be seeing a rollout of some more endgame content, including the new Myths of the Realm alliance raid, and more challenging versions of trials such as The Minstrel’s Ballad: Endsinger’s Aria and Ultima’s Bane (Unreal) to test out the more hardcore members of the player base.

One of the most anticipated features of FFXIV patch 6.1 is the arrival of housing in Empyreum, the residential district in Ishgard. As anyone who’s tried to buy a house in FFXIV knows, it’s one of the most agonising systems in any video game – so it’s a great relief that the system is now changing to a lottery where players may submit an application to be randomly selected to purchase a given plot.

Among the other updates shown off are Adventurer Plates, which are fully customisable business cards that allow you to show off your character, accomplishments, and usual playtime hours to other players.