FFXIV 6.25 release date and all details from Live Letter 73

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We now have a FFXIV 6.25 release date and plenty more details about what to expect in the next FFXIV update for the critically acclaimed MMORPG, courtesy of Live Letter 73. Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.25 is set to add even more content to the multiplayer game following the huge recent update with FFXIV 6.2 patch Buried Memory. Players can look forward to new adventures with fan-favourite character Inspector Hildibrand, further weapon enhancement quests, more tribal quests, and the exciting non-linear, story-driven Variant and Criterion Dungeons.

Let’s put the biggest news up-front: The FFXIV 6.25 release date is October 18. As usual, game director Naoki Yoshida and community producer Toshio Murouchi – the latter in a quite frankly terrifying Loporrit cosplay – take the lead to talk about their takeaways from the release of patch 6.2 and the team’s plans for the next few updates. Yoshida jokes that the outfit is very distracting, saying that he is trying to give serious responses to the questions posed by Murouchi, but “just can’t when I see you sitting there like this.”

Yoshida says he feels that patch 6.2 “went pretty smoothly,” only raising the need to tweak health values for the final boss of the savage raid as a notable speed bump. He adds that he was pleased with how the Storm’s Crown trial was received, saying that it was very tough to design but that the team wanted “a more fast, execution-based style” of fight after the more puzzle-solving focus of recent previous fights.

Yoshida says the team was pleased to see the returning character in Pandaemonium, explaining that he was glad to dive deeper into the character who the team felt had an “early exit.” He notes that the recent success of Final Fantasy XIV allowed